On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 01:02:33 -0800, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Sean Barrett wrote:
Which we have, of course: gravitons are what give our decisions their all-important gravitas, and levitons are planned communities, the first one of which was constructed in Pennsylvania.
Thank you for letting my mind wander in yet another direction. There is no community named Leviton in the USA. The place in Pennsylvania is really Levittown, and there are three places with that name. The first one was in Nassau County, NY, then the one in PA, and finally a third one in Puerto Rico, all developed by the same William Levitt. See http://www.capitalcentury.com/1951.html
This kind of makes him the father of ticky-tacky.
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I love the way that, on wikipedia mailing lists, segues from heated discussion into random trivia are somehow supremely on-topic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Levitt