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Old 05-29-2015, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by redwitch View Post
Never really thought about it, but oh so true. Anything that takes less than an hour is close by. One to three hours is possible. Over three is a distance. I think it comes from the fact that five miles can take an hour on the right ? freeway. We Californians have no problem with distances, just value our time.

And not sure where I learned it (definitely not California) but I used to call roundabouts circles or traffic circles.
And I'll bet you call lollipops "suckers"...and if a person wants to know your location at a given time, he asks where you're "AT"! Just guessing...
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