Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site im4u.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!im4u!riddle 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 Article-I.D.: im4u.454 Posted: Fri Aug 23 10:47:13 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Aug-85 00:46:38 EDT References: <441@petfe.UUCP> <6141@duke.UUCP> 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.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech}!ut-sally!riddle riddle@ut-sally.UUCP --- riddle@ut-sally.ARPA, riddle%zotz@ut-sally, riddle%im4u@ut-sally