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I learned that the man who invented the flush toilet had the last name Crapper. That's where the word crap comes from. For a time, toilets were known as Crappers, in honor of him.Chrysalis wrote:The Undergound tour does sound good - that would definitely be on the 'to do' list.
aliantha wrote:Seriously? Okay... Well, it's not *that* long a story, I guess. And I might have already told it here -- if so, y'all who remember it, just move along...Chrysalis wrote:I'd like to hear that long story if you had timealiantha wrote:Pike Place Market is way cool. We also did the monorail and the Space Needle -- those two things had been on my list of Stuff I Want to See Before I Die for *decades* (long story why...).
When I was a kid, my parents and I used to take a long-distance driving vacation every summer (which is how I racked up visits to most of the states in the US of A). I was all excited when Dad decided we'd do the top of the country, including the state of Washington. I wanted to see the monorail and the Space Needle in Seattle, which were both pretty new at that time. Plus I had a moderate crush on Bobby Sherman from "Here Come the Brides", a TV show which was supposedly about Seattle's early days.
Anyway, Dad was not a city kind of guy. We approached Seattle -- there's the Space Needle in the distance! -- and kept on driving. Detoured around the whole city. (Come to think of it, we might have actually driven through Olympic National Park on that trip. I was too disappointed about missing Seattle to notice the scenery...)
Anyway. After he did the same thing to me in LA, I started a list of places I was going to go back to and actually *visit*, dammit. I think I've pretty much seen them all now....
I can certainly see why you wanted to go back and explore! I probably would have wanted to do the same thing!