Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Chris Buckley Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here... Date: 10 Nov 2024 17:45:33 GMT Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <5f1024bb-1145-580f-2f01-b62a2b7736eb@example.net> X-Trace: individual.net ev7iiWFA26C2Nid0oXwFEQq/EcVKuX8a9btqTFVDMKOj4RYsGW Cancel-Lock: sha1:lubusTiaTahpaN3/KnGFoNDSuVs= sha256:sewPnIzZBadD18SnMPbFV9sIjjMYJaFOXd7izO65xMU= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Bytes: 2133 On 2024-11-10, Dimensional Traveler wrote: > 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. But still, Wyoming is the 10th largest state, a bit less than twice the median size. Not a tiny state (except in comparison to Alaska)! Chris