A Message from the Rural Midwest:
Because of misunderstandings that frequently develop when Easterners and
Californians cross states such as Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin,
Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South
Dakota, those states' Tourism Councils have adopted a set of information
guidelines. In an effort to help outsiders understand the Midwest, the
following list will be handed to each driver entering the state:
1. That farm boy standing next to the feed bin did more work before
breakfast than you do all week at the gym.
2. It's called a 'gravel road.' No matter how slow you drive, you're going
to get dust on your Navigator. I have a four wheel drive because I need it
... not just to keep up with the neighbors.
3. We all started hunting and fishing when we were seven years old.
Yeah, we saw Bambi. We got over it.
4. Any references to "corn fed" when talking about our women will get you
whipped ... by our women.
5. Go ahead and bring your $600 Orvis Fly Rod. Don't cry to us if a
flathead catfish breaks it off at the handle. We have a name for those
little trout you fish for -- bait.
6. Pull your pants up. You look like an idiot.
7. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of mallards are making their
final approach, we will shoot it. You might hope you don't have it up to
your ear at the time.
8. That's right. Whiskey is only two bucks. We can buy a fifth for what
you pay for one drink at the airport.
9. No, there's no "Vegetarian Special" on the menu. Order steak. Order
it rare. Or, you can order the Chef' Salad and pick off the two pounds of
ham and turkey.
10. You bring Coke into my house, it better be brown, wet, and served
over ice!
11. So you have a sixty-thousand dollar car you drive on weekends.
We're real impressed. We have quarter of a million dollar combines that
we use two weeks a year.
12. Let's get this straight. We have one stoplight in town. We stop
when it's red. We may even stop when it's yellow.
13. Our women hunt, fish, and drive pickups, trucks and tractors because
they want to. So, you're a feminist. Isn't that cute.
14. Yeah, we eat catfish. Carp, too -- and turtle. You really want
sushi and caviar? It's available at the bait shop.
15. They are pigs. That's what they smell like. Get over it.
Don'tlike it? Interstates 70, 80, & 90 go East & West; Interstates 29,
35 &55 go North & South. Pick one and use it accordingly.
16. The "Opener" refers to the first day of deer season. It's a
religious holiday. You can get breakfast at the church.
17. So every person in every pickup waves. It's called being friendly.
Understand the concept?
18. Yeah, we have golf courses. Don't hit in the water hazard. It
spooks the fish.
19. That Highway Patrol Officer who just pulled you over for driving like
an idiot ... his name is "Sir"... no matter how old he is.
Now please, enjoy your visit. Just don't overdo your stay, we have corn
to plant
--
Bob Schmall
Not one shred of evidence exists that life is serious.
Richard Feynman
In article <[email protected]>, Norman D. Crow
<[email protected]> wrote:
> From a message about points to ponder:
>
> 13) "I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York
> said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold
> enough. Let's go west.'" --Richard Jeni
ROFLMAO!
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bridger wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 03:30:24 GMT, B a r r y
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 02:56:39 GMT, "Tom Kohlman"
>><[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Bob
>>>
>>>Dunno so much about the Californians, but you can certainly drop the
>>>Easteners.
>>
>>I live in CT, 25 miles from Long Island Sound and 50 miles from the
>>Atlantic Ocean (Long Giland for you New Jersey residents), and know
>>Chicagoans that think of themselves as "Easterners". <G>
>>
>>Chicago is a 1 1/2 hour commercial flight from here!
>>
>>Barry
>
>
>
>
>
>
> hell, I consider anyone east of the continental divide to be an
> easterner....
Hell, I consider anyone living in OR east of Pocatello and Easterner!
Philski
"Bob Schmall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:m0Lac.17660$z%[email protected]...
> A Message from the Rural Midwest:
>
>
> Because of misunderstandings that frequently develop when Easterners and
> Californians cross states such as Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin,
> Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South
> Dakota, those states' Tourism Councils have adopted a set of information
> guidelines. In an effort to help outsiders understand the Midwest, the
> following list will be handed to each driver entering the state:
SNIP
>
> 6. Pull your pants up. You look like an idiot.
Small correction here...
Pull you pants up. You look like you waited too long to go to the
bathroom.
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:25:18 -0700, bridger <[email protected]> wrote:
>hell, I consider anyone east of the continental divide to be an
>easterner....
That's fair. I consider anyone living west of the divide to be a
Californian.
Thomas J. Watson-Cabinetmaker (ret)
Real Email is: tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet
Website: http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
Tom Watson writes:
>>hell, I consider anyone east of the continental divide to be an
>>easterner....
