Years ago, while visiting a friend in New York, I asked about a mutual friend of ours and was told that he was “totally GU.” The way it was said it was as if he had joined a strange religion or caught some disease. No, he had performed the cardinal sin of not living in Manhatten and still presuming to be a New Yorker. Yes, he was terminally Geographically Undersireable.

I don’t know, but I hope in the years since then the stigma of Non-Manhatten GU addresses has faded, but there now seems to be a new equivalent to GU address - the “dot net” internet address.

Though there are some rare exceptions the “dot net” address seems to say that you had a really clever idea and someoneelse beat you to the dot com - but being trooper you are you’re doing it anyway.

It might just be me, but “dot net” seems like it should be an option of last resort… like skateboarding on the freeway or performing open heart surgery with finger nail clippers.

But hey, that might just be me.

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