Conference turris::womannotes-v3

    You're a mischievous imp, Bonnie.  :-)

    -- Mike

    'Round trip' ? And here I thought you were the romantic type :-)

    in re Dana
    
    Well can anyone get Mike a job out here?
    
    in re Mike
    
    thankyou :-)
    
    I never thought anyone would take my remark last night seriously!

    Okay, the cheapest ticket is $404 - we have $70 pledged.
    
    :-)

    Bonnie, the absolute requirement for any job that I would take is that
    it must allow me to wear t-shirts and blue jeans every single working
    day, and flip-flops during the summer.  :-)
    
    -- Mike

    Job?  What is this about a job?  Won't love conquer all?
    
    No romantics in this crowd?  Get a one-way ticket...

    
    You can wear jeans and tee shirts and flip flops (and even shorts) here
    in MRO1 if you want.
    
    Maybe someone's selling tickets cheap in CLASSIFIED_ADS?  I'll check
    and let you know if I find anything.
    
    CQ

    
    re .6:
    You'd fit right in with the rest of us slobs here in ZK.
    

   I don't know, Ellen, he sounds a little dressed up to me... ;-)

    Bonnie,
    
    I have two tickets for $$ off for Round trip for Continential...
    They must be used before 31 Dec 1990, and must include a Saturday night
    stay.
    
    Discounts are: $25 off for $150-200 ticket
                   $50 off for $201-350 ticket
                   $100 off for above $350
    
    If you can use them, I can bring them to the party on Saturday night
    and someone can get them to you I am sure...
    
    Gale

    I'll be at the party Saturday Gale, thanks
    
    Bonnie

    Both coupons are in my purse, please, don't forget to get them from me
    :-)...  That will take $100.00 off the fare you were quoted, as long as
    they fly continental.
    
    Gale_who_knew_paying_nine_dollars_for_this_coupon_book_would_be_a_benefit!

    I will kick in a fiver  in the name of love !
    
    :-)
    
    Sue

  I'll put my $5 in here and work on collections here in Colorado.

  (Mike, I'm sure you'll understand)

  Kenn

    We are up to 17 people which is $85 unless some folks want to raise
    their pledge, plus the coupon from Gale - which leaves about $220 +/-
    to raise..
    
    It might work :-)
    
    
    B Reinke
    Joe White
    Dana Charbonneau
    Maggie Tarbet
    Karen Godin
    Bonnie R S
    Chris Quiry
    Jonathan Ludgate
    Lorna St Hilaire
    'Hamp' Hampton
    Phil Connell
    Heinrich Benz
    D! Carroll
    Carla Blazek
    Kenn Jackson
    Sue Walton
    Margaret Russell

    well, if you check out the rat-hole, you willnotice that
    both D! and i have offered to up our pledges, on certain
    conditions.....  :-) X 100
    
    jonathan (who is trying to think of a title for this masterpiece
    in the making)
    

    Bonnie, just let me know where to send the money and I'll use
    Ineteroffice mail to get it out to you tomorrow.
    
    Phil(the world's biggest romantic as long as he isn't one of the people
    involved)

    Jonathan,
    
    Mike declined the conditions for the higher pledges.
    
    Bonnie

    I pledge $10, but only if I get a backrub out of the deal.
    
    (I know, selfish as usual)
    
    -Jody

    
    
    hey!  what an excellent idea!  well now....maybe we should have
    a back-rub-a-thon to help raise the money for this wonderful
    event....even though we DON'T get to watch......
    
    sounds like we have two events in the makings here......
    
    

    I think we will all be entitled to *something* for this
    pledge....
    
    
    :-)

    
    OK, Ken, I'll help with the Colorado donations. Another $5 in the pot.
    Gee Mike, maybe I can get Rich to donate too. :*) liesl

    I received the following mail from an anonymous read only noter.
    
