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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TwinStarRocket: [QB] Well, only a few Winter Carnival events were really cancelled. The parade was shortened and heaters were brought in. No mention of bagpipers being influencial in those decisions. The auto ice races were, in fact, canceled due to previously balmy conditions; - the ice is too thin! As for Mr. Zephyr's cousins in Puposky who frolic naked with polar bears and penguins (and he puts me on a watch list?), -don't believe him! At the current wind chill temp of -33, frostbite sets into any exposed skin within 5-10 minutes. Nails can be driven into wood with bananas. Bagpipers could probably produce the doppler effect without moving. Ever since this state abandoned outdoor NFL playoff games without bench heaters, outdoor hockey, and Amtrak's North Star to balmy Duluth, no Minnesotan can walk without shame. The sissy escape from winter is in reality more of a tradition than lutefisk. Even my name is the train I need restored for my winter escape. But we sissies who will drive on 400 miles of ice and sleep in an Amtrak coach seat for our escape still have some measure of pride. More than the hop on an airplane and sit under the palm tree sissies. I even buried my car in a mid-highway snowdrift trying to get to AZ, and slept in a farmhouse at -75 wind chill. We don't close no freeways here for a few feet of snow. How about you, Mr. Zephyr? Are you the fly-to-the-palm-tree type? Do you live in a wimpy weather state where they close the schools for an inch of snow? Me, I look out the -33 degree frosty window and see my vision: -the SWC pulling into the station and the flashing temp sign on the Bank of Albuquerque saying "67" , "67". Nothing will stop me. Nothing will stop me. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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