Charles Richmond wrote on 12/22/2017 10:26 PM:
On 12/22/2017 8:33 PM, rickman wrote:
Jerry Stuckle wrote on 12/22/2017 8:18 PM:
On 12/22/2017 7:39 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
On 2017-12-22, Charles Richmond wrote:
On 12/22/2017 2:24 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 09:25:11 +0000, Brian Reay wrote:
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As a child, I had relatives who lived within 6 or 7 miles of us and
their dialect was quite different. Relatives of a similar age who lived
closer didn't show the same differences. At times it really was a bit of
an issue.
I had a high school teacher who said that her Italian husband's
home village had a similar thing: the dialect of the people across the
river was quite different.
Back in the bad old days, two houses on different sides of the same
freeway... a phone call from one house to the other... was a
long-distant toll call !!! That is sort of analogous to speaking
dialects !!! :-)
I heard about a hotel in California that straddled area code
boundaries - it was long distance to call from one end of the
building to the other.
I haven't heard that, but it's almost assuredly an urban legend. The phone
company is not going to create two separate accounts and run lines from two
different offices to the same building.
The town of Lloydminster sits right on the Alberta/Saskatchewan
border. There's some interesting billing there.
Is there? Phone companies don't always follow political boundaries (neither
does the U.S. Postal Service).
I met a kid in college who had a hard time at the state university. He
lived in the state, but the post office gave them a delivery address from
a post office in a different state. I think it was finally resolved, but
they had to bring the deed and other documents. I would think a state
drivers license with his mailing address would be enough proof of the
state he lived in. The DMV isn't going to give you a license if you are
out of state.
There is a house built right on what is now the current Vermont/Quebec
border. You can buy it, live there, and stay out of jail... *iff* you have
dual citizenship:
https://tinyurl.com/y78zye3k
I heard about a guy who had property on the VA/WV boarder. The exact line
between the states had never been defined exactly until the 60's I believe.
When the drew the line by his house it put the house in WV! WV demanded he
pay back taxes for all the years he owned it! Worse, VA said they wouldn't
refund any taxes because their law says once the tax has been paid for some
amount of time, you can't dispute it!!!
I seem to recall he got politicians involved and they got a reasonable
settlement worked out. Talk about getting screwed!
Of course, this may all be urban legend. I heard this many years ago.
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Rick C
Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms,
on the centerline of totality since 1998