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From: <Rcgibbert_at_aol.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Rumours of Commies
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:28:35 EDT
In a message dated 7/23/2004 11:23:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time, al.m_at_3web.net 
writes:


> So the capitalists aren't making very good kayaks these days. How are the
> > communists doing?
> >
> 
> Which ones - chinese or those in the former USSR? :-)... None of these
> super-powers can make anything close to a good touring or recreational
> kayak.  They make some folding kayaks, though.
> 

Kinda funny, how much travelling abroad could you do from a communist 
society? (Excluding party officials).

Rob G

Rob G
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From: alex <al.m_at_3web.net>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Rumours of Commies
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:42:36 -0700
> Kinda funny, how much travelling abroad could you do from a communist
> society? (Excluding party officials).
>
> Rob G

>From what I see here in Vancouver, they travel in quite impressive numbers
from China :-)....  Still have to see their kayak, though ("Atlatl"?)....
Russians, having the largest territory in the world, have more than enough
wilderness in their backyard (second largest is probably Canada, though
substantial part of it has water in the form not suitable for kayaking most
of the year :-).
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