From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Re: great  land
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 03:40:39 GMT

The Didi-Sprite (braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca) wrote:
: >Jennifer A Cabbage (fsjac3@cthor.acf-lab.alaska.edu) wrote:
: >:     Patch stomps her feet and shakes the snow out of her hair.
: >: "Well, hello.  I guess I'm another 'lurker', come to light.
: >: "Are there any other lurkers out there from Alaska ?"
: >
: >Alfvaen bounces up to Patch.  "Hello there!  Can't reckon as I've seen any
: >Alaskans here afore. 
: 
: [    ]
: 
: >"kitten has already initiated you with a hug, but here's one from me too,"
: ><hug>.  "I'm a Canadian from Alberta, so I probably have a better inkling than
: >many about what snow is, and real winter weather and such.  Even if it rarely
: >gets below -40 here in winter...
: 
: The Didi-Sprite, having finished 'looking' and hugging Kitten, turns her
: glare on Alfvaen ... "-40, eh, old chum?  Ummhmmm!  Well, Montreal has
: been known to get down in the -20's Celsius for days at a time.  As far
: as this sprite is concerned ... that's Winter enough for anyone ... and
: as far as snow ... we've had the joy of being snowed-in from time to
: time.  Now *that's* fun!"
 

"Oh, I agree that -20 Celsius is more than enough winter for me.  But I was
saying that anyone who's never experienced anything colder, or not even that
cold, doesn't know what >real< winter is like.  And you can be excused for not
knowing.  The last three days in Edmonton have had >horrible< wind chill, and
this is just fall, still...  As for being snowed in, I can live without fun
like that."

: Didi giggles:  "How about the VP debate last night folks!  

"I thought that that was for Americans only!  I wouldn't be caught watching
something so unpatriotic as debates in another country...or even in my own
country.  (Okay, so televised debates bore me.  I read the package about the
new Constitutional Accord that we get to vote on on the 26th...so I'm as
informed as I need to get.)"
 
: "Err ... Alfvaen, can I get you something from the bar?"
: 
: ----<--<@

"No, I'm okay, Didi..."  Alfvaen is, in fact, still soggy from buying 'a round
on him' a few days ago.  "However, I have something for you, that I saw on
talk.bizarre(crossposted from alt.romance.chat or something like that)a few
days ago..."  Alfvaen then proceeds to cart in...



                        .     .
                    ...  :``..':
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                 ..:..  :     .'' :
                ``.    `:    .'     :
                   :    :   :        :
                     :   :   :         :
                     :    :   :        :
                      :    :   :..''''``::.
                       : ...:..'     .''
                       .'   .'  .::::'
                      :..'''``:::::::
                      '         `::::
                                  `::.
                                   `::
                                    :::.
                         ..:```.:'`. ::'`.
                       ..'      `:.: ::
                      .:        .:``:::
                      .:    ..''     :::
                       : .''         .::
                        :          .'`::
                                       ::
                                       ::
                                        :
                                        :
                                        :
                                        :
                                        .

..the biggest ASCII rose anybody's ever seen.

"Use it in good health, Didi."

--
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