home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky alt.angst:5543 alt.slack:3884 co.general:2702
- Newsgroups: alt.angst,alt.slack,co.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!kkoller
- From: kkoller@nyx.cs.du.edu (Capt. Sarcastic)
- Subject: Re: Anywhere out of the world
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.003238.4998@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <1993Jan23.004938.6651@netcom.com> <1993Jan23.054856.17164@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 00:32:38 GMT
- Lines: 51
-
- pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu (Paul Ciszek) writes:
-
- >If you are driving from Califnordia to Colorado, you might want to do
- >the following:
-
- > * Drain your radiator and fill it with a 50-50 mixture of water and
- > ethylene glycol, commonly known as "anti-freeze" in those parts of
- > the country where water freezes during certain parts of the year.
-
- Not really necessary till next year, but... Do it anyway...
-
- > * Obtain an implement for scraping ice off of your windshield (I kid
- > you not! My sister went to school in Texas, and when it snowed for
- > the first time in umpteen years, she whipped out her handy window
- > scraper, and none of the Texans knew what it was!)
-
- Yes. Do this. Waiting in the car for all the windows to heat up enough
- to melt what's on the outside is not fun. You can speed it up with the
- window washer fluid, but the side windows...
-
- > * If you get lost driving around the Denver Metro area, remember that
- > the mountains are always WEST.
-
- GOOD advice, harder at night, but still possible...
-
- > * The best 24-hour eateries in the Denver Metro Area are the IHoP's,
- > or "International House of Pancakes".
-
- I had these in Milwaukee before I started moving all over the place. I ended
- up here, and it's basically the same whereever you go.
-
- > * Our Museum of Natural History is really cool. The first thing you
- > see when you walk in the front door is a T. Rex skeleton looming over
- > the entrance, posed in mid-pounce. Right now, they have some IMMENSE
- > Aztec stone carvings as part of a special show.
-
- Tis cool, but their politics SUCK.
-
-
- >And most important of all:
-
- > * Don't move to Colorado; just spend some money here. We don't want
- > people like you moving in and driving the housing prices (further)
- > up.
-
- Yeah, dammit. Go home.
-
- --
- Capt. Sarcastic |The U.S. economy is dominated by monopolies. In order to
- (Kurt S. Koller) |gain higher profits they exploit the U.S. workers as well
- kkoller@nyx.cs.du.edu|as the population of the countries dependent on the U.S.A.
-