First post / I was just reminded...
So cheers. Welcome new people. I've already cussed at you a bunch of times with your passing on the right and no-signal lane changes; the summer's-over spastic, seizure-like free for all you so love to have on our labyrithian roadways. Like a bunch of shitheads! But welcome anyway. You keep that McDonalds on Northwestern going strong, and that may well be one singular feat which is altogether more than I can profess to offer the local economy!
I'm writing to-day to introduce a simple point which many people mess up, and, as a townie, really sets me off.
If you don't know which of the "twin cities" (as some people refer to the Greater Lafayette-West Lafayette Metropolitan Area and Surrouding Communities) you are in, I have a very simple metric which will help you decide:
1. Which city (Lafayette or West Lafayette) do you most recently remember yourself being in?
2. Did you cross a river on your travels to where you are now?
If your answer to #1 is no, then you either missed the fact that you crossed over one of the major rivers involved in settling this country east of the Mississippi, or you are still in the same city to which you answered #1.
If your answer to #2 is yes, then you are in the *other* city to which you answered #1.
The Tippecanoe Mall and Purdue University are not in the same city. However, both Staley's* plants, along with Subaru, the Tipppecanoe County Fairgrounds and Lafayette Jefferson High School** are on the "east side" -- local lingo for Lafayette. Also note that Lafayette has "north" and "south" sides, too, which are all parts of Lafayette proper. Only the "west side" is a separate city, which refers to the entirety of West Lafayette.
If I see you on the street, I just might quiz you. And if either of us knew what the other one looked like, that just might matter. So be prepared accordingly.
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* - Archaic; now Tate & Lyle
** -- Jeff is the only Lafayette School Coropration high school. Confusingly, Tippecanoe School Corporation, which runs county schools, have a high school on both the "east side" (McCutcheon) and the "west side" (Harrison). The difference still stands, though; McCutcheon is across the river from campus and West Lafayette -- however, you can drive from campus to Harrison without crossing a river, thus, it's on the "west side".
I'm writing to-day to introduce a simple point which many people mess up, and, as a townie, really sets me off.
If you don't know which of the "twin cities" (as some people refer to the Greater Lafayette-West Lafayette Metropolitan Area and Surrouding Communities) you are in, I have a very simple metric which will help you decide:
1. Which city (Lafayette or West Lafayette) do you most recently remember yourself being in?
2. Did you cross a river on your travels to where you are now?
If your answer to #1 is no, then you either missed the fact that you crossed over one of the major rivers involved in settling this country east of the Mississippi, or you are still in the same city to which you answered #1.
If your answer to #2 is yes, then you are in the *other* city to which you answered #1.
The Tippecanoe Mall and Purdue University are not in the same city. However, both Staley's* plants, along with Subaru, the Tipppecanoe County Fairgrounds and Lafayette Jefferson High School** are on the "east side" -- local lingo for Lafayette. Also note that Lafayette has "north" and "south" sides, too, which are all parts of Lafayette proper. Only the "west side" is a separate city, which refers to the entirety of West Lafayette.
If I see you on the street, I just might quiz you. And if either of us knew what the other one looked like, that just might matter. So be prepared accordingly.
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* - Archaic; now Tate & Lyle
** -- Jeff is the only Lafayette School Coropration high school. Confusingly, Tippecanoe School Corporation, which runs county schools, have a high school on both the "east side" (McCutcheon) and the "west side" (Harrison). The difference still stands, though; McCutcheon is across the river from campus and West Lafayette -- however, you can drive from campus to Harrison without crossing a river, thus, it's on the "west side".
posted by Anonymous at 8/22/2006 01:22:00 AM
3 Comments:
LMAO. Genius.
I prefer "that one city" and "the other one."
GREAT first post! Welcome!!
I claim to live on the East Side of LA LA.
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