"The only real difference between a dog and wolf in Alaska is whichever one happens to have a chain on it."

      We thought we had a female.  He's named after one of the Power Puff Girls---"Bubbles."

      "He's more like a Mojo-Jojo character."

      :)

      John, seven guys on a water pump, one lets go and you lose control, that can sweep the decks of other craft, does not reflect the principles of Red Green.

      :) :)

      Now this is STEEL! -Now I understand why a prison break is such a big deal!

      This is a lot more fun than paper macheing.

      I never thought I'd be performing surgery on a dinosuar tonight.

      Not only do you have to apply your practical knowledge---you have to apply your paleontolgical, as well.

      I've just used more glue than I have in my entire life.  :)

      "I finally did it.  -That's going to leave a mark."

      "That's going to leave more than a mark. . . ."

      "You're right---shoes won't make much of a difference. -But they will hold the blood in." :)

      "You do realized that by spinning that, you're affecting the Earth's rotation."

      "Yeah. -If I spin it fast enough, we'll leave 'The Age of Aquarius'---and in no time." :)

      "And you realize that you'll be affecting the atom clocks, as well."

      "How's that?"

      "If you affect the Earth's orbit. . . ."

      "Ah! If I spin this REALLY FAST---do you think we'll get a call from CERN in a few hours?" :) :) :) :)

      (Hmm. -Maybe you have to be a physicist for that one. . . .  :) ;) )

      "'You can only take life---you cannot give it, so why take it away.' That is what the Hindus say--or something like it."

      "Because it tastes good."

      I have to say--I am impressed with how much you guys got done---with the time you had.

      With enough pizza and Dr. Pepper. . . .

       . . . You can accomplish anything.

      You can accomplish anything.

      I guess you can do pretty much anything you want to--at 5 in the morning in Fairbanks.

      (The announcer for the event) The igloo has just crashed into the Einstein head . . . it was a close encounter of the northern kind.

      Can I try the wheel, now?

      We'd have to reinforce it with 3/4 inch plywood, John.

      I am amazed we haven't run into anyone yet.

      (Also from the announcer for the event) The mosquito has landed.  Houston, the mosquito has landed.

      This next one was from an article written by Dermot Cole of The Daily News-Miner.

       . . . and the entry from The Salvation Army on which the musicians played "Nearer My God To Thee" and "Onward Christian Soldiers" while one crewman paddled.

      Richard Greene said the four-member band played until The Salvation Army raft reached the power plant, where it tipped over.

      "One of our inner tubes sprung a leak," said Greene.  "We had a primary hull breach."

      The volunteers in the Coast Guard Auxiliary rescue boat picked up the crew, but a baritone horn and a trombone are missing.

      (It has been rumored that said lost items are going to become the "Lost Treasure of the Chena [River]." :) )

      And of course my personal favorite, also from the article by Dermot Cole of The Daily News-Miner:

      The grand prize went to "HMS Mission Impossumable II," under the direction of Master-Master (for his two master's degrees) and Commander John Styers.  This boat was memorable for the enormous head of Einstein, who puffed on a duct-tape bubble pipe."

      :)

      And here's another one I like.  It was said some time after the race:

      We're watchin', and all these pretty rickety craft come by---and then here come yours, which looks like something out of the Spanish Armada--that takes up about a quarter of the river.

      :)