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Reminiscing about his role as “Conan”, Gov. Schwarzenegger decided that the only way to get California out of debt was to invade and plunder his richer neighboring states.
(Arnold Schwarzenegger)
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Governor!!! What is Best in Life?
Good dentistry, soft toilet paper, and indoor plumbing…
you forgot comfortable shoes
And the occasional blow job.
I prefer them at least four times a week…
Why settle for so few?
We have kids in the home so we have to wait for them to go to bed before we do anything and some nights we have other things to attend.
JK, DWN!
You’re gonna have to learn… One way or the other.
Learn what? Didn’t do anything inappropriate, that I can see.
…You’re gonna have to learn you can’t joke with DWN without getting a TMI in response.
Ah! Thanks! Lesson internalized; brainbleach applied.
Sure. Here to help.
*blinks* Great… Now I feel like I did something wrong…
I don’t see anything wrong. Well, other than you guys brought up blow jobs and then dropped the topic.
DWN? TMI? Breack geek code anyone?
*break (haha, too fast for spelling nazis)
“DeathWyrmNexus,” and “Too Much Information.”
Thanks geeks, er… I mean guys.
LOL, geek would be more accurate in my case!
Just adding LOL to stretch the thread even more.
@Diss: always good to have you watching my back, love. Feels like a verbal massage.
God hun… Just imagine how foolish people would feel if -I- started with the tmi… in response to them…
Terry Pratchett FTW!
ah, didn’t know that one. i was going for the earl butz quote.
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Boone, a right-wing Republican, asked Butz why the party of Lincoln was not able to attract more blacks. The Secretary responded with a line so obscene and insulting to blacks that it forced him out of the Cabinet last week and jolted the whole Ford campaign. Butz said that “the only thing the coloreds are looking for in life are tight p00sy , loose shoes and a warm place to sh!t.”
h0…
The dentistry line is said by the legendary (Ghenghiz) Cohen the Barbarian. (A proper hero.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen_the_Barbarian
he had diamond teeth before they were popular…
Nevada sucks. So does Arizona. It’s fact.
Your usage of the word “you’re” sucks.
lawl.
I had to think “WHAR?”
Nice catch! LOL!
I was reading at hopeful. You know like little chicklets and ducklings who will look at just about anything and go “You’re mom?”
“I was reading IT AS hopeful” would’ve made more sense there.
he had diamond teeth before they were popular…
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because no one else could pry them out of a troll’s mouth…
lol. i love terry pratchett…
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be blessed that you will live in interesting times…
That’s a real tacky fantesy sword! Before I get flamed, yes I have some real nice blades made by master bladesmiths
Congrats?
Translation: He has Chicago Cutlery knives in his kitchen.
Best! Bad! Movie! Evah!
To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, to hear the lamentations of their women.
To be elected
To marry a Kennedy
And to hear the lamentations of the constituents…
As one of his constituents, I’d love to hear him say the line from Conan in a televised address…
What in the hell is going on here?
Ummm…budget cuts? I was wondering the same thing, actually.
I pondered if he was explaining to Bankers the evil they had wrought…
The weird thing is that really is either a replica or the actual sword used in the Conan movies, so I’d really love to know why he has it there.
Intimidation?
It would help get his points across.
Provided his point was in line.
I think it falls under the “I will stab you if you don’t agree” type of argument. Those always have the more valid point.
did you see what DWN did there?
more valid ‘point’
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get it?
I’m not sharp enough for your wit!
I will blame the grind of the day for you being dull.
Your irony is magnetic.
Foiled again!
You will epée for your insolence…
Put a bit more spin on it and they’ll get the
thrust of your argument.
Compensation for something else?
he carries his sword to trade for money?
It was the real deal. He even used it as a lame metaphor in the state of the state address.
click name
Termination Liz. Termination.
judging from the grins on the faces of the gentlemen in the background, the caption might actually capture the real conversation.