>
>
>That's fair. I consider anyone living west of the divide to be a
>Californian.
California...went there in '72, February, right after that year's big earth
shaking. Have felt no need whatsoever to return. Been back to the cost several
times, but stay well north.
Charlie Self
"The function of posterity is to look after itself." Dylan Thomas
On 01 Apr 2004 13:26:52 GMT, [email protected] (Charlie Self) wrote:
>
>California...went there in '72, February, right after that year's big earth
>shaking. Have felt no need whatsoever to return. Been back to the cost several
>times, but stay well north.
>
>Charlie Self
>"The function of posterity is to look after itself." Dylan Thomas
Passed through in the early '60s heading further west at the government's request and expense. Didn't leave anything in either place
I want to go back for.
Tom Veatch
Wichita, KS USA
Tom Veatch writes:
>>
>>California...went there in '72, February, right after that year's big earth
>>shaking. Have felt no need whatsoever to return. Been back to the cost
>several
>>times, but stay well north.
>>
>>Charlie Self
>>"The function of posterity is to look after itself." Dylan Thomas
>
>
>Passed through in the early '60s heading further west at the government's
>request and expense. Didn't leave anything in either place
>I want to go back for.
>
Yeah. I passed through in the '50s and '60s, back in '60 for some schooling,
all at GI expense, even got to camp out at Camp Pendleton for a bit over a
month and Santa Ana for about the same. I really don't miss it.
Charlie Self
"The function of posterity is to look after itself." Dylan Thomas
"Cape Cod Bob" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> >On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 02:21:06 GMT, "Bob Schmall" <[email protected]>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>A Message from the Rural Midwest:
>
> >>Because of misunderstandings that frequently develop when Easterners and
> >>Californians cross states such as Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin,
> >>Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South
> >>Dakota, those states' Tourism Councils have adopted a set of information
> >>guidelines.
>
> Tourism Councils??? If they exclude Chicago and Minneapolis, couldn't
> they fit all those states' tourist attractions onto a single
> mimeographed sheet?
Obviously, the guidelines are badly needed....
bridger wrote:
> hell, I consider anyone east of the continental divide to be an
> easterner....
Now I feel homesick again. A friend of mine from ND kept trying
to tell me that I lived in the Mideast, not the Midwest.
Dave in Fairfax
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SNIP > >
> >Dunno so much about the Californians, but you can certainly drop the
> >Easteners.
> Chicago is a 1 1/2 hour commercial flight from here!
To Californians, anything East of Arizona is back East!
Isn't Florida just a humid extension of Texas?
Although I have been to NY, Washington DC, and most other East coast states,
I can not fathom why anyone would choose to live there! This includes
beautiful downtown Detroit.
Snow?? I like to look at it on the mountains but actually live IN IT???
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I take it you don't believe in the promised bonanza in Eco-Tourism that
follows wilderness set-aside?
Right-winger.
Had a (D) state senator who put his cynicism a bit differently. "When the
Ecology types come for a week they bring two sets of underwear and a
twenty-dollar bill. And don't change either."
"Cape Cod Bob" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> >On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 02:21:06 GMT, "Bob Schmall" <[email protected]>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>A Message from the Rural Midwest:
>
> >>Because of misunderstandings that frequently develop when Easterners and
> >>Californians cross states such as Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin,
> >>Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South
> >>Dakota, those states' Tourism Councils have adopted a set of information
> >>guidelines.
>
> Tourism Councils??? If they exclude Chicago and Minneapolis, couldn't
> they fit all those states' tourist attractions onto a single
> mimeographed sheet?
>
> Cape Cod Bob
> Visit my web site at http://home.comcast.net/~bobmethelis
Sounds right to me! (misplaced Montanan)
Larry Blanchard wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] says...
> >
> > hell, I consider anyone east of the continental divide to be an
> > easterner....
> >
> That's the definition I use :-).
>
> --
> Where ARE those Iraqi WMDs?
Hey!!! Butte is a great place to be FROM!!!!
Grant
Robert Bonomi wrote:
>
>
> It's understandable that _you're_ confused. There's a long and noble history
> of that, in that state. Going all the way back to when the first official
> survey was done. Idaho (and co-incidentally, Montana) was _supposed_ to be
> another of those 'big rectangular states' like Colorado, *BUT* the official
> surveyors for the Idaho-Montana boundary, working from south to North, *got*
> *lost* in the mountains without realizing it, and the trail of their trek is,
> as they say, 'history'. When they figured out they'd gotten lost, they _then_
> ran straight north, which is why the "panhandle' does have a straight eastern
> edge. Unfortunately, it simply _wasn't_ possible to correct their survey
> error, because they'd been laying the official markers as they went.
