[UA] Lake, Blasts

[James O'Rance]

Gaston Phillips <gaston at math.sunysb.edu> said:

 >>>Ronkonkoma is maybe an hour or two outside of manhattan in moderate 
traffic.
Two and a half to three hours if you're driving during rush hour.  And,
right now, the Long Island Expressway seems prepetually under construction.
They keep closing parts of it for no apparent reason.  It took me an hour
and a half to drive to Queens tonight, in bumper to bumper traffic for,
like, three quarters of the trip.  And I left at ten PM.  So, if you're
running any kind of scene involving New York City -> Long Island transport, 
you are hereby obbligated to include a "World's Slowest Car Chase, Ever." 
scene.<<<

I think "Gridlock," by Ben Elton, has such a scene. At one point, characters 
just get out of their cars and run. Which is unfortunate, in that the 
heroine is wheelchair-bound.

It's an amusing novel. Is it as funny for those not living in England (which 
we colonials do by proxy via lots of English TV shows)? No idea.

I wonder if there are officials in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 
who are attempting to maintain Australia's symbolic link to Mother England 
via constant UK programs. Not only do we get a lot of the good stuff, old 
Brit sitcoms seemingly can never die. The ABC is about to start showing 
Fawlty Towers, *again*. Haven't we all memorised the episodes by now?


Cheers,

James O’Rance
“Divine being creates petting zoo. It gets out of hand.”
- The Bible (summarised by John W. Mangrum)

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