25 Dec
2000
25 Dec
'00
9:13 p.m.
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..