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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Subject: Re: The El (Was: Re: Conductivity of water <plus a story from Uncle Dave>)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.003644.28632@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <13695@optilink.COM> <BzJ394.J5F@polaris.async.vt.edu> <13698@optilink.COM>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:36:44 GMT
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- In article <13698@optilink.COM> manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley) writes:
- >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.
-
- I thought "The Loupe" was just a corruption of "The Louvre", a reference
- to the Art Institute, which is in the "Loupe".
-
- Ted "out of the loop" Frank
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