<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Gary, Gary, Gary, the solution is in your original statement! You said yourself that you are a "high ranking peon" so do what government workers do best</SPAN><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">!</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I know what you are thinking, "But I am actually a hard-working, conscientious governement worker!" We know that, <VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>but I highly doubt anyone else knows it! Go for it!!!</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">-Larry </DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto" dir=ltr>Hi Folks!<BR> <BR>First off, as Tone suspected, I do know about, and I have, a 1985 Heroes Con Groo-Cerebus T-shirt. Wow! A nice looking coming up after 28 years. That's pretty cool. <BR> <BR>But here is the main reason for this post: As many of you know I work for the Washington State Department of Revenue. I am essentially a high ranking peon who has certain areas of expertise in Washington tax law (even though I am neither a lawyer or an accountant.) One of my areas is tax preferences for aerospace, which is a big deal in Washington because of Boeing's presence here. [WAKE UP! I'll get to the point here in a minute!]<BR> <BR>In the world of big planes, it's pretty much Boeing vs. Airbus and the United States vs. the European Union. The US filed a complaint against the EU with the World Trade Organization , claiming illegal subsidies to
Airbus. The EU then filed a complaint against the US claiming illegal subsidies to Boeing, which included the tax prefetences on which I am the (alleged) expert. So I have spent a slice of my time over the past 6 years helping the US Trade Relation folks prepare their case. <BR> <BR>But <B><EM>now</EM></B> they want me to go to Geneva, Switzerland with them for the next round of hearings. Sounds pretty cool, right? Well, it's not. It's actually quite a grind, first to get there, and then you spend 3 days in meetings and hearings and apparently these folks never stop talking shop and planning strategies. <BR> <BR><B>BUT THE WORST PART IS <U>I'D MISS THE SECOND HALF OF COMIC CON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</U></B><BR><B><U></U></B> <BR>Oh, the pain. What is an obsessive Sergio-Groo Fan to do? Surely there is a Groo-ish solution to this problem. I am open to suggestions.
<BR> <BR>Despondantly yours,<BR> <BR>Gary G. <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Groop mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Groop@groo.com" ymailto="mailto:Groop@groo.com">Groop@groo.com</A><BR><A href="http://mailman.newdream.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/groop" target=_blank>http://mailman.newdream.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/groop</A><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></div></div></body></html>