And the story about the taxi driver who, when told by his two little old
lady passengers that they wanted to go to the Market and Fanuel Hall to get
scrod, said, "Ladies, that's the most disgusting use of the past participle
I've ever heard."
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From: Tim Rood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Bill Thoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: MI miles and kilometres
>I haven't seen it, but my father, an MIT alum, said on the Beantown side of
the
>bridge there's a sign (or was in the 40s) that says "_______ to Hell." The
>_____ is some sort of linear units. Could it be "smoots?" I kind of
remember
>something prosaic like "One mile to Hell," but any town where scrod is
>eatten probably measure the world in smoots.
>
>> Ah yes... the "Smoot!" One night a frat required its new pledge
>> class to measure the MIT bridge using Mr Smoot's body. I forget
>> how many Smoots the bridge is, but every year the new pledge
>> class has to repaint the smootmarks. Last time I walked over the
>> Charles to Cambridge they were still freshly visible.
>>
>> - Bill Thoen
>>
>> "Lavoie, Claude" wrote:
>> >
>> > What about this unit of measure the MIT students used to measure a
bridge
>> > over the Charles River in Boston, Mass. (unit corresponding to the
height
>of
>> > a fellow student)?
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