As the token Yankee on a staff of native Texans, I am the only one that can
truly appreciate winter weather. A few years ago, duing a north Texas cold
snap (mid 30s...burrr), I was walking along a trail that skirts the edge of a
prairie dog town. I encountered a family of visitors and, trying to be Texan,
said something along the lines of, "pretty cold out today". The father of the
group turned and said in heavily accented English, "You think so?". I asked
where he was from and he said, "Siberia".
We then proceeded to compare really cold weather stories and make fun of the
locals and the lack of cold tolerance. It was fun.
BTW, I am tri-lingual...I know that Wooster, OH is pronounced "Wuster", that
Palestine, TX is pronounced "Palesteen", and Mexia, TX is pronounced "Muh Hay
a". Shouldn't that get me some extra pay?
Rob Denkhaus
Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge
> -----Original Message-----
> From: m c
> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 4:12 AM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- RE: Weather
>
>
> He said "Russian", not "Siberian".
>
> Sort of like "America" and not "Mininisota".
>
> Russia is a big country. The largest actually. With
> the expected multible biomes and land froms.
>
> A quick glace at a world map shows that the southern
> most portion of Russia has roughly the same latitude
> as Virgina. (the black sea region, I think it is
> classified as a "cool mediterianian" climate)
>
> Then you have to take into account air currents, ocean
> currents, and relative altitude of each region...
>
> Your teacher was probally from the region West of the
> Urals (where most of the population is) in the
> relativly mild weathered agricultural region south
> east of Poland. The weather there (estimating wildly)
> is somewhere between Iowa and New York.
>
> --- Brian Haas <bhaas_at_netexpress.net> wrote:
> > At 02:15 PM 2/12/03 -0800, Bob Sinclair wrote:
> > >I've been reading all these messages about
> > cold...freezing cold.
> > >They make me wonder once again why anyone would
> > choose
> > >to live in such places.
> >
> > Here's one for you -
> >
> > I'm from Wisconsin, my piano teacher's from Russia.
> > So today he says to
> > me, "What in the world posessed your ancestors to
> > settle HERE of all
> > places? The weather is HORRIBLE!"
> >
> > The guy says he's from Russia. What kind of a wimpy
> > Russian is he anyway?
> >
> > Travis Haas
> > Hazel Green, WI
> > (home from college for the weekend)
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