Re: Palo Alto residents protest unnecessary Caltrain electrification -- good for them!
Author: Max Wyss
Date: 04-26-2014 - 13:13
> "PAMPA" = Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton.
> (I myself had never heard that acronym until
> this post.)
This always makes me chuckle. In German, there is a colloquial term "in der Pampa", which means "out in the boonies", or "in the middle of nowhere"…