[Fictionary] SLEECH reminder

[Hutch]

When I was a little kid, we visited Sand Dunes National (then)
Monument, in southern Colorado. At Sand Dunes, there is a wide flat
area at the eastern edge of the dunes and water flows along this
heading eventually for the Rio Grande River twenty miles away. This is
called the "Medano River" (after an early settler). This river is
intermittent. When it flows at its heaviest, it tends to be a few
inches deep and about 100 meters wide.

One of the park rangers told of an eastern tourist who, on seeing
this, laughed and said, "We've got REAL rivers back east. Why, if we
had this back east, we'd call it a 'crick'."

The ranger replied, "Well, I'll make you a deal. If you let us call
our crick's 'rivers', we'll let you call your molehills 'mountains'."

In other words, no, there are no mountains in eastern North America. *BG*

BB,
Hutch

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On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma at phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Thursday 15 September 2011 20:57:02 eLLioTT morEton wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, J-J Cote wrote:
>> > 1) We're still on Eastern Daylight Time.
>>
>> Oh, yeah, that's right.
>
> I recently visited California, stopping in Phoenix. That got me thinking. We
> have four time zones in the Lower 48, called Eastern, Central, Mountain, and
> Pacific. Eastern and Pacific are clear enough, but:
> *How can one of four equally spaced things be central?
> *There are mountains in the east and mountains in the west.
>
> Pierre
> --
> La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre.
> Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.