Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh Jer Like many others who have enjoyed reading Marc's posts for years both on the LUG and on several other lists. I have often been amazed and amused at how he pulls these miscellaneous factoids out of a hat and have said so occasionally. Until now I've never had someone suggest that I was less intelligent than him because of it. Javier - --- Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net> wrote: > 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! > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see > > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more > > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html