Re: Awfully quiet in here...

In article <vgiuo3$2ogur$2@dont-email.me>,
William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

Bobbie Sellers wrote:

On 11/7/24 05:08, James Nicoll wrote:

In article <lp3qduFb8jqU1@mid.individual.net>,
Gary R. Schmidt <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote:

Hey!
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Is anybody else out there?
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Or has the disaster that is the USA meant that they've already started
trucking people off to the ovens???
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Only a few message from James and one from Lynn - well, apart from the
people/bots that I filter, that is.

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I imagine the American posters are either updating their passports
or making lists of which neighbours to inform on and the rest of us
are trying to work out if we're Austria or Poland.
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(if you have to ask, you're always Poland)

 
     As for me I will stay here in San Francisco as long as I can.
The Darn Old Fart shortly to be in charge but as yet impotent to
act may fume noxiously but he does not smoke. And he could die before
he does anything too terrible aside from successfully dividing the
nation.
     I have no neighbors to inform on nor passport to update
nor funds to flee. Not so many years ago I tried to find a
better place for me to be than in San Francisco and not even
Seattle tempted me.

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There are very few places in the world where I arrive, and decide in
seconds that I'd like to live there.
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San Francisco is one of those.
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Hilariously, my father fled from SF to Waterloo, Ontario. Waterloo was
a rustic backwater but it had a university that wanted to hire him,
it had far more interesting weather than SF, and it was far enough
from his parents they could not drop by unannounced.

Bill was the sort of person who wanders out into a hurricane to see if
he can raft down a river during peak winds, and who takes his kids out
to see the local river during a tropical storm.

(Normally the river was a creek)

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