It’s a good contingency plan if the US ever truly Balkanised…
If we ever did, I would be seriously afraid of Cali trying to steal our water, first.
we already did that back in the 30s… check out chinatown and cadillac desert…
Would be interesting to see how the flyover states functioned without the massive federal income redistribution that they get from the coastal states every year. And yet they decry socialism…
Oh socialism, socialism! My heart doth bleed…
They already steal electricity from their neighboring states. If they went ahead and plundered the rest, it would be no surprise.
Why would other states allow California to steal their electricity? How would that even work? Do ‘electricity rustlers’ cross the border with very long extension cords? Here’s a tip: before posting, ask yourself “Is what I’m claiming so utterly ridiculous that the average four year old could refute it?” If the answer is ‘yes,’ you may want to refrain from posting it.
They wear hats brimmed with copper, I’m told…
we did swindle them on the electricity contracts for the hoover dam…
“Back in the olden days, my Pa was one a them ‘electrickery rustlers’ till the long arm a the law caught up with ‘em. It was the man with the shiny star and the megawatt smile that did it.”
Did he break Ohm’s law?
With Maxwell’s hammer?
while carrying jacob’s ladder?
And stirring in toe of frog and eye of Newton?
Shaving with Ocham’s Razor?
damnit
*Ockham’s
Dammit!
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* Occam’s
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I’m here to help, too
According to Wikipedia, either is acceptable.
This is why I love Eds.
Awww, thanks Jane! Back at ya, y’know!
I seen ‘em! I seen them electricity rustlers!! Them no good nicks been takin our electricity back to nineteen ought forty!
Yeah, if it were that funny. The last drought, we had to send them our extra electricy…however that works…to power their grids and all. They were supposed to pay. Last I heard, they still hadn’t held up their end of the bargain. Maybe Conan was brandishing his sword.
nineteen ought forty? you do realize that that would be 19040, right? 17000 years in the future?
You mean to you don’t have a flux capacitor? Hell, I thought everyone did!
Dang! No wonder I lost the auction for that sword on eBay.
Still, taking a weapon into a government office building? I’m betting that’s 50 kinds of illegal under CA laws.
Unfortunately, those neighboring states include Arizona and Nevada. Not much help there.
I bet Vegas is worth plundering.
Probably the only city left worthy pundering. Sin has been in for a long time and damn profitable.
Unfortunately, the real estate boom hit Las Vegas HARD, huge numbers of people moved there, and now that the recession has decimated tourism and the housing market has gone bust, there aren’t enough jobs to go around. Las Vegas is actually on of the cities most affected by the recession.
Who needs the T-Virus?
Resident Evil is pure win!
and now obama is not letting the corporate big wigs party there… so it’s just going to get worse… i bet you could pick up some gold leaf and neon lights for pretty cheap these days…
ya i have friends vegas. restaurants closing or cutting back hours. casinos cutting back staff. hotels closing off entire floors so they can cut back on staff.
it’s a huge union town, so people aren’t necessarily being fired or layed off, they’re just ‘not working’ so of course, not getting paid.
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i was out there toward the beginning of the housing boom – californians were being blamed for that too. they were filling in the desert between the strip and red rocks with more homes, hwys and shopping malls. people were waiting in line to buy homes that couldn’t be built fast enough.
not any more.
“people were waiting in line to buy homes that couldn’t be built fast enough.
not any more.”
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But that’s the American Way (well, it is if you’re Californian)!
yeah, that’s kind of the consumerism mentality isn’t it?
must be the same reason people wait in line three days to be amongst the first to buy an overpriced, shiny new toy, that two days later is going to available to everyone without waiting in line and 6 months later is going to be 1/2 the price and replaced by a newer shiner object.
…says the guy who was all excited about upgrading to a Kindle 2 until he found out it wasn’t really an upgrade.
Not that any of us are truly immune…
damn, caught me!
how dare you pay attention and use my own words against me
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but i was only going to e-wait in an e-line.
but yes, the object was shinier.
Tried to resist for a minute, but I just couldn’t.
resistance is futile
(and i really tried to resist that…)
You will be assimilated.
