# How Cool Is That? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 14, 1999, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917 "1999-10-14T05:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 1999, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917/81 "1999-10-18T22:06:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Okay Satan,we don’t All know Latin. Please decifer. ## I can’t stand it anymore. Does anyone else find this misspelling intriging? “No wonder of it. Sheer plod makes plough down sillion shine.” Gerard Manley Hopkins ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 1999, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917/82 "1999-10-18T22:09:00Z")
Nothing like misspelling a word in your misspelling post. **Intriguing**. ## Some days it doesn’t pay to gnaw … How’s that go, Zette? “No wonder of it. Sheer plod makes plough down sillion shine.” Gerard Manley Hopkins ---
**Author:** ![Dorf\_OnLine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c77e96/32.png) [@Dorf\_OnLine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorf_OnLine)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 1999, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917/83 "1999-10-18T23:41:00Z")
Hey, Athena, I wonder if you work in the cube next to me… BTW, I spent seven years as a yooper. Loved it tremendously (God’s area code is 906), but once I moved someplace with honest-to-goodness mountains I could never go back. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917/84 "1999-10-19T10:04:00Z")
Dorf, I agree with you on the mountains. Like Athena, I also am temporarily exiled from the UP, serving a sentence of 3-13 here in West Suburban Chicago (with possible time off for good behavior). Given my druthers, I’d much rather be doing this time in Colorado, but, well, one goes where the (corporate) judge sends one, I guess. Climb a 14er for me, and reflect upon those less fortunate who live where a closed landfill is what passes for a “mountain”. Seriously. “Mt. Hoy” Illinois, the highest point in DuPage County. \ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917/85 "1999-10-19T16:26:00Z")
> [@](#): > > New York is a state not just a city. > > So that’s where all the extra tax money goes! I’m an upstate New Yorker and I definitely rely on New York City to keep my business going. Funneefarmer & Zette: Where you guys at? I’m originally from the Adirondacks and now live in the Rochester area (about thirty miles out from the city). Didn’t recognize the name of your hometown, FF, but you probably wouldn’t know my town either. All the Houston crowd: Is there room on the roster for a visiting team? I have relatives in Houston and fly down there for a couple of weeks every winter. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 1999, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917/86 "1999-11-09T03:03:00Z")
Mike, This thread sank before I saw your post. Provide a little notice of your next visit and we’ll see who we can round up. ---
**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 1999, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917/87 "1999-11-09T03:26:00Z")
Diane– Byzantine lives very close to my office. Maybe one day we’ll meet for coffee?!?! Sounds good to me! I’m getting ready for my trip to Houston TX to see my sister and get registered for school so how about after the 1st of December? Anyone else in SLC Utah? Diane– My vote would be for Vegas. Oh, mine too! I could drive up there in a few hours. If we meet and like each other we could car pool or caravan! I don’t gamble but I love to watch folks doing it. Gambling, that is! Well, other things too, but ANYWAY… how many could go to Vegas? And when would we hold this great event? I suggest April. Around the 18th. Bring birthday presents! * * * Best! Byz ---
**Author:** ![meredith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@meredith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meredith)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 1999, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917/88 "1999-11-09T03:34:00Z")
I missed this thread the first time around… I’m from upstate NY too! Originally(sp?) from Ithaca, now in Syracuse. I thought that the only New Yorkers here were in the city ('cept for Zette, with whom I chatted). I’m more excited than I probably should be to hear that there are others near me! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tammy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6de8d8/32.png) [@Tammy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tammy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 1999, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917/89 "1999-11-09T04:21:00Z")
Athena - I am a newbie to the board, but I have been a yooper always! ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 1999, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917/90 "1999-11-09T04:55:00Z")
Metroshane, phouka - I live in Useless, I mean Euless. I know mr. john lives somewhere around here too. What parts of town do y’all live in? ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 1999, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917/91 "1999-11-09T04:59:00Z")
There ya’ go z, stirrin’em up (my job in Houston). My “frequent” business trips to Dallas have been a bit subdued thid year, but next year looks brighter - if ya’ll organize maybe I can get with ya’ll sometime this Spring. Regards ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 1999, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917/92 "1999-11-09T05:09:00Z")
## I’m getting the feeling that I’m the only Michiganian (Michigander doesn’t sound right to me) that actually lives in the lower part of the state. The dozen or so Dopers in Michigan that I know of all seem to be living up North. Since I missed the Columbus shenanigans and I’m working the same weekend as the Chicago party, I think we should throw a party here. Shadowfox “Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) ---
**Author:** ![Imthecowgodmoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Imthecowgodmoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imthecowgodmoo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 1999, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917/93 "1999-11-09T06:20:00Z")
To answer a question that has been unanswered for a month… I’m originally from Toledo, but I go to University of Cincinnati now (and depending on how I did on my last calc test, I might be moving back and going to UT). Beefy Lover was the other guy from Toledo, but I haven’t seen in him in months. (lurking maybe?) (I skip a thread and I miss a conversation that includes me… that’s the second time I’ve done that now!) * * * “I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”-- Calvin and Hobbes (\_\_) `\/-------\ `| |-----| | …c.c…c.c… ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 1999, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917/94 "1999-11-11T04:39:00Z")
Hey, Zyada is still on the board! I hadn’t seen your name for a while. Where is this board going, in your opinion? Some days I have only read, not posted, for whatever reason… Back to the topic… ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 1999, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917/95 "1999-11-11T05:08:00Z")
Hey, yes! It’s good to hear from zyada again. Now who’all’s (I live here - I get to say that) coming to Houston in December? Mike and Byz? I’m confused. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917/96 "1999-11-12T04:26:00Z")
Ah, what the hell…sploosh!.. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cool-is-that/10917.md?page=4)