🚀 go-pugleaf

Mark Crispin <mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> writes:

>David Barts writes:
>>Translation:  "Hi, I'm from California and I'm here to tell all you
>>folks who learned to drive in the Rockies and the Midwest how to drive
>>in the ice and snow.  Trust me."

>Translation: "Hi, I'm not a PNW native, but I want to be cool just
>like you PNW natives.  Like you, I am bigoted and prejudiced but oh so
>politically correct.  So I will bash `Californians' -- even if they're
>not really from California -- so I can fit right in with Emmet Watson,
>the True PNW Native!"  [It's curious how real PNW natives rarely play
>the California bashing game.]

My, touchy about that "California" issue, aren't we?

Mark, if your article wouldn't have had the same pompous tone that
so many of the Texas drivers had about driving on snow in NM (the
very same Texans who then demonstrated their utter incompetence at
negotiating an icy, banked hairpin curve and ended up 30 feet down
a road embankment) I probably wouldn't have bothered responding to
it.

-- 
David Barts  N5JRN                      UW Civil Engineering, FX-10
davidb@ce.washington.edu                Seattle, WA  98195