I used to have a bumpersticker that read “I am Dyslexic of Borg. futile is resistance, prepare to have your ass laminated!”
not really germane to the topic, but I just thought I’d share.
That is fantastic.
Damn you and your new facts, killing out my old facts with your big words and your small difficult words…
Newer shinier facts..
Dude, they already have. Living in Seattle, the whole damn town is Californians. Go home! You ruined your state and made it uninhabitable, so quit trying to bring your tired bay-area philosophies to our area.
What an a-hole! What do you want to this person just got laid off at Burger King? Do they steal your lattes?
Speaking as an Oregonian, I have to agree with him. I’ve known several beautiful Oregon communities where it’s now impossible for someone working minimum wage (read: most of the service industry) to afford housing, because Californians have driven the real estate rates through the roof.
Actually, he has a very good point, but I wouldn’t limit it to Californians. I have also seen communities go to hell because of the people from New York. Personally, I would rather deal with the people from California, at least they tend to raise property values, not lower them when they move into your town. Otherwise, the country as a whole would be much better off if we forced every person from California who want to move to another state to have an exit visa.
That’s basically what has happened in Montana, except, none of the californians or new yorkers or tourists stay long, they can’t stand the cold. they just buy super expensive houses in the middle of nowhere, so montana has a high property tax and luxury tax instead of a sales tax.
that…and they get killed in yellowstone, word to the wise don’t pet the buffalo,
“don’t put the buffalo”
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or the deer…
yeah, seattle is such a great place to live… it has the highest suicide rate in the nation…
Haha, Seattle has such an inferiority complex towards San Francisco and California in general. It goes far beyond the normal anti-californication sentiments, probably because Seattle is so similar to San Francisco: port city, built on hills, green and lefty, software and tourism focused (San Francisco made more money from financial firms, but Seattleites are probably happy they didn’t copy San Francisco in that one regard.)
When you hear a Washingtonian say things like that, you need to realize their motivation. They want to keep Californians out. The state hasn’t been ruined, it’s quite wonderful. All this rain you hear about? Lies, the place is sunny and balmy all the time. There are no such things as man eating slugs (although you can probably find a man eating slugs up there, they even have cook books! Slugaroni and cheese is one of my favorites.)
In short, you Seattleites should probably enact the plan of one of your local journalists and grow the ever present blackberry brambles that are slowly devouring the state into a giant Anti-Californian Dome. (But if you see someone in Seattle with blackberry brambles growing out of the back of their neck, RUN!) The dome would also provide shade from the glaring light of the sun that is ALWAYS shining up there (like I said, don’t believe the lies, Seattle is actually the sunniest place in the US!)
It has more serial killers…
That is probably why Seattle started the collectible series, “Killer Cereal Bowls” featuring the portraits of famous serial killers. I’ve got the Green River Strangler and Robert Lee Yates.
I’ve got Daniel Yates and Morris Frampton.
I should look into those, we’ve got Jeffrey Dahmer and Ed Gein representing the great state of Wisconsin. I really think Jefferey Dahmer should have been given a cool nickname though, the “Green River Strangler” just sounds so badass.
I think you get a cool nickname when the media and/or law enforcement becomes aware of your killing pattern before they know who you are. In general, anyway.
That, and if the killer writes to news or law enforcement,
giving himself a nickname, like the Zodiac Killer (I believe)
did.
Oh, good point!
that’s what Jack the Ripper did. I think he was the first to give himself a nickname but i’m probably wrong
It was most likely a journalist…
the only letter that likely came from the
Whitechapel Murderer was signed ‘Catch Me
When You Can’
They could have gone with “Hell,” after his
“from Hell” return address.
For creepiness, it’s hard to beat Houston’s “Candyman.”
He was Dean Corrl, who managed to kill 27 boys before his
capture.
“Thank you for calling Dahmer’s Diner, where we’d love to have you for dinner!”
Really? All I got was Peter Frampton.
Peter Frampton was a serial killer?
Well, he DID use electronic devices to disguise his voice. If that wasn’t a trick to throw off the cops I don’t know what else it could have been.
