At 14:15 -0800 N. hemisphere time on 020101 Robin Hankinson sent:

>>Ron said:
>>
>>OK, I know, your great grandmother
>>had one given to her by Emilano Zapata that you still
>>use every day.
>
>Pancho Villa actually.  Emiliano was too far south for
>a genteel old lady like Grandmam� to get to.

So, your grandmother just hung around the border offering fresh 
sopapillas and chocolate to Villa's bunch when they stopped to get 
tomatillo gruel for the horses?

>She was a
>left-handed knitter who moonlighted (moonlit?) for the
>forerunners of the CIA.

Hey, don't talk about the forerunners of the CIA. Even the runners 
are not too swift, not to mention the forerunners.

>Townes van Zandt wrote a song
>about her and Pancho. (Last yucca bag he ever gave anyone!)

That was the almost forgotten "That Old Bag" right? I think I had an 
old 78 of it that was stepped on by an aging gringo who was trying to 
avoid a horse.

Happy New Years to the Zapatistas and Villanos out there - and the 
rest of you as well.

Ron


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