purplerein said:

IrresistibleB1tch said:

You made me realize why I missed you so much. not only your looks, your spelling and grammar, but you're a great audience.

applekisses said:

Does it always smell like this in Detroit?

PREDOMINANT said:

Here in Seattle, we've got a street grid that's something of a mess. You'd think that by the 1850s (when the city was founded), they would have been able to come up with a decent system, but no....

First of all, the street grid downtown is oriented so that the streets run parallel and perpendicular to the waterfront. Elsewhere they generally run north-south and east-west, so there are various odd intersections where the two grids meet.

Then there are the directional tags. Downtown, streets have no directional tags. Outside of downtown, they generally do, and there is actually a system, but it's not very intuitive. For example....

My street, Broadway, has no directional tag until you get north of Denny Way. At Denny, the street becomes Broadway East, and the numbering starts over with a 100 block that's directly north of an 1800 block. If you're trying to find my home on Broadway East, but mistakenly go to the same numbered address on plain old Broadway, you'll find yourself at some medical facility. (Oh, the owners of my building had the bright idea to name the place with its street address, minus the directional tag. )

But wait, it gets even more fun....

15th Avenue/15th Avenue East is a major street in my neighborhood, and like Broadway, the numbers go back to 100 and you add the directional tag north of Denny. However, 15th Avenue West is an entirely different street, on the other side of the city. And 15th Avenue West becomes 15th Avenue Northwest once you go north of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, but the numbers don't reset there.

At least the directional tag gives you some indication as to which way the street runs. North-south streets have their tag after the street name, but the directionals for east-west streets go before the name.

Oh, and remember how I said that streets outside of downtown generally have directional tags? There's a major exception. East of Lake Union, south of the ship canal, and north of Yesler Way, east-west streets have the directional "East," but north-south streets have no tag. Neither Broadway nor 15th runs through downtown, even though the lack of a tag on some parts suggests that they do.

Did you get all that?

So, where do you keep the Huskies and snowmobiles?

Shouldn't those mountains be moved so people could see the view?



and not so much a question, but every summer never fail you'll see hordes of tourists -mostly Americans -making emergency shopping trips for warm weather clothes when they realize Canada is not the Arctic Tundra they'd imagined. In the Okanagan in the summertime, 40 degrees C (that's 100 F to you Yanks) is normal.

matt said:

I suggest getting around by kayak.

How come all the battles were fought in National Parks?

Do you wear Tartan?

Do you have a kilt?

Can you play the pipes?

Do haggis run round the fields here?

Oh my, you have running water/power/tv etc etc

And finally, my favourite - Can you direct me to Brigadoon?





My Mum was manger of a hotel in the north west of Scotland (Ullapool, for those in the know) in the 70s when she was younger. there were many American tourists, and, no offence to the rest of you, but they always wanted to go to Brigadoon! Now, in case you didnt realise, this place is as real as Oz. And the film was about as believable and authentic as Oz too...
So anyway, after she tried telling them it didnt exist and they just did NOT get it, she just started giving them, random directions to nowwhere!

I love my Mum

Stax said:

Brilliant!