Path: news.cinenet.net!tor-nx1.netcom.ca!news1.radix.net!saltmine.radix.net!not-for-mail From: moe@Radix.Net (Ted Frank) Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology,alt.religion.louis-nick,alt.fan.kia-mennie Subject: Re: Kibological Tendencies. Date: 14 Sep 1997 01:20:30 -0400 Organization: RadixNet Internet Services, Md. USA Lines: 46 Message-ID: <5vfs6u$2gn@saltmine.radix.net> References: <5ur74m$i56$1@gaia.ns.utk.edu> <5v6hj5$g7q@nntp4.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: saltmine.radix.net Xref: news.cinenet.net alt.religion.kibology:39227 alt.religion.louis-nick:3173 alt.fan.kia-mennie:5484 X-Cache: nntpcache 1.0.6 (see ftp://suburbia.net/pub/nntpcache) In article , James "Kibo" Parry wrote: > MARRIAGE TO BARBARA BAIN IN ONE HOUR! > SEND GIFTS *NOW*! Because Kia and I are having a proper Jewish wedding, as soon as we find a rabbi, we spent this Saturday morning observing one of the critical Jewish pre-wedding rituals. The registration at Bloomingdale's. Kia won the battle over the china pattern (I wanted Villeroy & Boch; we ended up with Snopes, or something else British and blue like my grandmother used to have); I persuaded her that the guest towels should be at least as nice as our towels, and be of matching colors for those occasions when we have two guests. The saleslady dissuaded us from registering for his-and-her Water Piks. This was after a hectic week when I flew to Canada to meet Kia's mother, father, and three sisters, Pia, Mia, and Tia. Also her Aunt Maya (pronounced mee-ah). Canada was in itself interesting. We took an Airbus to O'Hare, and then transferred into this rickety propjet for the journey into the foreign land. I'd never seen so many people standing in one plane before! Luckily, we paid first class, so we were one of the few people who got to sit on the two benches on each side of the plane's interior. The pilot had to circle the runway several times as the herdsman acted to scare away the herds of water buffalo that congregate on the mud strip, but that eventually happened, and, after some well-placed bribes, we were able to retrieve our luggage (Kia at Bloomingdale's eventually agreed with my choice of the practical Samsonite over the leather-and-tweed models), and we hired a horse-drawn carriage plus an additional $5 paid for a day's wages for a member of the mobs of beggars at the airport to work as the advance man for the buggy, clearing the streets and mud-paths of debris and miscellaneous ruffians. After four hours across the frozen steppes, we eventually reached a clearing of five or six mud huts where several dozen families live. They freshly killed a seal for me; Kia had nuts and foraged berries, what with being a vegetarian and all. We roughed it there for a night, and continued on our journey to meet the future in-laws. But that's another tale for another time. -- moe@radix.net "Beavis and Butt-Head. That show makes me http://www.radix.net/~moe laugh like a drain." -- Patrick Stewart kiagate