Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ihuxn!res From: res@ihuxn.UUCP (Rich Strebendt) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Olympic Closing Ceremonies Message-ID: <844@ihuxn.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 13:38:45 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxn.844 Posted: Mon Oct 1 13:38:45 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 08:32:29 EDT References: <192@mhuxh.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 42 In reply to: | I could go on, but it is pointless to try and convince so many | narrow-minded pointy-headed Easterners that the New Yorker is not the | place to turn to for a map of the world. All I can say is that I like | people in LA a lot better than I do people in New Jersey or New | York, and I think everyone east of the Mississippi should be shot. | (Me included, for coming out here in the first place.) I thought | people out here were pretty decent; they aren't. The East may have | more going for it when it comes to the actual cities, but when it | comes to people, ... | Mark Modig | California Native | (and proud of it...) Tsk, tsk, tsk. There you go generalizing. Everyone east of the Mississippi shot, indeed! You are exhibiting the standard Coast mentality ... common to both the East and West Coast populace. In my own travels about the country I have found that both the North East and the South West Coasts have less than friendly populations. The NE-ers have impressed me much as they impressed you ... exemplified by the infamous New York Taxi Driver. However, I have found the SW-ers (and most particularly the Los Angelenos) to be shallow and caught up in the fantasy land that is exemplified by the TV SitCom. If you want to meet truely friendly people (in the main, with occasional exceptions ... typically transplanted New Yorkers), come to the Midwest -- on either side of the Mississippi. Ranging from Ohio in the (forgive the term, Ohioans) East, through the heartland of Indiana and Illinois, on out (mea culpa) West through Iowa and Nebraska. Further North, of course, we include Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnisota. This is not to slight our neighbors to the South in Kentucky, though some of them may prefer to be identified with the warmth of Dixieland. Finally, we must also include the friendly people that I have had the pleasure of meeting in the Canadian Province of Ontario ... a marked contrast with those I have encountered in Quebec. The Midwest -- Home of people with hearts greater than the entire North East and South West Coasts combined!!!!! Rich Strebendt ...!ihnp4!ihuxn!res