MTA (More Trouble Ahead) nicknames

[Wilson Gray]

As it happens, it was decades after I read the story before I had
occasion to ride the subway and, by that time, the effect of the story
had worn off. So far, the weirdest thing that's happened to me on the
subway is only this. I once was getting onto a subway car in Boston
while wearing a UC Davis T-shirt just as about seven people also
wearing UC Davis T-shirts were getting off. There were frenzied shouts
of "Hi, Aggie!" and, a second later, we were going our separate ways. I
expect to run across people in Berkeley or UCLA gear, and even random
people in San Diego, Santa Barbara, etc. gear. But, in Davis gear? No.

-Wilson Gray

On Mar 28, 2005, at 2:17 PM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:

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> Poster:       Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM>
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> On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 02:11:16PM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 01:55:25PM -0800, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>>> Wow, Wilson, you read "A Subway Named Moebius" ?  I read it
>>> in an anthology about 1960.  I thought it was the weirdest,
>>> greatest story ever written !  I was afraid to ride the
>>> subway for a long time afterwards.
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>> That was extremely great. Was the collection _Fantasia
>> Mathematica_? Which also contained a number of other
>> SF and math-related great things. I should find that
>> again.
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> This collection also contained "And He Built a Crooked
> House," referenced in a later post.
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> JTS
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