Ron,

    Laugh all you like, but when the big one hits and everything east of the
San Andreas falls into the Atlantic, we'll get the last laugh.  :)

Rs~
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Burnett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OZorgnaks (was Joe Geiser)


> At 15:51 30/03/2000 -0800, Barry Lake wrote:
>
> >Of course, over time, the name "OZorgnaks" became bastardized and
> >mispronounced until it became "Ozarks". This explains why people from
> >Arkansas and Missouri are so weird.
>
> Harrummph!  We're not 'weird', just more highly developed.  It is,
> after all, the oldest geographic area of the North American continent.
> Not like that upstart Pacific coast that's about to break off and fall
> into the ocean.  (Sort of like what happened ca. 1820 in south eastern
> Mo., I guess.)
>
> Ron (Ozarkian in Oz) Burnett
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>
> P.S.  Its a corruption of the French 'aux arcs', anyway.
>