Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] wimpy slightly drunk dutchman
From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:35:45 -0800
References: <20030310030438.67314.qmail@web40809.mail.yahoo.com>

Jav

Just because someone is more intelligent than you
is no reason to assume that he collects trivia.

He has a very retentive mind, as I have discovered
over the years.

Jerry

Javier Perez wrote:

> Marc
> Do you have some sort of grand universal trivia
> library at home? Where do you get this stuff?
> Javier
>
> --- Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net> wrote:
> > At 05:49 PM 3/9/03 -0800, Martin Howard wrote:
> > >
> > >I think these are both German inventions, with the
> > advent of the first
> > >Autobahn.  The separation of traffic flows via a
> > median, an overtake
> > >lane (a concept lost on most US drivers), and on
> > and off ramps are all
> > >Autobahn firsts, AFAIK, although in the US, the
> > concept was extended
> > >upon (particularly through spaghetti interchanges)
> > when the Interstate
> > >system was built.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > The Pennsylvania Turnpike was the first divided-lane
> > high-speed road ever
> > built, dating from a decade before the Autobahns
> > were conceived.  This road
> > came equipped was all of the attributes you discuss.
> >  By the time the first
> > Autobahn was constructed, there were probably 25,000
> > miles of such roads in
> > the US.
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > msmall@infi.net  FAX:  +276/343-7315
> > Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!
> >
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