At 08:44 PM 9/25/2009, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>* Didn't a young woman traveling alone in a Vanagon run into something
>horrible[*] at a rest stop just a few years ago?

For you and me it was just a few years ago -- and I'm only** rising 59.
Guess that tells us something about Joy's age. ;-)

d

* If you call dying horrible.  No doubt she went through some
unpleasantness first.
** Compared to your August Age, of course.  To the 20-year-olds I'm
already dead.***
*** So there.  Put *that* in your pipe**** and smoke it.
**** A figurative pipe, of course.  One would not presume to assume
your favored route of administration*****
***** ;-> ******
****** An "emoticon," commonly called a "smiley."*******
******* In this case of course it's an "evil winkie." ********
******** As you no doubt knew already.
PS -- you couldn't possibly win this competition,********* if I
stopped putting mine in-line, enclosed in double-hyphens or
parentheses.  And maybe my stuff would be more readable if I did...
PPS -- but I'll be happy to nominate you, if you send a nomination
form and a properly addressed stamped envelope.
********* Of course if you choose to take that as a challenge, all
bets are off.  Sciurids********** are well-known for pique,
persistence and perspicuity (perspiciuridity?), and perhaps
pschadenfreude.  And ability to dodge behind the branch in the time
it takes a .22 bullet to travel fifty feet.
********** Eudora's spell-checker doesn't like this.  It suggests
"Spirits," "Stupids" and "Scourers" as alternatives.

Love,
David