You’re right! He’s never been caught, either…
Don’t forget that Charles Manson spent a bunch of time in WA (before the crazy killings started). He hung out with the Love’s. Bunch of crazy ass hippie commune cultish people. They had killer parties. But if you wanted to join them, you had to give them all of your property and be prepared to share your woman with all the men. They moved over to Eastern Washington somewhere. They have a bunch of money, and for whatever reason one of the first telescopes ever made ( i think like the 3rd one or something). Yeah, when you don’t see the sun from November-May, the serial killer part of you just starts to take over I guess. For everyone else, it’s just passive-agressiveness.
seattle? blech. surrounded by beautiful mountains, rivers and forest, the city is filled with some of the most unpleasant and unfriendly people i’ve ever had the displeasure being around. you couldn’t pay me enough to live amongst people so rude and selfish.
Fookya, then.
Well, that was friendly…
nah, he’s not a true seattleite – they just ignore you, unless they need something.
Agreed!
Wow, really? You must have been in the wrong part, because rudeness and selfishness are not terms I’d use to describe the average Seattleite. “Moist” and “pale” are the terms I’d use. Well, you know what they say, ‘data’ is not the plural of ‘anecdote.’ And ‘Your experiences are not a random sample of the human experience.’
And my personal favorite, “The only common factor in all your unsatisfying relationships is YOU.”
in all of my satisfying ones too
not rude in the same way that NYers or bostonians are ‘accused’ of being rude (and which N. NJ-ites actually fulfill), but rude as in extraordinarily clich-ish (sp) distrusting, angry.
what i found from my time there, and confirmed to me by friends who lived there for several years after my time there, was that they are not welcoming to new people. (Tourist sites/industry is different of course – tourists are their paycheck)
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if you’re not in a tourist area:
if you’re not a regular in a restaurant, count on being ignored until you go and get them
if you’re in a store, count on an amazing amount of attitude and god help you if you have questions
i was in a convenience store once, picked up one of the many items on the counter at checkout to see what it was. the cashier, somewhat agitated says ‘are you gonna buy that’. I said, ‘what is it’? he grabbed it out of my hand and yelled at me to ‘get out’.
there are no pleasantries exchanged between strangers on the street.
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i could go on, but i won’t. i know there are wonderful people there too, but i had more than enough. i hear vancouver is the same, on steroids, and while i haven’t spent time in portland, i hear it’s got all the positives of seattle and pretty much none of the negatives.
oh yeah, don’t forget, ‘objects in mirror are closer than they appear’.
I’d have to agree. If you ask a stranger “how’s it going?” you get looked at like you must have escaped off the looney bus, or you get a rude comment back. Don’t try telling someone you don’t know “hello” either. And Seattle might just be the passive-aggressive capital of the US, although I’ve heard Portland might give them a run for their money. But even all that being said, I still love Seattle. Even with all the jerks and rich jerks. And jerky rich people. And the homeless jerks.
ahh, now you’re just jerking us around…
passive-aggressive works, so does aggressively-passive
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i really have to say i was shocked. it’s not at all what i expected.
in montreal walking down the street, people refuse to look at you. they look down or to the side to avoid any eye-contact. it’s so strange to me. i’m used to people smiling and saying hi to each other when they pass on the street. i’m not saying it’s wrong, it’s just strange to me.
Yeah, it’s wierd. When I lived in MI (now there’s a shit-hole) it was common place to talk with strangers, and make eye contact.
parts of MI are beautiful. (not detroit of course). the UP,
around sioux st. marie, marquette or down in the traverse city area
Montreal is full of French Canadians. And you know what they say, “The only thing worse then a Frenchman is a Frenchman living in Canada.” You bring up a whole new dynamic when you start talking about Quebec. You want to talk about rude, Seattleites have nothing on French Canadians.
You know you suck when both The French and The Canadians hate you. Way to stay in the 1500s Quebec!
i know! how did that happen?
