>>>>> "BR" == Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> writes:
BR> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Ben Tilly <bti...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Please note that OSCON spent several years in Portland. Â Saying that >> Portland is part of Boston is like saying that Boston is part of New >> York. BR> But still it was the left coast Portland, not the right Portland (or BR> original Portland UK) and portland OR was named for portland ME. the story i heard were two explorer types were selecting a name and they were from portland and boston. somehow they had a contest and the portland guy won. imagine if there were two boston cities of decent size? as it is, i have a conjecture that the pair of portlands may be the largest pair of cities based on some metric like the size of the smaller one in the pair. there are many springfields but most are very small. any other largish duplicate cities you can think of in the states? uri -- Uri Guttman ------ u...@stemsystems.com -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ --------- Free Perl Training --- http://perlhunter.com/college.html --------- --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
