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penfield"Whether it's cold or whether it's hot, we shall have weather, weather or not."
- Unknown
That's an old saw my childhood friend GDM used to say, crediting his grandfather with passing it along to him. The last clause doesn't really make any sense grammatically or syntactically, but I always thought it was a real knee-slapper anyway.
It seemed particularly relevant in a hometown like Rochester, NY, which I can confirm is a city with a severely manic-depressive climate. It inspired another joke the same GDM used to tell. It goes:
"Why is the weather in Rochester so weird? Give up? Because it's where the cold air coming from Canada meets thewarm hot air coming from Washington, DC"
J. and I left DC for Sarasota, FL, this morning. When traveling to different temperature zones, I am always confused about whether to wear clothes suited to my departure city or my destination city. I mention this because when we left today, the thermometer read 38 degrees. When we arrived in Florida, the temperature was approximately 116 degrees.
Ultimately, I chose to wear warm-weather clothes, despite the near-freezing walk to the Metro, mainly because it helps to wear light, breezy clothing when you're packed into an airplane the size of a Tylenol with 90 other people.
Since we got here, we've been having a wonderful time. Epcot is supposedly tomorrow's adventure, and I'm already looking forward to the future.
Until next time, I'm on vacation, suckas.
- Unknown
That's an old saw my childhood friend GDM used to say, crediting his grandfather with passing it along to him. The last clause doesn't really make any sense grammatically or syntactically, but I always thought it was a real knee-slapper anyway.
It seemed particularly relevant in a hometown like Rochester, NY, which I can confirm is a city with a severely manic-depressive climate. It inspired another joke the same GDM used to tell. It goes:
"Why is the weather in Rochester so weird? Give up? Because it's where the cold air coming from Canada meets the
J. and I left DC for Sarasota, FL, this morning. When traveling to different temperature zones, I am always confused about whether to wear clothes suited to my departure city or my destination city. I mention this because when we left today, the thermometer read 38 degrees. When we arrived in Florida, the temperature was approximately 116 degrees.
Ultimately, I chose to wear warm-weather clothes, despite the near-freezing walk to the Metro, mainly because it helps to wear light, breezy clothing when you're packed into an airplane the size of a Tylenol with 90 other people.
Since we got here, we've been having a wonderful time. Epcot is supposedly tomorrow's adventure, and I'm already looking forward to the future.
Until next time, I'm on vacation, suckas.
One for Two
Date: 2008-03-22 06:44 pm (UTC)On the other hand, you got my grandpa's line spot-on.
-GDM
Re: One for Two
Date: 2008-03-23 04:02 am (UTC)