[HoustonCurmudgeon]

The flip side is that for some years the chief cook in the Macaroni's Grill in Stafford, Texas had worked in a bar I hung out at in Bergan an See, Holland. He knew all my oilfield trash friends and told me some stories that won me some dinners on bets and as bribes to keep my mouth shut.

[Bigun]

He knew all my oilfield trash friends and told me some stories that won me some dinners on bets and as bribes to keep my mouth shut.

I seem to recollect hearing a story like that before but I don't think it was from you.

Perhaps things like that are more common than we imagine!;>)