>> You know you're in Ansteorra when:
>>
>> - You no longer associate bridges (or rivers) with water...
>> - You can say 110 degrees without fainting...
>> - You eat hot chilies to cool your mouth off...
>> - You can make instant sun tea...
>> - You learn that a seat belt makes a pretty good branding iron...
>> - The temperature drops below 95, you feel a bit chilly...
>> - You discover that in July, it takes only 2 fingers to drive your
>> car...
>> - You discover that you can get a sunburn through your car
>window...
>> - You notice the best parking place is determined by shade instead
>of
>> distance...
>> - Hot water now comes out of both taps...
>> - It's noon in July, kids are on summer vacation, and not one
>person is
>> out on the streets...
>> - You actually burn your hand opening the car door...
>> - You break a sweat the instant you step outside...at 7:30 a.m.
>before
>> work...
>> - No one would dream of putting vinyl upholstery in a car or not
>having
>> air conditioning...
>> - Your biggest bicycle wreck fear is, "What if I get knocked out
>and end
>>
>> up lying on the pavement and cook to death"?...
>> - You realize that asphalt has a liquid state...
>>
>> It's so hot in Ansteorra ......
>>
>> * The birds have to use pot holders to pull worms out of the
>> ground.
>> * The potatoes cook underground and all you have to do to have
>> lunch is to pull one out and add butter, salt and pepper.
>> * Farmers are feeding their chickens crushed ice to keep them from
>> laying hard boiled eggs.
>> It's so dry in Ansteorra...
>> - the cows are giving evaporated milk.
>> - the trees are whistlin' for the dogs.
>>
>> A sad Ansteorran once prayed, "I wish it would rain-not so much for me,
>> cuz I've seen it-but for my 7-year-old."
>>
>> A visitor to Ansteorra once asked, "Does it ever rain out here?" A
>rancher
>> quickly answered "Yes, it does. Do you remember that part in the
>Bible
>> where it rained for 40 days and 40 nights?" The visitor replied,
>"Yes, I'm
>>
>> familiar with Noah's flood." "Well," the rancher puffed up, we got
>bout
>> two
>> and a half inches during that spell."
>>
>>
Phlip
phlip@morganco.net
Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio
The World's Need
So many Gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being kind
Is all this sad world needs.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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