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[bill mahoney]

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Whay back when the list was on Yahoo... possibly the funniest post
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:52:37 -0500

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,

Jimmy