[lit-ideas] Re: on the home front
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:30:15 -0230
Ah, the Westphalia. Some of the finest philosophical work has been done under
its roof (and on this list too, I might add. Whatever did happen to Herr Doktor
Professor Jorg Gruell?) It's ambience may well have succeeded in motivating a
booking of a flight to North Bay, but alas you have decided to part with it for
pieces of silver.
You can't fool me. I and a friend hitchhiked through Thunder Bay and North Bay
in August of 1974. We were eaten alive! 34 years surely can't make much of a
difference in the phylogeny of flying insects.
Wasn't born yesterday,
Walter O
The Rock (where very little either flies or grows. Although we do have
raspberries in our backyard for some odd reason.)
P.S. One of us doesn't know how to spell "mosquitoes." (Take it away RP ....!)
Quoting Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> RP is welcome anytime. But Walter, August is our reprieve from the
> mosquitos and blackflies -- the camping is fine. If the crime is
> serious enough, you might consider sentencing him in May or June. Too
> bad we finally sold our beautiful orange 1974 VW Westie a few weeks
> ago. It had been a great guest bedroom right in our driveway. My
> brother was very pleased to tick off one of the items on his bucket list.
> US in North Bay
> And Walter...despite the friendliness of this response, don't think I
> didn't notice the slur against NBay.
>
> wokshevs@xxxxxx wrote:
> > He [RP] is sentenced to a week's
> > stay at a campground (of his choice) in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. May
> the
> > Lord take pity on his flesh. (Yes, they have black flies and mosquitoes,
> big
> > time! Dante would have been much impressed and would have added a chapter
> to
> > his tomb.)
> >
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