Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 00:09:00 -0500
From: crispen@NETSQUIRREL.COM
Reply-To: TOURBUS-Request@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
To: TOURBUS@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: TOURBUS EXTRA -- 30 MAY 1998 -- SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION

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     TOURBUS EXTRA -- 29 MAY 1998
     TODAY'S TOURBUS EXTRA TOPIC: SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION

Howdy, y'all!

In a few weeks our little bus of Internet happiness will celebrate its
third birthday (yes, folks, we have survived TOURBUS' "terrible
twos").  To commemorate this event, I have both a quick announcement
and a favor to ask of you.  First, the announcement:

     TOURBUS IS NOW AVAILABLE EN ESPANOL ... NO, REALLY ... WE _MEAN_
     IT THIS TIME.  :P

While Spanish translations of TOURBUS have been available on the
TOURBUS Web site (http://www.tourbus.com/) for a while, I am happy to
announce that you can now have Spanish translations of our TOURBUS
posts delivered to your email box, free of charge, every Tuesday-ish
and Thursday-ish.  It's just like the regular TOURBUS, only different.

To subscribe to TOURBUS en Espanol, send an email message to

     MAJORDOMO@LATIN-CONNECTION.COM

with the command

     SUBSCRIBE ES_TOURBUS

in the body of your email letter.  That's it.  :)

Now for the favor (which has absolutely nothing to do with the Spanish
version of TOURBUS, but I figured I'd kill two birds with one stone):

     DO YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS ON WAYS WE CAN "SPREAD THE WORD"
     ABOUT TOURBUS?

I'd really like to tell a lot more people about our little bus of
Internet happiness, but I am not sure how to go about doing it.  Any
suggestions?

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TODAY'S BONUS SOUTHERN WORD OF THE DAY
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Yesterday's Southern Word of the Day ("salary") was submitted by Ken
Sawka.  Alert TOURBUS rider Mike Cinalli noticed that Ken's last name
is a Southern Word in and of itself!  :)

SAWKA (noun).  A sport where you aren't allowed to touch the ball with
               your hands.
Usage: "WORLD CUP?!  That ain't FOOTBALL ... that's SAWKA!"  :)

You can find all of the old Southern Words of the day on the Web
at http://www.netsquirrel.com/crispen/word/


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