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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white'>Subject:</span></b><a name=797444></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white'> RE: Joe Venuti's (in)Famous Practical Joke!</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><br><b><span style='background:white'><a href="https://mudcat.org/help.cfm?helpitem=from"><span style='color:blue'>From:</span></a></span></b><span style='background:white'> </span></span><a href="https://mudcat.org/usersearch.cfm?who=Rick%20Fielding"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue;background:white'>Rick Fielding</span></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><br><b><span style='background:white'>Date:</span></b><span style='background:white'> 05 Oct 02 - 12:37 PM</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>Well OK Sham.....here goes....</span><br><span style='background:white'>Apprently Roy Rogers, America's greatest movie cowboy star, was doing a variety show (as was Venuti) and was waiting in the wings, mounted on 'Trigger the Wonder Horse'. Venuti was standing behind Trigger and started "tickling Trigger's testicles" with his violin bow (!!)</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>When Roy was announced, he triumphantly rode onstage and (just like in the movies) Trigger reared upward towards the sky while Roy waved his white stetson.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Warm regards,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Bob Romans,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>209-747-1148,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:cellblk7@comcast.net"><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>cellblk7@comcast.net</span></i></b></a><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.cellblock7.net/"><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>http://www.cellblock7.net</span></i></b></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#33475B'> "When everything seems to be going against <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#33475B'>you, remember that the airplane takes off <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#33475B'>against the wind, not with it." -</span><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Henry Ford</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>