[onedoug]

‘Wonder what Mark Twain might have thought.

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

Its cool no doubt, but the river I've lived by almost my entire life has the wrong name. And to make matters worse the name given I'm sure would be unfamiliar to anyone around here. I've probably crossed the Middle Rouge River more than once for every day I've lived.

Ask anyone where the Walled Lake Branch is and I'm sure you'll be directed anywhere but the Middle Rouge.

[laotzu]

‘Wonder what Mark Twain might have thought

"In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
--Mark Twain