From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: Driving with Parking Lights!
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 16:22:58 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

In article <1992Nov9.134147.17431@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Blair.Haworth@launchpad.unc.edu (Blair Haworth) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov9.015706.671@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
|> >
|> >[NC weather stuff]
|> 
|> I suppose it's a relative thing.  I was born in NC and I'm still
|> recovering from a three years' exile in Boston.  I had severe difficulties
|> dealing with some of the local weather concepts there: gray, acidic snow
|> for instance, and the Great Defrosting, where the whole winter's
|> accumulation of dogshit melts at once come the spring thaw (the SW corner
|> of Harvard Yard in front of Lamont library is the classic site for this -
|> fieldtrip reports to alt.tasteless).  Once I got back here, I stopped
|> bitching about the weather, even though I thought central North Carolina
|> was an armpit in the summer and a mudpit in the winter.

Agreed.  Weather can be peevesome anywhere.

Peeve: Boston. Logan Airport. The Pike. Route 9. Ick.  My company is 
       headquartered in Westboro, Mass, so I have spent more than my share
       of time in Boston.

!Peeve: Flying into Providence in order to go to Westboro is pretty cool.
        Winding country roads, no Logan, no Boston traffic.  And the
        airport is small enough that you just walk out to your rental car
        right next door to the terminal.

|> But WeatherPeeving is a stale endeavor, and beside the point, which is
|> that as far as I can tell, the NC State Legislature is a collection of
|> officious freezer eagles who'd be overpaid at $4.25/hr. and overused if
|> they were in session six hours every other year.  If they had lives, they
|> wouldn't have time to legislate on the position of our dashboard knobs and
|> decree new State Fetish Objects, i.e., the Plott Hound as the State Dog,
|> which took up a country shitload of debate time last session.  As state
|> legislatures go, it's not a major league loony-bin like, say, Texas', but
|> it's a good solid AA team. 

Wow!  I forgot all about the Plott Hound!  How many of you other peevers out
there have a State *Dog*?

|> >|If you want to build a zoo in North Carolina, why |
|> >|not just put a fence around Chapel Hill?          |
|> >|                            --Senator Jesse Helms |
|> 
|> Of course, now we have a Senate delegation that makes the State
|> Legislature look like a miracle of enlightenment.

Yes, Lauch (pronounced "lawk" in case anyone out there wants to know) 
Faircloth and Jesse Helms will, I'm sure, continue to perpetuate the idea
that everyone in the southeastern corner of the country is a conservative,
Bible-thumping, anti-art, anti-porn, anti-Semitic, anti-whateveryoucancome-
upwithifitain'tfarming hick.

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