At 09:39 PM 8/13/01, you wrote:
>Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> >
> > At 05:34 PM 8/13/01, Jeroen wrote:
> > >At 23:03 5-8-01 -0400, John Giorgis wrote:
> > >
> > >> >>(Here's a hint, the United States has a detailed map of where
> > >> >>every landmine is there.)
> > >> >
> > >> >Oh, I see! And of course the US has given a copy of that map to every
> > >> >individual in that area, so they can walk around those mines
> safely, right?
> > >> >And while they were at it, they also provided similar maps to
> people living
> > >> >near mine fields in other locations in the world?
> > >>
> > >>This is so ridiculous, I don't know where to start.
> > >
> > >
> > >I seriously doubt that the US really knows where every landmine is.
> >
> > Especially when all they gave their _own_ troops were outdated maps of
> > downtown Cleveland*. ;-)
> >
> > (*I think it was Cleveland. Feel free to correct me if your memory is more
> > accurate . . . or you have it on tape.)
>
>I don't have it on tape, but I don't think it was Cleveland.
>
>Of course, the last opportunity I had to see *that* episode, I blew it
>off, so I couldn't tell you which city it was. Besides, that was a
>filing error; they found the accurate map just in time to tell him not
>to move because he was surrounded by mines....
>
>Did you know that some days, the cable channel FX shows M*A*S*H as many
>as 9 times??? Plus, weeknights, the Fox station in Austin shows 2
>episodes -- one at 11PM, one at midnight.
>
>(No, I don't have much of a life at the moment, and it's just *now*
>gotten to the point where I can easily hold a book as I'm
>breastfeeding. I've finished 3 books in the past week, though!)
>
> Julia
You're right: it was "downtown *Berlin*".
--Ronn! :)
who has high-capacity memory, but slow access . . .
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