Oh dear, oh dear, I _know_ there are folks out there who catch typos and
think they are funny!  I just _know_ there are!  In fact, some of you
replied to me off line the last time I got all sorts of earnest replies to a
wisecrack I made about a typo.

But here we go again.

I know where Winnipeg is.  I've been to Winnipeg.  Twice, in fact.  I
interviewed for a job in Winnipeg.  Not the right job for me, nor me for it
- fortunately, because I didn't want to move there.

Loren's story, however, was about Winnigeg!

Merry Christmas, everyone!  Now time to return to painting the walls -
WHITE!  Unless, of course, I ditch it to do the good Jew thing on December
25, and go to the movies and then send out for Chinese food.

Joy

:::-----Original Message-----
:::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
:::Of Jeff Palmer
:::Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 8:14 AM
:::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
:::Subject: Re: Writers aren't artists
:::
:::Right here!  I was waiting for someone to ask.  Coordinates: 49�54'
:::N 97�08'W
:::
:::Established 1738, Incorporated 1873.  Elevation 238m or 781 ft.
:::Metropolitan population about 700,000, including maybe 20 vanagons in
:::various conditions.  I have one.
:::
:::Famous Winnipeggers include Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman (the
:::Guess Who), Monty Hall, Nia Vardalos, Cindy Klassen (who won five
:::medals at the last Winter Olympics) Neil Young and Winnie the Pooh.
:::
:::Seedy hotel rooms can be found at The Royal Albert Arms, the Winnipeg
:::Hotel, the Northern, the Yale, and the Merchant.  RIP the St Charles,
:::New Occidental, the Savoy, the Patricia . . .
:::
:::Jeff
:::
:::On 24-Dec-06, at 2:19 PM, Joy Hecht wrote:
:::
:::> LOL!
:::>
:::> Where's Winnigeg?  :-)
:::>
:::>
:::>
:::>
:::> Joy
:::>
:::>
:::> :::-----Original Message-----
:::> :::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On
:::> Behalf
:::> :::Of Loren Busch
:::> :::Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 3:05 PM
:::> :::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
:::> :::Subject: Re: Writers aren't artists
:::> :::
:::> :::Dont need no two pages, how about two sentences?
:::> :::
:::> :::It was growing dark in the seedy Winnigeg hotel room as the
:::> naked fakir
:::> :::sat
:::> :::on his bed of nails, watching his monkey once again try to
:::> silence the
:::> :::talking cat food can with a hammer.  But above the din he could
:::> still
:::> :::hear
:::> :::the can repeating, over and over again, "Bad Karma, Bad Karma...".
:::> :::
:::> :::On 12/24/06, Nathaniel Poole <npoole@telus.net> wrote:
:::> :::>
:::> :::> On 12/24/06 10:34 AM, "Joy Hecht" <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU> wrote:
:::> :::>
:::> :::>
:::> :::> But I think the best enlightenment I can offer is an
:::> assignment. Write
:::> :::a
:::> :::> two
:::> :::> page story that must contain a monkey, a hammer, a naked fakir
:::> in a
:::> :::seedy
:::> :::> Winnipeg hotel room, and a talking, philosophical cat food can.
:::> :::>
:::> :::>