On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:

> I have walked to school uphill both ways through--ok, it was only two feet
> of snow, but it *was* uphill both ways.


No, it could not have been uphill both ways. That's the point of the
aphorism "I walked uphill both ways". In our reality there could only be a
net increase in elevation in one direction. When someone claims to have
"walked uphill both ways" they are exaggerating, usually for ironic effect.
When you say "it *was* uphill both ways" you're implying it was literally
true. Which is impossible.

-- 
Kurtis Rader
Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank