From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   On 01/07/2013 10:12 PM, Moe Trin wrote:   
   > On Sun, 06 Jan 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in   
   article   
   > , Adam wrote:   
   >   
   >> Moe Trin wrote:   
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   >   
   >>> Another "keep the kids occupied in the car" game was identifying   
   >>> vehicle license plates from the various states.   
   >   
   >> The most interesting one for me was just a few years ago, when I came   
   >> out of a local supermarket and discovered I was parked next to a car   
   >> with Alaska plates -- any by coincidence its owners got to their car   
   >> at the same time.  I asked the obvious question, "Are you really from   
   >> Alaska?" and sure enough they were, taking about a year to drive   
   >> around the continental US, mostly around the periphery.   
   >   
   > Alaska isn't that unusual here, as well as the various Canadian   
   > provincial plates and Mexican plates mainly from Baja North, Sonora   
   > and Chihuahua (the three neighboring states) and Sinaloa.  I think the   
   > most interesting one I'd ever seen was a vehicle with plates from   
   > Aruba, in the Netherlands Antilles just off the coast of Venezuela,   
   > which I saw in SFO in about 1977.  The owner's father was a "somebody"   
   > with Shell Oil and had been working at the refinery there, and had   
   > then been transferred to Martinez.  Apparently, the cars were put on   
   > the deck of a Shell tanker, and shipped to the states.  There is (or   
   > at least was) an auto-ferry from Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire to Coro in   
   > Venezuela, and you probably could drive from there to the states, but   
   > I think it highly unlikely.  There's someone driving around here with   
   > a (possibly current) Polish plate (Lodz) on the front of a Mercedes,   
   > but also has a current Arizona plate on the rear - that doesn't count   
   > in the "unusual" category.   
   >   
   Had an odd one go by here in late October. It was a very foggy day, all   
   day, but I had outdoor work to do anyway. I was near the road when I   
   looked up and saw a vehicle shaped like a hunting boot appear out of the   
   fog, go by, and disappear into the mist again. Made me blink several   
   times and question my wakefulness. I learned later it was touring the   
   country, promoting the 100th anniversary of L.L. Bean, and had been to   
   Colgate University the day before.   
      
   TJ   
      
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