[OT] Orwell is alive and well in Canada

[Kurt Wall]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:56:06PM -0800, Bill Campbell took 28 lines to write:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005, Net Llama! wrote:
> >On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >> You and yours would be welcome in Pittsburgh. You could buy more house
> >> for less money and still have money left from the sale of your Ottawa
> >> home.
> >
> >Yea, but Pittsburgh has the equivalent of the same thing.  Its called way
> >too many elderly people driving at half the speed limit.
> 
> Speeding on the Pennsylvania Turnpike is difficult as the road is more like
> a tank trap than a highway.  If you're not wearing your seat belts, you're
> likely to be bounced out of your seat.

Truly. The moment you cross the border into West Virginia, the road is
smooth and quiet. That *always* surprises me -- I wonder what happened
to the car. ;-)

-- 
In Corning, Iowa, it's a misdemeanor for a man to ask his wife to ride
in any motor vehicle.