>
> It was _supposed_ to be Butte, _Idaho_. Some Idahoans think it was to
> Idaho's *advantage* that those surveyor's _did_ get lost. <grin>
>
> Trivia -- do you know what the town of Burke was famous for?
"Bob Schmall" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> "Unisaw A100" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > I especially like being able to smoke in church.
> >
> > UA100
>
> Q. Do you smoke after sex?
> A. I don't know, I never looked.
LMAO
On a slightly more cynical note:
Q. What did the Frenchman do after sex?
A. Go home to his wife.
(Bet ya thought it had to do with smoking, heh heh)
Norman D. Crow wrote:
> "B a r r y" <[email protected]> wrote in
> message news:[email protected]...
>
>> Chicagoans that think of themselves as "Easterners". <G>
>>
>> Chicago is a 1 1/2 hour commercial flight from here!
>>
>> Barry
>
> From a message about points to ponder:
>
> 13) "I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people
> in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the
> poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'"
> --Richard Jeni
The standing joke when I lived in Minnesota was that "Minnesota
was as far as the Norwegians got before the cold made 'em forget
why they left Norway."
Probably same kind of deal for Chicago, New York, and poverty...
--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto, Iowa USA
In article <[email protected]>,
philski <[email protected]> wrote:
>bridger wrote:
>> On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 03:30:24 GMT, B a r r y
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 02:56:39 GMT, "Tom Kohlman"
>>><[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Bob
>>>>
>>>>Dunno so much about the Californians, but you can certainly drop the
>>>>Easteners.
>>>
>>>I live in CT, 25 miles from Long Island Sound and 50 miles from the
>>>Atlantic Ocean (Long Giland for you New Jersey residents), and know
>>>Chicagoans that think of themselves as "Easterners". <G>
>>>
>>>Chicago is a 1 1/2 hour commercial flight from here!
>>>
>>>Barry
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> hell, I consider anyone east of the continental divide to be an
>> easterner....
>Hell, I consider anyone living in OR east of Pocatello and Easterner!
It's understandable that _you're_ confused. There's a long and noble history
of that, in that state. Going all the way back to when the first official
survey was done. Idaho (and co-incidentally, Montana) was _supposed_ to be
another of those 'big rectangular states' like Colorado, *BUT* the official
surveyors for the Idaho-Montana boundary, working from south to North, *got*
*lost* in the mountains without realizing it, and the trail of their trek is,
as they say, 'history'. When they figured out they'd gotten lost, they _then_
ran straight north, which is why the "panhandle' does have a straight eastern
edge. Unfortunately, it simply _wasn't_ possible to correct their survey
error, because they'd been laying the official markers as they went.
It was _supposed_ to be Butte, _Idaho_. Some Idahoans think it was to
Idaho's *advantage* that those surveyor's _did_ get lost. <grin>
Trivia -- do you know what the town of Burke was famous for?
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> Their solution is to let it go to hell and then hire a lawyer to sue
> somebody.
>
Tom, you're wrong about them letting it go to hell. They do it
themselves. The first thing they do once they move to a new state is to
start lobbying to have things changed to the way it was in the state they
just left.
Bob
Dunno so much about the Californians, but you can certainly drop the
Easteners. Your instructions for them are N/A. There is no "midwest". It
is a proven fact that the world ends 100 miles west of the Atlantic ocean.
Dragons lurk 80 miles west but the few brave ones that venture beyond that
simply fall off the earth...proven fact!!! Was on TV!!!
That explains why they hug the coast and have created what I refer to as
"the septic tank effect". They filled up the east coast of Florida and then
proceeded to fill up S Carolina and are working on N Carolina as we speak.
Pretty soon they'll be back to the top where they came from but doubt
they'll ever figure out that the thing has to be cleaned from time to time.
Their solution is to let it go to hell and then hire a lawyer to sue
somebody.
So please get your facts right.
"Bob Schmall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:m0Lac.17660$z%[email protected]...
> A Message from the Rural Midwest:
>
>
> Because of misunderstandings that frequently develop when Easterners and
> Californians cross states such as Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin,
> Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South
> Dakota, those states' Tourism Councils have adopted a set of information
> guidelines. In an effort to help outsiders understand the Midwest, the
> following list will be handed to each driver entering the state:
>
> 1. That farm boy standing next to the feed bin did more work before
> breakfast than you do all week at the gym.
