We are Devo!
And now we are reading convention tales!

We're pinheads all. Jocko Homo!

No, no...you don't appear to be a man (couldn't help myself)

Nice bit. I wasn't able to see the pictures, though. Problem on my end, I don't think I got the right software.

Try saving it by different means. You can save by clickingon download, but maybe also by opening it from the thumbnail. In any case, I was planning on posting at least some of the photos separately.

I don't have Office, so, I get problems.

Any Windows program you're likely to use should open an MS Word doc without Office.

Heh he, Works'll open it, just won't convert graphics.

If RTF is an option, you might try saving in that format. It's a little more "standard" than MS Word.

Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format is another option. There are open-source readers and writers (for the older versions, at least).

I can use .rtf but converting to .pdf takes another program. It shouldn't, but it does. I didn't use .rtf because I was never sure what the differene was.

My understanding is that RTF is readable by more applications (and on more plaforms, i.e., Mac, Linux) than MS-Word .doc files. You might give it a try.

Bother, Abiword just doesn't want to deal with that document. I need to give up on Linux and get back to Windows 7. :P

At least you can read the same text in my Journal. You might even be able to hightlight and copy into whatever Linux version of a document file you have.

This is why I've resisted all pressure from people I know to Linux. I don't care how much "better" it is if it cuts you off from any large percent of documents and files other people make.

OpenOffice 2.4 has no prob.

A tragedy of the Minerva Mink incident is that the gal actually IN the costume is a bona-fide blonde bombshell! (so why not chase the gal herself?)

(REALLY - She's called Dawn and she's happy go lucky, smart and GORGEOUS! Insert appropriate wolf noises here!)

She wore the costume to the masquerade,and got persuaded to joing in with this little ceremony.

I wish I'd have been there! I would have made up a Winnie Woodpecker outfit and stick a girlfriend inside it, and have her kick open the door at the "...if anyone else has anything to say" stage. Give her a hatched egg under her arm with a baby inside it that looked like it was half woodpecker, and half Mitch!

Wow! A girl in a girl costume! What a concept!

It's a bit of a strange concept, I know!

Breathe into the paper bag! Breathe... breathe...

(actually, Auz fandom is filled with cute female fursuiters. Gleee!)

The only "fursuit" I can say I found attractive was a smoking hot woman in a home-made leotard with bits of fur sewn in wearing face paint.

We got one in Auz wearing nothing but bodypaint, tail and a mask once...

She wore the costume at least twice. The wedding was at ConFURence 12 in 2001, but the proposal was on stage at Anthrocon the Summer before.

I remember that whole event, it was all done in good fun, poking fun at Mitch's fanboyish love for Minerva, and he went right along with it. People need to remember it was all for laughs.

Ladies tend to fall for a Man with a Mink...