California

[lexlan]

You know you're from California if:

1. Your coworker has 8 body piercing and none are visible.

2. You make over $300,000 a year and still can't afford a house.

3. You take a bus and are shocked at two people carrying on a conversation in English.

4. Your child's 3rd-grade teacher has purple hair, a nose ring, and is named
Flower.

5. You can't remember. . is pot illegal?

6. You've been to a baby shower that has two mothers and a sperm donor.

7. You have a very strong opinion about where your coffee beans are grown, and you can taste the difference between Sumatran and Ethiopian.

8. You can't remember is pot illegal?

9. A really great parking space can totally move you to tears.

10. Gas costs $1.00 per gallon more than anywhere else in the U.S.

11. Unlike back home, the guy at 8:30 am at Starbucks wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses who looks like George Clooney really IS George Clooney.

12. Your car insurance costs as much as your house payment.

13. You can't remember .is pot illegal?

14. It's barely sprinkling rain and there's a report on every news station:
"STORM WATCH."

15. You pass an elementary school playground and the children are all busy with their cells or pagers.

16. It's barely sprinkling rain outside, so you leave for work an hour early to
avoid all the weather-related accidents.

17. HEY!!!! Is pot illegal????

18. Both you AND your dog have therapists.

19. The Terminator is your governor.

20. If you drive illegally, they take your driver's license. If you're here illegally, they want to give you one.

[MaverickAR]

ROFLMAO!!!

I had to copy that. Thanks for the laugh.

[Tallyho]

Sounds familiar and yet remember that California is a big place. 6th largest economy in the world and full of diverse people of all persuasions. Not everyone is from Hollywood or the Castro district. We have some of the most beautiful mountains in the world and yet hardly any of our population looks like extras from Deliverance. Keep in mind you wouldn't be able to post these messages without some California nut discovering silicone technology and changing the world. But we're not snobby, when Uncle Jed "discovered" oil shooting at some food, we welcomed him with open arms when he curiously moved to Bever-Lee. Someday we all hope to visit places like Arkansas where the state tree is a telephone pole or Tennessee where they play both kinds of music, country and western. In fact, some of us fruits and nuts may even get the opportunity as we ride to that internationally acclaimed, wine growing region in, ah, where was it now, Georgia? :p

[zaphod]

places like Arkansas where the state tree is a telephone pole :p

The state tree is Pine, it's the family tree that looks like a phone pole.

[waycoa]

Living in The Republic of Santa Cruz does have it's advantages. When i moved out to Palo Alto, CA from Utah looking for a more vibrant art scene, i found that the art scene in SLC was better than I'd thought. Even compared to the Bay Area.

The mc day trips within a day or so of here SC/Monterey are hard to beat; but many of my all time favorite roads are still in Utah.

We've got a bumper sticker out here Keep Santa Cruz Weird; it's just not on my VW van.

[Rayo]

In fact, some of us fruits and nuts may even get the opportunity as we ride to that internationally acclaimed, wine growing region in, ah, where was it now, Georgia? :p

Ah I believe that would the Golodcoast or central coast down here in the middle of state! Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo coutnies that is!

Oh no you weren't talking about that snooty area north of SF were you! LOL

[MaverickAR]

Well fortunately I have been to both places, Born in Merced raised in Cypress, CA and now live in NW Arkansas and its obvious you haven't been to Arkansas because we dont have telephone poles or electricity. :) True, Arkansas is not the 6 largest economy in the world, but we do have Wal-Mart (largest company in the world), Tyson Foods, (largest meat company in the world), and JB Hunt (largest trucking company in the world) all nestled in 2 counties here in NW Arkansas which happens to have been in the top 5 fastest growing areas in the country for the last 9 years in a row.

BTW...yes thanks for some Californian for inventing "Silicone" because I love larger breast, but Silcon which is used for computer micro chips was discovered by a swedish scientist in 1815 (in Europe not California). Yes, I said discovered because it is an element number 14 on periodic table of elements (7th most abundant in the universe and 2nd most abundant in the earths crust). Also, the Mark I the first computer made, wasn't invented in California either...it was NJ (Harvard).

btw...Thanks for the wine, love the movies! ;)

Peace out!

[Keith]

Dooooood, like... where umm... where do you get off...

like... saying that Cal is ... like all weird and.......... ummmmm. you

know.... the waves are cool! And like...... the chicks are bitchen.


What was I..........? Oh yeah... is like... pot illegal where you live???



That's soooo bogus. :abduct: