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From: riddle@im4u.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Naming streets
Message-ID: <454@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 10:47:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 23 10:47:13 1985
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Reply-To: riddle@im4u.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Organization: U. of Tx. at Houston-in-the-Hills
Lines: 21
Pleasant-Turkey-Alley: "Bob"

I'm told that they name streets in Dallas with a computer.  I take it that
it's a simple "one from column A and one from column B" approach:

		Pheasant		Ridge
		Crescent		Lake
		Hidden			Valley
		Cedar			Creek
		...			...

They only need the computer because the names sound so (*yawn*) alike after
awhile that humans can't tell them apart to cull duplicates.

And then there's a large subdivision in Ft. Worth that has such generic
names, with the added perversion that they all start with "W".  Any
outsiders unfortunate enough to try to find an address there are hopelessly
lost within seconds ("you are in a subdivision of twisty little streets, all
alike...").

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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