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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Her Excellency opined:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>{el-snip-o)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Hint: Last year, there were actual, real life sea creatures on site--ask
Aslyn) </DIV>
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<DIV>Ooooohh, yeah! There was this little one armed crawfish dude
looking really miffed about us disturbing his home beneath the Steppes
Pavillion (visualize Pierre, the miffed crawfish with a Maurice Chevalier
voice going: You have deesturbed my abode. Pleaze step away [snap,
snap] Uh, huh.)</DIV>
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<DIV>I still regret that I did not have a crawfish in a bowl at Artisan last
year as our unofficial Steppes Light List Champion (of course, he would've
been named....Stu.....)</DIV>
<P>The bardic competition, as I recall, has been judged by the baron in the
past. I will be pleased to attend to that role ( and will ask the
assistance of our Bard, Mistress Aslyn).
<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT face=Arial>I would be pleased to
assist!</FONT></FONT>
<P>Thank you, Stephania, for volunteering to coordinate the competition.
<P><FONT face=Arial>Ohhhh thank you, Stephania!!!!!</FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>{{Aslyn now returns you to your regularly scheduled list,
and her busy scribal calendar}}</FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Ink-stained hugs to you all!</FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>P.S. - Beware: the Pooh Kitty has figured out the
new answering machine.</FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>~aslyn</FONT>
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