Posted by rf on 11/28/07 12:34

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in message
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> rf wrote:
>
>> "Mika" wrote:
>>
>>> Miami, Beverley Hills, SF, and NY are not... "SHOPS"... *gasp*. They
>>> are
>>> funny things called "States".
>>
>> Last time I was there (and yes, I have been to all of them, except Miami)
>
> Do you speak Spanish? ;-)

No. Why? Not many Spaniards over here. Although funilly enough the girl down
the end of the street grew up in Spain and speaks it well.

> We Upstate New Yorkers [1] sometimes wish that *Downstate* New York
> could be cut off and pushed out to sea. Or give 'em to Connecticut and
> New Jersey. Our taxes would halve.
>
> 1. I'm actually halfway between "Upstate" and "Western" New York.

Spent some weeks with friends in Utica, skiing in all the upstate areas.
Placid down to the Finger Lakes and over to Vermont. That was about 5 or so
years ago, the year the snow dumped all the way down to South Carolina and
shut it down. Had to brush a foot of snow off the rent-a-car every morning
in Placid.

Very Nice part of the planet :-)

--
Richard.

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