Subj : Re: Life is a highway... To : poindexter FORTRAN From : Gamgee Date : Sat Apr 08 2023 16:27:00 -=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Gamgee <=- -=> Gamgee wrote to Nigel Reed <=- Ga> Something else that I find funny is how "interstate" has become a noun Ga> in the English language. For example, you might say on the phone: Ga> "Yep, I just got on the Interstate and I'll be there in an hour". ;-) pF> Vernacular tells us in California which part you're from. If you pF> call a freeway "The ", then you're from southern pF> California. If you refer to them by the number alone, northern pF> California. Haha, yes, I agree and understand this perfectly! I lived in the Bay Area from 90-92, in Alameda, and met/dated my wife in Daly City. So, plenty of time on 280 and the Bay Bridge, and 880. I still own a home out past Livermore, so familiar with the traffic issues on 580 too, although I only visit once a year or so. I also have a buddy who lives down in Orange County, who tells me horror stories about "The 405". pF> If you refer to the freeways by name, then you're unbelievably pF> old. LOL, yes! pF> In the San Francisco bay area, all of the freeways had names pF> first. 13 was the Warren Freeway, 101 the Bayshore, 80 the pF> Eastshore, 280 the James Lick, 17/880 was the Nimitz, and so pF> on... I'm no spring chicken, but with the exception maybe of Bayshor and Nimitz, the rest of those don't ring a bell. Also as a point of interest, I don't hear Interstate highways called "freeway" anywhere else but California, usually. .... Then, suddenly and embarrassingly, my swash came unbuckled. === MultiMail/Linux v0.52 --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux * Origin: Palantir * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL * (21:2/138) .