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02/20/2005 Entry: "Mungo Bush"



Mungo Bush

Please read Reuters' (UK) following "Oddly Enough" article first:
Bush once taken for "Scottish boy"
and consider the following words from a man "loopier than a rattlesnake in a hula-hoop" (Brad Spangler) quoted in it:
And I'm riding a bike, taking this one sheep, you know, from here to there and I said OK, fine, and a big tour bus stops. And they got off and a woman with a Texas accent said, 'look at the little Scottish boy.'
That supposedly was at age 14.

Now at close to 60 this reads:

And my chauffeur is riding a Cadillac, taking these many sheep, you know, from America to Iraq and I said OK, fine, and a big limo, a Rolls, stops. And another chauffeured man got off and with a British accent said, 'look at the big cute Texan boy.'

At that level it's only fair, as people might say, let's say, in Blair, E Nebraska, or Blairsville, central Pennsylvania, two towns of which the second, in 1960, had 4930 inhabitants, only one less than the former. Did he move east by any chance? Or maybe even much further east than even Iraq? And never returned. Killed like a sheep, if we look at the calendar...

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PS: Now really, my innuendos above indicate that my intuitions are again not of that worst sort that needs a recall action like those car companies so often have to engage in. You must read this: Little Bo Creep and the Pulling of Wool by Eileen Smith. I discovered this link only a good hour after having posted "Mungo Bush", thanks to Brad who emailed it to me.

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