[PRCo] Re: was Feeling a little too hot and humid? OT!!!

[Fred Schneider]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

The URL, Boris, is to a Wilkipedia reference to Mark Twain.   It  
notes that Clemens first used the pen name when he was owner of the  
Territorial Enterprise in 1863.

On Jul 29, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:

> This sounds familiar. I know that it was not his original name, but I
> perhaps never heard "Samuel Clemens" or it was of no importance to  
> me. You
> don't look for books from Samuel Clemens at a library...
>
> B
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 6:29 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Feeling a little too hot and humid?
>
>
>> Samuel Clemens wrote under the pen name Mark Twain.   Same guy,
>> Boris.   He was a former Mississippi River captain before the Civil
>> War.   The expression Mark Twain was a term meaning an adequate river
>> depth for sailing ... I'm not exactly sure how many fathoms or feet
>> or meters without researching it.   Later in his life Clemens adopted
>> that name for his writing.
>>
>> On Jul 29, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:
>>
>>> We have around 95 these days!
>>> Didn't the same (or that?) comment come from Mark Twain?
>>>
>>> B
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 6:04 PM
>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Feeling a little too hot and humid?
>>>
>>>
>>>> I feel sorry for Holland knowing how unseasonably hot its been  
>>>> in San
>>>> Francisco.   (I remember the story by, I think originally, Samuel
>>>> Clemens, that the "coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San
>>>> Francisco."   So when I saw those 90 degree readings in the city, I
>>>> knew Jim had to be suffering.   Do they even have air-conditioned
>>>> buses in the city?   I would imagine not because it seldom gets  
>>>> above
>>>> the 70s.
>>>>
>>>> I went to Newark yesterday to photograph the downtown portion of  
>>>> the
>>>> new Broad Street extension of the "Newark City Railway" ...  
>>>> walked a
>>>> mile in 95 degree heat and my wife said I looked terrible when I  
>>>> got
>>>> home.   Felt dizzy this morning.   But I did get the pitchurs.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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