>
> 2. It's called a 'gravel road.' No matter how slow you drive, you're going
> to get dust on your Navigator. I have a four wheel drive because I need it
> ... not just to keep up with the neighbors.
>
> 3. We all started hunting and fishing when we were seven years old.
> Yeah, we saw Bambi. We got over it.
>
> 4. Any references to "corn fed" when talking about our women will get you
> whipped ... by our women.
>
> 5. Go ahead and bring your $600 Orvis Fly Rod. Don't cry to us if a
> flathead catfish breaks it off at the handle. We have a name for those
> little trout you fish for -- bait.
>
> 6. Pull your pants up. You look like an idiot.
>
> 7. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of mallards are making their
> final approach, we will shoot it. You might hope you don't have it up to
> your ear at the time.
>
> 8. That's right. Whiskey is only two bucks. We can buy a fifth for what
> you pay for one drink at the airport.
>
> 9. No, there's no "Vegetarian Special" on the menu. Order steak. Order
> it rare. Or, you can order the Chef' Salad and pick off the two pounds of
> ham and turkey.
>
> 10. You bring Coke into my house, it better be brown, wet, and served
> over ice!
>
> 11. So you have a sixty-thousand dollar car you drive on weekends.
> We're real impressed. We have quarter of a million dollar combines that
> we use two weeks a year.
>
> 12. Let's get this straight. We have one stoplight in town. We stop
> when it's red. We may even stop when it's yellow.
>
> 13. Our women hunt, fish, and drive pickups, trucks and tractors because
> they want to. So, you're a feminist. Isn't that cute.
>
> 14. Yeah, we eat catfish. Carp, too -- and turtle. You really want
> sushi and caviar? It's available at the bait shop.
>
> 15. They are pigs. That's what they smell like. Get over it.
> Don'tlike it? Interstates 70, 80, & 90 go East & West; Interstates 29,
> 35 &55 go North & South. Pick one and use it accordingly.
>
> 16. The "Opener" refers to the first day of deer season. It's a
> religious holiday. You can get breakfast at the church.
>
> 17. So every person in every pickup waves. It's called being friendly.
> Understand the concept?
>
> 18. Yeah, we have golf courses. Don't hit in the water hazard. It
> spooks the fish.
>
> 19. That Highway Patrol Officer who just pulled you over for driving like
> an idiot ... his name is "Sir"... no matter how old he is.
>
>
> Now please, enjoy your visit. Just don't overdo your stay, we have corn
> to plant
>
> --
> Bob Schmall
> Not one shred of evidence exists that life is serious.
> Richard Feynman
>
>
...if you do, you're going too fast...
"Bob Schmall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Unisaw A100" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > I especially like being able to smoke in church.
> >
> > UA100
>
> Q. Do you smoke after sex?
> A. I don't know, I never looked.
>
>
Ever notice how people say "out west" or "back east"
regardless of where they live? This is an eastern centric
viewpoint and even westerners utter it when referring to
the entire US. "I ordered a blurfl from back east" or "I
live out west".
When I do the opposite and use "back west" or "out east"
in my conversation it triggers the strangest looks from people.
Art
Wood Butcher notes:
>Ever notice how people say "out west" or "back east"
>regardless of where they live? This is an eastern centric
>viewpoint and even westerners utter it when referring to
>the entire US. "I ordered a blurfl from back east" or "I
>live out west".
>
>When I do the opposite and use "back west" or "out east"
>in my conversation it triggers the strangest looks from people
True. But think of the direction from which this country was settled. That's
what seems to form people's thoughts, even long afterward.
Although I have yet to figure out Mainers' "down east".
Charlie Self
"The function of posterity is to look after itself." Dylan Thomas
On 02 Apr 2004 22:11:49 GMT, [email protected] (Charlie Self)
wrote:
>Although I have yet to figure out Mainers' "down east".
" Many years ago, sailors hauling cargo to the northeast of New
England, observed that the prevailing winds came from the southwest,
pushing their schooners "downwind" in an easterly direction. Today,
generally speaking, "Downeast" refers to Maine. More specifically
though, to a Mainer, it refers to the southeastern part of the state
beginning with Ellsworth , Maine, and including the Acadia National
Park and Bar Harbor areas."
Thomas J. Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
(Real Email is tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/
Tom Watson responds:
>>Although I have yet to figure out Mainers' "down east".
