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There are only parts of the city that live after 6PM. Georgetown, Adams Morgan, parts of Capitol Hill
Originally posted by Pat Farrell:
Perhaps Boston drivers are worse,
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Originally posted by Marc Peabody:
...I'm surprised about the DC folks in shorts at 30 degrees. I would think only extreme Northerners would ever try that!
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Originally posted by Harsha Jay:
...Never heard of Dunn Bros, is that something like "$tealbucks" or dunkindonuts or in between.
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Originally posted by Pat Farrell:
...There are only parts of the city that live after 6PM. Georgetown, Adams Morgan, parts of Capitol Hill. A lot of the action is out in the near suburbs...
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Originally posted by marc weber:
A lot of people wear shorts while running outside at 30-degrees F. This is especially curious because most locals seemed to regard 30 as
Originally posted by marc weber:
A lot of people wear shorts while running outside at 30-degrees F. This is especially curious because most locals seemed to regard 30 as cold.
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Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
... You didn't point out that they're not just shorts, they're expensive European high-tech running shorts...
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Originally posted by marc weber:
The Metro subway rocks! (We have nothing like that in Minneapolis.)
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Originally posted by Paul Clapham:
...it rarely gets much colder than zero here (that's 32 F to you Americans)...
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Originally posted by Eric Pascarello:
...I still want to go see the spy mesuem in DC...
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Originally posted by Eric Pascarello:
I still want to go see the spy museum in DC [http://www.spymuseum.org/], I still have not found the time and someone as geeky as me to go there.
Originally posted by Marc Peabody:
My Maine buddies warned me about "Masshole" drivers. The first three stop lights I came to had someone honk immediately when the light turned green - as if the guy at the front was supposed to have ridiculously rapid reflexes.
I'm surprised about the DC folks in shorts at 30 degrees. I would think only extreme Northerners would ever try that!
Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
(I think the ratio is something like four lawyers for every human)
Originally posted by Eric Pascarello:
Funny about the DC Metro...Prices just went up...costs an extra 30-60 cents each way and it is normally late and breaks down.
it is normally late
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Originally posted by Pat Farrell:
...Actually, the serious spy museum is out by NSA (Ft Meade). They have enigmas, super computers and all sorts of stuff.
I've heard that the Brits have taken all the cool stuff out of Bletchly Park.
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Originally posted by Pat Farrell:
In Boston, if they look at you, they give up right of way. So no one ever looks...
Originally posted by Pat Farrell:
...In DC, you have to be ready for a stream of cop cars, limos and black Suburbans. Do not even think of messing with the Suburbans...
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Originally posted by marc weber:
In Minnesota, we have the opposite problem. Too many people want to yield the right of way. "You go first." "No, you go." "No, I insist." "No, you first." Finally, they both decide to go at the same time.
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Originally posted by Marc Peabody:
...I'm convinced that right of way and driving in snow are not taught in the drivers' training here.
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Originally posted by marc weber:
It's like comma usage. It's still taught, but people people promptly forget the rules and resort to improvisation.
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Well, that's what commas are supposed to represent anyway, so most of the time you're going to get it right. It's the semi-colons and the colons you're going to miss, but those are for advanced students.Originally posted by Marc Peabody:
I agree that most of us (myself included) just put them wherever it kinda feels right, like at breath points in speech, and simply hope that no one faults us for it.
Originally posted by marc weber:
The Metro subway rocks! (We have nothing like that in Minneapolis.)
A lot of people wear shorts while running outside at 30-degrees F. This is especially curious because most locals seemed to regard 30 as cold.
Originally posted by Greg Charles:
...When you praise the Metro, I assume that's because the ticket vending machines, gates, and especially the software running them made it a pleasant experience...
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The comma is the most commonly used and abused punctuation mark. People often insert commas between subject and verb or when they reach the end of a thought, without regard for the rules of comma usage.
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Originally posted by Eric Pascarello:
I still want to go see the spy mesuem in DC [http://www.spymuseum.org/], I still have not found the time and someone as geeky as me to go there.
I prefer using braces, or BEGIN/END blocks.Originally posted by marc weber:
According to Essentials of English Grammar by L. Sue Baugh...
Unfortunately, the "pause" interpretation can lead to problems, like separating two phrases or subordinate clauses joined by a conjunction. Essentials of English Grammar offers the following as an example of such misuse: "Howard painted the steps, but not the porch." Whoops, there should be no comma in that sentence.
Personally, I'm more bothered by a missing comma between two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.
Oh, well... These things happen.