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   Lobby Dosser to Bill Shatzer   
   Re: Let's go hiking!   
   12 Dec 06 22:39:02   
   
   XPost: or.politics   
   From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   Bill Shatzer  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Watching Natural Selection at work. Not only fun, but educational.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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