Comments on: How I Describe Alaska

By: steve_bergs2127

steve_bergs2127 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:50 +0000

No doubt the "vigilant grammarians" you referenced yesterday in "Who is That" will take you to task for the use of "less" as in pace of "fewer."

Sorry – I couldn't resist.

By: Steve Bergstein

Steve Bergstein — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:50 +0000

Damn. I don't think that my comment looked like that when I hit "submit"!

By: jim122

jim122 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:50 +0000

I thought it was clever and I got it, for what its worth. But then again I may have no credibility.

By: rhhfla4895

rhhfla4895 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:50 +0000

Robert Service remains unchallenged in his descriptions of Alaska

By: just.a.guy

just.a.guy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:50 +0000

That actually isn't very descriptive at all. I guess you were intending to say "Alaska is JUST LIKE Colorado, EXCEPT..."

Otherwise it would of course be equally descriptive to say that Alaska is 2.74 orders of magnitude larger than Rhode Island and has half an order of magnitude less people, and both have oceans. Or pick your arbitrary geographic boundary and its associated land area and population statistics.

Point being, what you seem to think is clever doesn't really say very much at all about what Alaska is LIKE.

By: bfeld

bfeld — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:50 +0000

Ah – you are probably right. I think it's clever and everyone I tell it to nods their heads up and down and smiles, but there's nothing quite like going there (and I often think I'm more clever than I am.)

By: Jim - Intela

Jim - Intela — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:06:39 +0000

I thought it was clever and I got it, for what its worth. But then again I may have no credibility.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:58:29 +0000

By: just.a.guy

just.a.guy — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:55:34 +0000

By: Steve Bergstein

Steve Bergstein — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:44:13 +0000

Damn. I don't think that my comment looked like that when I hit “submit”!