The spring NEARC fleamarket/swap meet is this Saturday 19 April in lovely Manchester, NH (or
Manch Vegas as it is inexplicably known to some).
www.nearc.net
The annual MIT flemarkets kick off this sunday 20 April in even lovelier Cambridge, MA (much more explicably known to most as
the People's Republic of Cambridge).
You have been warned.
EDIT: Good old Wikipedia...
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ManchVegas (also Manch-Vegas) is a local nickname for Manchester, New Hampshire. The term is a portmanteau of Manchester and Las Vegas. "ManchVegas" was derived from illegal gambling in local businesses during the late 1980s or early '90s. Many pizza shops and local bars had video poker machines that would pay out real money. The nickname was coined following a city-wide bust of these machines. It was then adopted as a lampoon of the city's limited entertainment opportunities. Recently the term has become a source of pride as the city's entertainment scene has grown...
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