Life is horribly, horribly unfair

Funny, I would have expected "nowhere" to be more in the middle of the
country, not San Francisco.


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BTW: is nowhere.com your domain or are you allowed to use it?

Whois info for, nowhere.com:
Registrant:
Lisa Seaman
1621 Haight Street
Apt 26
San Francisco, CA 94117
US

Funny, I would have expected "nowhere" to be more in the middle of the
country, not San Francisco.

Hey -- watch it!
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"Jay Honeck" writes:

Funny, I would have expected "nowhere" to be more in the middle of the
country, not San Francisco.

Hey -- watch it!

Actually San Francisco is closer -- remember Gertrude Stein's famous
description of Oakland: "there's no there, there".


All the best,


David

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David Megginson, , http://www.megginson.com/

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David Megginson wrote:

"Jay Honeck" writes:

Funny, I would have expected "nowhere" to be more in the middle of the
country, not San Francisco.

Hey -- watch it!

Actually San Francisco is closer -- remember Gertrude Stein's famous
description of Oakland: "there's no there, there".

Yes, and we Oaklanders have taken it to heart -- a currently popular
semi-official flag that flies on buildings all over the city has the
word "There" superimposed across an oak in the background.

It's a pity that the real dirt on her quote was that she was just
bemoaning the fact that where she'd grown up was no longer there
(meaning it had been demolished, rather than there was nothing in
Oaktown), but hey, that really spoils a nice story :-).

Hamish

Hamish Reid writes:

Actually San Francisco is closer -- remember Gertrude Stein's famous
description of Oakland: "there's no there, there".

It's a pity that the real dirt on her quote was that she was just
bemoaning the fact that where she'd grown up was no longer there
(meaning it had been demolished, rather than there was nothing in
Oaktown), but hey, that really spoils a nice story :-).

I'm not at all surprised. It's amazing how many famous quotations are
learned of context: "a little learning is a dangerous thing" (Pope
goes on to suggest a *lot* of learning), "good fences make good
neighbours" (Frost goes on to say that this doesn't make sense unless
livestock is involved), etc. etc.


All the best,


David

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David Megginson, , http://www.megginson.com/

In article ,
David Megginson wrote:

Hamish Reid writes:

Actually San Francisco is closer -- remember Gertrude Stein's famous
description of Oakland: "there's no there, there".

It's a pity that the real dirt on her quote was that she was just
bemoaning the fact that where she'd grown up was no longer there
(meaning it had been demolished, rather than there was nothing in
Oaktown), but hey, that really spoils a nice story :-).

I'm not at all surprised. It's amazing how many famous quotations are
learned of context: "a little learning is a dangerous thing" (Pope
goes on to suggest a *lot* of learning), "good fences make good
neighbours" (Frost goes on to say that this doesn't make sense unless
livestock is involved), etc. etc.

Or the famous Emerson quote which is usually rendered something like
"Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds", which isn't quite what he
really meant at all...

Hamish