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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!batcomputer!reed!lclark!mason
- From: mason@lclark.edu (Paul Mason)
- Subject: Re: Favorite part of los angeles
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.200620.16964@lclark.edu>
- Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR
- References: <1992Nov20.032048.8744@reed.edu> <1ejb1tINNe5a@news.aero.org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:06:20 GMT
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- In article <1ejb1tINNe5a@news.aero.org> wae@aero.org (William A. Emanuelsen) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov20.032048.8744@reed.edu> pbray@sloth.Reed.Edu (Peter Bray) writes:
- >>
- >>where is your favorite place in L.A.?
- >
- >The La Brea Tar Pits. It was the first "attraction" I went to after
- >moving here. I had read about them as a child, and always wanted to
- >see a sabre-toothed tiger fossil. They exceeded every expectation I
- >had. I didn't know some of the pits had water in them, with
- >gas bubbles coming up to the surface! Tar seeping up through the
- >ground in the surrounding parkland! Bubbling tar, big
- >plaster enclosed blocks excavated from pits laying in the museum,
- >waiting to be dissected. All right in the middle of a sprawling metropolis.
- >--
- >William A. Emanuelsen I degaussed my girlfriend and I'm
- >wae@aerospace.aero.org just not attracted to her anymore.
-
- I visited the La Brea Tar Pits on a family vacation when I was a child. It
- was really cool. But when my sister and I went rolling down a grassy hill,
- she got tar stuck in her hair. It was very messy and difficult to get out.
-
- Paul.
- --
- Paul Mason.
-