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i find the people in montreal to be fairly friendly if you have reason to interact with them, such as in a store, restaurant, bar or social gathering. i have just found that they really value their personal space out in public, and would rather not acknowledge your existence unless they have to.
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i like the city and get up there when i can
When my kids went on a trip to Boston last year, I warned them in advance not to expect people to be smiling and making eye contact with strangers on the street because that’s just (in my experience) not done in the northeast. Also that they don’t have sweet tea and don’t even seem to understand what it is.
bostonians get a bum-rap i think. it’s not so much that they’re rude, it’s just that they are very very direct. i fit in just fine
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if you go to a place like durgan park then you’re literally asking to be treated like sh!t. they exist so that tourists can get the ‘boston experience’ and go home to tell their friends about it. most of the rest of boston is filled with extremely warm and friendly people who would go out of their way to help strangers. it’s one of the biggest and freshest melting-pots in the nation since it has hundreds of colleges which attract people from around the world. a fresh set of people every fall.
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no, they probably don’t have sweet tea, but do you know what a frap is? how about a packy? PSDS?
did your kids have fun?
They had an absolute blast! And my warning wasn’t directed at Bostonians in particular so much as the northeastern US in general.
ROFL! Yes, the rudeness is part of the schtick at Durgan Park; I’ve had waitresses refuse to take my dessert order because I didn’t finish my vegetables. I’ve been a New Englander all my life, so Boston feels normal to me – it’s a little like what you said above about Montreal, where people have to have a reason to interact with you. Compound that with the problem that hardly anyone can give directions in Boston because hardly anyone’s from there.
OTOH, there are times and places where I’ve encountered a sense of community there like nowhere else in the world. Red Sox fans for instance – true fans, not Johnny-come-latelies in fashion color caps. Or on the smoking corner just outside Mass General Hospital [link].
the waitresses at durgan park (at least the original at faneuil hall) are like shecky greene, and don rickles wrapped in a joan crawford, loving but stern mother figure.
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i actually know the corner you’re talking about. i had friends who lived just up mass ave from there in worcester square, and there’s a great local diner just south of there – can’t remember the name.
I’ve lived in the Boston area since ‘87, and still haven’t been to Durgin Park. But I think I can explain part of the directness of the Northeast–it’s too darned cold much of the time, and folks don’t want to stay outside being polite and lose body parts!
it’s a place to take out of town guests who’ve never been to boston, who are disappointed that bostonians aren’t ‘rude’ enough. otherwise, there are so many wonderful restaurants in the area, it’s not worth going to this one – imho
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do you know the cottonwood cafe? texmex with great margaritas.
it’s been a while since i’ve been up there.
Gyuhama across from the pru on boylston was good sushi
hell i love au bon pan
Border Café just off Harvard Square, across the alley from Passim. Excellent texmex back in the day, though it was years ago that I last ate there…and maragaritas you had to hold with both hands even before you start drinking.
i remember border cafe, but i don’t remember passim. it’s been a few years since i’ve been to either too, but cottonwood was better imho
[link] – their website
they used to change the entrees every three months and have had things link elk, buffalo, rabbit, rattlesnake etc, but the menu that’s posted now shows a revised date of may08, so i don’t know if they’re not changing the menu any longer, or if they haven’t updated the site. i think the last time i was up there would have been fall of ‘07(?)
It is why I plan to avoid coastal cities at all costs… If I could afford to travel comfortably, I believe I would end up not bothering because people love to induce my hatred towards mankind by doing their best man as an aggressive island nation impression.
come spend a weekend in laguna beach, ca and i’ll prove to you that coastal cities are not all bad…
You just want to get me stoned and have your vile CA way with me… Again… For the first time…
haha… maybe…. just make sure to bring lynn…
Yes, because nothing says defense against ubr like a 5′ 3″ woman best described as a silly kitten…
Portland is an awesome city, I lived there for awhile while I was homeless. friendly people, always something to do. Waterfront park is awesome on saturdays in the summer.
that’s generally why we dislike them coming over here to montana
Sigh. Yes, we “Californians” ruined our state.
