[PRCo] Re: Geography

[John F Bromley]

Based on the chickenscratchings when I was handed the bill I sureashell hope
not!  And, it was added up wrong to the tune of $100 in our favor.  Good
thing we were honest.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 10:43 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Geography


> Was medical school a correspondance course?
>
> John F Bromley wrote:
>
> > This sad lack goes to use of language as well.  My wife and I were in
Indian
> > River Michigan a few years ago with her brother and his wife and her mom
and
> > one or two of the other relatives.  We were all eating at a local
restaurant
> > and the waitress who was serving us let us know she was new, just
working
> > there until she could locate a residency to obtain the last requirements
> > before being licensed for medical practice.  She was drawn out by my
brother
> > in law, who does this to people, asked where she had gone to school and
why
> > she was having trouble, as most top students were sought out.  She
allowed,
> > all in one sentence that must have had two hundred words, that she had
gone
> > to (listed several schools, including the University of Pittsburgh,
Derrick)
> > and she didn't know why she was having trouble and then told us, quite
> > unasked, that "we don't got no more cherry pie".  Pete said "ah!!" and
left
> > her alone after that.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
> > To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 8:26 AM
> > Subject: [PRCo] Re: Geography
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Not just geography.  Another favorite story that Fred related several
> > > (many?) years ago concerns Jim Henwood, a college history professor.
(at a
> > > Pennsylvania school - is that a close enough link for this list?)
Anyway,
> > > he would give incoming students a short test to get some sort of idea
what
> > > the students knowledge base was of history from high school.  To the
> > > question: who was Thomas Jefferson, one student allegedly replied -
was he
> > > one of the Jefferson Airplane?
> > >
> > > Well, I thought it was funny - and pathetic.
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >From: Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com>
> > > >Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> > > >To: pittsburgh railways <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>,   Peter
> > > >Johansson <peter.johansson at ntlworld.com>
> > > >Subject: [PRCo] Geography
> > > >Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 20:47:48 -0500
> > > >
> > > >American Automobile Association (AAA Lancaster County) has become
> > > >geographically challenged.  Went in today and asked for a group of
> > > >tourguide books ... "everything from Alabama across the south to
> > > >California, up the west coast, and every book along the northern
states
> > > >back to Minneapolis, then down to Chicago.  After staring blankly at
me
> > > >for a half minute, the girl then said, "I'm new here.  What does that
> > > >mean?"
> > > >
> > > >Damn glad I didn't ask for a list of B&Bs between Berwick-upon-Tweed
and
> > > >Dundee!
> > > >
> > > >For those in the dark, and JCS and EHL won't be, this all relates to
a
> > > >National Geographic test (the second one back) in which people in the
U.
> > > >S. scored second worst in the world ... ten questions about the
> > > >absolutely most simple geography in the world, such as the 'Persian
Gulf
> > > >lies between Saudi Arabia and ___________' or 'In which continent
does
> > > >the United States lie?'   After that test I decided to see if it was
> > > >true.  Ed, John and I were eating dinner in a restaurant in Hampton
> > > >Township, fewer than 10 miles west of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  Just
> > > >for the hell of it I played with the waitress ... told her we were
> > > >traveling from Ohio to a meeting in Philadelphia and were unfamiliar
> > > >with this area ... and then asked her "Isn't the capital of
Pennsylvania
> > > >somewhere in this area?"  The girl responded, "I'm not in school any
> > > >more.  I don't have to know."
> > > >I later found out that my niece, who was 17 at the time, was unable
to
> > > >tell me which country borders the U. S. to the south.
> > > >
> > > >Sad, no?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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