[geeks] How old am I and where do I come from...

[Beth Roberts]

> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:46:05PM -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:
>
> > I've been to Worcester (we've got a new client there).  It is
> > a nice city, but the streets were laid out poorly (this, I'm
> > sure, is due to the age of the city).
>

You might've heard the old saw about Boston that goes something like:

"After the city engineers laid out the city streets, they were slaughtered
and eaten."

(They were cows. The streets were laid along the cowpaths that people used
to take their cows to graze on the common.)

-Beth