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- From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: The El (Was: Re: Conductivity of water <plus a story from Uncle Dave>)
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 07:03:21 GMT
- Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
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- References: <BzJ394.J5F@polaris.async.vt.edu> <13698@optilink.COM> <BznAyH.2BA@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley) wrote:
- +
- +>WEl I haven't been there since '79 and the brain tends to wipe out
- +>unpleasant memories! I was undecided as to whether it was "L" or
- +>"El" - did it stand for "Electric" or "Elevated" or "Loupe"
- +>as in "The Loupe". For those of you that don't know, "The Loupe"
- +>is the downtown area of Chicago.
-
- so madden@deja-vu.aiss.uiuc.edu (Paul Q Madden) writes:
- +
- +I grep'ed for a smiley and didn't find one, so i can only assume
- +this is serious. S
-
- Now why would you do something like that?
-
- Terry "Now grepping for 'Kibo', THAT makes sense" Chan
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