[Publib] Re: Our Own Private Idaho

[Robert Balliot]

But, I really did not answer the question. He asked who was the subject:

Doug Piranha

Luigi was the one talking about Doug.

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Sharon Foster <fostersm1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shoot! If I hadn't been on the desk for the last hour, I woulda had that!
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> Sharon M. Foster, JD, MLS
> Librarians bring order out of chaos.
> http://www.vsa-software.com/mlsportfolio/
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> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Robert Balliot<rballiot at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The Tale of the Pirannha Brothers
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> > Luigi Vercotti
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> > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:10 PM, J B Schallan <jschallan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Judy Turner, in suggesting an alternative to a military occupation of
> >> Seattle, wrote
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> >> "Can we find coffee, tea and vineyards on a nice island, out of the
> >> path of hurricanes? - preferably snow and ice free and tax-sheltered?"
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> >> And Melissa Davidson noted that something in the Puget Sound Area may
> >> approach those desiderata.
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> >> Indeed.
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> >> Last summer Linda (my spouse, who is now a *retired* public librarian)
> >> and I discovered a place that comes close to filling the bill:  Good
> >> coffee and tea?  Check.  Vineyard?  Check (and with a terrific
> >> restaurant).  Out of the path of hurricanes?  Check.  Snow and ice
> >> free?  Check (mostly -- a little gentle snow may fall in winter and
> >> doesn't stay long).  Tax-sheltered?  Probably not, but nothing in this
> >> world is absolutely perfect, now is it?
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> >> The place Linda and I found is Saturna Island, British Columbia, just
> >> north of the Boundary Passage that separates Canada from Washington
> >> state.  If you know Orcas Island in the evergreen state, Saturna is
> >> the next big island as you peer across the waters looking northward
> >> into Canadian seaspace.
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> >> Saturna Island is gorgeous and off the beaten path, and filled with
> >> 300 eccentric residents, consisting of -- as our fine host at Saturna
> >> Lodge, Joe Harris, put it -- 60s American draft dodgers and
> >> communards; back-to-the-landers; Those Who Cannot Get Along With
> >> Others; and "creative agriculturalists."
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> >> Saturna is one of British Columbia's Southern Gulf Islands, reached by
> >> the BC Ferries service, but is so obscure that many longtime residents
> >> of the other islands (Salt Spring, Mayne, Galiano, North and South
> >> Pender) have never been there.  A bit of local humor says that Saturna
> >> is the only one of the islands that regularly petitions BC Ferries for
> >> *less* service.
> >>
> >> The Recently Retired One and I have requirements that are amply
> >> satisfied by Saturna Island -- solitude, natural splendor, beaches and
> >> trails, good food and wine, and coolness (which, after a brutal
> >> Arizona summer, we will be more than ready for when we return to
> >> Saturna this September).
> >>
> >> IMHO, it is a perfect librarians' island:
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> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/thelostdutchman/2765123571/
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> >> Seattle, you are safe.
> >>
> >> Joe Schallan
> >> Phoenix
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> >> PS.  A piece of my librarians-occupy-Seattle fantasy was mooched
> >> pretty much word for word from Monty Python.  I will send a Special
> >> Tacky Arizona-Themed Gift to the first Publibber who can correctly
> >> identify the sketch and name the character about whom the mooched
> >> words were being said. "First" will be determined by the timestamp on
> >> the email message.
> >>
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