Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.wobegon Subject: North Dakota Message-ID: <518@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 14:44:21 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.518 Posted: Thu Aug 8 14:44:21 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Aug-85 08:55:51 EDT References: <2053GMP@psuvm> Reply-To: wmartin@brl-bmd.UUCP Distribution: na Organization: USAMC ALMSA, St. Louis, MO Lines: 16 OK, since North Dakota was mentioned in a recent posting, I'll go ahead and ask this: in the last PHC, from Red Wing (are the shoes made there, by the way?), Garrison got a big laugh when he used the phrase "skiing North Dakota" (or close to that) as an example of something not too desirable. Can anyone explain this? Is it just that ND is flat or something like that? (if so, cross-country skiing should be fine; I would think that ND gets plenty snow...) So what was so funny about that bit? (I've seen posters for "Ski Missouri" that show some guy on skis in a snow-less pasture studded with cowpats; is this just the same sort of mild joke? I only ask because the audience reaction seemed overly much.) Regards, Will UUCP/USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA