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Jr_Bullit

I'm sooo teenie weenie!!!
Sep 8, 2001
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North of Oz
The hotel you're staying at advertises that it has "LAN Lines" available - and when you arrive they thought LAN Lines really meant dial up internet, and that they are truly special from any other hotel in the area (they even put "Business" room signs on the doors that have "dial-up" capability)!

What's funnier, is that I'm staying at the nicest hotel in town...:rolleyes:

I sure hope that this isn't a regional attitue about the internet...otherwise my training tomorrow for a district that pays for our services, accessible ONLY online, isn't going to go so well....

Sigh - and I'm only 60 some miles away from Asheville, where I hear that bikes and mountains and stuff....
 

Dartman

Old Bastard Mike
Feb 26, 2003
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Richmond, VA
Be grateful you're not staying in Plymouth, NC. The sphincter of the state.

The best thing I can say about it is they have a really nice papermill there.

Mike
 

Jr_Bullit

I'm sooo teenie weenie!!!
Sep 8, 2001
2,028
1
North of Oz
Dartman said:
Be grateful you're not staying in Plymouth, NC. The sphincter of the state.

The best thing I can say about it is they have a really nice papermill there.

Mike
Hahahahha!!! I think every state has a few of those ;). I think this is mostly a suprise because of the comparison between where I'm at tonight, and Winston-Salem, where I was yesterday.
 

lux

Monkey
Mar 25, 2004
609
26
Wilmington, NC
Dartman said:
Be grateful you're not staying in Plymouth, NC. The sphincter of the state.

The best thing I can say about it is they have a really nice papermill there.

Mike
Dude, my dad used to work in Plymouth.

Can't believe anyone else has even heard of that place.

Paper mill -- mmm, stinky.
 

Trouble

Chimp
Sep 16, 2004
56
0
Funky Town
I was in Roxboro for 3 days last week.
Didn't take long to remember why I left NC after school.
No hotel rooms, no cell signal. 3 days sitting by a damn coal power station.
BFE

-JW