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  • From: "Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] First in flight?
  • Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:04:56 -0400

That is how it was originally, but as I have driven around the state and
made observations, I can't really concur with "Better" but the new roads are
certainly bigger. So I changed it.

Shea
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Minton" <dminton AT mindspring.com>
To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] First in flight?


> I always thought is was "Better Roads to Bigger Prisons."
>
> David
>
> On 4/28/03 12:07 AM, "Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com> wrote:
>
> > But if you must slander North Carolina, you could use: Bigger roads to
> > Bigger Prisons.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Winslow Czeiszperger" <michael AT czeiszperger.org>
> > To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/";
> > <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 9:45 PM
> > Subject: Re: [internetworkers] First in flight?
> >
> >
> >>
> >> On Sunday, April 27, 2003, at 02:29 PM, Sil Greene wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Jim Allman wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Michael sez:
> >>>>> I can't believe the citizens of NC have the gall to believe
> >>>>> NC has anything but a tiny claim of involvement with the Wright
> >>>>> Brothers, who never were citizens of the state.
> >>>
> >>> Personally (and I, for one, am 100% native N.Carolinian), I've never
> >>> mistaken the catchphrase "First in Flight" with the concept "we did it
> >>> all". It refers to the first controlled flight, plain and simple.
> >>> Anyone
> >>> who's been through their NC history class in 4th & 8th grades should
> >>> recognize that.
> >>>
> >>
> >> You may get it, but I've met NC natives that believed that the Wrights
> >> lived in NC for years. The difference is crucial, because if the
> >> Wrights were born somewhere else, but moved to NC at some point, NC
> >> would have a legitimate claim as having contributed to the development
> >> of the first practical airplane. All this wouldn't matter except that
> >> NC uses the Wrights as the most important symbol of NC.
> >>
> >> I think NC should pick a phrase for their license plates that reflects
> >> on the proud character and history of the state rather than trying to
> >> bask in the glory of a couple of Ohio inventors. I humbly suggest the
> >> following for a future NC license plate motto:
> >>
> >> 1. First in Smoke*
> >> 2. Lucky Strike
> >> 3. Marlboro Country
> >>
> >> * NC has the largest number of acres committed to tabacco production of
> >> any state, and the 2nd lowest cigarette tax (5cents) of any state.
> >> (Kentucky is the lowest at 3 cents.)
> >>
> >>
________________________________________________________________________
> >> _________
> >> Run, run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me, I'm the stinky
> >> cheese man!
> >> -- michael at czeiszperger dot org, Chapel Hill, NC
> >>
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