Date:         Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:20:04 -0600
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject:      Re: Friday Census/"flush" thread
Comments: To: Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Bob Stevens wrote:

>Being Friday: my brother's daughter lives in Anchorage. Has the below
>observation:
>
>"As Karen said when asked about the odds ( men-women) in
>Alaska.............." the odds are good but the goods are odd"
>
>
I love it!!!

Ah, Alaska! Where men are men, and women win the Iditarod!!!!

Such things are  what make Alaska such an interesting and wonderful place!!

Example:

At Seward one winter down on the Kenai Peninsula, there was (may still
be) the "Polar Bear" Swim that was conducted. The proceedings were
carried on the local radio. Brave and hardy (fool hardy perhaps)
Alaskans leaped off the dock into the harbor in the winter water with
ice floating around. One participant .... a tall lanky old codger with
grizzled beard, arrived to leap, wearing faded read longhandles, cowboy
boots and a cowboy hat ......and nothing more ...... except for a length
of red ribbon hanging out the front fly. When asked by the Master of
Ceremony about the ribbon, he replied "That's so's  I can find the
little sucker after I get out of that water!!!!"

He was the crowd's favorite that year!!!

Only in Alaska...........

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver