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Discussion Groups / English Usage / July 2009not the =SDC=
Google's archive doesn't reveal any discussion of a possible SDC for this year,[*] so i'll just post this SDC-like question here and now. (Note that, aside from being SDC-like, the question is completely off- topic for AUE.) What is this a complete list of? BED, DAY, DFW, IND, LAX, ONT, TDZ, TIK Michael Hamm [*] Many of you will recognize me as a former regular here; more of you, as a contributor to past SDCs. This footnote was written for the balance. Since I'm no longer at all regular -- not even lurking, let alone posting -- I had resort to Google in my attempt to determine the likelihood of an SDC. > Google's archive doesn't reveal any discussion of a possible SDC for > this year... Unfortunately, Google has destroyed access to the USENET archive. Accessing the USENET archive has become increasingly difficult ever since Google took over from DejaNews. Today, all of the discussion/information contributed over the last 30 years or so on USENET by our peers is effectively gone. I enjoyed using the archive for a quick look at word usage. That is all gone too. A not-for-profit read-only USENET archive would probably be inexpensive to maintain. I am probably many others would be willing to pay a small fee for access. A new archive could use old posts or start from scratch. Also possible is that there are non Google USENET archives out there somewhere. If so, maybe one of them will open up. Sorry, probably more like "20 years". Michael Hamm: > What is this a complete list of? > > BED, DAY, DFW, IND, LAX, ONT, TDZ, TIK Okay, DFW is Dallas - Fort Worth International, IND is Indianapolis, LAX is Los Angeles International, and I think ONT is Ontario CA, Now I'm guessing that DAY is not Dayton OH but Daytona FL, and that although we're using airport codes, the connection between the cities is car racing, as in the Indy 500 and Daytona 500. So are they the principal airport codes corresponding to all the venues used by a particular racing league or whatever they call it?  SignatureMark Brader | "The race is not always to the swift, Toronto | nor the battle to the strong -- msb@vex.net | but that is the way to bet it." --Damon Runyon My text in this article is in the public domain. Mark Brader filted: >Michael Hamm: >> What is this a complete list of? [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >So are they the principal airport codes corresponding to all the >venues used by a particular racing league or whatever they call it? Assuming they're indeed all airport codes, the cities are: Bedford, Massachusetts Dayton, Ohio (James M Cox International) Dallas/Ft Worth, Texas Indianapolis, Indiana Los Angeles, California Ontario, California Toledo, Ohio Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Tinker AFB) The common property shared by these eight airports and no others eludes me....r SignatureA pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this? R H Draney abed: > Assuming they're indeed all airport codes, the cities are: > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Toledo, Ohio > Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Tinker AFB) The assumption is correct. > The common property shared by these eight airports and no others eludes me. The elusion will, I hope, pass. Michael Hamm I abed: > > Assuming they're indeed all airport codes, the cities are: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > The assumption is correct. How would one get to, say, Tinker AFB? Michael Hamm > I abed: >>> Assuming they're indeed all airport codes, the cities are: [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > How would one get to, say, Tinker AFB? That would depend on the starting point. SignatureSkitt (AmE) >> I abed: >>>> Assuming they're indeed all airport codes, the cities are: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > That would depend on the starting point. Absolutely right; in fact you can't get there from here at all. SignatureRegards John for mail: my initials plus a u e at tpg dot com dot au > >> I abed: > >>>> Assuming they're indeed all airport codes, the cities are: [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Absolutely right; in fact you can't get there from here at all. Well, unless you started a week ago last Tuesday. I certainly wouldn't start here now. But, also OT, I have actually been there (Tinker AFB, I mean). Excellent tour of AWACS planes, complete with attentive serviceman who, when I pointed out the tacky cardboard cutouts hiding the computer displays, didn't bat an eye, but just said, 'I know, ma'am, it's horrible -- budget cutbacks.' cheers, Stephanie Is it perhaps time to reveal the answer to this, or at least a hint? SignatureMark Brader | Nature is often much more interesting than we would Toronto | like her to be. However when we finally do understand msb@vex.net | something, we strike our foreheads and cry "Of course!", | and then marvel at how beautifully simple it was | all the time. -- Leigh Palmer msh210 filted: >I abed: >> > Assuming they're indeed all airport codes, the cities are: [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >How would one get to, say, Tinker AFB? Practice, practice, practice?...r SignatureA pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this? >msh210 filted: >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >Practice, practice, practice?...r Or visit you nearest Air Force recruitment office... Signature************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen@cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * > I abed: >>> Assuming they're indeed all airport codes, the cities are: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > How would one get to, say, Tinker AFB? Interstate highway? Can't be. First Street? --Jeff SignatureThe comfort of the wealthy has always depended upon an abundant supply of the poor. --Voltaire Jeffrey Turner abed: > >>> Assuming they're indeed all airport codes, the cities are: > >>> Bedford, Massachusetts [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Interstate highway? Can't be. Why not? msh210 filted: >Jeffrey Turner abed: >> >>> Assuming they're indeed all airport codes, the cities are: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >Why not? Because I believe the original question suggested that the list was a comprehensive one...it looks like (spot checking) Bedford is near the confluence of interstates 93 and 95, and Tinker is not far from where 35 and 40 meet.... But then you'd have to include places like Las Cruces, New Mexico (near the junction of interstates 10 and 25) and probably Flagstaff (17 and 40)...so if it's just interstates, there has to be more to it....r SignatureA pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this? R H Draney abed: > >> >>> Bedford, Massachusetts > >> >>> Dayton, Ohio (James M Cox International) [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >> >>> Toledo, Ohio > >> >>> Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Tinker AFB) > I believe the original question suggested that the list was a > comprehensive one...it looks like (spot checking) Bedford is near the confluence [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > junction of interstates 10 and 25) and probably Flagstaff (17 and 40)...so if > it's just interstates, there has to be more to it. Ah, so close. These are the airports nearest the intersections of Interstates 5 and 10, 10 and 15, 15 and 20, ..., and 90 and 95. Of course, many of those intersections don't exist, so were omitted from the list. Michael Hamm Michael Hamm: > Ah, so close. These are the airports nearest the intersections of > Interstates 5 and 10, 10 and 15, 15 and 20, ..., and 90 and 95. Of > course, many of those intersections don't exist, so were omitted from > the list. Yowp! Er, thanks. SignatureMark Brader "Fighting off all of the species which you Toronto have insulted would be a full-time mission." msb@vex.net "Deja Q", ST:TNG, Richard Danus Mark Brader filted: >Michael Hamm: >> Ah, so close. These are the airports nearest the intersections of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Yowp! Er, thanks. Then you need to change "LAX" to "BUR"..."VNY" comes close to beating the big one too, depending on your choice of routes....r SignatureA pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this? R H Draney abed: > > These are the airports nearest the intersections of > > Interstates 5 and 10, 10 and 15, 15 and 20, ..., and 90 and 95. Of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Then you need to change "LAX" to "BUR"..."VNY" comes close to beating the big > one too, depending on your choice of routes. My choice was the as-the-crow-flies route. VNY is not in the running, I don't think. LAX and BUR seem to be almost the same distance from the intersection of I-5 and I-10, but LAX seems to be me to be slightly closer. It's hard to tell, actually, and sorry if I mizzled. Michael Hamm msh210 filted: >R H Draney abed: >> > These are the airports nearest the intersections of [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >the intersection of I-5 and I-10, but LAX seems to be me to be >slightly closer. It's hard to tell, actually, and sorry if I mizzled. Using Google Earth's "Ruler", I get: I-5/I-10 to BUR: 13.00 miles I-5/I-10 to LAX: 13.58 I-5/I-10 to SMO: 13.87 I-5/I-10 to LGB: 16.72 I-5/I-10 to WHP: 18.10 I-5/I-10 to VNY: 19.06 The John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Orange County, the Catalina Airport (CIB) offshore, and the Palmdale (PMD) and Fox (WJF) airports in the high desert, are all farther than Van Nuys.... The closest, though, actually seems to be the Compton/Woodley Airport (CPM), at 11.51 miles....r SignatureA pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this? |
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