Posted on 11/15/2009 7:53:15 AM PST by Sub-Driver
And I thought Boca was a liberal city.
Boca Raton is Spanish for mouth of a rat. Who would name a city that? Never understood it. I live just South of there. Couldn’t attend though, was at a nephew’s birthday party.
From Wiki: It was listed on early maps as "Boca Ratones". The literal translation of "Boca Raton" is "Mouse Mouth" ("rat" in Spanish is "rata"). One explanation for the origin is the Spanish word boca (or mouth) was (and still is) used to describe an inlet and ratón (literally mouse) was used by Spanish sailors to describe rocks that gnawed at a ship's cable. Another explanation is that it refers metaphorically to the sense of pirate's cove. The name Boca Ratones originally appeared on eighteenth century maps associated with an inlet in the Biscayne Bay area of Miami. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the term was mistakenly moved north to its current location on most maps and applied to Lake Boca Raton, whose inlet was closed at the time.
Algore is clueless. Nuclear energy would solve all the problems: transportation, electrical power, carbon emissions, foreign oil dependence, etc. We have enough fuel to last all the aforementioned needs for 10,000 years.
Hey Algore, if you really believe you'll ever dry a load of laundry or drive you car to visit your boyfriend using solar or wind power - YOU'RE TOTALLY BRAIN DEAD! Ford and BMW have hydrogen burning cars NOW. Only nuclear energy can create the hydrogen without burning something.
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