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From: jeff@cpoint.UUCP (Jeffrey J. Griglack)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: ==>>  CALL FOR DISCUSSION:  Moving alt.rhode_island  <<==
Keywords: the time has come
Message-ID: <2695@cpoint.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 89 14:16:10 GMT
References: <106@rayssd.ray.com> <2399@gmu90x.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeff@cpoint.UUCP (Jeffrey J. Griglack)
Organization: Clearpoint Research Corp., Hopkinton Mass.
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In article <2399@gmu90x.UUCP> rmiller@gmu90x.UUCP (Richard Miller) writes:
>How about trying to figure out:
>
>	Why is the town north of KingsTON called North KingsTOWN?
>
I thought there was a North Kingstown and a South Kingstown that contained
the village of Kingston.

>	Why does everyone call Connanicut Island JAMESTOWN?
>
The island has only one town on it called (you guessed it) Jamestown.  The
island has a name and the town has a name, understand?

>	How come there is a West Greenwich and an East Greenwich,
>	but no Greenwich?
>
Why is there a West Virginia but no East Virginia?  Why is there a North
Dakota and a South Dakota, but no Dakota.  Why do people type things
like "How come...." instead of "Why?"  I guess we live in an imperfect world.

>	And, by the way, what did that tanker captain think
>	the Brenton Reef tower was sitting on?
>
I don't know.

>My theory is that the URI reactor (at the Narragansett campus) is emmitting
>an excessive amount of alpha particles which are causing the cranial flip-flops
>of the general poplulation to randomly chage state at infrequent intervals.
>
>Rick Miller
>
>11012 Howland Drive
>Reston, VA 22091
>
>reply to rmiller@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
>
>"I hate living in a land where only carpenters make coffee cabinets."


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