From: billi@shore.net Date: 10/4/95 9:48pm Subject: [SETHWORKS:9165] Re: CGPE
>I'm all for the Great Expedition. I've started to make a list of what we
>might need:
>
>Pith helmets - one each.
>Husky dogs - two dozen.
>Moose lures - six.
>Kendle mint cake - two large crates.
>Mosquito nets - one each.
>Large twelve-bore anti-snake guns - seven each.
>Snow shoes - one pair each.
>Absurdly large butterfly nets - three.
>Plus fours (beige) - two pairs each.
>
James: What are Plus fours?
>
>The Giza pyramids and Jerusalem are the places that spring to my mind.
>Essenes (?)
>stashed a bunch of as yet undiscovered scrolls. I think. Or did I dream that?
>
James: You've got all those churches built on druid/celtic temple sites, as
Anna mentions, plus all those leelines, crop circles, Stonehenge, Findhorn, and who knows what else -- all you need is a handy-dandy gravitometer
(anyone have a clever, inexpensive design?) and some time off and you've become the famous discoverer of the UK CPs!
Bill I.
From: kallisti@VNET.IBM.COM Date: 10/5/95 2:41pm Subject: [SETHWORKS:9201] expedition....
James I get to fight the lion Evans writes:
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alternative to Large twelve-bore anti-snake guns:
Jen - 1
Jen's cloth snake collecting bags - a bunch (so I'm an optimist...)
I guess that means I'm in... :-)
/jen
p.s. we can go look around Sedona... bet there are a bunch there...
Coordinate points I mean! not snakes! (well maybe)
p.p.hungry.s. what's a Kendle mint cake?
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From: thrib@dircon.co.uk To: TDOC.WFDD(jamest) Date: 10/12/95 5:00pm Subject: [SETHWORKS:9470] Re: GCPE
Many apologies for holding up the expedition. I've been almost busy lately.
In answer to the questions:
'Plus fours' are bizarre old fashioned baggy trousers that nobody wears any more, except for a few golfers. They'd be ideal for us, because when we weren't wearing them we could tie them between a couple of palm trees and use them as hammocks. If our travels took us to Antarctica then we'd probably have to use compliant penguins instead of palm trees. (I'm just trying to think through some of the practicalities. Someone has to think ahead you know.)
Kendle mint cake is a type of minty cake that comes from Kendle. It's very popular amongst climbers of Himalayan peaks. You can get it plain, or chocolate covered. (I mean chocolate covered mint cake, not chocolate covered Himalayas.)
Talking of which, I had a premonitory dream the other night:
I was in a book shop, and there on the shelf was a big glossy tome - 'The Great Coordinate Point Expedition' by Bill Ingle. I picked the book up and read:
"Friday June 3rd
"Sad news indeed. As was feared from the outset, the disappearances have begun. This morning we awoke to find that Joann had vanished. We have searched for her all of the day, but to no avail. There is no trace. There are a few strange markings on the ground, which have led some to believe that she may have been abducted by aliens. Perhaps we will never know the truth.
"Oddly, both crates of chocolate covered Kendle mint cake seem to have vanished also."
It was at this point in the dream that I awoke.
James Evans
P.S. Please do make full use of the list of essential items on any camping trips. That way we may be able to spot if there are things missing from it.
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