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I’m in the middle, as are all my relatives. While it’s true that the plural of anecdote is not data, neither is colourful hyperbole.
View: https://youtu.be/DR8D50G2B9M
Some jokes are anecdotes, but not all anecdotes are jokes
It improved the delivery of mail to its intended destination, arguably the core mission of the US Postal Service, “Going Postal” being a sideshow. While Americans overwhelmingly live in houses and apartments which have proper street addresses, as opposed to the indulgent British practice of permitting house names (Postman Pat's training must've made The Knowledge for taxi drivers look like a pub quiz for toddlers), the sorting offices thrive on more data to crunch. Even the White House, which is hard to miss, has a number:
BEFORE:
With a population of 328 million spread out over 3.8 million square miles, every little helps.
Because it sounds better, ‘villagers’ having negative connotations.
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According to North Beach Person on the City-Data.com forum, who I’m accepting as an authority on the subject, “Because many of the roads were originally game trails, migration routes for migratory animals or natives and tracks from farm to town. Those typically followed the easiest route from Point A to Point B.” But wait, davidv a few posts down appears even more authoritative: “The grid system in the United States is largely the product of Public Land Survey System that was used to divide the US Frontier into the township and range grid system starting with the Northwest Territories in the late 1700s/early 1800s….”
Don't have a cow, Manhattan
It’s the new world. And the red rosette goes to… the best Hampshire.
The Morlocks live down there, and they’re angry.
It's something to chat about, for sure. Just not here. (Right wing source alert, for those mindful of confirmation bias.)
Never - he wasn't born in America.
Indeed – even being allied with the Kennedy clan for as long as it took for Maria Shriver to see sense wasn’t enough to put Arnold on the fast track to the Oval.
I would say purple mountain majesties, but that would be so much purple prose. In the eye of this beholder, quiet misty Ohio cornfields are beautiful. So is big sky country out west, and the geometry of NYC skyscrapers out east, even as the eddy whirlwinds at street level chill your bones in the winter. I took aesthetic pleasure in Jersey City across the Hudson River,
widely regarded as a blemish rather than a beauty spot on one of the more joked about states (that would be New Jersey, and no, it's not appreciably better than old Jersey). Hawaii looks gorgeous. So does Alaska. Here’s a song written before both became stars:
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