| Date: | July 13, 2007 / year-entry #255 |
| Tags: | non-computer;stp |
| Orig Link: | https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20070713-01/?p=26013 |
| Comments: | 18 |
| Summary: | This past weekend, a group of us went on one last training ride before the STP, which begins tomorrow. The Burke-Gilman is a multipurpose trail, with bicyclists sharing the path with walkers, joggers, inline skaters, sometimes even people on horseback. (Inline nitpicker's corner: The horseback riders are on the Sammamish River Trail, which is technically... |
This past weekend, a group of us went on one last training ride before the STP, which begins tomorrow. The Burke-Gilman is a multipurpose trail, with bicyclists sharing the path with walkers, joggers, inline skaters, sometimes even people on horseback. (Inline nitpicker's corner: The horseback riders are on the Sammamish River Trail, which is technically a different trail from the Burke-Gilman even though the two connect seamlessly.) As you cycle past a group, you can sometimes catch a few words of conversation. Usually, those words are not noteworthy at all. "...said to her..." or "...opened up..." or "...whenever the..." Except when I passed one pair of walkers, I heard one of them say "...concentration camp..." Traffic alert According to the Washington State Department of Transportation Construction Updates web site, "Crews will completely close SR 520 between Montlake Blvd. and 108th Avenue NE from 11 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday for the annual maintenance and inspection." Curiously, this isn't losted on the SR 520 Travel Alerts page. |
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"Concentration camp" may easily come up in a conversation between colleagues discussing their workplace :)
Also, on the last line, s/losted/listed
I once overheard two girls who were cycling in the opposite direction. The first girl said to the other, while clearly gesturing towards me, "what about him?" To which the other replied "nah, too young" (I was 14 at the time; my memory’s a bit fuzzy but the girls looked about 16 or something).
At least it beats "too ugly" :P
Just wanted to point out a possible typo:
"Curiously, this isn’t losted…"
Shouldn’t that be listed? :)
Keep up the good work – these non-computer posts are pretty interesting.
It’s listed on the travel alert page now. I guess someone at the DOT reads your blog!
We always had a bit of fun with this, trying to come up with the wild and weird. Of course, the best one is from Lewis Black: "If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college"
I recently caught "Doesn’t his beard make him look sexy?" Now, I’m pretty sure they must have been talking about someone else – some filmstar or something – but as I was the only bearded man in sight, it made my day :)
In Raymond’s case it’s likely that the level designer of that trail only coded in a single conversation loop for the pedestrian NPCs, and he hears snippets of the same conversation as he passes each group of NPCs. Conversation probably goes something like:
"So I said to her, whenever the Nazis opened up a concentration camp, they’d test it on blog nitpickers."
The fun thing is that the people who Raymond overheard may not even be conscious that they ever said "concentration camp". Words plucked out of context can take on a significance which was never intended by the speaker or understood by the listener.
“… it ruined my concentration; camp doesn’t even begin to describe him.”
“… could say it’s the strength that’s important, the concentration. Camp Coffee made that way…”
Hehe. Ran across this awhile back. Someone made a game out it called Tomato Funeral.
http://anotherlab.rajapet.net/2006/06/tomato-funeral.html
One of the blocks single people were accommodated in at my last employer was regularly reffered to by the residents/inmates as Guatanamo Bay.
Not sure how many are true, but good for a laugh: http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/.
Also, I know you’re a trusted source of info and stuff, but are you trying to set yourself up as a news broadcast?
Hope ya’ll were courteous trail riders. Lots of "chain gangs" road bikers ’round here are very discourteous on the road and more so on the trail. Play nice, don’t run over kids and grannies etc. WashPo covers it every now and then…
Overheard this weekend by myself. Two twenties-ish females talking outside of the Alison Krauss concert. One says to the other: "Yeah, we’ve reached the sending dirty text message stage."
This happened to me this weekend, hiking down in Portland. Only it was our conversation that was overheard.
The people heading the other way on the trail heard only, "…in that case you just go back in time and kill yourself…" which they found highly amusing.
http://inpassing.org used to be the site for such out-of-context snippets. Unfortunately, things have been rather quiet there since ‘Eve’ graduated.
No discussion of overheard snippets can be complete without a nod to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kemelman >"A nine-mile walk is no picnic, especially in the rain."</a>
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-Wang-Lo.
I had not thought to apply the word "seamlessly" to the tight weave that you do as you head west from the park in woodinville…
EricGu
So Raymond… how did your STP experience go? :)
From Seattle to Spanaway.