Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Oh well, here we go again. They have come up with a new word … what is this thing called fracking? Now I know what franking privileges are; that’s the way politicians get free mail that most of us don’t read anyway. Now as I see it, they have to drill a hole way down into the earth’s crust through the water table to find natural gas. I thought they had enough of that in Washington already …

Well anyway, you could be fracked and you don’t know it. You could be looking at the neighbor’s farm, saying “Well, they ain’t got me yet.” Wrong!

They have the angle bits, so they could go sideways or crossways and you don’t know it. Well, heaven forbid, you be in your bathtub taking a Saturday night bath, reading your favorite magazine, and you hear a big hissing sound. Believe me, it won’t be Jeb found. And, heaven forbid, if you went to light up your favorite cigar after your team won the game, ...