From: mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: boink, boink, boink
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:31:24 GMT
Distribution: w
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

rON asks....
>Ya know, did Teri and Marcia ever find the Spam with Cheese Chunks?

Yeah, I was wondering about that, too.
 
>There were, btw, 642 balloons registered. Well over 600 of them went up in 3
>giant waves over a two hour period. That's a lot of hot air ballons, a lot of

Holy Octupus!  No wonder we couldn't get around to seeing them all.

>decendant of CC), balloons shaped like bottles, shoes, houses, Santa Claus,

The house one, Larry and I got to see from start to airborne.  It's name
was " The Copper Flash" and it was sponsored by The Nottingham  Building
Society and was piloted by this guy with a serious British accent  ( I love
british accents) and I had to cock a sharp ear to understand what he was
saying.  It was neat.

The pink pig was sponsored by one of the banks and I got a chuckle out of that.
Rob was the only one smart enough to grab a copy of the tourist propoganda
that had some nifty factoids in it.  But, he's still wandering in the
desert somewhere......

>>I think Mel still doesn't understand why all our roofs are
>>flat in New Mexico (and while attempting to explain I realised I don't,
>
>I'll have to look that up for y'all.

That would be cool, but I thrive on confusion. :-)

>in Santa Fe then sped back so Ray and Lou could catch their flights home. 
>(They made it in time, unlike >some< people we know) :)

Larry was late!!!!
No, actually I can't blame it on him.  It was entirely my fault.

I had absolutely, positively promised to bring my friend Gay, who collects
mugs and was kind enough to sit the Boydog and mind kitties for me, a mug
and had failed to do so at that point.  So, Lardude and I stopped at  The
Jackalope on the way back to ABQ to rectify the situation and well,....
We made it by 5:40, unfortunately the plane left at 5:38.

'Sok.  I got  the mug and a great tshirt from Sante Fe.
But, like you Terri, I would have liked to have seen the balloon glow and
if Larry and I had been in our right minds we could  have gone to see it,
since I was still in town.  However, we were viciously attacked by
lethargy rays and crashed on the couch.  I think it was the feeding
frenzy.  Wore me out. 

>>Also, Thanks to Mel for helping me get ready for the party - duties above
>>and beyond what can reasonably be expected from crashspace users. . .
>
>Yeah, she helped him clean his house :)

And I'm still not recovered..... ;-)

>My hellos to Teri and Marcia and Rob and Lou (who found me fondling my banana
>at the airport :) and Ray and Mel and Larry. A special thanks to Larry's and

Howdy!

>I'll repeat it again- if you've got a chance to attend a boink, go for it.
>It doesn't matter who you know there, you'll leave with some pleasant memories
>that's for sure :)

No doubt.

I'll say it again, great boink, dudes.  I had a wonderful time.

To get off on another tangent....  in the course of the conversation with
my friend on the plane, I was trying to explain what I was doing there.
I had just traveled 1300 miles to party with a bunch of folks I had never
met before except as blips on a computer screen and a voice on the phone
and I was trying to explain this to someone who did not even know of the
existence of the net.  Boggled my mind, it did.
 


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 Life is exactly what you make of it, always has been, always will be.
                                          
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