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- From: ketil@sandel.ii.uib.no (Ketil M. Malde)
- Subject: Re: WIZARD Re-Visiting Scandinavia?
- In-Reply-To: jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu's message of 5 Nov 92 13:01:24 GMT
- Message-ID: <KETIL.92Nov8022000@sandel.ii.uib.no>
- Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount)
- Reply-To: ketil@ii.uib.no
- Organization: student of numerical analysis at the University of Bergen, Norway
- References: <1db5v4INNfh4@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 02:20:00
- Lines: 70
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- Mike> Your _personal_ money?!?? NO WAY! I do remember the
- Mike> one or two negative things about Norway - the 50-70%
- Mike> income taxes (even more confiscatory than the US!).
- Mike> (BTW, Kelly Freas - WIZARD's poster artist - actually
- Mike> KNEW the woman who created the first US 1040 income tax
- Mike> form, back in 1913. And that's Another Story...) I
- Mike> can't accept private donations. But... There's the
- Mike> Hollywood Solution: OPM (ie - "other peoples' money").
-
- Well, first of all, we're students. So, as we don't have any income
- anyway, we don't pay taxes. (my tax return form is very simple, just
- fill in zeros in the appropriate places)
-
- The other thing is that, given the beer prices in this country, we
- can't afford it anyway, so we don't really have a use for money
- anyway.. :-)
-
- But, of course, the virtues of the OPM solution are pretty apparent..
-
- Mike> There are several festivals occurring in Scandinavia,
- Mike> around the same time. I believe the Norwegian Filmfest
- Mike> is being held in Haugesund (only a few inches from
- Mike> Bergen, on this map)(about 6cm) - though I heard the
- Mike> Festival Director, Gunnar Lovvik, is difficult to reach,
-
- Yes, a couple of hours by boat.
-
- Mike> and is only interested in *Famous (and expensive)
- Mike> $tars*.
-
- SO what? Charge a lot!
-
- Mike> The Norway National Sci-Fi Con is in Oslo,August 6th
- Mike> (93) - I had a great time in 1991, and met you guys, and
- :
- Mike> the Gulf doesn't look too wide, maybe if I wear the
- Mike> Wiz-shoes, and run *real fast*...)
-
- The ferries between Sweden and Finland are *really* nice, some of the
- largest in the world I'm told. I suppose you'd prefer plane, though.
- I hate them (planes). Awful way to travel.
-
- Mike> Anyway, SAS roundtrip split 3 ways (or more) would be a gentler and
- Mike> kinder manner of reducing expenses.
-
- Yes, yes.
-
- >-Magnus (!kibo)
-
- Mike> Ooowow, watch out!
-
- Well, he says *not* kibo (or perhaps you don't program C? The ! is a
- not sign)
-
- Wasn't there a children's rhyme something like "...he only does it to
- annoy.."?
-
- Mike> (: May All Your \V/ Good Dreams
- Mike> and Fine Wishes /_\ Come True:)
-
- Yes...I wish they would, too.
- (Sorry about mutilating your wizard.)
-
- -ketil
-
-
- --
- = Ketil Malde In real life: ketil@ii.uib.no =
- = Nuke the whales! Honk if you love unicorns! =
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