Re: wheezy drive recognition?
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:46:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> Aw gee, that expression is at least 30 years older than the internet!
>
> I first heard about it in a letter my mother got from a friend of hers
> that had moved to the Anchorage area about 5 years before the quake in
> 1952. She wrote that in all the carnage the earthquake left that they
> had only had 2 Alaskan Divorces in the 3 months or so since the quake.
> So mother wrote back for clarification.
>
> Story goes like this:
> Couple has been married long enough the honeymoon has slowed some, and
> have built a cabin overlooking their mining claim, which between it and
> subsistence hunting is feeding them well. But it is, figuratively
> speaking, about 75 miles from the neighbors. Used to the long winters
> but miss-calculated how many decks of cards, coffee, condoms and tobacco
> they would need.
>
> Snowbound since about the first of October, they are out of condoms by
> the end of January, out of coffee by the end of February, tobacco by the
> middle of March & wore out the last deck of cards too somewhere along
> the way. Somewhere around the first of April, before any thaw of
> consequence gives them hope for spring, one of them picks up the 30-06
> and gets a divorce.
>
> Told poorly, but that is the classic definition of an Alaskan Divorce.
Still none the wiser. What is a 30-06? What is an Alaskan Divorce?
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