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Old 12-08-2015, 06:35 AM
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Originally Posted by raymo View Post
Nice pics Rowland.
I hope nobody minds, but I'd like to tell everyone about an amusing thing that the lift operator at the dam told me many years ago.
An elderly lady once remarked to him that the water in Lake Meade was
a beautiful blue, but the water the other side of the dam down in the gloom of the narrow ravine looked almost black, was that because
they had taken the electricity out of it?
raymo
[sorry about the hijack].
"It had lost its sparkle!"

That's priceless Raymo.
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