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[Bill Mahoney]

Ahhh.. what a nice Wednesday opportunity to revisit the infamous and (so
far) non copywrited S List Classic non fiction story of GooGone Rulz :)
cheers'
Bill m

From:  "Jimmy Pribble, UrS4.com" <jimmy at u...>
                Date:  Thu Jan 31, 2002  2:56 pm
                Subject:  [NAC] GooGone Rulz!


                My GooGone story:

                A couple of years ago, after staying
                late at work, I had started back to my
                car in the then empty parking garage. I
                was near the top floor and I could
                see through to the open sky, which by
                then had turned a beautiful purple
                color as the sun was going down. I
                walked to the open top floor and
                indeed,
                was witness to a spectacular sunset.
                After a long and tiring day, it was
                just the thing I needed. The
                temperature was mild and there was a
                pleasant
                breeze whipping around the downtown
                buildings. I walked to the edge of the
                garage and leaned down on the wall (Charlie Brown
style), so that I could
                really take it in and let the stressful day wash away
from me.

                As soon as my bare forearms touched the top of the wall,
I recoiled! In
                order to deter loitering grackles (the skies of Austin
are darkened by these
                foul birds), the top of the wall had been covered with
an industrial
                strength glue! Worse yet, I hadn't noticed that the glue
was encrusted with
                bird feathers, insects, bird shit, and to my horror,
bits of bird feet and
                legs that had snapped off as they had struggled to fly
away from this
                miniature Le Brea tar pit! This unholy muselix of
detritus had now been
                encrusted on my arms!!! As I fought the gag reflex, I
struggled to tear
                this stuff from my arms, but to no avail. Somehow, I had
to get back into
                the office to see if I could get cleaned up.
Unfortunately, it was a
                security building and I would have to pass right in
front of the guard desk
                with all of this crap on my arms. I was totally
embarassed that I had done
                something so stupid. I managed to sneak past the gaurd
and make my way back
                into my office. I scrubbed like a madman using every
kind of cleaner that I
                could find, but the harder I scrubbed, the more the big
bits were simply
                smashed into little bits. The stuff on my arms was just
turning into a shit
                paste and beneath it all, my arms were trurning bright
red from the
                desperate scraping. That glue was some nasty stuff. I
even tried alcohol
                that I found in a first aid kit, but that was also no
good. Finally, I
                found a bottle of GooGone in the print room and that did
the trick. Worked
                like a champ. Thanks GooGone, you're the greatest!

                I doubt this testimonial could be used by the GooGone
company, so I thought
                I would send it up to you guys.

                Later,