At 8:51 PM -0500 12/25/00, David Honig wrote:
At 01:42 PM 12/25/00 -0500, Tim May wrote:
California houses have almost _never_ had basements. Check it out.
A Calif native friend of mine had griped to me (years ago) that the Princeton, NJ based SATs were biassed: they had an analogy like
furnace:basement::stove:______
and my SoCal friend complained that furnaces are in walls or maybe an attic, and he had never seen a basement. Coming from places where triple-paned glass is the norm, I found this absurd, but soon realized it was likely. Tens of millions of Californians have *no idea* of the many-armed oil-fed beast that lives in basements..
Culturocentrism at work. A: champagne:waterford::brie:_____ vs. B: colt45: crack hoe::a baseball bat:_____ Correct answer to A: "If one refers to the crystal, the answer is surely c), but if one refers the cracker, one must choose b), but only, of course, if the brie is suitably soft." Correct answer to B: "Whatha _fuck_!!" And then there's clipper:spies::toilet plunger:_____ and shakespeare:borg::locutus:_____ --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns