At 10:50 AM 12/31/96 -0500, James Hepler wrote:
>Are you talking about Centralia?  That's about 5-10 miles from my extended
>family.  Where were you living?  I want to live in Pittsburgh.  Go
>Steelers.

Bam. That's the one. Centralia, where smokestacks driven into the ground
belch sulferous smoke and a tiny cadre of masochists hold out against state
encroachment on their land. Best factoid of all is that the fire started
after some garbage in a dump lit a vein of coal.

Coal. Not Cole. Who make me bob my head and tense fists in the dark alone at
'XDU at 3am on New Years Eve.

Too many prepositions, my head's spinning.

Oh, and re: Ross's last post. That's the truth, Ruth. The local editorial
staff is fighting for a different way of publishing, but I'm starting to
feel like a Persian duped onto the Marathon plains with promises of a BC GI
Bill.

Hrm.

-alan

>
>James Hepler
>"I predict that in ten years, computers will be twice as fast, ten
>thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings
>in Europe wil be able to own them." 
>
>On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, alan benson wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 19:21:48 -0500
>> From: alan benson 
>> Reply-To: ch-scene@listserv.oit.unc.edu
>> To: Multiple recipients of list 
>> Subject: Re: New new years mandate
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> At 07:06 PM 12/30/96 -0500, jenn halter wrote:
>> >On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, Force-J wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> boys, so many frats they had to start using four letters...
>> >
>> >i too lived in PA, 16 years, and i recall a law that banned houses
>> >containing
>> >more than 9 unrelated women because it would be an official whore house
>> >and therefore there can be no sorority houses at penn state however frat
>> >houses are allowed.  am i right about this or is it just another urban
>> >legend that i took seriously?
>> 
>> i too lived in PA, 9 months, and i hated it more than anyone can imagine.
>> but then, i lived about 20 miles away from an underground mine fire near a
>> coal town where there were more birth defects per capita than anywhere else
>> in the state. "has something to do with the gases," one local pundit said.
>> why is it, when i see the word "pundit," i always think of what is probably
>> more accurately called a jester: guy in a forked hat with bells. not my
>> point. point being that the "more than 9 women" story is either true in many
>> states (NC, Mass, VA, PA, MA, and SC, at last count) or is an urban legend.
>> no help, i know, but 1997's breathing down my neck and i'm nervous.
>> 
>> -alan
>> 
>> 
>> 
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