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Article #21464Re: Lake Tahoe
From: Dallman Ross
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 08:50
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 08:50
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Lon Stowell (lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com) spaketh thusly: > In article <dmanCuI318.JL3@netcom.com> dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross) writes: > > > >"Moderately" deep? It is the deepest freshwater lake in North > >America, if memory serves. > > It AIN'T the biggest or the deepest. Flathead lake in Montana > is both bigger and deeper...and that is just the natural lakes, > there are manmades larger. Note that you left off the "west > of the Mississippi" disclaimer, as there are larger lakes east > of the Mississippi OTHER than those little potholes up near the > Illinois, Michigan, Canada area that seem to have dried up in your > memory. Not to mention the overgrown swamp in Florida. >:-) > I could swear that there is a lake in Oregon which is deeper, but > wouldn't put money on it. That must be Crater Lake. I don't know if it's deeper or not, but it's deep, too. I never said "bigger" -- so if I'm wrong about deeper, I'll own up to it; but don't start saying I said Tahoe was the "biggest," too. I didn't. -- |) /\ |_ |_ |\/| /\ |\| "I don't give a rat's ass." L. Eisler, Bronze Medalist
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From: dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross)
Subject: Re: Lake Tahoe
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