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[Philip & Susan Troy]

Stephanie Drake wrote:

> My husband tells a story about going to basic training and a gentleman from
> NJ asked him if we "still have a lot of trouble with Indians" here.  On the
> other hand, when I went to Europe about 17 years ago (gack - has it been
> that long??????) the connection everyone made when they heard I was from
> Dallas was JFK (not JR which we had been warned to expect.)


Yes, I've always had difficulty making it clear to people that I was brought up in a house on a quiet, tree-lined street in New York City (and now live on a different, quiet, tree-lined street), that I do not live in a penthouse apartment on top of a skyscraper, nor have I ever had a part-time job as a mugger. People do appear to try to pigeon-hole others from places they're not directly familiar with based upon things they've seen on television and such, but my all-time favorite phenomenon is one which is documentable until at least the Second World War, wherein people who haven't travelled believe that references to faraway places are in fact a conspiracy to delude them as to the nature of the world: that things like large cities are simply a lie. As in, "Why, everybody knows there's not really any such place as Chicago, with all those railroad stations and tall buildings," etc. And then my other favorite thing is the concept of the cabal of "wicked scientists in New York C
ity with their false bones" spending all their time and energy trying to upset the proven reality of Creation as per Genesis.


Adamantius

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Phil & Susan Troy

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"It was so blatant that Roger threw at him.  Clemens gets away with
things that get other people thrown out of games.  As long as they
let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre, 9/98