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? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150417121035.GD2569@tal
