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Show PAGE 38 THE ZEPHYROCTOBER 1994 Feedback The readers respond Mr. Timers wins the Utter of the Month because he's been a paid subscriber for six years. 1 hope this doesn't cause a outbreak from other members Of the Trovers family, as they are all paying letter-writi- ng subscribers as well. Jim: The enclosed article was in the August 22, 1994 Dallas Mailing News. I thought you might find it interesting if not disheartening. About every three weeks I read about Moab or the surrounding country in USA Today, Time, Newsweek the Internet, and so on. I wish you would pull an Orson Welles (sp?) and publish an alert that there has been a uranium accident at the Atlas plant and that the entire area is dangerously radioactive. Except, of course, for those people who have lived in the area for yean and have built up a tolerance to the radiation. That exemption would also have to extend to those who have visited frequently since the '60s, as those persons would also have developed enough antibodies (a Star Trek term I think) to guard against the radiation. That would explain my own ability to live through the however, would no longer be able to visit Perhaps Fulghum exposure. could use his publishing ties to get the story picked up by the wire services. If that isn't possible, then how about developing a standardized test for everyone who wants to enter Grand county. It would go like this: As tourists approach the county line, they must stop at a hjHng booth (the park service could build it) and take a written test consisting of questions about the area such as 1) Who was Bates Wilson?; 2) When was Arches condemned into a National Park?; 3) Where is the alien landing site?; 4) Where does Herb Ringer park his van?; 5) What is Tukuhnikivats? Then they would have to take a driving test in which they had to negotiate a park service pickup truck through a forbidding desert wash (or was it his girlfriend's car?). If they passed the test successfully, they would be granted a 3 day visitor's pass. Again, exemptions would be granted to longtime visitors and other important people such as Frank Sinatra, etc. I hope you will present my ideas to the dty council and the county commission. You can even take credit for them. Johnny-come-lately- 's, Dear Jim Stiles Before you continue your harassment erf the Hollywood Stuntman's Hall of Fame, I think you should consider the museum's positive contributions to Moab. 1) It doesn't make any money. 2) It doesn't attract tourists. 3) Admission costs about the same as a locally brewed "beer" and less than entrance to the waterpark. 4) No neon signs. 5) The lawn sculptures are handsome. If file dty were to offer the building to the highest bidder, do you really think the new tenants would be an improvement? Just wondering, Mark Sundeen Moab Dear Stiles: Somehow your plea for a solution to your "quiescent" popside dilemma caught my eye, despite that I tend to only read your wiseass ids. This later fact, I suppose, is cansumerfriendly testimony of mixed benefit to your devoted advertisers, as Sunset and Vine isn't quite within the Rio's area. I believe the word you were floundering for is "quintessential," adj. of Regardless, "the essence of a filing in its purest and most concentrated form" or The "quintessence" defined as most typical example or representative." Ex: The quintessential frozen confection is, in fret, the Big Stick file longtime Boomer fave. i.e. inert or latent "Quiescent" perhaps better describes our sluggish, to carnal the Stick's Big awakening implications. At least for all of us not named Lolita. fajita-delive- ry - - post-adolesc- ent Cheers, Vicki Arkoff Los Angeles, CA Editor's note: This is the wrong answer. Yo Jim: Sincerely, Rod Travers Letters to Feedback should be sent by the 5th of the month to be 1 considered for publication. Winners of the "Letter of the Month1 receive a one year subscription. Writes the Zephyr, P03 327, Moab, UT 84532 is at rest (Le., dormant, "Quiescently frozen" means the inert, inactive) while it freezes. Ice cream is not quiescently frozen. Did you ever make ice cream in that Leave it to Beaver neighborhood of your yore? Remember cranking the ice cream while it was freezing? The mixing makes the ice cream light and fluffy by stirring in air and ice the breaking up crystals. Quiescently frozen popsides, on file other hand, are comparatively hard and heavy. Etymologically yours, Mary Ann Short Ojai, CA Editor's note: This is the right answer. 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