You know, humor is a tough gig, shouldn't be attempted by amateurs. What an odd and sophomoric way to present some very salient information . . . Val Cunningham St. Paul, Minn. (Spent some money on owling this winter, don't feel included in this sappy report.)
on 4/15/05 2:52 PM, Randy Frederickson at [email protected] wrote: > Final numbers have been tallied for those who submitted expense information > (I'm still open to more data though, for those of you who haven't submitted > yet). > > I was hoping we could break $200,000 for our Minnesota winter travel birding > expenses. It was close, thankfully some of the misc. categories were really > large. Thanks to Ron Erpelding, John Hockema, Bob Janssen, and Roger > Schroeder for including the money they spent on women while birding- that > was an additional $10,000...wait, that was just for Hockema. > > And thanks to Jerry Bonkoski, Al Batt, Phil Chu and Chris Benson for > including their $5,000 alcohol purchases while birding... or was that just > Benson's part? > > Have to draw the line somewhere, though, so I did NOT accept the expenses > submitted by Craig Mendel for the psychiatrist bills after spending birding > time with Conny Brunell and Leslie Marcus. > > So the final numbers are...............drum roll please................ > > Responses= approximately 265 > Birders represented= approximately 720 (excluding Karla's 500 for her > Festival of Owls) > Money documented= $226,168.00 > > Fran Howard and myself are now trying to determine the % of birders who > traveled here that we actually heard from and will extrapolate/project our > final numbers using that information. > > Thanks Fran for the help! > > Randy Frederickson > > P.S. If I have offended anyone, please contact my sister Sew Soree. > > > _______________________________________________ > mnbird mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mnbird.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mnbird
