From: lalbert1@aol.com   
      
   On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:37:48 GMT, usenet@only.tnx (Questor) wrote:   
      
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   >I think that in cities that are largely laid out in a grid pattern, public   
   >transit buses should travel in a square wave pattern up and down on the   
   avenues   
   >and back and forth on the cross streets.  it Seems to me there would be a bus   
   >coming along every few minutes, and one could get anywhere in the grid with   
   just   
   >one transfer from an avenue bus to a cross street bus (or vice versa).   
      
   Parts of New York City have a grid set-up like that.  I used to travel   
   from 21st St. on the east side to about the level of 8th St. and   
   transfer to get to the far west side of Greenwich Village.   
      
      
   >I have never found Martin Short to be very funny.   
      
   I haven't seen him in anything recently, but I don't remember him   
   being very funny either.   
      
      
   >Is it just me, or do all the sportcasters on the local TV news programs seem   
   to   
   >be shouting their reports?   
      
   It's not just you.   
      
      
   >I have fairly simple desires.  For example, I'd like to live for one full   
   year,   
   >-- all four seasons -- at Fallingwater.   
      
      
   Better bring an umbrella; the roof of his structures had a reputation   
   for leaking.   
      
      
   >At such point that electric vehicles overwhelmingly dominate the market and   
   >internal combustion vehicles fade away, the trope of committing suicide by   
   >locking oneself in the garage and running the engine will disappear as well.   
      
   Electrocution by car charger?   
      
      
   >I have become old, the continuing saga:  I sometimes bring a book to medical   
   >appointments in the event there is going to be some waiting involved.  A nurse   
   >is intrigued because I'm always reading some work of non-fiction.  I happen to   
   >be reading "Just A Shot Away:  Peace, Love, and Tragedy With the Rolling   
   Stones   
   >at Altamont" by Saul Austerlitz (2018; Thomas Dunne Books), and when she   
   >inquires about what I'm reading I tell her it's about the Rolling Stones and   
   the   
   >disasterous Altamont concert.  The name "Rolling Stones" barely registers with   
   >her, and shes never even heard of the Altamont debacle.   
      
   I know what you mean.  I was discussing big bands with another jazz   
   inthusiast who is much younger than me, and he had never heard of   
   Freddy Martin.   
      
   Les   
      
      
      
      
   >In the television program "The Green Hornet," his car, the Black Beauty, is   
   >stored upside down under the garage floor.  I wonder what problems a real car   
   >might develop if it was stored upside down.   
      
      
   If you are going to run the engine while the car is upside down, the   
   first thing that comes to mind is that the gas will all be at the top   
   of the tank, and the fuel pump won't be able to pump it to the engine.   
   The car mavens advise that the oil system depends on oil flowing DOWN   
   through the engine, and if it could be run the engine would soon be   
   destroyed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)