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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 15:17:51 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: <v8jbcv$2vda1$1@dont-email.me> References: <v73atc$o3k$1@reader1.panix.com> <87wmkz3awb.fsf@comcast.net.invalid> <v8im0q$cah$1@reader1.panix.com> <87sevn2cy2.fsf@comcast.net.invalid> <v8ivep$97b$1@reader1.panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 21:17:52 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d15d33246bc05b6397fb075493ea6689"; logging-data="3126593"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+XoHZKCMT++qcLa4/47EIY" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ft4MlkWMLr4p+dDHI9sApnj3qbQ= In-Reply-To: <v8ivep$97b$1@reader1.panix.com> Bytes: 2607 James Nicoll wrote: > In article <87sevn2cy2.fsf@comcast.net.invalid>, > Don_from_AZ <djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid> wrote: >> jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) writes: >> >>> In article <87wmkz3awb.fsf@comcast.net.invalid>, >>> Don_from_AZ <djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid> wrote: >>>> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> writes: >>>> >>>>> RrOn Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:30:02 -0400, William Hyde >>>>> <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Many people from Ontario spend winter or part of winter in Florida. So >>>>>> there's plenty of opportunity for cross-contamination. >>>>> >>>>> Could be worse - some 30-40 years ago they ran a tourist promotion >>>>> inviting people to Ontari-air-io. >>>>> >>>> I recall a ditty that ended: >>>> >>>> "A place to stand, a place to grow... >>>> Ontari-airi-airi-o" >>>> >>>> back about 1968 or so; it's been stuck in my head for 56 years! >>> >>> 1967: the Canadian Centenial. >> >> Yes, you are probably right about it being 1967, James. Some friends and >> I drove up to Montreal from Troy NY for Expo '67. Aside from someone >> snapping off my radio antenna, probably because the car had a NY license >> plate, it was a fun trip. > > I was in kindergarten in 1967 and learning all the words to that > song, and singing it over and over and over, was required. Dark times, dark times. William Hyde