And just to throw another ingredient into the stew, DC place of my birth is of course in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. I know this because for 20 years I drove from FF to DC every December and saw the sign, somewhere in WVA declaring this fact which always gave me a big thrill. As for this coastline business, I say it's all relative. Growing up in the Maryland suburbs of DC I definitely thought I had not only a coastline but also a beach and an ocean. Though all 3 hours away by car. Now having lived 24 years in the heartland, I wonder if the Mississippi River is considered to have a coastline. I'm only an hour from that.
Given the title of that TV show Last Resort, if they blow up Ocean City, MD, scene of my First Love, then submarine commander or not, that guy's in deep doodoo with me. ________________________________ From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Portlandia season 3 tonight to merudanda On 01/11/2013 10:34 AM, authfriend wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: >> This is a show about a nuclear sub commander who refuses to >> launch a missile at Pakistan and instead sends it 200 miles >> off the coast of Washington DC. > Er, DC doesn't have a coastline; it's about 100 miles inland. > I assume you mean something more like "sends it into the > ocean 200 miles east of DC," right? (That would be around 100 > miles off the coast of Delaware to the east, 75 miles > southeast of the coast of New Jersey.) Picky, picky, picky... > > "Exactism" should be declared a mental discorder in the age of the Internet. IOW, I prefer to chat as if we were sitting around a table at a bar and none of us had Internet connected devices so we could look up something to "be sure" that we are "correct" when we state something. I'm sure most people got the gist. Yup, picky, picky, picky. :-D And of course in the world of television series "artistic license" is taken as I would also wonder whether the captain made sure via satellite that no vessels were in that area but I don't recall such a thing (and no I'm not going to look again at that episode to be sure). I was in DC once but I didn't pay much attention to where any coastline was. I'm on the "coast" of California but actually about 30 miles inland from the ocean. We still refer to it being "on the coast" or the "San Francisco Bay Area."