Of course, as a native Californian (one of about seven above the age of 30, as nears as I can tell) I have no concept of how annoying it might be if people from other states (or countries, for that matter) came in and inflated your real estate prices beyond what anyone might consider reasonable. And the reports I’ve heard of Californians going to other states and driving up the cost of homes is just outrageous! I mean, here in California we’d never allow people (especially Californians) to hold guns to the heads of home-sellers forcing them to take MORE money for their property than they really wanted, and it just sickens me that “Californians” are getting away with it in other states. Wouldn’t it be terrible to wonder where your own children will be able to live, knowing they could never hope to buy a house in the area where they grew up? Good thing that isn’t a problem he…oh, wait…crap.
I don’t think you have the fully story. What normally happens is someone from California rolls into town, takes a look around, and decides they want to settle there. They then start flashing huge wads of cash hoping to entice the person to sell. They then tell their friends back in California, “Hey, found a great place and was dirt cheap (by California standards). You ought to come check it out!” Next thing you know, half the damn state has settled in.
Apparently my comment was too subtle. Sorry.
That’s ok, I lived in California for 20+ years. When I moved, they took down the dead end sign.
bodo’s right. During the dotcom crap, lots of my friends moved to oakland, fremont – wherever they could. I have a friend who’s a 3rd generation SF native (the Sunset), she & her husband probably make the most money of anyone I know, and the closest they could even *think* of affording a house was Livermore, about 1 and 1/2 hours away. On a good day. Bad day, about 2 hours.
And damn, I miss them.
I will also note that one of my friends, unable to find a job – an epidemiologist, and she was willing to relocate to wherever – has given up and moved to Australia.
I’m sure they will be complaining soon.
Well, after all, there are only what, 36,000,000+ Californians? And we are, obviously, all the same. I mean, even though we’re the leading provider of vegetables, fruits, nuts (get over it on the fruits and nuts, please – i. e. “grow up”), meat and dairy products to the entire US, and even though we’ve been rated as the 8th largest economy IN THE WORLD (does anyone even get this?), yes, we’re all liberal weirdos with alternate lifestyles who, somehow (although this part has never been explained to me in any sort of logical fashion) cause the rest of the U. S. to languish in Liberal Heck.
I’ll have to tell my wife and kids that we’re just not conforming to the California Stereotype of far-left weirdness and we’ve got to break free of our suburban roots. I’m sure that, as Californians, they’ll be able to meet the challenge (or we’ll ship them up to Seattle or Denver, per the existing plan…oh crap! I wasn’t supposed to reveal…is this still on? Dang!).
I have to go now and prepare tin-foil helmets for the family…
Do you know why California has not slid into the ocean yet? There’s a wingnut on every corner holding it down. Ahahahaha, I crack myself up. Seriously though, California is a nice place, I loved living there.
well then orange county must be one of the most unmovable places on the planet.
I agree with (what I think is) the point of your post. Not all Californians are bad, and no, it’s really not fair to speak in generalizations. BUT, they do say a few bad apples spoil the bunch. It’s just like any other nationality/race/religion/social category. A few people from that category are asses, and they get noticed by the rest, thus making a bad name for all people of that particular category. Saying all Californians are bad is like saying “All pop singers are pedophiles” because you saw Michael Jackson in the news.
do you have some proof that they’re not?
well, no.. alright.. you have a good point
What! There are 36 million pop stars out there! I should just kill myself now.
amen man.
People are bashing cali? lol i went to a supermarket in NH and saw a whole section in the produce section labeled “California Produce.” wanna know why CA has the 8th largest economy in the world (for those of you who dont know what that means: our state makes more money than MOST OF THE REST OF THE WORLD)? its because we sell our produce, make bank, then buy it cheap for ourselves from mexico. and to rub salt in the wound, those of you who’re in states that ARENT california: France makes more money than you. yeah.
Also, i happened to notice that 7 of the top 50 tourist spots were in seattle… oh wait no. thats still CA.
There are more songs about CA than any other state-nay, any other place in the world!
