wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (08/08/85)
OK, since North Dakota was mentioned in a recent posting, I'll go ahead and ask this: in the last PHC, from Red Wing (are the shoes made there, by the way?), Garrison got a big laugh when he used the phrase "skiing North Dakota" (or close to that) as an example of something not too desirable. Can anyone explain this? Is it just that ND is flat or something like that? (if so, cross-country skiing should be fine; I would think that ND gets plenty snow...) So what was so funny about that bit? (I've seen posters for "Ski Missouri" that show some guy on skis in a snow-less pasture studded with cowpats; is this just the same sort of mild joke? I only ask because the audience reaction seemed overly much.) Regards, Will UUCP/USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA
GMP@psuvm.BITNET (08/10/85)
THEY ONCE SURVEYED THE CAMPUS AT NORTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AT FARGO
AND DISCOVER A 1/4 INCH RISE FROM THE RED RIVER TO THE WEST BOUNDARY OF THE
COLLEGE. SKIING NORTH DAKOTA IS AS OXYMORONIC AS A MANHATTAN SURVIVALIST.
THOSE OF US WHO ESCAPED NORTH DAKOTA AND CAN STILL TALK ABOUT IT LOOK BACK ON T
HE EXPERIENCE WITH ALL THE NOSTALGIA THAT A RUSSIAN REFUSENIK LOOKS BACK ON HIS
SIBERIAN LABOR CAMP EXPERIENCE.
tanner@ki4pv.UUCP (Tanner Andrews) (08/19/85)
] ... surveyed ... found 1/4" rise ... At my school the surveying was done each year in the spring, when the mud was at its finest. Young CivE's would survey the mall in front of EE DuPont and Foolihen hall. Each year, the mall would have grown or shrunk. Quite often by more than a quarter inch. Moral: Don't believe the survey results. Probably done the same way at most schools. By the same people. -- <std dsclm, copies upon request> Tanner Andrews, KI4PV uucp: ...!decvax!ucf-cs!ki4pv!tanner