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Subject: Mustique #47 - Knowing your mules
(Posted on Feb 13, 2014 at 10:05PM )
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When is a mule not the mule you thought it was? When you are in Mustique at your sister's wedding is when.

These four pictures below should make it pretty straightforward for anyone still perplexed, so as to enable sussing out the differences between the animal, human drug transporter, Kawasaki MULE vehicle, and that fabled cocktail with the Moscow handle slapped on the front end.



Note the simple cocktail (made with vodka, ginger beer and lime, on ice, and ideally in a copper mug as above), ain't even from Moscow, but is rather a good ole born-and-bred USA concoction dating to 1941 that became popular a few years later in the 1950s. So much for truth in names and marketing, and kinda like why the news ain't always makin' sense either.

There are some casual tips for those mulling getting into that line of "transport" work (and not the one competing with the animal) if things are a little slow on the work front around where you are.

Like Bob mused back on that wedding day, it would be kinda nifty to be in a situation with all four at play simultaneously. You could be enjoying the drink with the other two live ones over witty repartee, taking in tricks of the "transport" trade and optimizing the use of various cavity spaces over body packing, all the while riding on board that 4-wheeler. It's probably a better idea to be letting someone else do the driving though.

Maybe if you don't want to be doing all of that in the same-name places in Norway or Nigeria for added effect, you could choose to pull it off in Bishop, CA, the so-called "Mule Capital of the World," when they have that annual Bishop Mule Days festival (website) in the run up to Memorial Day. Turn it into a four-way global mule convention of excellence and party hearty.

Bob ain't gonna bother to get into the 80s game, M.U.L.E., or the software model / framework. That is strictly for you real die-hard mule keeners out there. So today, you can say you learned a tad about different mules, without needing to go to the trouble of some average single guy attending weddings in places around the world.