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Subject: Re: Why Boise?

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The All-Powerful Zaxor

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Date Posted: 21:13:10 05/17/01 Thu
In reply to: ApolloXVIII 's message, "Re: Why Boise?" on 20:51:36 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.)
>

[sheepish]I should have done my research[/sheepish] It's just that Canada's so insignificant to us Americans that we assume it's all made up. ;) Seriously, I did have the question mark with the first "fictitious" and I'm going to say that it should have been understood to apply to all subsequent occurrences of the word. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

>>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
>

See above.

>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^>
>

The worst part is that I didn't think they were fictional.

>>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^>

Hey! Exempted is a word! It may not be used correctly, but it is a word! See my reply to JIM above. And "nyah!" to you too!

I'm actually secretly surprised/happy that people actually remember other things I've posted. To borrow a phrase from marketing, it gives me warm fuzzies.

-- Zaxor

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