Dear, dear, Bob:
Now don't get your gander UP <grin> I was/is talking about east New Mexico
dear One.
I am sorry, I thought <forgive me> you were of the intelligent kind and
didn't need to specify my words <GRIN>.
Thanks! for your lovely thoughts!
--Manaia
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--- On Mon, 7/14/08, Robert Melson <melsonr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>>>> SNIP <<<<<<<<
> But you're talkin' waaaaaay east. I'm
> talkin' east of here, like
> Midland-Odessa and Lubbock (TTI). 'Sides which, if
> we're a'gonna talk
> coastal, then we gotta talk about the blue fringes on both
> the
> Left and Right Coasts - and none of them know from
> nuthin', nohow.
>
> Long time ago, I did my officer training in a company of
> about
> 100 other first and second lieutenants at Ft. Benning, GA.
> Most of
> my class/company were from colleges in the east and upper
> Midwest
> and really had only the TV westerns from which to form
> their view
> of what "out west" meant. (At the time, the most
> popular TV western
> was "Bonanza", BTW.) Now, I had driven to
> Benning from here, my
> car being a kinda ratty Chevrolet, with more than a few
> dings and
> a couple of holes in the bodywork. Since my classmates
> were, well,
> naive, I was able to convince'em that the dings and
> holes came as a
> result of Indian attacks on our "wagon train"
> between here and
> Dallas, where we were able to pick up the "real"
> highway and move
> on into civilization. Might not've been the kindest
> thing to do,
> but it was a helluva lot of fun in the doing!
>
> Smilin' Ol' Bob
>
>
> --
> Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso,
> Texas
> -----
> Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the
> probable
> reason so few engage in it. -- Henry Ford
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