 | | Re: LA vs Seattle (Was:Re: Earthquake!)
|
|
(...) I think Seattle's contribution to the country is more along the lines of Starbucks Coffee and grunge music. I don't know of any slang from these parts. :^) ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: subway info?
|
|
(...) True. I generally tend to think of it as ending there. I used to hate that next rotrary though. My summer job after graduating high school was at an office above the Fresh Pond shopping center, and you had to use that rotary to u-turn, problem (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: subway info?
|
|
(...) Without a lot of warning or signs to help you find your way when it changes direction at traffic lights and such, which it does a fair bit IIRC. One of the cardinal principles of Northeast driving (it's not confined to just the Boston area, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: subway info?
|
|
(...) That's exactly the way I describe it, too. eric (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: subway info?
|
|
(...) There's still a rotary near there, it's over the bridge and past the Fresh Pond stuff. Route 2 doesn't end there, though, it goes all the way in to Cambridge. Always has, as far as I know. It just ceases to be a highway-type thing there, and (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: TeenLTC?
|
|
(...) Psshh. Boone's Farm, Mad Dog, Nighttrain, Thunderbird... I drank 'em all. So it can't date you *that* much. eric (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: subway info?
|
|
(...) Those are easy, all it takes is some combination of faster reflexes and/or a bigger engine. I'm referring to the kind where you are in essentially stopped traffic and you get to a point where someone will have to give. I'm a big fan of (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: TeenLTC?
|
|
(...) It's DEFINITELY still around. It's the only thing a good friend of mine will drink. (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: subway info?
|
|
(...) Oh, I've probably done it a few more times, but you have to realize that the vast bulk of my driving experience these days is not in Boston... (...) I always point out to non-Boston drivers that Boston driving shouldn't be characterized as (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: subway info?
|
|
I'm so glad I live here in Northern California where driving is of two types: 1) Parked on US 101. 2) Racing madly through San Francisco, down 1 way streets (usually the worng way) searching for the last parking spot in the city. Never mind the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