    :-)
    
    Bonnie
    
    ________________________________________________________________________
    
Subj:	Mike and Grace

Sorry to put you to this trouble, but would like to ask you to enter the
following as an anonomous reply to note 391 in WomanNotes.

Let me know where/when to send the money!
________________________________________________________________________
I have been enjoying this file in read-only mode for over a year now.  I am
very grateful for the chance to do so, the ideas discussed here have 
contributed much to my own personal development as a (male) person.  I have
some valid (for me) reasons to wish to remain read-only, except for this - 
my single anonomous contribution.

I suspect I am not alone, and that there are many others like me, being quietly
supportive in the background.

Perhaps the time has come for us to return something to this community, and
I see a good cause here!  I am pledging $10 Canadian ($8.60 U.S.) to try and
put a little Grace into Mike's life!  Let me know where to send it when the 
time comes.

I hope other read-only folks will accept this as a challenge!  Just like those
telethon challenges.  With the support of the rest of the read-only community,
we can get Mike on the plane before his rug burns heal.

Now its time for me to open up another refreshing vitamin filled can of 
5-Alive juice, and get back to work.

�   In re Sue Walton,
    
    everyone who contributes will be invited to the party  - �at Bonnie
    Randal's, or else where if the weekend is bad for Bonnie (Bon did
    I tell you we've accepted your offer? no? well we have...(royal
    'we' here), (as will those than can't afford to natch).
    
    As for anything else, that is up to Mike :-), 
    
    You may send money to me, either to my interdepartmental mail address
    or my home �but I'd rather you do it by the U.S. mail system (or
    Canadian or German) since this is not Dec business.
    
    my Dec address is
    
    WMO /C18
    Digital Equipment Corporation
    Digital Drive
    Westminster, Mass 
    
    or home is
    
    RFD 2
    Athol, Mass 01331
    
    Please mark the envelope on the outside with something to indicate
    what it is about, like MV EG :-)
    
    We now have approximately $118.60 plus Gale's coupon which leaves
    us with about $200 +/- to go...
    
    and can I thank right now all the people who've written to this idea?
    
    If nothing else it has highlighted the sense of community that I know
    does exist in =wn= and the love and joy that people have for each
    other, I'd been wondering if it still existed!
    
    If for any reason Mike can't come east before Gale's coupon expires
    in December, I  will of course return her coupon to her. Those of
    you who have sent me money can choose to either have it refunded or
    contribute it to the fund to bring people to the 5th anniversary
    party next June.
    
    and Mike and E Grace, thank you for being such good sports.
    
    :-)
    
    hugs to you all
    
    Bonnie
    
  

    Okay, I'd like to offer a pledge incentive.  I'll give a copy of the CD
    by the Sundays, "Reading, Writing and Arithmetic", to the first person
    who contributes $20 or more to the cause.
    
    -- Mike

    I'll donate a loaf of home made bread deliverable at what ever
    party we have to anyone who raises their pledge $5.00. Good for
    the first 5 pledgers. (Maybe more if I get ambitious).
    
    Bonnie

    okay, I'll go for the bread

    Hell I'd only spend the $5 on bills or some other useless item like
    food, might as well chip in for a worthy cause.  
    
    Joe

    I'll contribute $10 for the bread - and for the fun of
    getting E Grace and Mike together.
    
    Pat

    this one is just a whole lot more worth (and worthy) of five bucks
    than lots of other things I've heard about.  I'll send my $5 down to
    you, Bonnie.  E Grace and Mike, I only hope I can make it down to meet
    you both in person.  I'm gonna make a couple of trips to Ma. for
    zoning-board-of-appeals-type fun, and if these events coincide then
    I'll be able to make it
    
    I do seem to sprinkle musical quotes around:
    
    "so ring me no rings,
    "find me no find,
    "groom me no groom,
    "catch me no catch --
    "unless he's a matchless match!"
    
