To: Crocodile who wrote (438 ) 4/7/2002 3:46:13 PM From: marcos Respond to ... however, paddling in three distinct compass directions as they were, with their progress entirely subject to wind and tide, they found themselves some months later only halfway out of the Straits of Juan de Fuca, where a US submarine on a mission to collect the punitive duty on the birchbark, and with the rookie draftee US national at the helm, accidentally surfaced directly under them, so they had to swim back clutching pieces of the wreckage for flotation, assuring each other all the while that there must be between this action and relations with neighbours 'no linkage, no no no linkage never, between this unfortunate incident and "other files", since at least one of the individuals to the south might not yet be completely whacko and anyway as a group they haven't actually physically invaded us since the nice candy lady's friends ran them off the last time so maybe if we're really nice and polite to them they won't this time either bla bla bla'
