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Mark your calendars now for Wordapalooza!
The movement is afoot to organize a gathering of AWADers in late spring or early summer 2002. The exact dates will depend on what is most convenient for everyone.
The place: southern Michigan. My house. Bring your pillows. Arrangements can be made to pick up people at airports and train stations, and carpooling might also be available. [Werner Klemperer]There is no escape from Wordapalooza![/Werner Klemperer]
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Michigan!??! Been there, done that. How about Nome, Alaska? Or McMurdo Sound is nice at that time of year.  
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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OK, I'm saving my pennies.
What is going to be cheapest, fellow Brits - pool together and charter a plane, or foregather somewhere in UK where we can set up a video conference so that we can join in the fun?
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video?
Video?
VIDEO?
VIDEO??!!!
I intend to be there!
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I'll be in the US of A in January '02 for the first time.
Dunno if I'll be back there that quick ;-)
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OK, mav - so plane charter it is! (nothing to beat a democratic decision, now is there!)
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(nothing to beat a democratic decision, now is there!)wassamattah, yah wan' the s'preme court rulin'?
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> wassamattah, yah wan' the s'preme court rulin'?
You are out of order!
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Great idea, Sparteye, but it's a huge amount of work! To say nothing of the expense to host it. (Organized several during my working years and Never Again!)
Are you serious?
If so, participants should chip in to offset the basic costs. You have no idea what you're letting yourself in for do you? Or do you?
wow
Wait a minute -- you're joking, aren't you, you sly fox!
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Well, MapBlast lists a drive of 33:40 from St. John's to Lansing (which was the only city in Michigan near Sparteye that I could recall). Too bad they didn't take into account the six-hour ferry ride to the mainland! (Let's see, 185 km at 100 km/h = 1:51 - if you're driving a car across the Gulf of St. Lawrence!!!!!.) I also noticed that MapBlast assumed a mean speed of 110 km/h = about 70 mph. (Here the speed limit is usually 100 km/h, not 110km/h.) You would be hard-pressed to actually maintain such a speed on the backroads of Newfoundland - oh, I mean the TransCanada Highway - no, wait, they are one and the same! *Not that I'm complaining about the distance - which is a lot farther for some of the others here - but I guess MapBlast's opinion of the trip was just amusing! 
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