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To: MineralMan

Ole Sven Larson, one of Lindstrom's most famous batchelor farmers, was getting pretty old, and he fell off his roof while trying to get that darned snow off of it. He wound up in the hospital, with serious injuries.

He was pretty sure he was going to die, so he told the doctor that he wanted to be buried in his boat.

The doc asked him why he wanted to be buried in his boat, and not a normal casket.

"Well, doc, you know I like to fish, and I'm sure they've got some pretty good boats up there on those Heavenly lakes, but I don't know if they're Lunds, and I wouldn't want to use any other brand. Besides, I need my outboard. It was signed by Ole Evinrude himself."


1,370 posted on 10/18/2006 8:44:46 AM PDT by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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Hey, I grew up with Evinrudes. An ancestor of mine was the patent attorney who got Ole Evinrude a patent for his invention. The company gave my family a new one every year for testing. Great good fun for a kid on the Wisconsin lakes!

A little added history free :-) Ole's talented daughter in law

1,371 posted on 10/18/2006 9:05:15 AM PDT by T'wit (It is not possible to "go too far" criticizing liberals. No matter what you say, they're worse.)
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