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Wolfgang wrote:
"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
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Wolfgang wrote:


and Rhinelander are all
within about a half hour's drive.

home of the hodag!!
who could forget that special place...g


The odd thing is that hodags are starting to show up far outside
their
traditional range.

Wolfgang

i'll keep a hodag watch down here...

btw, in today's brief read in harrison's book (in "True North"), he
wrote a bit about "Bruce's [sic]Crossing" and the middle branch of
the
Octanogon... (also the fence river around iron mountain)

apparently bruce crossing was once actually "bruce's crossing", but
in
1880s or therabouts the possessive was dropped. (harrison didn't say
that, i remember that from something i read somewhere, and he made
the
typical mistake with the name - suggesting he probably hasn't spent
much
time there)

And, to add a Machiavellian shibboleth, the natives always refer to it
simply as Bruce's. However, given the.......um......idiosyncratic
local pronunciation, the latter is probably overkill anyhow.

Wolfgang
but den, dat's prolly true everywhere, ainna?