    		"Matchmaker, Matchmaker", sung by Tevye's daughters,
    		 addressed (rhetorically) to Yente the Matchmaker;
    			"Fiddler on the Roof"

    What if they can't stand each other in person?  :-)
    
    Lorna
    

    This is irresistible!  I pledge $10.  (Bonnie, I'll try and remember to get
    in the mail this weekend.)

				cheryl

    OK, OK, $10 on the way          - Bill
    
    

  RE: .34,

    Well then, I guess it will be -- "Hi Ho, Hi Ho, back to noting they go!"

    
    OK.  I'm confused.  I've got code that's got
    to stop core dumping by Interop, so I haven't
    read wommennotes for awhile.  What's happened
    between MikeV and EGrace?  Are they really
    trying to get together?  If so, are they talking
    on the phone?  and most importantly, have they
    discussed each others pet animals, if they have any?
    (If Mike's got a cat and Grace hates cats, then the
    relationship is doomed, of course.)
    And HOW/WHEN did Mike get rug burns?  Did he film it?
    (All the stars do!)
    
    If somebody will fill me in, I'll give $5.  (I'd
    give more but I'm poor, and I don't need bread.)
    
    Rachael Barlow
    

    Since nobody else was breaking down the doors offering to host the
    party, I figured I was going to be taken.
    
    Er, taken up on.
    
    Besides that, Steven's been on my case for over a year to have
    another party at our house.  So I can make a lot of people happy
    at one blow.  
    
    My schedule's pretty open right now -- with the kids in school, we
    don't travel as much as we used to.  The weekend of 13-14 October
    is out, but that's the only one that I know of right now. 
    9-December would be great!  I can't think of many things more fun
    than a womannoters Christmas party!
    
    --bonnie
    9-December would be good.  

    I figure it's the least I can do, given how generous this community was
    in donations to see ME come out east. I just hope I can make any party
    that results.

	-- Charles

    It's just this sort of good natured silliness that makes notes friends
    seem more real. Sort of notes equivalent of giggling all night at a
    slumber party.

    I talked to Mike last night and he's holding up well under the strain.
    We may even get some contributions from my work mates who heard us
    discussing this. :*) liesl

    I have a coupon that allows two people to travel for the price of
    one...
    
    liesl could join Mike.....
    
    J

    I just called Northwest (the coupon I have)...we could get two for
    the price of one...is it worth $100 for us!
    
    J

    Trust me that is not what I have in mind.... ;-)
    
    liesl, Lorna and I just like to get together and talk about men!
    
    J

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<    liesl, Lorna and I just like to get together and talk about men!
<    

    And oh, the things we find to say! ;*} liesl

    re .49, .50, I'm sure that after all this time we can all find
    something more interesting to talk about than that statue in the
    museum! :-)  
    
    Lorna
    

    The smiley face in the title of this topic implies that this campaign
    is just a joke, and no more.  I am assuming that we can continue to
    make that inference.
    
    -- Mike

    At Mike at E Grace's request I'm also stating that nice as some
    of us may have thought the idea, it really must be only a joke.
    
    Bonnie

    Well, now I'm really confused.  I'm in for $5.00...and the check will
    be in the mail on Monday morning.  
    
    Also, as a pledge incentive...the next person who pledges $10 will get
    a 1/2 session in a lovely hot tub/spa.
    
    Laura
    

    Oh.. This is like the Channel 2 action... Where you pledge and when you
    receive the card you throw it away... I understand now...
    
    REK
    
    WGBH supportor

    A joke?  Aw, gee, I was just going to offer my two certificates--
    each good for a $169 roundtrip on Northwest.  Oh, well ... maybe
    someone else will want them!
    
    nla
    

    
    
    I get it, 56 replies for nothing. That's real funny.
    
    bonnie

    Hey, wait a minute.  Things have gotten a little weird here, but that's
    no reason to waste the good intent.  If you all are interested in
    shipping people up here, now might be a good time to send mail to
    MOMCAT::PARTY if you're either:
    
    a) interested in attending womannotes' 5th anniversary party, happening
    June 20-23 1991 (please state whether you'll need a$$istance getting
    here or not....)
    
    b) interested in donating tickets, two-fer-one-passes, or moneys to a
    fund to help get as many people who wish to come and are in need of
    help up to the party.
    
