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- From: mckinzie@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Mark McKinzie)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: GETTING FED IN WINTERSET
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.145937.4750@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 14:59:37 GMT
- References: <9208211339.AA22681@ensmp.fr> <1992Aug23.074616.640@news.Hawaii.Edu>
- Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
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- patten@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Brian Michael Patten) writes:
-
- >>-- money (means FRENCH FRANCS; trying to buy something using dollars,
- >> credit cards, or travelers checks will meet with as much luck as
- >> trying to pay for a cup of coffee with francs in Des Moines)
- >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- > I spent part of my youth making pizza in a small town 45 miles
- >south-west of Des Moines called Winterset.
-
- > One afternoon, a French couple, who had just finished lunch in our
- >fine establishment, discovered to their dismay that they had left all
- >their US Dollars in their hotel in Des Moines.
-
- If one drives south of Des Moines on I-35, roughly 5 miles south of
- town one finds a sign by the side of the road:
- ----------------------
- | John Wayne Birthsite |
- | Next Exit |
- ----------------------
- One exits the interstate, and finds oneself on a county road (paved, but
- just barely). There are occasional helpful signs to inform our weary
- traveler that, yes, this *is* the road to the John Wayne Birthsite.
-
- Turns out that John Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa, in a little white
- house on the east side of town. Scores of motor homes make this fateful
- sixty mile roundtrip diversion daily, to have the pleasure of witnessing
- that lovely little white house in Winterset.
-
- For some reason, it pleases me to know that some French tourists fell for
- the JWB ploy, and spent all of their dollars in the process.
-
-
- --
- Mark McKinzie | We just won't eat on Sunday
- mckinzie@math.wisc.edu | Got to buy him a limousine
- UW Dept. of Mathematics | Somewhere to live, somewhere to pray.
- Madison, WI 53706 | -RJD, "TV Crimes"-
-