I wish they all could be california girls
california dreaming
california knows how to party
california here we come, right back where we started from
do you know the way to san jose?
Dani California
Californication
the list goes on.
(and somehow the state song is… “i love you california.” lamest song EVER.)
All I have to say is…
This picture HAS to be a fake. The sword looks photoshopped in. The Conan Sword is a 2 handed broadsword and that isn’t a 2 handed broadsword.
ahhhhhnnnd penis.
LOL–Nice catch!
it’s actually Kirstie Alley’s butterknife.
[LINK]
I know you’re just doing a variation on the “SHOPPED!” thing, but I’m pretty sure it’s the same sword…
Seth –
Seattle is not the sunniest city in the US. Western Washington is not that sunny. It does rain here alot. But not as much as it does in the Louisiana/Georgia area, or even D.C. for that matter. I believe Olympia is the only city in WA to crack the top ten rainiest major cities in the US. However, it has the perception of being the rainiest city because it is constantly grey here. It doesn’t get above 80 degrees but for maybe 3 weeks from July-August. It’s generally about 55-65, grey, drizzley and foggy. If you go out onto the Penninsula however, there is the rainforests you could visit if you really want to see some rain. But to say it’s sunny here all the time is an extreme exageration. The most realistic description of the weather in Western Washington would have to be “depressingly mild”. Which is why people here are asked to take extra Vitamin D (since they see so little sun shine) and the rates of certain types of cancer here are higher. And to be honest, there are alot of people in Seattle that love San Fran, but enjoy similar ammenities here at a lower price.
ahhhnnnd holy sh*t you’re stupid. You may want to get fitted with a sarcasmometer, pal.
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Don’t be offended please, it’s just a public service announcement for the rest of those who post here.
Oh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that’s a really useful invention!
Wait, what? Are you saying that Seattle is less expensive that San Francisco?
Get out!
Wait, if that’s true (and I’m not saying it is, or anything), doesn’t that mean we should be blaming those Evile Californians (yet again) for driving up THEIR OWN prices?
Son of a crap! There’s just no end to their perfidy…
I don’t care what you say, they’re definitely the most evile-est ever (no one could top that kind of evilitude…er. infamy? Evile Badness! Whatever!).
Oh, and (totally sidebar), my Mother-in-law (RIP – she grew up near North Bend Indiana) finished her undergrad work at UW and didn’t even get a glimpse of Mt. Rainier for something like the first six months or more…
lol. Yeah, I lived on First Hill, and on my walk home, there were a very few days that I had a perfect vantage point to look right at it on an I-5 overpass. But when I moved there, I didn’t know it was there for like 3 months, and then one day, Holy shit! look at that mountain! Oh, and then there was the 36 days of straight rain (which meant that I didn’t see the sun for like 40 days)
want to see Mt. Rainier? two words:
air plane
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everything save for the most elite of the elite neighborhoods, is less expensive than SF – i kid i kid, but not by much
I’ve only been to Seattle once for a few days and, as it turned out, we were able to see Mt. Rainier (that was, in fact, when I learned of my Mother-in-law’s experiences in re. Mt. Rainier) at some point.
It is a beautiful mountain. and from the right vantage point, on a clear day, you can see it from really far away. I can see it driving through Arlington (it’s called google maps people)
See what I mean? Native Seattleites lie about the weather because they don’t want you to move there. Have you noticed? They are the only ones claiming it’s rainy. When was the last time you heard someone NOT from Seattle claim the place is rainy? They go to great lengths to fool tourists, too: sprayers, foggers, and wind machines are cleverly hidden all over the tourist areas. This guy is probably in a professional tanning league, hoping to keep other professional tanners from learning the Seattle Secret. Just go there, you’ll see. Totally sunny all the time.
didn’t they pass a local ordinance recently which required locals to cover all exposed skin with white make-up if they were going out in public?
i think the intent was to hide their deep, dark tans from the tourists.
