<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="FIXED" FACE="Courier New Baltic" LANG="0">In a message dated 7/10/2003 7:51:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dhackney@optusnet.com.au writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">>3000 miles away... can't afford to travel that distance to attend.<BR>
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Only 3000 miles? Hah, I'm 7500 miles away!<BR>
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(Not that I can afford to travel the distance to attend either...)<BR>
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Did I say 3000? I meant to say that I'm about 21,000 miles away - because, in Grooish fashion, I would travel to the convention the looong way around the globe instead of x-country. And, naturally this would cost an awful lot of kopins (of which, I have none).<BR>
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-seth</FONT></HTML>