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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!edcastle!dcs.ed.ac.uk!jaxh
  2. From: jaxh@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Jon Hanson)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
  4. Subject: Re: discrepency in Guide
  5. Message-ID: <C19oJC.LBM@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 22 Jan 93 17:57:11 GMT
  7. References: <C11Hp1.HFF@sdf.lonestar.org> <1993Jan18.145242.7120@ugle.unit.no> <1jgbrtINNbmd@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <C12q9w.Cor@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
  8. Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin)
  9. Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
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  13. ensalada@cats.ucsc.edu (Kevin Charles Rubio) writes:
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  15. >I wonder if anywhere in the U.S. has its crosswalks painted with white
  16. >stripes, thus being worthy of the name `zebra crossing'.
  17.  
  18. Apparently, the name zebra crossing comes from it's inventor, not from the black and
  19. white strips...
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  21.    .
  22.    |on Hanson
  23.  `-' jaxh@dcs.ed.ac.uk
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