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WCDT 28-32 March 2011 (1891-1895)

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TheEvilDog:

--- Quote from: mike837go on 29 Mar 2011, 04:54 ---I think we're missing the point on the '20 minutes away' issue.
The friends are worried about their social interaction. Right now everybody are an easy walk from each other (some in the same building).

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No. Penny and Hanners are just lazy. Thats the joke.
Seriously, twenty minutes is nothing. When I was in college, I lived close to 40 miles away, which is about an hour by bus, one way. I've lost count the number of times people didn't come into class because they didn't want to walk the 5 minutes to college. (And being hungover didn't count.)

jwhouk:
I believe there's some anthropological theories that cities in ancient days were rarely larger in diameter than a person could walk in an hour or half-hour's time. So for many, half an hour is the limit of most people's "okay to go there" time frame.

Near Lurker:

--- Quote from: jwhouk on 29 Mar 2011, 05:53 ---A little bit of speculation:

In doing some Google Maps searches, I've come to the conclusion that CoD - if it existed in "The Real World" - would probably be located on or around 30 Pleasant Street in NoHo. (There is a bakery at the intersection of Pleasant and Armory, which wouldn't be too much of a stretch.) The main reason for this is where Panda House was located back in the earlier days of the strip. (Panda House closed its NoHo location a while back.)

So - assume she takes an apartment in Amherst, somewhere downtown (Main Street). Probably about a 17-19 minute drive.

EDIT: Oh. I think I see a problem with this - she'd have to drive right through the Amherst College campus every day. Tack on an extra two minutes for that. And the Amtrak line is right down the street. Eeeech.

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Those "problems" wouldn't be that big a deal; the train line is practically deserted for commuter purposes, and although there are a couple trains a day, there's a bridge over the main road, and she'd be skirting the north edge of the Amherst campus.  UMass traffic would be the bigger problem.

Of course, she's probably not looking at anything anywhere near that region, and probably wouldn't be parking right in the street for eight or ten hours - the garage behind Thorne's would probably be her best bet.

And I'd have to go check, but I'm pretty sure the "SCORN" scene puts COD on a street right in the middle of a real-world city block.  So, there's that.

jwhouk:
Jeph does play fast and loose with some of the background shots of NoHo.  :-D

philharmonic:
I was thinking is this took place here in BC. The shop might be in New Westminster and they would be complaining that she found a place in Surrey. Surrey here also goes by "Slurry" "Sorry" and "Slurvy".

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