Carl Fogel wrote:
> "Per Elmsäter" <
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>> Carl Fogel wrote:
>>> "Per Elmsäter" <
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>>>> Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:
>>>>> perelmsater writes(?)-<< WAYGTTUWTM >><BR><BR>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Why Are You Gooning The Time Up With Trivial Messages(?)
>>>>>
>>>>> A if this isn't trivial enuff....
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nice try
No it was more like When Are You Going To Tell US What This Means
>>>>
>>>> Of course reffering to the already snipped parts of our conversation.
>>>
>>> Dear Per,
>>>
>>> Here's the scholarly edition, with footnotes appended!
>>>
>>> Sixty-seven degrees now, time for my daily ride.
>>>
>>> Carl Fogel
>>>
>>> carl-<< Sixty-six degrees[1] Sunday[2]. Rode in my shorts[3] at half-past noon. My, what a
>>> difference a hundred miles[4] makes!
>>>
>>> Carl Fogel Pueblo, CO[5] >><BR><BR>
>>>
>>> I went to HS[6] in Colorado Springs[7], my brother in Pueblo when USC was SCSC[8]...the bad old
>>> days when Pueblo had the steel mills[9] but I have been there lately and it IS a nice place....
>>>
>>> Peter Chisholm
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. A pleasant temperature described by a scale better suited to measuring human comfort than
>>> certain other scales. Pleasant temperatures are more common in Pueblo in December than in
>>> Boulder, a fact that I feared Peter might not be sufficiently aware of.
>>>
>>> 2. A day on which people like Peter sometimes find out what my whole week feels like. I was far
>>> too noble to rub his nose in this example of cosmic injustice--that's what footnotes are for.
>>>
>>> 3. An article of clothing replaced by long cycling tights below 60 degrees by pampered cyclists.
>>> Not worn at 7am in the snow in Boulder, either.
>>>
>>> 4. A rough approximation of the distance between Peter in Boulder and me in Pueblo, using
>>> another scale scorned on the eastern side of the Atlantic.
>>>
>>> 5. A postal abbreviation signifying the only truly rectangular state in the Union--except that
>>> if you get a good map, you can see where envious Wyoming and wicked New Mexico have carved
>>> tiny strips off the top and bottom. We taught New Mexico its place at the battle of Glorieta
>>> Pass and stand ready to repeat the lesson if Wyoming gets too big for its britches.
>>>
>>> 6. An abbreviation for "high school," a place where children in the U.S. are kept of out the
>>> labor pool and in the dark.
>>>
>>> 7. A city lying roughly half-way between Pueblo and Boulder, whose polluted sky is now visible
>>> fifty miles away, a source of great comfort to Puebloans, who endured comments about their
>>> steel mill for decades.
>>>
>>> 8. A particularly sad example of the Colorado state system of higher education, Southern
>>> Colorado State College in Pueblo had a president, vice-president, and dean for over 7,000
>>> students. Like any bureaucracy, it obeyed Parkinson's Law, aspired to greater grandeur,
>>> renamed itself the University of Southern Colorado, left its campus for a new site, and soon
>>> had 2,000 fewer students, but five times as many officials at he rank of dean or higher.
>>> Formerly known to its inmates as Suck-Suck (SCSC), it became You-Suck (USC) when I was
>>> haranguing helpless students about our friend the apostrophe. It now rejoices in the
>>> unsullied name of the Colorado State University at Pueblo, without any practical change
>>> beyond a further increase in administrators. Meanwhile, Pueblo Community College keeps doing
>>> a good job of teaching welding and other practical skills at the original site a few blocks
>>> from my home.
>>>
>>> 9. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation in its heyday shot strikers at the nearby Ludlow coal
>>> mines, but fell upon hard times after the happy decades following the Second World War and
>>> eventually converted largely to electric arc furnaces before being sold to Oregon Steel, a
>>> company that declined to entertain various pension schemes and union demands. The striking
>>> workers are still holding annual rallies, but after five years or so they seem to have lost
>>> some enthusiasm. Even in what Peter calls the bad old days, the pollution from the steel
>>> mills blew mostly east, away from town and into the prairies toward Kansas, and was usually
>>> measured at less than the pollution in Colorado Springs, where the wind often traps the smog
>>> up against Pikes Peak. In the bad old days, the steel mill workers also made a lot more
>>> money.
>>>
>>> The chief industry of the People's Republic of Boulder is the main campus of the University of
>>> Colorado. A close second, I hope, is the sale of Campagnolo bicycles.
>>
>>
>> Thankyou Carl. Everything is clear as daylight now. You only left out one very important item and
>> that is what the mascot of the football team of Suck-Suck (SCSC), respectively You-Suck (USC)
>> was. And don't try to tell me it's a gator 'cause I happen to know that is UofF and his name was
>> Albert last time I saw him.
>
> Dear Per,
>
> The SCSC and USC mascot was originally a politically incorrect American Indian of undetermined
> tribal affiliation. I always favored the lesser-known tribes accused of cannibalism.
>
> The Indian was replaced in USC's latter days by the politically correct but absurd "Thunder
> Wolves," which gave rise to crude jokes about a pack of flatulent canis lupus, constantly peering
> behind themselves to see what the odd noises are.
>
> The University of Colorado at Boulder has always prided itself on its buffalo mascot, usually
> restrained on the field by a team of cheerleaders and quite tasty when properly barbecued.
>
> Naturally, American Indians, wolves, and buffalo are quite scarce in Colorado. But the "CU
> Coyotes" or the "USC Turkey Vultures" never caught on.
>
> Colorado College and the University of Denver, the two chief private institutions, chose tigers
> and pioneers as their mascots, the one from a box of frosted flakes and the other from forgotten
> grandparents.
>
> Carl Fogel
I think the You-Suck Turkey Vultures would have been rather perfect
Thank you again Carl for
enlightening us.
--
Perre
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