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   From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Doug Elrod  writes:   
      
   >On Dec 1, 2:46=A0pm, nebu...@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
   >> Doug Elrod  writes:   
   >> > =A0I believe they've had Giant Spider Invasions up there, or maybe it's   
   >> >Sexist NASA Bureaucrat Invasions!   
   >>   
   >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Oh, it's all a hoax anyway. =A0Everyone knows Burlington =   
   >is   
   >> in Vermont. =A0And it's Bennington anyway.   
      
   >Not Castleton?  If she's involved in Community Theater, I think I can   
   >just about picture her in my mind :-).=A0   
      
   	We had no idea where Castleton was except that it was somewhere   
   in the Greater Rutland Municipal District.  We did drive past something   
   we were pretty sure was the airport, though we didn't get a good view   
   of it.   
      
      
   >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 In fact, the one time I saw Rutland, Vermont, with my own=   
   > eyes   
   >> was as a result of being confused about Bennington and Burlington while   
   >> in search of an odd cheeses shop.   
      
   >Would I spoil it if I said that THERE WAS NO CHEESE?   
      
   	Very nearly, in fact.  It was supposed to be a shop with odd   
   cheese and all sorts of quirky foods, and while the store turned out   
   to indeed be full of peculiar New Englandy foods put on display in   
   wicker baskets and on small wooden counters all over a very wood-based   
   barn-inspired store, it turned out it wasn't as interesting as the   
   brief description we'd read about it on the web suggested.  I picked up   
   a bag full of odd cheese components mostly to feel that the whole drive   
   had accomplished something other than establish how narrow and   
   uncomfortable Vermont roads can be when you're driving them for hour   
   after hour with no clear signs that you're getting somewhere.   
      
      
   >> I probably wouldn't have gone at all   
   >> except I had a friend from Binghamton who needed some amusement for the   
   >> weekend. =A0And, yes, from Binghamton, both Bennington and Burlington can   
   >> be amusements.   
      
   >Yes, similar-sounding city names can provide HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT!   
   >I think a similar concept made up much of the Peter Greenaway marathon   
   >film, "The Falls"=A0;-)   
      
   	Yeah.  From Troy, Bennington isn't an unreasonable drive out   
   and it's even got the Hemmings Motor News gas station, which has a   
   bunch of antique cars around and an interior with old car-based stuff   
   collections, so if you want to see what Mobiloil cans looked like in   
   the second World War you can.  We spent an afternoon in frustration   
   trying to find the cheese shop when the only food-related thing that   
   was anywhere near that street address in Bennington was a closed Burger   
   King.  We ended up going to Burlington just to work off the frustration   
   at not finding it the first time around.   
      
      
   >-Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu)   
   >  And now...  A woman working in a Burlington Coat Factory in   
   >Wisconsin! (polite applause)   
      
   	She hadn't just visited relatives in Flemington, had she?   
      
   --   
   								Joseph Nebus   
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