OT: Texas (Was RE: possible ic source) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Nov 2010

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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:41:05 -0800 (PST) 
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> 
Subject: RE: possible ic source 

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 On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, John Foust wrote: 
  Even today, Google Maps says the difference in
Chicago's favor is 
 13 hours 9 minutes versus 13 hours 32 minutes, but I bet you can drive 
 at a higher speed from El Paso than you can from Chicago.   
In the mid 20th century, Texans would brag, "You can ride a train all day 
and still be in Texas" 
Pennsylvania: We used to have a slow train, also. 
Alaska (1958): ?Quit bragging, or we'll cut Alaska in half, and then Texas 
will be the THIRD largest state. 

There is a story I have heard that there was a WWII POW camp in Texas?for captured German
pilots. The captured pilots were trucked from the ship in port to the camp. ?They thought
that they were being driven around in circles to break them, because they could not
believe that someone could drive so long and still be in the same country, let alone
state. 

Bob