In a message dated 10/24/2002 2:09:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> This lament about New York may be standard fare with the NYC
> preservationeer elite, but it turned up in A Thread Across the Ocean, a
> history of the trans-atlantic cable.

Just goes to show you that the more things change, the less they stay the
same.  Goddam New Yorkers bitch about the same stuff their great great great
great grandparents did.  Not like you southerners.

Ralph the Californian in Exile