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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Well, once again, summer is upon me. Tomorrow is the last of my final exams, and I will have survived yet another year at college.

For the summer, I'll be working at Kodak, making good money, and hopefully I won't miss this fast university LAN connection, because the local phone company is coming in and offering ADSL lines! WOO!

But most of all, I get to go back to my roots in Batavia. Homecoming can be a sweet thing.

MESA GOIN HOME!!!!

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"No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and have lived to tell about it." Sideshow Bob

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Well, I was happy for you up until that last line. But for that you need to be hurt... *L*

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Red: "Well, I don't like points."
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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Batavia? Just where is that anyhow? I read a "future natural history" book once, and "Batavia" was Madagascar. Is it or ain't it?

--Baloo

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I believe it's a city in New York somewhere...

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Posted by Xentrick (Member # 64) on :

Baloo, Batavia (NY) is the current location of what will eventually become Batavia (Madagascar) long After Man. The author, Mister Dixon, was allowing for continental drift.

Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

"...
Thou mayest in me behold,
When exams, or few, or none do loom"

I've exams as well, starting yesterday, and finishing on the 17th.
And then I'm coming to Americay!

You've all been warned.

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Remember December '59
The howling wind and the driving rain,
Remember the gallant men who drowned
On the lifeboat, Mona was her name.

Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on :

Hide the children! No wait, screw the children, they make too much noise, hide me!

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Well I'm a Bada$$ cowboy living in a cowboy day wicky-wicky-wak yo yo bang bang
me and Artemus Clydefrog go save Selma Hayek from the big metal spider
Wicky-wicky-wak wicky-wicky-wicky-wak
Bada$$ cowboy from the West Si-yiide

Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

BZZZT!

Actually, the "Batavia" in "After Man" by Dougal Dixon was an island group in the Pacific, (inhabited by land-dwelling bat derivatives) and had no relation to Madagascar OR Batavia, NY.

I own the book. As well as it's 'sequels' "The New Dinosaurs" and "Man after Man"... although there is some evidence to indicate that at least part of "Man After Man" was plagiarized from drawings by Wayne Douglas Barlowe (Author of "Barlowe's Guide to Extrateresstrials" and "Expedition," among other things.
Now I'm babbling.

So bleah!

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

*historian mode*

Batavia, NY was named after Batavi, a Holland city. Batavia was settled by the Holland Land Company, its seat based in Batavia. Dutch company means Dutch name. Also, Batavian Empire, I believe was a nickname for the Dutch empire as well at one point.

They named a lot of things Batavia back in the day.

Batavia, NY is located right smack between Rochester and Buffalo NY. We're a small to mid-sized city.

But the important thing is that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.

*/historian mode*

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"No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and have lived to tell about it." Sideshow Bob

Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

I have both "After Man" and "The New Dinosaurs", but have not seen the other book. Somehow I'd gotten the impression that Batavia was in the Indian Ocean. It's been a while since I've read the book (it's in a box around here, somewhere).

--Baloo

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"The difference between involved and committed? Look at a plate of ham and eggs. The chicken is involved. The pig is committed."
-- Me
http://www.geocities.com/cyrano_jones.geo/