Oh I knew about the little part of London, not the Edmond part I
admit. There's a play titled The Merry Devil of Edmonton, which became
the title of a broadsheet Stephen Scobie & I edited way back when.
That joke about Regina is OLD. Yeah, big sky, & in Sask & Alberta,
out on the highway, still a long lonely road. And believe me, I know
of far too many dinosaurs here in Edmonton, almost al of them in the
Legislature....
Doug
On 10-Feb-10, at 12:59 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> Canadian place names. On a moonless night in the late sixties,
> deadheading at a hundred miles an hour west across the continent,
> where there had been no sign of life for hours, I saw ahead a huge
> dome of light. It was like traveling through outer space and
> sighting an unknown life form. Which it was. Regina. Which ever
> after my wife of the time called Vagina, because it amused us. We
> kept going, stopping in the wee hours in Moose Jaw, named for the
> viceroy of Femur in the Langerhans archipe
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