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May 16, 2001

I might feel different if I planned to visit the Alaskan Wildlife Preserve anytime soon. But I don't know what I would do once I got there, aside from praying that I froze to death before I got eaten by a caribou, or a koala bear, or a bat. I've seen pictures of the Alaskan Wildlife Preserve and I can sum it up in just two words: North Dakota. Do we really need two North Dakotas? I mean, we already have South Dakota as an emergency spare.

-- Scott Adams

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Owen, May 16, 2001 10:46 AM:

Is he saying that it's not worth protecting because he never plans to visit it? If that's the case, he could just as easily be lobbying for the whole African continent to be sunk into the ocean. It may make for an okay joke, but this kind of talk seems very shortsighted.

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