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From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
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Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here...
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 09:39:21 -0800
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On 11/7/24 08:40, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 08:18:52 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
> <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/7/24 05:08, James Nicoll wrote:
>>> In article <lp3qduFb8jqU1@mid.individual.net>,
>>> Gary R. Schmidt <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote:
>>>> Hey!
>>>>
>>>> Is anybody else out there?
>>>>
>>>> Or has the disaster that is the USA meant that they've already started
>>>> trucking people off to the ovens???
>>>>
>>>> Only a few message from James and one from Lynn - well, apart from the
>>>> people/bots that I filter, that is.
>>>
>>> I imagine the American posters are either updating their passports
>>> or making lists of which neighbours to inform on and the rest of us
>>> are trying to work out if we're Austria or Poland.
>>>
>>> (if you have to ask, you're always Poland)
>>
>> 	As for me I will stay here in San Francisco as long as I can.
>> The Darn Old Fart shortly to be in charge but as yet impotent to
>> act may fume noxiously but he does not smoke. And he could die before
>> he does anything too terrible aside from successfully dividing the
>> nation.
> 
> Assuming you mean while actually in Office, then Vance would take
> over.
> 
> And /that/ would be pretty terrible, IMHO.
> 
>> 	I have no neighbors to inform on nor passport to update
>> nor funds to flee. Not so many years ago I tried to find a
>> better place for me to be than in San Francisco and not even
>> Seattle tempted me.
> 
> Seattle doesn't want you. We are actually considering reviving the
> Lesser Seattle movement of the past.
> 
> Remember, it always rains in Seattle.

	Except in drought years. San Francisco's natural circulation
of air or as we refer to it "Our Natural Air Conditioning" fails at
times as well.

	bliss