On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 20:13:13 +1100, David Strike
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:03:06 -0500, Michael Doelle wrote:
>(snip)
>>Ohh, and I'm VERRRRRY excited about the Oz trip. Emirates is still
>>flying, only the Kuweit flights have been suspended so far.

I didn't know Mika's exact dates until I see it here.

To Mike:  How far is MUC from Frankfurt?  I could take a roundtrip
there next week for $245 on Air France as I noted in an earlier post.
Anything worth seeing there?  :-)


>Mate!  Forgive me for being so quiet, but we're looking forward to
>welcoming you to Oz with equal excitement!  :-)))

<Special Travel Agent Strike's itinerary snipped <g>>

Sounds like you won't have any moonshine left for him to sample. :-)

>Plus the conducted tour of places of interest -
>including, of course, the 'Stinky Drain', (The 'Steyne' pub) at
>Manly and a beer or three with Tricky and me! :-)

Now I know why I didn't get to meet Tricky, cuz Strike knew my
dislike of beverages that are recycled through a horse.


>(The temperature, by the way, has been 22 deg. C. - not quite like a
>spa, but almost!)  :-)

Bah!!  Spa for Polar Bears?  :-)  22 C translates to 71.6 F (if my
mental 'rithmetic ain't faulty) and that's well below freezing
according to the WWW temp gauge.

>Sylvia sends her love and says she's looking forward to seeing you again -
>she also said that if the water temperature's less than 25 deg. C.
>then, "I can whistle Dixie",  as far as seeing her in the water on
>that Sunday! :-)

This one is easy.  Multiple of 5 ... 77.0 deg F exactly.  Still 3
degrees sub WWW standard.  :-)

>
>Sssppheeeww ... Sssppheeeww... Sssppheeeww ... Sssppheeewwua...
spheeeww ...
>(Bugger it!  Sylvia, won't be diving! But she will be cooking!)  :-))))

I TOLD you Sylvia is the smarter of you two, hence the one who gets
the Harvard T-shirt.  :-)))))

-- Bob.