Icono Clast wrote:

    > The Reids wrote:

    >> Only by Americans.
    >
    >
    > The reference was to San Francisco, not the USA.

San Francisco is no longer part of the USA? (After the last
presidential election, I can see why it might be tempted to
secede, but I'd not heard about it.) 8-)

Bob Fusillo wrote:

    > When I was a boy I walked five miles to school in the snow, uphill each way.
    > Or so my son accuses me.
    > But if a Londoner says it's a ten minute walk, take a taxi.
    > rjf

LOL! (But the same holds true for New Yorkers, Viennese,
Parisians.....) :-)

The Reids wrote:
    >>>Nitram said:
    >>>>The reference was to San Francisco, not the USA.
    >>>Uh? The point I was making that in the rest of the world,
    >>>distances SFs think long are regarded as short.
    >>>San Franciscans are Americans.
    >>but not all Americans are San Franciscans.
    >
    > Yep, let the others say how far they walk.

"Far" is defined by locals differently everywhere. When an Angelino
says "it isn't far" it's a major undertaking for a San Franciscan.
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Following up to nitram

    >>Hmm - cos its hot and sticky and you get chased by alligators ?
    >and because Florida is as flat as a pancake and SF isn't.

I'm just back from Cumbria where people seem to be able to walk
on hills, even when rather windy!
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The Reids wrote:
    >
    > I'm just back from Cumbria where people seem to be able to walk
    > on hills, even when rather windy!
    >
It's the baked beans, isn't it?

Sheila

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:08:01 -0500, S Viemeister
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >The Reids wrote:
    >>
    >> I'm just back from Cumbria where people seem to be able to walk
    >> on hills, even when rather windy!
    >>
    >It's the baked beans, isn't it?

LOL you've rumbled him - all piss and wind :-)
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"The Reids" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Following up to nitram
    > >>Hmm - cos its hot and sticky and you get chased by alligators ?
    > >
    > >and because Florida is as flat as a pancake and SF isn't.
    > I'm just back from Cumbria where people seem to be able to walk
    > on hills, even when rather windy!

I would have thought they could walk on water by now !!

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:06:34 -0500, "Miss L. Toe"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >"The Reids" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >news:[email protected].. .
    >> Following up to nitram
    >> >>Hmm - cos its hot and sticky and you get chased by alligators ?
    >> >
    >> >and because Florida is as flat as a pancake and SF isn't.
    >> I'm just back from Cumbria where people seem to be able to walk
    >> on hills, even when rather windy!
    >I would have thought they could walk on water by now !!

Only those with perforated soles. [not Jeremy though]

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Martin