Back in NJ, we always said we were "going down the shore" when you were going to the beach, even though in almost all cases it was east.


>We use up and down in directions as well for north and south. I'm going up to New York, or I'm traveling down to Florida... (from where I am)
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>>> But in Australia you can be in the outback. And in SE Asia out in the boondocks was always upcountry, even when it meant going down south.
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>>My dad used to drive me nuts (& bolts) about the city bus. We were halfway between two stops. He'd somehow fixed one of them to be "up" and the other to be "down", even though the place was as flat as it gets. "Did the bus go up?" - how do I know, I never understood which stop was up and which was down.
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>>>>Mad monkey bombers?
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>>>Seems like wasteful defense expenditure and there may be collateral damage of monkeys that are only neurotic.
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>>But neurotic monkeys create collateral damage.
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>>Oh sh... now you'll have to shoot me, right?