>
>" Many years ago, sailors hauling cargo to the northeast of New
>England, observed that the prevailing winds came from the southwest,
>pushing their schooners "downwind" in an easterly direction. Today,
>generally speaking, "Downeast" refers to Maine. More specifically
>though, to a Mainer, it refers to the southeastern part of the state
>beginning with Ellsworth , Maine, and including the Acadia National
>Park and Bar Harbor areas."
Fair enough. By the way, anyone who is in the area and doesn't go to Acadia
National Park is missing an absolutely wonderful treat. My kid sister used to
live in East Blue Hill and then in Surry, and Frances and I hit the park a time
or 2 while visiting Donna. Get outta da damn car, though. Hike around the rocks
at the shore.
Charlie Self
"The function of posterity is to look after itself." Dylan Thomas
On 02 Apr 2004 22:11:49 GMT, [email protected] (Charlie Self)
wrote:
>Although I have yet to figure out Mainers' "down east".
When ships sailed from Boston to ports in Maine (which were to the
east of Boston), the wind was at their backs, so they were sailing
downwind, hence the term Down East. And it follows that when they
returned to Boston they were sailing upwind; many Mainers still speak
of going up to Boston, despite the fact that the city lies
approximately fifty miles to the south of Maines southern border.
And now you know.
Cape Cod Bob
Visit my web site at http://home.comcast.net/~bobmethelis
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
>
> hell, I consider anyone east of the continental divide to be an
> easterner....
>
That's the definition I use :-).
--
Where ARE those Iraqi WMDs?
"B a r r y" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Chicagoans that think of themselves as "Easterners". <G>
>
> Chicago is a 1 1/2 hour commercial flight from here!
>
> Barry
From a message about points to ponder:
13) "I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York
said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold
enough. Let's go west.'" --Richard Jeni
--
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"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'WOW! What A
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"Unisaw A100" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I especially like being able to smoke in church.
>
> UA100
Q. Do you smoke after sex?
A. I don't know, I never looked.
On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 02:21:06 GMT, "Bob Schmall" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>A Message from the Rural Midwest:
>
>
>Because of misunderstandings that frequently develop when Easterners and
>Californians cross states such as Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin,
>Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South
>Dakota, those states' Tourism Councils have adopted a set of information
>guidelines.
Thanks for the laughs, Bob. This wouldn't be nearly so funny if there
wasn't so much truth in it.
Back in the late 70's, I lived in So. California for a couple of
years. When I finally got fed up and decided to move back to the
midwest, a friend told us:
"You're going to miss having a dishwasher".
My wife answered, "Oh, we've had indoor plumbing and electricity since
the sixties..."
John
John Paquay
[email protected]
"Building Your Own Kitchen Cabinets"
http://home.insightbb.com/~jpaquay/shop.html
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On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 02:56:39 GMT, "Tom Kohlman"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Bob
>
>Dunno so much about the Californians, but you can certainly drop the
>Easteners.
I live in CT, 25 miles from Long Island Sound and 50 miles from the
Atlantic Ocean (Long Giland for you New Jersey residents), and know
Chicagoans that think of themselves as "Easterners". <G>
Chicago is a 1 1/2 hour commercial flight from here!
Barry
On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 03:30:24 GMT, B a r r y
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 02:56:39 GMT, "Tom Kohlman"
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Bob
>>
>>Dunno so much about the Californians, but you can certainly drop the
>>Easteners.
>
>I live in CT, 25 miles from Long Island Sound and 50 miles from the
>Atlantic Ocean (Long Giland for you New Jersey residents), and know
>Chicagoans that think of themselves as "Easterners". <G>
>
>Chicago is a 1 1/2 hour commercial flight from here!
>
>Barry
hell, I consider anyone east of the continental divide to be an
easterner....
>On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 02:21:06 GMT, "Bob Schmall" <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>A Message from the Rural Midwest:
>>Because of misunderstandings that frequently develop when Easterners and
>>Californians cross states such as Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin,
>>Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South
>>Dakota, those states' Tourism Councils have adopted a set of information
>>guidelines.
Tourism Councils??? If they exclude Chicago and Minneapolis, couldn't
they fit all those states' tourist attractions onto a single
mimeographed sheet?
Cape Cod Bob
Visit my web site at http://home.comcast.net/~bobmethelis
On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 23:04:05 GMT, Unisaw A100 <[email protected]>
wrote:
>I especially like being able to smoke in church.
>
>UA100
Smoke what?
(hell, it was just a question.)
Thomas J. Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
(Real Email is tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/
Gary DeWitt <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
<snip>
>
> Q. What did the Frenchman do after sex?
>
Surrender, collaborate?
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