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| 31 | Oh, maybe The Traveller in Black, by John Brunner, or Lem's Cyberiad, or Absalom, Absalom by Faulkner. I don't know, I can think of a lot of books. | Your favorite books. What are they? |
| 32 | Oh yeah, and Dune, although more generally I liked the whole series and more specifically I liked the fourth book best. | Your favorite books. What are they? |
| 33 | I want to fly a hang glider or some other form of aircraft. I want to live somewhere where I can swim every day, and swim every day. I want to visit China. For that matter, I want to learn to speak Chinese but that's not going to happen, probably. I want to live in another country for a year. | Name (some) thing(s) you want to do before you die. |
| 34 | Let's see... Third Watch, huh? Thou shalt not difibrillate without first yelling "CLEAR!". All the world is Maya, because you are in fact a cast member on a television show. Do not wear flammable spray in your hair if you work for the Fire Department. Sitting under a banyan tree can inspire enlightenment, but the kind of enlightenment you get when the tree is on fire probably isn't what you had in mind. | What are the Four Noble Truths in Buddhism, that Buddha experienced during the Third Watch? |
| 35 | Dammit, everyone beat me to my clever answer, and theirs were better! I am so miserable! I desperately wanted to have the best answer and it didn't work out! This pain and humiliation will never end! There's no answer to my problems - I turn eight ways and still realize I'm doomed! Oh, if only I were enlightened!  | What are the Four Noble Truths in Buddhism, that Buddha experienced during the Third Watch? |
| 36 | I voted for Newton but I think Shakespeare and Elizabeth are close. | Who is the greatest Briton? |
| 37 | As I recall, the rule I was taught was to stop and wait to go until the car to your right has gone. But the way I actually do it, and the way most people seem to do it here in Massachusetts, is to stop and allow cars driving perpendicular to you to cross the intersection, and then proceed (at the same time as cars moving opposite you). This is a lot faster than doing things one car at a time, and it usually works fine even if one or both cars are turning left. | When you come to a "four-way" stop, what is the rule? |
| 38 | Isn't an "unmarked four-way" just a regular intersection? Do you have to stop every time a road crosses yours in California? It must take a long time to drive anywhere. Here in Massachusetts we at least pay lip service to the concept of right of way. | When you come to a "four-way" stop, what is the rule? |
| 39 | What a mess! I guess Chicago was a little like that. We had a lot of four-way stop signs on one car per hour suburban streets. Massachusetts is different. In the cities we have big streets, little streets and tiny streets. I guess they usually put a stop sign on the smaller street when it intersects a larger one, In the burbs it's not real hard to find two small streets intersecting without any signs. As soon as you're out of the city, you start getting these double yellow line roads. The cool thing about them is they usually go somewhere. Typically these are the original road system constructed when all these towns were actually separated by open space. They're not usually particularly large (one lane in each direction) but they get the right of way. I guess we have something similar to your expressways, which is the old state highway system. Before they built the turnpike (90), for example, we had route 9 which went from Boston west to Springfield. It's still a pretty big road and for the most part it goes over or under other roads. Sometimes there's a light, though. Really the best thing we have here are the two-lane rotaries, where you have two columns of traffic entering a circle from maybe five or six directions, jostling with the traffic already in the rotary, switching lanes and honking and swearing, and then sometimes stopping at a light, which they will drop in the middle of a rotary just to piss people off. | When you come to a "four-way" stop, what is the rule? |
| 40 | We don't have huge expressways like you have out there. The biggest are 8 lanes wide. But we do have a highly developed network of secondary roads. I think it's as you say because they were built a long time ago. Also the terrain here is hilly, so the roads have to go around things and they can't always go in a straight line. It was only in the early decades of the 20th century (or maybe even the middle) that they could build straight roads. I think a lot of these small-but-through roads I'm talking about can have an unrestricted right of way for miles because they go through out of the way places. Inside the urban areas they have the occaisional light or stop sign when they meet another through road, but not when they meet a regular residential street. | When you come to a "four-way" stop, what is the rule? |
