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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:00:11 GMT, O J wrote:
snip I probably should know better, but I just found this one hard to believe till I looked it up. It's not a rumor or an urban folktale. Sad to say, it's true. For our international friends, New Mexico is the name of one of our Southwestern states. And New Mexico's capitol, Santa Fe, was a well extablished city when the Pilgrims landed. IIRC, established around 1100 by Pueblo indians, and a capitol city for a Spanish territory before the pilgrims landed. Guess some people slept through American history, the Santa Fe Trail, the Mexican-American War, when we pretty much stole the western states from Mexico, the Gadsen Purchase, the Civil War, Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War, etc etc until NM became the the 47(?) state in the early 1900s. I know most people don't remember and care about these, admittedly, trivial facts, but US geography and history has always been a hobby of mine. I still find it amazing that people can go to school and, like Sherry said, sometimes graduate with good grades. snip -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html |
#702
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:00:11 GMT, O J wrote:
snip I probably should know better, but I just found this one hard to believe till I looked it up. It's not a rumor or an urban folktale. Sad to say, it's true. For our international friends, New Mexico is the name of one of our Southwestern states. And New Mexico's capitol, Santa Fe, was a well extablished city when the Pilgrims landed. IIRC, established around 1100 by Pueblo indians, and a capitol city for a Spanish territory before the pilgrims landed. Guess some people slept through American history, the Santa Fe Trail, the Mexican-American War, when we pretty much stole the western states from Mexico, the Gadsen Purchase, the Civil War, Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War, etc etc until NM became the the 47(?) state in the early 1900s. I know most people don't remember and care about these, admittedly, trivial facts, but US geography and history has always been a hobby of mine. I still find it amazing that people can go to school and, like Sherry said, sometimes graduate with good grades. snip -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html |
#703
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:00:11 GMT, O J wrote:
snip I probably should know better, but I just found this one hard to believe till I looked it up. It's not a rumor or an urban folktale. Sad to say, it's true. For our international friends, New Mexico is the name of one of our Southwestern states. And New Mexico's capitol, Santa Fe, was a well extablished city when the Pilgrims landed. IIRC, established around 1100 by Pueblo indians, and a capitol city for a Spanish territory before the pilgrims landed. Guess some people slept through American history, the Santa Fe Trail, the Mexican-American War, when we pretty much stole the western states from Mexico, the Gadsen Purchase, the Civil War, Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War, etc etc until NM became the the 47(?) state in the early 1900s. I know most people don't remember and care about these, admittedly, trivial facts, but US geography and history has always been a hobby of mine. I still find it amazing that people can go to school and, like Sherry said, sometimes graduate with good grades. snip -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html |
#704
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:51:41 +1000, "Yowie"
wrote: Now a futon to me is specific type of sofa-bed. A futon lounge is like a sofa-bed but instead of it having a nifty mechanical thing that hides under the seat part until you need to use it, a futon lounge is the bed in its entirity, the only difference being that inthe day, one side (if you divided the bed from the head to the foot) is almost vertical and is used as the back rest, and at night the side that was upright goes back down to horizontal. There mattress itseld folds when the base does, so there are no seperate cushions or back rests. yes, and to me a futon is usually much easier to sleep on, since most of the sofa meds I've slept on are too soft. Usually they have a bar, part of the mechanism which allows it to fold into the couch, which seems to hit you in the back when you try to sleep. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html |
#705
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:51:41 +1000, "Yowie"
wrote: Now a futon to me is specific type of sofa-bed. A futon lounge is like a sofa-bed but instead of it having a nifty mechanical thing that hides under the seat part until you need to use it, a futon lounge is the bed in its entirity, the only difference being that inthe day, one side (if you divided the bed from the head to the foot) is almost vertical and is used as the back rest, and at night the side that was upright goes back down to horizontal. There mattress itseld folds when the base does, so there are no seperate cushions or back rests. yes, and to me a futon is usually much easier to sleep on, since most of the sofa meds I've slept on are too soft. Usually they have a bar, part of the mechanism which allows it to fold into the couch, which seems to hit you in the back when you try to sleep. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html |
#706
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:51:41 +1000, "Yowie"
wrote: Now a futon to me is specific type of sofa-bed. A futon lounge is like a sofa-bed but instead of it having a nifty mechanical thing that hides under the seat part until you need to use it, a futon lounge is the bed in its entirity, the only difference being that inthe day, one side (if you divided the bed from the head to the foot) is almost vertical and is used as the back rest, and at night the side that was upright goes back down to horizontal. There mattress itseld folds when the base does, so there are no seperate cushions or back rests. yes, and to me a futon is usually much easier to sleep on, since most of the sofa meds I've slept on are too soft. Usually they have a bar, part of the mechanism which allows it to fold into the couch, which seems to hit you in the back when you try to sleep. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html |
#707
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"Steve Touchstone" wrote in message
... On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:38:49 GMT, "Yoj" wrote: My mother, who lives in Alaska, runs into a similar problem occasionally. She'll try to order something, only to be told that it can't be shipped out of the United States. As far as I know, in the Army you still get the same overseas pay for being stationed in Alaska as you do stationed in Korea. IIRC, we used to get a whopping $9 when I was in Fairbanks in the late 70's - almost enough to cover the cost for one person to eat at the local Dairy Queen. My first trip off post I stopped in the Dairy Queen and couldn't pay for a shake, cheeseburger and fries with the $10 I had on me - had to settle for Dr Pepper instead of the shake. About half way through my time there McDonalds opened a resturant there (price for a Big Mac 5 cents more than in the lower 48). For awhile, it was the busiest McDonalds in the world, with lines out the door whenever you went there. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) I can imagine! Everything is a lot higher up there. My mother's town doesn't have a McDonald's, but they do have a Subway. I don't know for how long, though. A lot of businesses are going belly-up. :-( Joy |
#708
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"Steve Touchstone" wrote in message
... On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:38:49 GMT, "Yoj" wrote: My mother, who lives in Alaska, runs into a similar problem occasionally. She'll try to order something, only to be told that it can't be shipped out of the United States. As far as I know, in the Army you still get the same overseas pay for being stationed in Alaska as you do stationed in Korea. IIRC, we used to get a whopping $9 when I was in Fairbanks in the late 70's - almost enough to cover the cost for one person to eat at the local Dairy Queen. My first trip off post I stopped in the Dairy Queen and couldn't pay for a shake, cheeseburger and fries with the $10 I had on me - had to settle for Dr Pepper instead of the shake. About half way through my time there McDonalds opened a resturant there (price for a Big Mac 5 cents more than in the lower 48). For awhile, it was the busiest McDonalds in the world, with lines out the door whenever you went there. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) I can imagine! Everything is a lot higher up there. My mother's town doesn't have a McDonald's, but they do have a Subway. I don't know for how long, though. A lot of businesses are going belly-up. :-( Joy |
#709
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"Steve Touchstone" wrote in message
... On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:38:49 GMT, "Yoj" wrote: My mother, who lives in Alaska, runs into a similar problem occasionally. She'll try to order something, only to be told that it can't be shipped out of the United States. As far as I know, in the Army you still get the same overseas pay for being stationed in Alaska as you do stationed in Korea. IIRC, we used to get a whopping $9 when I was in Fairbanks in the late 70's - almost enough to cover the cost for one person to eat at the local Dairy Queen. My first trip off post I stopped in the Dairy Queen and couldn't pay for a shake, cheeseburger and fries with the $10 I had on me - had to settle for Dr Pepper instead of the shake. About half way through my time there McDonalds opened a resturant there (price for a Big Mac 5 cents more than in the lower 48). For awhile, it was the busiest McDonalds in the world, with lines out the door whenever you went there. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) I can imagine! Everything is a lot higher up there. My mother's town doesn't have a McDonald's, but they do have a Subway. I don't know for how long, though. A lot of businesses are going belly-up. :-( Joy |
#710
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:39:24 GMT, "Yoj"
wrote: "Steve Touchstone" wrote in message .. . As far as I know, in the Army you still get the same overseas pay for being stationed in Alaska as you do stationed in Korea. IIRC, we used to get a whopping $9 when I was in Fairbanks in the late 70's - almost enough to cover the cost for one person to eat at the local Dairy Queen. My first trip off post I stopped in the Dairy Queen and couldn't pay for a shake, cheeseburger and fries with the $10 I had on me - had to settle for Dr Pepper instead of the shake. About half way through my time there McDonalds opened a resturant there (price for a Big Mac 5 cents more than in the lower 48). For awhile, it was the busiest McDonalds in the world, with lines out the door whenever you went there. I can imagine! Everything is a lot higher up there. My mother's town doesn't have a McDonald's, but they do have a Subway. I don't know for how long, though. A lot of businesses are going belly-up. :-( Well, I was there during the boom while they were building the pipeline. I was actually looking for a payphone on that first trip downtown, so I could call home and tell them I had arrived safely. Later I learned that the boom had overwhelmed the phone system, so they had removed all the handsets from the pay phones. The only pay phone I found in the 18 months I was there was in the bowling alley on post. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html |
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