Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: East meets West Message-ID: <254@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 14:37:50 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.254 Posted: Sat Oct 6 14:37:50 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 21:24:46 EDT References: <192@mhuxh.UUCP> <844@ihuxn.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 29 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."