I was reading in the bathroom when I ran across an item written by
Hatunen on Wed, 09 Jul 2003 11:01:28 -0600, which
said:

On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 16:06:35 GMT, Dick Locke
wrote:

I considered it once, but read that the lower Mississippi is so
industrialized and inhospitable to small boats that most people cut
off it at the Tennessee River.

That's a pretty neat trick since the Tennessee River has no
confluence with the Mississippi.

And your point is...?

I think the rest of us are capable of understanding Dick's meaning.


-------------
Beady's Analogy: "A conspiracy theory is the intellectual equivalent of a Rube Goldberg machine; it is an overly-complex and dramatic alternative for an accepted adequate, simpler and more mundane explanation."