On 2020-07-23 4:28 pm, Owen Lamb wrote:
(It starts to get confusing to keep track of diagonal directions after
a
while, so for the sake of clarity, I'll be talking about diamonds with
thick NE and SW sides as Calimaine, and those with thick NW and SE
sides as
Florington, after the states roughly in the corresponding corners of
the
continental U.S. A bit fanciful, but the portmanteaus are easier to
distinguish than jumbles of capital letters.)
Hmm... "Calimaine" sounds like a lotion.
But why not "Washida"? While we have our problems up here in the
Pacific Northwest, I am mildly displeased at having to be associated
with Florida in the first place and more so with them getting top
billing. :P
(For the record, I am a Washingtonian who lived in Florida for several
years, so I have experience with both states, notwithstanding a
childhood spent in Kansas, Misery [sic], and briefly New Jersey. There
are few US stereotypes I have not yet had to contend with.)
-- Aaron Hill
