Re: How true...

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Charlie Springer wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:33:30 -0700, Michael J. Mahon wrote
> (in article <TMqdnVuR-u-D-rfbnZ2dnUVZ_t_inZ2d@comcast.com>):
>
>
> > I'd gladly pay $5 for one--I've always felt a certain kinship with
> > Don!  ;-)
>
>
> The copies I have are the TTL version.
>
> To be real kin you need to measure driving distance in terms of beers. He 
> always said Thatcher was 5 beers from Phoenix and 7 beers from Tuscon or 
> vice-versa. The grand prize was always a free tinaja quest -- plenty of beer 
> in the jeep and a ride in the desert looking for hidden water holes.
>
> He runs a web sit and sells interesting surplus these days. I think he is 
> still active in the books-on-demand printing ideas and playing with 
> PostScript.

Yes to all of that--except I'm not much of a beer drinker.  ;-)

-michael

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