Re: Let's move to New Zealand!

[Julia Thompson]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Charlie Bell wrote:

> 
> > Dan had a co-worker who spent an awful lot of money on a bigger, nicer
> > diamond ring than the engagement ring had been, as a 10th wedding
> > anniversary gift.  When Dan told me what the cost of it had been, my first
> > thought was to calculate how many brand-new, top-of-the-line computers
> > that would be.  Turned out that was about *his* first thought when he
> > heard the figure as well.  So I told him that if he were tempted to buy me
> > a new ring, he should just get me a brand-new computer that would start
> > out as MINE, and leave it at that.  :)  (I'm starting to get tired of
> 
> Um, won't that be awfully difficult to find a setting for? And your left
> hand would be very heavy.

Charlie, if you were in the same room with me, a little stuffed animal
(probably the kiwi, but maybe the inchworm) would be flying through the
air towards your head....  :D  (And I'd probably miss.)

        Julia