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| From | Jocelyn Geboy <smussyolay@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Cobain + 10 |
| Date | Fri, 16 Apr 2004 23:30:31 -0700 (PDT) |
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--- Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> wrote:
> At 10:25 PM 4/14/2004 -0700, Jocelyn Geboy wrote:
> >jocelyn, who thought 'the isotopes' were just a
> team
> >on the simpsons....
>
> The guy who wrote that Simpsons episode chose
> Albuquerque as the city that
> was trying to steal the Springfield Isotopes because
> at the time, the mayor
> of Albuquerque was rather desperately trying to lure
> a team back to the
> city, our own minor-league team having been snatched
> away by (I believe)
> Portland, Oregon. When we did finally get a new
> team in 2002, it was
> pretty much unanimously decreed that their name
> would be the Albuquerque
> Isotopes. (It fits even without the Simpsons
> reference: ABQ's main
> employers are the nuclear labs.)
>
> S
>
>~~~~"we"? are you from NM? i thought you were an
east coast bloke. (sorry to get all UK on you, but
the assonance was *way* too tempting.)
jocelyn
=====
my blog is 'this surreal life': www.smussyolay.blogspot.com
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