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    Re: Last Call for Adventure movies poll —Craig Hamilton
   (...) oh! and how can you look at set #5976 ~river expedition~ and not think of john huston's classic, "The African Queen"(1955)!? the boat driver even resembles bogart! this is another gorgeous movie, filmed on location in the belgian congo. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
   
        Re: Last Call for Adventure movies poll —Mark Lindsey
   (...) and (...) Craig, I can speak from experience on this one. I was in the Republic of the Congo for a six month vegetation survey two years ago. While the river basin is stunningly beautiful it is at the same time one of the most inhospitable (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
   
        Re: Last Call for Adventure movies poll —Bruce Schlickbernd
   Someone once defined adventure as someone else having a hard time a long ways away. What an adventure! :-) I have a Congo African Grey parrot. Just take the gray Lego parrot and slap some red paint on its tail feathers and thar ya go! Bruce (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
   
        Re: Last Call for Adventure movies poll —Roger D. Parks
     (...) {{SNIP}} <grin> The version of this definition that I recall from some time spent hiding in Vietnam is: 'Adventure (or exploration) is the process of travelling to beautiful, exotic lands to find new and extremely messy ways of becoming dead.' (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
    
         Re: Last Call for Adventure movies poll —Bruce Schlickbernd
     (...) I like that one, too. I remember getting swamped while river rafting, barely escaping with my life, lying on the shore gasping for breath and saying NOTHING was going to get me back into that river, when I heard a very polite but pathetic (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
   
        Re: Last Call for Adventure movies poll —Mark Lindsey
   (...) I love that definition Bruce. I think that is as rock solid as you will get in trying to define it. Glad you liked hearing of mine. Can your parrot talk? I bet he can say, "Don't read Piers Anthony. Awk!" ;) Mark L (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
 

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