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Sep-20-2014 06:27 PM
lfcjasp wrote:
Remote (just my idea) means hard to get, off the beaten path, far from the "rest of us". Examples: the Falkland Islands (which are inhabited), Easter Island (yes they now have tourists), Siberia, areas in the mountains, forests, deserts, etc. in Canada and the U.S. There may be people there, but no one else because it's so out of the way and/or too much a pain to go there. JMHO
Sep-20-2014 05:33 PM
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Sep-17-2014 07:36 AM
Geocritter wrote:
I hate to say it but with maybe 15 years left before I leave the party I guess I'll be getting out just in time. I feel sorry for my kids having to deal with such an overcrowded future.
Sep-17-2014 05:43 AM
DutchmenSport wrote:
Remote? Hamilton County, Indiana use to be "remote." As a kid (1960's) one could drive country roads and never find a house. Fields and not even telephone poles. Then those back-country graveled roads turned into black-top, then into lined blacktop, then into 4 way roads, and now, when you drive from the North side of Indianapolis to anywhere, it's all 4 lane divided (almost everywhere). It started with a "remote" spot someone thought would be a nice place to put a house ... nice .. "remote" away from everyone. Sure ... worked great for the first homestead. But then someone else came along, then someone else, then a gas station, a shopping mall, sewers, gas lines, water lines, electric lines, more shopping malls, now mamouth apartment complexes, housing additons, home owners associations, and the fields that once were "remote" ... aint no more! It all started with 1 person "occupying" a "remote" spot! Top 10 "remote" spots ... not so remote when a bazillion tourists travel to see how "remote" it is. Sorry, there are no remote spots when they've become a tourist attraction or turned into a shopping center!
Sep-16-2014 09:58 PM
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Sep-16-2014 03:25 PM
Dick_B wrote:
A recent TV report (I think History Channel) discussed the origin of many terms we use every day. One of them was the term boondock. The apparent origin is from the Philippines during WWII. When the Allies were overrun by the Japanese they retreated to the `remote areas' of the islands called the bundoc in the local Tagalong languange. As often happens, bundoc became Boondock as time went on.
So when you boondock you are typically going to a `remote area'.
Sep-16-2014 09:39 AM
DutchmenSport wrote:
"remote" simply does not exist
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