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. > :::> > :::> |
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