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you know, i seem to remember seeing a lot of hawaiians head up that way to work on their ‘natural’ tans for their tourists
Ah, yes–the Seattle tan. [LINK]
see, that’s proof of what i said. that’s her public look. here [link] is how she really looks.
Wow! Tanning makes you look nourished and off heroin, too?
only seattle tanning, ’cause you know, everything’s healthier up there, even the sun.
did you ever watch futurama? you know the old lady fat suit ‘mom’ wore in public? i think that’s how it is with courtney. the skinny, pasty-white, heroin addicted, 5 minutes from death look is just the ’suit’ the tourist board pays her to wear.
she’s really a swimsuit model, anthropologist, champion rugby player.
I have some of her chess moves in books. That lady has
certainly done a lot in her life. I heard she even had a
bath once…
republican lies…
New tourism slogan.
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Seattle — this place is rainy and wet. Stay the f*ck out.
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The preceeding PSA was brought to you by the Seattle Insolationists Group, Bill Gates, Overlord.
(Just to be clear, Adam, I grew up in West Seattle and Bellevue. I still have permanent rust marks. Do you remember that day in ‘77 when summer fell on a Sunday and we all went on a picnic? Yeah, I was there when we all saw that UFO, too, only it turned out to be the sun, remember that? And I still have my Slug Cookbook, though the slugs found in other parts of the country are totally inferior to the Washington Banana Slug, especially for deserts. Say, do you guys still have caymans in Green Lake?)
Banana slugs eat their genitalia.
/random
But we still let them vote… Or were you meaning the animal?
They are also sexually attracted to fire, oh wait, that’s the Screamapillar. But they are oddly drawn to camp fires. When I was camping in the Hoh Rainforest, I saw about a dozen of the squicky things commit suicide on my camp fire. Ah, I love the smell of burnt banana slugs in the morning… it smells like victory!
Doesn’t smell like fried bananas, then?
at least they are not eating YOUR genitalia..
the pop stars?
no, the banana slugs, scroll up a few posts.
yes i knew that, but thanks for playing our game.
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as a consolation prize you’ll be getting cookbook entitled, How to Serve Banana Slugs, including:
Banana Slug Daiquiri
Banana Slug Flambé
Banana Slug Vince Foster (a favorite of Hillary’s)
Banana Slug Split
perhaps a Dead Elvis Special? tainted peanut butter, banana slug, and bacon. Fried.
One more joke for my friends from the pacific northwest: what do you get when you cross a geoduck and an owl? A twelve inch mussel that stays up all night! Budump-cha, thank you, thank you, try the server, it’s delicious, and be sure to tip your veal!
WTF is a geoduck? My first thought was a Pokemon, my second was a small amphibious 4×4 (think Geo Tracker + DUKW amphibious military vehicle)
It’s the most disgusting clam thing you’ve ever seen … [link]
that is disgusting. but not the most disgusting “clam thing” i’ve ever seen. we’ll leave it at that.
It’s a weird little mussel that lives under the sand, and is pronounced ‘goo-ey-DUCK’. There’s a link under my name of a pic.
i saw mike rowe harvest them on dirty jobs… quite terrible looking…
That’s the only exposure I have to them, thanks to Mike Rowe. They’re just nasty looking, especially when they’re fertilizing each other. Pron never had a money shot like a geoduck has.
LOL, oh I needed that this morning….
Sorry, didn’t read between the lines. The sun got in my eyes
Funny caption, but for those who might believe it:
California has no richer neighboring states. In fact, there’s no state anywhere that’s richer. It’s about 70% richer than #2, Texas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_(nominal)
OTOH, we have an AFU legislature where a minority party was able to prevent passage of the budget created by the (not quite 2:1) majority party. The hold-outs essentially held California’s public hostage with demands for a budget that suits their discredited ideology.
ha ha, Texas is #2. #2 is a euphemism for poop. Therefore, Texas is poop.
“Excuse me, I have to go Texas…”
I’m putting that on a bumper sticker
[LINK]
How come I haven’t heard any republican outrage about The Governator disrespecting the Executive Office by not wearing a suit jacket?