From: razer@tiamat.hacks.arizona.edu (The Artful Dodger)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Thank you very much...
Date: 13 Apr 92 13:37:17 GMT
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In article <Mumble>, Danger Mouse writes...
>Danger Mouse has managed to have an enormous birthday party thrown for
>him without once breaking stride from his discussion about the optical
>variability of quasars with StM...
>
>"I'd like to thank all of you individually, but there are just so many of
>you that I'm sure I would accidentally leave somebody out. Rather than do
>that, let me just say *thank you* to all of the fifty or so (!!) people
>who participated in the Narnia posts, the few who posted individually and
>the dozen or so who sent me e-mail. Each and every one of you have really
>made my day - and done callahans proud, too!
>
>"Sue, La, Mexican food! Yum!!! Now all we need is for it to be available
>in Australia! Castellan, you really need to watch those bicycle clips :-).
>Arty, who _was_ that mysterious Pack Rat? He was great! Ray, good to hear
>from you - keep up the good work! T'Kee, the last time I saw a kite was
>with the Tragically Hip Waif in Princeton... <sniffle> thank you, it's
>beautiful.
> 

	Arty smiles.  "Well, he's sort of a compilation of several
people I know.  I'm glad you enjoyed it.  They told me it was going
to be a narnia theme, and I had a hard time thinking of anything
"Soft and Cuddly" to use - it's just not a good survival scheeme 
for the desert."

>"And as if all of this wasn't enough, folks, Shonias _did_ organise an RL
>picnic for me on Saturday. She called early in the morning and demanded
>that I go into the city with her! I met her on the train and we rode in
>to town with Nick (Shonias' RL fiancee). We got off at St James station
>and headed for the Botanical Gardens.
> 
>"I was happy just wandering around and taking pictures of fruit bats (just
>for you, Didi!) as we meandered through the gardens. Then Nick suggested
>we go look at the succulent garden and I, loving cacti like I do, agreed
>enthusiastically. We spent over half an hour there, to the increased
>agitation of Shonias. When we finally left, she led us to a clearing in
>which a bunch of people (including the Wizard) had set up a surprise
>picnic! I was most pleasantly surprised, until I discovered that all of
>the pizza was half an hour too cold...."

	"If you come to Arizona, DM, I'll be happy to show you Cacti
in their native enviornment, and feed you the closest thing to 
real mexican food you can get without going to Mexico.  Now if 
I can just get people to realize that Arizona isn't in Austrailia..."
	Arty starts to go back to his homework, then remembers
something.  "Oh, and for all of you who are interested in Cacti and
the desert, I've created an Area of HoloMuck that is a lot like
some of my favorite places in and arround The Great Sonoran Desert.
	"That is, as soon as Holo comes back on-line."

The Artful Dodger P65331727@CCIT.Arizona.Edu|Razer@Hacks.Arizona.EDU
"Can you imagine us years from today, sharing a park bench quietly?
  How terribly strange to be seventy!"
		-Paul Simon & Art Garfunkle "Old Friends" _Bookends_
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