Re: OT: Re: MOST (was Re: Zodiacal light linked to ancient Martian oceans)

From: Peter Stickney (peter_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 19:26:13 -0400

In article <V%ARc.100964$yd5.18418@twister.nyroc.rr.com>,
        "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@greenms.com> writes:
>
> "OM" <om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research_facility.org> wrote
> in message news:8hldh0hct8nui0i7ggv4msnlfncfnufnld@4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 18:43:33 -0500, Pat Flannery <flanner@daktel.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Well here in Jamestown, Upper South Dakota we call it..... :-)
>>
>> ...That's ok. There are those of us in the Former Confederacy who
>> still believe that North Dakota is really a part of Canada the Yankees
>> leased in order to bump up the number of non-Slave states :-)
>
> Hadn't heard that theory, but could work. I still believe North Dakota is
> really a myth foisted upon us by the folks from Dakota (aka South Dakota).
> Working theory right now is that "South Dakota" sounds warmer and nicer, so
> they invited North Dakota since South Dakota had to be SOUTH of something.

No, it's a Diplomatic Ploy to mollify the Canadians by keeping South
Dakota as far away from them as possible. 

-- 
Pete Stickney
Trumpeter 3rd Rate, Turtle Mountain Maval Station Tactical Wind
Ensemble, University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople alumnus, 1976
(Take that, Dr. Johansen!)

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