On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:36:26AM -0400, frank theriault scripsit: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Graydon <o...@uniserve.com> wrote: > <snip> > >> http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/03/sunday-morning-rain.html > > > > I do hope you were not standing in the street to take that! > > Actually I was. It was Sunday morning and there wasn't much traffic. > As you can see there was nothing within eyeshot coming up Parliament > towards me in the lane I was standing in, so I was pretty safe. Wet > but safe...
> ;-) A sincere and dedicated urban cyclist is telling me Parliament in the rain is pretty safe. That's certainly something I didn't expect to have happen today! :) > > It's the very thing, though, Toronto street in the rain, beer store > > and all. (Beer store signs in black and white look ... off, they're > > supposed to be that shade of unnatural orangish-beige.) > <snip> > > The orange in the Beer Store sign is certainly distinctive. I still > have trouble calling it the Beer Store, though. Once in a while I > still call it the Brewers' Retail (Dave Brooks will remember that > one). Or sometimes the In and Out store. I remember Brewer's Retail, but never associated with anyone who actually called it that other than for ironic emphasis while cursing the Molbatts product as having had insufficient acquaintance with the tapir's kidneys. > Showing my age, I guess... Don't you have to be lamenting this newfangled fashion of using lenses for that to be the case hereabouts? -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
