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• To a Californian, the basic difference between the people and the pigeons in New York is that the pigeons don't shit on each other.
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• To a Californian, all New Yorkers are cold; even in heat they rarely go above fifty-eight degrees.
  If you collapse on a street in New York, plan to spend a few days there....
• To a Californian, a person must prove himself criminally insane before he is allowed to drive a taxi in New York.
  For New York cabbies, honesty and stopping at red lights are both optional....
• In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles.
  Therefore ... in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long ....
• Quote #331 "In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles.
  That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year....