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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: East meets West
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Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 14:37:50 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  6 14:37:50 1984
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O.K., Californian, here's a seldom noticed piece of information: not everyone
on the east coast is a New Yorker, or even likes New York.

     [Gasps from crowd, women fainting, etc.]

Yes, it's true.  I happen to be a Marylander, and way down here, there are
plenty of people who don't care if New York should fall into the sea.  Or
L.A., for that matter.

I happen to have been to California.  Reasonably nice place.  Haven't been
to N.Y.C., but the descriptions of those who worship its asphalt tend to
reinforce my lack of desire to visit it.  Actually, I think I really like
New Mexico, up in the mountains, around Cloudcroft... Oh well.  Seems to
me like there is a whole lot more to the U.S.A. than New York and California.

As regards to the Olympic ceremonies:  I was fine until the guy in the 
jetpack shot off and orbited the stadium.  From that point on I could hardly
stay in my chair, it was so silly.  Especially the way the torch was lit.
And is it really true that some of the balloons that they set loose landed
on the power lines and caused outages?

Sometimes some of us in the hinterlands get the impression that L.A. and
N.Y.C. are trying outdo each other with overgrandiose and excessive 
gestures.  For instance, we have TV....

  Charley  Wingate    UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!mangoe
                      CSNet: mangoe@umcp-cs   ARPA: mangoe@maryland

"My wings are like a shield of steel."