Hoff's South American itinerary released

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31 Dec 1999

1330 Arrive Brazillia.

1332 Join mob headed for the US Embassy safe haven

2100 Camp out for the night waiting in line. Being a gringo and a latecomer, you are denied a swig on the rusty hubcap.

01 Jan 1900

0600 Embassy opens, admission limited to only those who have their own toilet paper or are carrying signs that say "Kosky is a scumbag"

0700 With no TP, Hoff hoofs it to the airport to try and get back to the states. Screw Andy.

1100 Airport closed, surrounded by armored personnel carriers and angry drug traffickers trying to get their cell phones to work.

Feb 1900

After getting over his initial shock of being stranded in SA, Hoff assumes the life of a street peddler, surviving by reselling the SAP pens he brought along on the trip.

-- a (a@a.a), December 09, 1999

Answers

a,

You know...those SAP pens are going to be worth a LOT when we've gone manual.

I can see the "economic upside" now of Y2k that the more optimistic have been preaching...

I'm sure he can barter them for TP but will he make it back to the airport to make the last plane out?

Will there be fuel left for airtravel?

Will Hoff's plane fall from the sky?

I'm sitting on the edge of my seat.

Mike

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-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), December 09, 1999.


ROTFLMAO!!!

(And where IS Andy these days?...)

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), December 09, 1999.

After 10 years of selling SAP pens in the streets of Brasilia, Hoffy is finally able to get a hold of a couple of Mexican gold coins which allow him to pay for his one-way ticket to the Falkland Islands, deep in the South Atlantic seas, where he retires as an official Y2K story- teller for the penguin audience.

Bearded, fat, a bit dirty but with a happy smile, Hoffy spends the rest of his life recalling the Hoffmeister-Heller Y2K debates as the highlight of his otherwise SAP-boring existance.

-- George (jvilches@sminter.com.ar), December 09, 1999.


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