Re: [OT beyond any repair] House numbers (was RE: ISO 3166 (country c odes) Maintenance Agency Web pages move))

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Mon Mar 11 2002 - 17:20:15 EST

At 13:26 3/11/2002, Eric Muller wrote:

>In Paris, streets perpendicular to the Seine have 1 at the end closest to
>the Seine; for streets parallel to the Seine, numbers increase in the same
>direction as the water flows.

That's the most beautiful thing I have heard all day. Thank you.

John Hudson

Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com

'Vancouver automobilists switched from driving on the left
  to driving on the right at midnight, December 31st, 1922.
  It must have been some night.'
                                                   - Brian Morgan, City of Murex

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