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- From: Blair.Haworth@launchpad.unc.edu (Blair Haworth)
- Subject: Re: Driving with Parking Lights!
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:41:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.015706.671@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
- >
- >Gee, what part of North Carolina do *you* live in? "Seldom rains for
- >more than 20 minutes at a go"? I had no idea that the weather was so
- >different in Chapel Hill than Cary. When I first moved up here 8 years
- >ago from Atlanta, I couldn't *believe* how often, how long, and how hard
- >it rains here (I'm sure that the southwestern peevers and any northwestern
- >peevers that may exist are scoffing at this statement for completely
- >opposite reasons).
-
- I suppose it's a relative thing. I was born in NC and I'm still
- recovering from a three years' exile in Boston. I had severe difficulties
- dealing with some of the local weather concepts there: gray, acidic snow
- for instance, and the Great Defrosting, where the whole winter's
- accumulation of dogshit melts at once come the spring thaw (the SW corner
- of Harvard Yard in front of Lamont library is the classic site for this -
- fieldtrip reports to alt.tasteless). Once I got back here, I stopped
- bitching about the weather, even though I thought central North Carolina
- was an armpit in the summer and a mudpit in the winter.
-
- But WeatherPeeving is a stale endeavor, and beside the point, which is
- that as far as I can tell, the NC State Legislature is a collection of
- officious freezer eagles who'd be overpaid at $4.25/hr. and overused if
- they were in session six hours every other year. If they had lives, they
- wouldn't have time to legislate on the position of our dashboard knobs and
- decree new State Fetish Objects, i.e., the Plott Hound as the State Dog,
- which took up a country shitload of debate time last session. As state
- legislatures go, it's not a major league loony-bin like, say, Texas', but
- it's a good solid AA team.
-
- >In honor of your location, I'll do something that I never thought I would
- >do and quote our illustrious senior senator. This is probably the
- >wittiest thing that he has ever said, and was uttered while the state
- >gummint was debating the possibilities of building a zoo. Said zoo is
- >now in Asheboro, NC.
- >
- >|If you want to build a zoo in North Carolina, why |
- >|not just put a fence around Chapel Hill? |
- >| --Senator Jesse Helms |
-
- Of course, now we have a Senate delegation that makes the State
- Legislature look like a miracle of enlightenment.
-
- In case thre are any State Legisloids reading...
- --
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