Today I learned +

[Ryujin]

I off-handedly tossed out some lyrics from "Ghost Town", by The Specials, to describe the state of our Network Services department when we needed their help. As a result I got the song stuck in my head. When I went searching for it, on Youtube, I discovered that there's a BBC series called "This Town" that I now REALLY need to watch.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

 

[Blue]

Today I learned that Los Angeles used to have consumer rail back in the 1920s, and it was the largest electric rail in the world at the time.

 

[MGibster]

Today I learned that Los Angeles used to have consumer rail back in the 1920s, and it was the largest electric rail in the world at the time.

That was a joke in Who Framed Roger Rabbit which was set in a fictional Los Angeles of the late 1940s where cartoons were real. Anyway, Roger Rabbit asks Eddie Valiant why he doesn't have a car and he says something like, "Why do I need a car? Los Angeles has the finest public transit system in the world."

General Motors and other auto manufacturers were involved in a conspiracy to purchase public transit systems including busses and streetcars and shutting them down. This happened in the late 40s and 50s in an effort to force consumers to choose personal automobiles.

 

[MGibster]

I learned that a pass, as in "We'll head them off at the pass," refers to the highest point of a trail or road.

 

[overgeeked]

That was a joke in Who Framed Roger Rabbit which was set in a fictional Los Angeles of the late 1940s where cartoons were real. Anyway, Roger Rabbit asks Eddie Valiant why he doesn't have a car and he says something like, "Why do I need a car? Los Angeles has the finest public transit system in the world."

General Motors and other auto manufacturers were involved in a conspiracy to purchase public transit systems including busses and streetcars and shutting them down. This happened in the late 40s and 50s in an effort to force consumers to choose personal automobiles.

Story of capitalism. Large corporations buy up the competition and stifle creativity and innovation to stay on top.

 

[CleverNickName]

Story of capitalism. Large corporations buy up the competition and stifle creativity and innovation to stay on top.

Yep. Notice the use of the present tense, too... they haven't stopped.

 

[trappedslider]

That was a joke in Who Framed Roger Rabbit which was set in a fictional Los Angeles of the late 1940s where cartoons were real. Anyway, Roger Rabbit asks Eddie Valiant why he doesn't have a car and he says something like, "Why do I need a car? Los Angeles has the finest public transit system in the world."

General Motors and other auto manufacturers were involved in a conspiracy to purchase public transit systems including busses and streetcars and shutting them down. This happened in the late 40s and 50s in an effort to force consumers to choose personal automobiles.

So, it was also to my knowledge also meant to be part of a trilogy Chinatown (water), The two jakes (Oil)

 

[briggart]

...experimental atomic reactor under a handball court

Well, after all, we all know that kids' playgrounds are the best places for giant mecha hangars.

 

[Bohandas]

I learned that in 2003, in Indiana, there was a major road project that was actually completed on schedule and within budget

https://highways.dot.gov/public-roads/marchapril-2004/hyperfix-6570