[TAG] Fwd: Your marriage essay

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ben Okopnik (ben at linuxgazette.net):

> Rick, I hope you and yours enjoy the trip - it sounds like it's going to
> be an amazing experience!

I expect so!  I haven't ever been the St. Petersburg, but I _have_ been
to Leningrad.  I even stayed at the Hotel Astoria, the place Herr Hitler
had earmarked to host his reception ball.  (It seems they lost his
reservation, though.)

There was a classic Soviet-era joke, about a city-dwelller's answers to a
set of survey questions:


Q: Where were you born?
A: St. Petersburg.

Q: Where did you go to school?
A: Petrograd.

Q: Where do you live now?
A: Leningrad.

Q: And where would you like to live?
A: St. Petersburg.


> We weathered Fay just fine, and Gustav passed us by - but at this point,
> the predictions are for Hurricane Hanna to visit us, and Tropical Storm
> Ike is already spinning up out there in the Atlantic.

You'll be forgiven if you don't like Ike.
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