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   Bill Shatzer to Lobby Dosser   
   Re: Let's go hiking!   
   12 Dec 06 12:07:49   
   
   XPost: or.politics   
   From: bshatzerNO@comcast.net   
      
   Lobby Dosser wrote:   
      
   -snip-   
      
   > In the 50s quite a bit of Lake Michigan used to freeze and folks thought   
   > it fun to drive on the lake - cars in those days. Some thought it real   
   > neat to drive near the edge of the ice. Sometimes floes would break off   
   > with an automobile on board. It was great fun for Everyone Else   
   > speculating whether or not the floe would melt or tip over before the   
   > Coasties got to it.   
      
   And whether the drivers would drown or survive?   
      
   Strange sense of "great fun" Everyone Else had in those days.   
      
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