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- From: manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: The El (Was: Re: Conductivity of water <plus a story from Uncle Dave>)
- Message-ID: <13716@optilink.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 23:07:39 GMT
- References: <BzJ394.J5F@polaris.async.vt.edu> <13698@optilink.COM> <BznAyH.2BA@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <BznAyH.2BA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> madden@deja-vu.aiss.uiuc.edu (Paul Q Madden) writes:
- >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 grep'ed for a smiley and didn't find one, so i can only assume
- >this is serious. Sheesh! It's "El" like the second poster said,
- >and it's "Loop", not "Loupe"; there are numerous road signs that
- >say so.
-
- Are you sure it's not the Loupe? I distinctly remember being told
- this by a taxi driver while taking me to O'Hare Airport. For those of
- you who don't know the O' is an abbreviation for Old. Before they
- built the airport there was a small lake where people liked to go
- fishing. Unfortunately there was also a crazed hare (rabbit) who
- liked to attack fishing boats (His cousin was the one who attacked
- Jimmy Carter (I'm not making this up!)). The locals would warn
- propsective fisherman: "Watch out for the Old Hare", some would refer
- to his odd fur color: "Watch out for the crazy Old Red Hare". Finally
- some one hit the old red hare on the head with a paddle and killed
- him. In honor of his death they gave the initials ORD to O'Hare
- airport. They stand for Old Red (Hare) Dead (unfortunately ORHD was
- already taken).
-
- dave "we took a short cut past Midway Airport on my ride from the
- Loupe to O'Hare, if you don't know I'll tell you why they call it
- Midway" manley@optilink.com
-
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