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Subject: Re: Why Boise?


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ApolloXVIII
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Date Posted: 20:51:36 05/17/01 Thu
In reply to: The All-Powerful Zaxor 's message, "Re: Why Boise?" on 08:30:37 05/17/01 Thu
 Zaxor insulted the honour of the Greatest Metropolis In The West by questioning its parentage:
>Seriously,
>though, as far as setting choices, it's up to the
>author. Just from TFOHG & CFAP, we have two great
>examples. JIM went for a small (fictitious?) town.

I'm surprised that JIM didn't jump all over that one! Sah, you have in-SULT-ed the great City of Maple Ridge. Refer to
http://www.mapleridge.org
As it says on the home page: "A safe and liveable community for our present and future citizens..." (It doesn't say anything about getting squashed like a bug during showdowns between super heroes and super villains, but I think they try to avoid playing up that side of civic life.)

>Steve-o went exactly the opposite. With respect to
>metropolises (metropoli?), the author can feel safe
>that it's sufficiently large that the characters and
>storyline can likely get lost in the city. That is to
>say that you never have to worry about, why wouldn't
>the mayor take note of this? or something like that.

Of course since I can never remember whether Boise is in Iowa or Idaho, I never have any problem with anything geographical that TA describes in TGC. (Hey, don't look at me like that! At least I don't get it confused with Illinois!)

>There's a million other things going on. On the other
>hand, when JIM wanted to bring in the mayor of Maple
>Ridge, he got to make the character up entirely.

I think Mayor Al Hogarth might take exception to his new fictional status 8^> . I also think you're thinking of the Mayor of Pitt Meadows (rather than Maple Ridge) from Deep Magic Blues, who may or may not be fictional... actually, no he's not:
http://www.pittmeadows.bc.ca/government/general/mun-dir.html

Although since JIM never referred to him by name, it's not necessarily Don MacLean (wasn't he the guy who sang the original version of "American Pie"? 8^> ) who was in office at the time of DMB.

Don't worry, I thought that ICBC was fictional at first too... 8^>

>Also note that the only validity my analyses contain
>is that my father and my grandfather were English
>teachers. As far as I can tell, that's only instilled
>a compulsion for proper grammar in me. I exempted out
>of college English in high school, and I'm a computer
>programmer. So take these comments for whatever
>they're worth.

"Exempted"? And you were worried about "funnily"? 8^>
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Re: Why Boise?The All-Powerful Zaxor21:13:10 05/17/01 Thu
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