[NU Sports] 'Cats-Huskers

Mon Nov 7 11:20:46 CST 2011

The actual quote is reported to be:
"The coldest winter I ever saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco."

However, it is disputed whether he actually ever said this or not.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Jim Leonard <jleonard518 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I believe he said it was the coldest summer of his life. Still, the Bay
> Area beats a Chicago winter any day.
>
> Jim
>
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> I think Mark Twain said that the coldest day he ever experienced was in
> San Francisco in
> July?
>
> Have to look it up. It's one of his less famous sayings.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Alan
> Abrahamson
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> Since I have lived out here since 1983, in San Francisco (83-89), in San
> Diego (89-92) and since in the LA area ...
>
> As has been mentioned -- there is no beach at Stanford. It is down the
> peninsula, about 45 minutes south of SF proper. It's called "The Farm."
> Usually, it's warmer there than in the city. It's typically warmer there
> than in Berkeley, which really can be cold and foggy. My wife went to
> college at Berkeley. She jokes that she spent most of her college years
> wrapped up in a sleeping bag with a hemline and sleeves. It can get chilly
> at night at Stanford, too. I covered the 2003 track and field national
> championships at Stanford, and it was so cold the night of the men's 10k I
> thought we were all going to get pneumonia.
>
> The nearest beach from Stanford would be Half Moon Bay, which is an
> excellent place to grow pumpkins. The nearest beaches you'd be most likely
> to visit as a tourist would be 1) Santa Cruz, which has a great boardwalk
> and an excellent collection of hippies and stoners and 2) Monterey, which
> has a great aquarium and, of course, nearby Pebble Beach and the great golf
> courses. My brother went to the Navy grad school at Monterey. I did a lot
> of scuba diving there. The water is 47 degrees. It's not for the
> faint-hearted.
>
> If you have ever visited Stanford, it is pretty easy to understand why any
> kid with an ounce of sense would want to go there. We at Northwestern have
> a totally uphill battle, and it only starts with the weather. Pretty much
> everything about Stanford is first-rate. Every outstanding kid in
> California learns from the time they're in seventh grade that Stanford is
> the brass ring, and that's that.
>
>
>
>
>
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>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Tom Maycock <tkmaycock at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > >Hey guys, I agree with you, there is no "beach" at Stanford, but when a
> > kid commits to
> > >Stanford over NU, being on the coast is always mentioned, right after
> how
> > good the
> > >academics are at Stanford....
> >
> >
> > Yeah, I think some folks may be overlooking the forest for the trees here
> > a bit. It's not San Diego, but it is northern California--there's a
> reason
> > so many people are willing to pay pretty insane housing prices to live
> > there.
> >
> > It's not difficult to understand why, all else being equal, a kid might
> > opt for winters in Cali over winters in Chicago.
> >
> > Tom
> >
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