    
    And as for the 56-replies-for-nothing, there's a topic in the Joy of
    Lexicography (puns, and wordplay) notesfile that's over 11,000 replies
    long, and all it consists of is word-association-puns.  Now *that's* a
    lot of space for nothin' but groaners!
    
    -Jody
    

    I wonder why I thought it was a wonderful, zany idea? and not a joke?
    and why my $10 is just now arriving in Bonnie's mailbox?
    
    It's kind of like learning the truth about Santa Claus: another 
    great loss of innocence.  But when you learn the truth about 
    Santa Claus, that he doesn't exist, that you were misled by
    your parents (moderators), you at least get the new belief system
    that your parents were Santa Claus all along.  That the same 
    parents who take care of every day are also taking care of your 
    joy at a special time of year.  So the disillusionment and sense 
    of loss when you realize that the jolly man in the red suit doesn't 
    really exist is offset by a new kind of trust in "real" people, 
    your parents.
    
    I wonder what is being offered to make us gullible types feel 
    trusting again?  When is a discussion that seems serious, or zany,
    to be trusted?  How can we know that the discussion leaders
    aren't just chuckling to themselves?  How do we know when to take
    anything seriously now?  How do we keep from getting cynical?
    
    Bill

    I am not at all disillusioned. If my money doesn't help to get Mike out
    here, then it will hopefully go to a good cause as I have requested. If
    that good cause is the fund to get people out here for the 5TH
    ANNIVERSARY PARTY then that is find by me. If Bonnie uses it to feed
    her cats(does she have cats, everyone has to have cats) then that is
    fine also. This has been a lot of fun and any time I can get this many
    laughs and such good feelings coming through, (my blood pressure
    dropped 10 points) I consider it money well spent. So no one comes
    East, so someone comes East, who cares. (except maybe E Grace and Mike)
    We had fun, we felt good. That's the bottom line. Lighten up everyone.
    
    Phil

    Sorry as I am to disappoint or disillusion anyone, there was at least
    one person who was getting embarrased by the direction this had 
    taken.
    
    E Grace

    I do want to say that I very much appreciate the fact that so many
    people were seriously willing to contribute money to send me out east. 
    I am certainly flattered by it all.  I still want to go there, and
    maybe someday I'll actually be able to afford it.  Unfortunately, I
    think there were some issues with actually carrying out this fund
    drive that some people here found bothersome.  I'm sorry that this
    confusion occurred.

    -- Mike

    Well, my check is also in the mail to Bonnie.  So if Barb wants to come
    to the party and has stated that she would need some assistance from
    this community, then why not send our pledges to Bonnie and go from
    there!
    
    BTW, the challenge is still on for the next person who pledges $10. 
    Think soothing hot tub.
    
    Laura
    

	Well, I don't have any 2-fer-one tickets or such, but I'll 
	certainly kick in $10 towards the party transportation fund.



	>>AL<<

    Seems like >>AL<< is the winner of the hot tub challenge!

    G'day,
    
    As a fairly major contributor to the joyoflex 11,000+ note, we ain't a
    load of groaners....;-)
    
    
    Now let me see June 1991.... mmmmm thats nine months ....mmmmmmm
    
    how much is a ticket from downunder, I wonder, mmmmmmm
    
    I guess I'd have to say I'm ...... no _that's_ got a double meaning...
    oh heck. probably won't be there, but I'll be thinking of you....
    
    when would you want the money?
    at the current rate of progress, $10 Australian should be worth about
    US 50�  by june 91.....
                            
    
    derek