Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: dciem!gandalf!alayne@cs.utexas.edu (Alayne McGregor) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Questionable Placename in TELECOM Article Message-ID: <2101@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 12 Dec 89 16:45:41 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 25 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 569, message 7 of 10 In ,news@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG writes: > This story was related by Pat Routledge of Winnepeg, ONT about an unusual ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sorry, but there's no such place. Assuming ONT is short for Ontario (and I haven't heard of anywhere else with that abbreviation), there's no such town/village/city in it. The closest is Winnebago. There is, however, a Winnipeg, the capital of the province of Manitoba (where I happened to grow up). Makes me wonder if the whole story isn't an (ex)urban legend. Alayne McGregor dciem!nrcaer!gandalf!alayne [Moderator's Note: Alayne, that story is *so old* I first heard it about twenty years ago, and in those days, it was an installer over in Scotland someplace.... :) And regards Winnepeg, Manitoba, *thank you* for catching this. I generally edit obvious (to me) errors in place names in the Digest, and I know it is in Manitoba, but that got right past me....until I saw your message. PT]