Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here... Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 09:03:39 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <5f1024bb-1145-580f-2f01-b62a2b7736eb@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:03:38 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9125e47491eaf810ebc06abcd892d4e3"; logging-data="508894"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/oo8OoiH278zba76IxOetq" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZoTzIffWEXtUa3pZ/l3coiGlDm4= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2505 On 11/10/2024 8:40 AM, Paul S Person wrote: > On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 19:20:07 -0800, Dimensional Traveler > wrote: > >> On 11/9/2024 5:03 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote: >>> D wrote: >>>> >>>> On Sat, 9 Nov 2024, Paul S Person wrote: >>>> >>>>> So if not having a lot of people around is a good thing, Wyoming would >>>>> probably work. >>>> >>>> Do you think I would be allowed to wear a cowboy hat and walk around >>>> with a gun in Wyoming? That would be a strong incentive! >>> >>> Wyoming is tiny and Texas is huge and both will allow you to do these >>> things. Actually having cattle is no longer considered necessary to >>> wear the hat. >>> --scott >>> >> O_o I've driven across both Wyoming and Texas more than once. Wyoming >> ain't "tiny". > > Not by the standards of, say, Rhode Island. > > It is quite normal for the Great Plains. > My apologies, for some reason I was thinking of Montana. >> And if Texas is "huge" what does that make Alaska? > > Big enough that Texas could be made the third-largest State by > dividing Alaska in two (if done evenly enough). -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.