Performance Improvements

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006, Collins Richey wrote:
>On 12/1/06, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
>
>>>Ric Moore wrote:
>
>>>Count your blessings; the armpit is luxury compared to where I reside in
>>>the crotch of NC - Fayetteville.
>>
>>Sounds better than Wooster Mass which one of my college room mates, who
>>transferred to Hopkins from Holy Cross, describe by saying ``Boston's
>>the a$$hole of the world, and Wooster's 40 miles up it.
>>
>I've never been to Worcester, but the one time I spent a week in
>Boston (ca. 30 years ago) it was quite tolerable for a big city. We
>went to a Renaissance music concert played on original instruments at
>some museum. While wandering about the museum and reading about the
>history of Boston, I discovered a little bit of family trivia. One of
>the co-founders of the Charitable Irish Society (help for the indigent
>Irish) was one Clarence MacRichey no less.
>
>OTOH, one of my buddies who was in the Army during the Vietnam era was
>stationed for an extended period in Baltimore, and he swore that he
>knew where God would place the tube to give the world an enema!

Having lived in Baltimore for 6 years while at Johns Hopkins and
a couple of years after I graduated, I can say that it's a lot
better than Washington, D.C. (again about 40 miles up it).  At
least people in Baltimore produce something real rather than the
hot air and male bovine defecations which are the primary output
of the D.C. area.

Bill
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