[net.bizarre] Strange Signpost

rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) (08/21/85)

  Las Vegas is made up of several smaller, unheard-of and quaintly-named
  cities. I'll never forget the double-take I did when passing a sign
  saying

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nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit) (08/22/85)

[Someone once told me where to go so I wound up in Arizona.]

>Organization: Pacific Bell
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>  Las Vegas is made up of several smaller, unheard-of and quaintly-named
>  cities. I'll never forget the double-take I did when passing a sign
>  saying
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     If memory serves me correctly, to the north of Phoenix, Arizona is a place
called "Paradise Valley".  When the Viking lander sent back its pictures of
Mars, we figured the thing must have soft-landed outside of Phoenix by mistake.
Ahh, what fun we had, dropping water on their sidewalks and watching(from a safe
distance!) the hydrogen in it fuse from the heat...

					From the alter ego of--

					Kchula-Rrit