<p>Wow. Can’t keep up with you guys. You’ve been busy. I like the “I bought a Porche” away message. Maybe mine could be, “I bought a hummer.” Oh, yeah, I don’t even know how to instant message yet . . . I’m a dinosaur.</p>
<p>Well it makes sense that places with a “spring” and some “fields” would have attracted settlers, no?</p>
<p>Happy Friday all.</p>
<p>A spring and some fields. What else could we want out of life?</p>
<p>My grandmother lived outside of Springfield, MA. In a place called Longmeadow. I have fond memories of her place - fabulous feng shui.</p>
<p>And yes there was a long meadow right nearby.</p>
<p>My away message: Pulling my hair out…</p>
<p>Just saw the copy of DS’s Part I app to one of his schools. Listed under father’s job title: “faceless bureaucrat.” My job: “Unemployed.” He submitted this two months ago. I am laughing so hard the tears are running down my face!</p>
<p>hahahahahaha!!!</p>
<p>Very creative!!</p>
<p>CountingDown, I’m laughing my coffee out. That’s too funny. What chutzpah! </p>
<p>Oh he’d be a great tour guide at Brown. We followed one who walked down a venerable hallway with huge painted portraits of founders, and pointing to each one, named it, “Dead White Man. Another dead white man.”</p>
<p>Re: Springfield, Longmeadow and all…did you ever hear the definition of suburbs, “the place where they cut down the trees, then name the streets after them.” I drive by “Mountain View Mall” and think there WAS a mountain view here until they put up that X%&* mall.</p>
<p>I was always intrigued that they named Iceland and Greenland backwards to attract poorly informed settlers to the icy place that is Greenland. Meanwhile, Iceland is supposed to be very green and full of beautiful lambs who turn themselves into sweaters.</p>
<p>Counting Down, he’s in! Don’t even wait for the fat envelope. Start buying the TwinXL sheets NOW!</p>
<p>faceless bureaucrat :eek:</p>
<p>that is either a sorry comment on real life or an indication of a great sense of humour</p>
<p>“Faceless bureaucrat”! That was too funny!!! I can’t wait to see what mine had to write!</p>
<p>Speaking of town names. In WA, there is a town called Bothell. As you exit the highway and enter the city limits, there is a sign bearing slogan “Welcome to Bothell - for a day or lifetime”. Local pranksters keep peeling the first 3 letters off…</p>
<p>AluM,</p>
<p>My W’s mother was a teacher at Longmeadow HS back in the 60s and 70s. Shoe taught home ec (not sure what the PC term is for it…)</p>
<p>BunsenB,</p>
<p>I worked for a time in BotHell, for a major telecom provider.</p>
<p>Both coasts, still a small world.</p>
<p>My folks live in New Hampshire, near a town named “Weare” pronounced, “Where”</p>
<p>There actually is a “North Weare” which we called “no-where” and people who’d say they grew up east of nowhere.</p>
<p>Bumping up from pg. 3…</p>
<p>Our school calls it “Home and Careers”, boys and girls do everything - shop, sewing, cooking, budgets, laundry. It’s just in middle school.</p>
<p>Now I might have inserted an “r” after the “B”. :)</p>
<p>Mathmom, I think it has been done,too :)</p>
<p>paying3tuitions - if someone lives south of Weare, would they live in Underweare?</p>
<p>Good game!! Drinks all around!</p>
<p>Has anyone met anyone from Intercourse, PA? I always wondered how they coped.</p>
<p>Hi I’m in Houston. Eating well. Seeing old friends, and taking S to see a <em>dreaded c-word that is banned from the Alley</em>.</p>
<p>So I guess I should have said Hi y’all.</p>
<p><em>dreaded c word</em> = hilarious. </p>
<p>Enjoy yourself. I remember that unmentionable task as being one of the most fun times I shared with my D…</p>