Ugh.  You guys and your festive typos!  Sheesh.

On 25-Dec-06, at 10:07 AM, Joy Hecht wrote:

> 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.
> :::> :::>
> :::> :::>