Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 22:06:06 -0700
Reply-To: Susan Bernavich <susanb@WIZZARDS.NET>
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From: Susan Bernavich <susanb@WIZZARDS.NET>
Subject: Re: Looking for a Vanagon kind of wife
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Dear Joel, please remember that true love is give and take. ...I'm
thinking you might do better if you were willing to leave that darling
little hamlet in...what was it ..oh 60 miles from the
Mississippi....geeze...and west of Jawja (star wars?) anyway you have
posted your personal profile.. there is hope for all single Vananuts...
oh bye the way......who do you think will get in trouble from the list
administer first... you or me? sb
Joel Walker wrote:
> > concerned) We applaude Joels honesty and political committment.
>
> whoa, now!!! i ain't committed nothing to no politics!! <just as bad
> as religions, they always want your money. or your soul!!>
>
> > Hey Joel,,,where do you live.. and are you willing to drive your
> Vanagon
> > anywhere for the right match???? sb
>
> oh, yeah.
>
> i live in Tookalooka, Amabala. :) that's in the Southeast portion of
> the U.S.A., south of Tennessee, north (i hate that word) of Florida,
> east of Mississippi, and west of Jawja. :) Tookalooka is over on the
> western edge. kinda. about 60 miles from the Mississippi state line.
> we've got a state university, a community college, a whole bunch of
> high schools, two italian restaurants, eight million chinese
> restaurants, only four million barbecure restaurants, seven
> McDonald's, five auto parts stores, a Mercedes assembly plant (they
> assemble the M-Class down here), a Michelin tire plant (no, we don't
> get any discounts. and they only make the Uniroyal tires here), a JVC
> audio tape plant, and TWO wal-mart superstores. :)
> climate is hot in the summer, and cool in the winter. we get about an
> inch or so of snow every five to six years, and it lasts about three
> days to a week. usually shuts down the entire town (no snow removal).
> ain't like when i lived in Chicago at all!!! :)
> water is good, but they add chlorine and flouride to it.
> traffic isn't soooo bad except from August to December (due to the
> college and their football games on the weekends).
> we have an airport, but you'll play hell getting anything to land here
> and pick you up. most folks drive to Birmingham (60 miles northeast)
> to a 'real airport'. some folks drive four hours to Atlanta so they
> can get on the big airplanes.
> we have a river, The Black Warrior River (named after Chief
> Tuskaloosa, of the once-local native tribes), with a lot of tug boats
> and barges going hither and yon, but mostly to B'ham steel mills.
> one railroad coming in, and one railroad going out. north/south. used
> to be one running south to Montgomery, but they pulled up the rails on
> that one. it was losing money bigtime. :( my uncle used to be a
> brakeman on that one, back in the steam locomotive days, when i was a
> kid.
> did i mention we have a mall?? :) with a Sears AND a JCPennys!
>
> driving?? i thought SHE had a vanagon, too!! sheesh!
> oh, well. ok, maybe a couple of hours. i can make it to Tennessee,
> Mississippi, and Jawja in about that long. Florida is too far away
> :( unless they live up around Pensacola. and that usually means Navy
> .... not sure how i'd feel with a 'squid' or 'rustpicker' in the
> fambly. ;)
> might could meet up at one of the campouts and such.
>
> unca joel
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