This Los Angeles

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mbowen on 2003/08/08:

  „A stern reddish blond women quickly stifles her grandchild. A young latino kid stares off into the distant Pacific with a twotone gold handheld device to his ear. A large swarthy man in a loud orange shirt waddles quickly over to his large framed wife and daughters perspiring and talking excitedly about 'urns and statues and stuff'. A short docent with an Italian accent and a slight grey stubble on his head compliments me about my haircut with a smile.“

http://www.mdcbowen.org/cobb/archives/ 000447.html - Cached

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Some slightly related:

William Tecumseh Sherman and the Discovery of Gold

  „Sherman described Richard Barnes Mason, the newly-arrived, and fifth military governor of California (1847-1849), with whom then-Lieutenant Sherman would work closely: “Colonel R. Mason, First Dragoons, was an officer of great experience, of stern character, deemed by some harsh and severe, but in my intercourse with him he was kind and agreeable. He had a large fund of good sense, and, during our long period of service together, I enjoyed his unlimited confidence.” San Francisco’s Fort Mason and Mason St.“

http://www.militarymuseum.org/sherman4.html - Cached

Addenda and Corrigenda to "Arthur Ransome: A Bibliography"

  „(To the reader: Because the Web does not permit in HTML so wide a variety of diacritical marks as a word processor or desktop publisher, I am limited in how I can represent here certain words in Czech, Polish, etc., which require marks not in standard Western fonts, such as the hacek, an inverted circumflex, and the krouzek, which in other languages is called an over-ring; indeed, hacek and krouzek themselves require haceks, but I have omitted these so as not to be too tedious. I hope that more usual marks such as acute and grave accents will display correctly in your individual browser.)“

http://www.bcn.net/~whammond/addenda/ ransome.html - Cached

UFO-PI

  „The UFO was approximately 100 yards long, with bright white lights along the underside running from the front to the stern. The tail took up about one-third of the whole object and had five finger-like projections jutting out from it. A pale blue light was on the left side of the object near the tail.“

http://ufopi.freehomepage.com/world_mexico.htm - Cached

Fear Masters

  „After spending a month convincing my mother I wasn’t going to get myself killed and having my friends congratulate me, I was off to Los Angeles.“

http://ils.merwolf.com/academy/contest/2003/.../ trishkocialski_fearmasters.html - Cached

The story goes like this: every type of specialist can be clearly identified by the manner in which they hunt elephants.

  „Of course, they are usually most funny to those close-enough to the profession to really "get it". Anyway, a couple months ago I volunteered to add the programming profession to the list, on a language-by- language basis. The write-up was a hit and has already been printed in a few user-group letters and magazines, but has been only sporadically available on CIS.“

http://members.cox.net/bob.weeks/prog.html - Cached

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