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From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Naming streets
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 19:53:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 19:53:58 1985
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Reply-To: crandell@sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell)
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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>    > I would want a North Scholar Road and a South Scholar Road.  That way
>    > I could have the Roads Scholar.
>
>If I ever get to name the streets of a neighborhood I'd name them after
>composers. That way I could have the intersection of Gilbert and Sullivan.
>Beethoven would be a short street with only nine houses.

Actually, quite a bit of inanity is possible even in the absence of the
authority to determine formal street names.  For example, at certain
times of year here (start of the Fall semester is usually good) there is
a minor rash of automobile accidents on city streets and nearby roads.
Some of these are so severe (and the condition of the participating
vehicles so decrepit) that major body parts remain scattered on the
pavement.  One can harvest a genuine bumper crop during these times.  If,
for example, entire fenders of cars wind up gracing two or more different
thoroughfares, then we have, uh....

Once several years ago, I was driving down Twelfth St. in Oak Cliff (Dallas)
and discovered a tattered old swatch of flannel (I think) lying in the
middle of the pavement.  I called it -- well, you get the idea.

I've often regretted that Austin's Hardy St. doesn't extend far enough
to the south to intersect Laurel Ln.  In there somewhere is a job idea
for some enterprising individual with a screwdriver and a camera.
-- 

    Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin
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