jeff@heurikon.UUCP (01/28/84)
I had occasion a few times this week to be talking with some
people in Long Beach, CA. The phone connection was pretty bad.
There were random *loud* clicks. The kind that hurt your ears.
I wasn't sure if it was my phone or theirs, so when the problem
continued the next day I asked them if their phone system was
working properly.
"Oh yes!" they said. "Our phones are okay, it's just the wind
blowing the wires together on the telephone poles."
It must *really* be bad out there. I always thought California
was some sort of "paradise". But look at what's been happenning
over the past few years:
Killer winds
Mud slides
Volcanoes (well, all right, that's not CA, but from back here
it's close enough)
Fires all over the place
Earthquakes
I figured I had better send this now, just in case the *big one*
comes and California slides into the Pacific.
Okay, Californians, now's your chance. Flame away and tell us
why California is so great and how <wherever else> doesn't make
the grade.
--
/"""\ Jeffrey Mattox, Heurikon Corp, Madison, WI
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\_=_/ ihnp4!heurikon!jeff (mail)gam@proper.UUCP (01/29/84)
A word from the San Francisco Bay Area:
I have been talking to many interviewees lately, some from the East.
A great ice-breaker (as it were) is to discuss the weather. A week
ago, it went something like this:
Me: "Well, it's been quite cold out here [CA] lately."
Them: "What do you mean by `cold'?"
Me: "Oh, golly -- down into the 40's and 30's!"
(They sigh).
What I call `brisk' they call `warm'.
This week we've been getting record-breaking high's in SF
(upper 60's-70's) for this time of year.
California (the Bay Area in particular), in my opinion, is God's Choosen
Spot on Earth, but I suppose the rest of you are living where-ever
you are because you like it there, yourselves. Don't you? (*half-smirk*)
--
Gordon A. Moffett
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hplabs!intelca!proper!gamfaunt@hplabsc.UUCP (Doug Faunt) (01/30/84)
Its really awful here, the weather is bad, we have droughts, winds, lots of rain, high prices and too many people. You don't ever want to come here. You should just leave us here in misery. OK?
clyde@ut-ngp.UUCP (Clyde W. Hoover) (01/30/84)
Sounds like a damn good idea to me! (Staying away from CA)
Just think of the famous people that state has given us:
James Jones, Charlie Manson, Jerry Brown, and Richard Nixon...
--
Clyde W. Hoover @ Univ. of Texas Computation Center; Austin, Texas
(Shouter-To-Dead-Parrots)
clyde@ut-ngp.{UUCP,ARPA} clyde@ut-sally.{UUCP,ARPA} ihnp4!ut-ngp!clydera@rlgvax.UUCP (Rick Adams) (02/02/84)
Now, now. Let's give credit where credit is due. Jim Jones, Charles Manson and Richard Speck are all from Indianapolis (or at least somewhere in Indiana). This "fun fact" was from the Indianapolis Star back when Jonestown was big news.
ags@pucc-i (Seaman) (02/03/84)
> Now, now. Let's give credit where credit is due. > > Jim Jones, Charles Manson and Richard Speck are all from > Indianapolis (or at least somewhere in Indiana). > This "fun fact" was from the Indianapolis Star back when Jonestown > was big news. You forgot Bill and Emily Harris of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Then there's always John Dillinger. All from the state of Indiana. Also from Indiana, and in a perverse mood... -- Dave Seaman ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags "Against people who give vent to their loquacity by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."
edhall@randvax.ARPA (Ed Hall) (02/06/84)
-------- Yup; heard on the radio the other day that California got more Federal disaster funds in 1983 than any other state (and this in one of the most wildfire-free years on record!). Nice to see Uncle Ronnie takes care of his own. :-) P.S. It's all a plot to keep you folks from joining us out here. When I hear about sub-freezing weather almost everywhere else when I'm out in my shirtsleeves... well... yeah, just keep thinking about the wind, fires, floods, and earthquakes. -Ed Hall Rand Corporation Santa Monica, CA decvax!randvax!edhall
stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP (Don Stanwyck) (02/06/84)
Or, as I heard this last weekend: When California was admitted to the union, and many times a year since, the government uses a secret tool to stand the country up on end, and all the loose screws end up in southern California. -- ________ ( ) Don Stanwyck @( o o )@ 312-979-3062 ( || ) Cornet-367-3062 ( \__/ ) ihnp4!ihuxr!stanwyck (______) Bell Labs @ Naperville, IL
plaskon@hplabsc.UUCP (Dawn Plaskon) (02/10/84)
I'll never say it's great out here. Horrible, just horrible. You should all stay back east with the snow, the cold, and the ice and allow us to be miserable in peace.
bbanerje@sjuvax.UUCP (02/15/84)
While you're enduring earthquakes floods and the like in
California, we are enjoying the Winter Wonderland out here
in the Northeast (sort of!).
Getting cooked on the beach gives you Skin Cancer. It's
amazing what you Californians will undergo to get skin color
like mine (I'm of Indian Extraction).
You can have California. I think I'll go skiing.
--
Binayak Banerjee
{allegra | astrovax | bpa | burdvax}!sjuvax!bbanerjechuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (02/19/84)
To the person who suggests that we can keep California while he goes
skiing:
For your information, there is very good skiing available to almost
every part of California with less than a 2 hour drive (except LA,
which doesn't count, of course. They have a 4 hour drive). This sounds
to me like having the cake and eating it too... And we don't get stuck
with snow when we DON'T want to ski...
--
From the house at Pooh Corner: Chuq 'Nuke Wobegon' Von Rospach
{fortune,menlo70}!nsc!chuqui Have you hugged your Pooh today?
It's showtime, folks!fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) (02/20/84)
Floods? Earthquakes? What are those? Besides, California is the
only state I know of where the snow behaves itself. It only falls
in the mountains, where it belongs. The rest of the state just gets
wet...
I think I'll go skiing *and* get a tan... (Look out Tahoe!)
Erik E. Fair
dual!fair@BERKELEY.ARPA
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Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, Californiadrb@druri.UUCP (BurrittDR) (02/21/84)
You have got be kidding when you say california skiing is very good. Apparently you have never skiied anywhere else (try Montana, Idaho, Utah, or Colorado). I lived in LA for one year and went skiing a couple of times. The following is a list of what I found EVERY ski area in California to offer: 1. 80 zillion people on the slopes 2. 80 zillion people in the lift line 3. have to buy your ski ticket in advance if you want to ski on the weekend (forget any last minute decisions to go skiing) 4. minimum of $20 lift passes 5. no concept of powder I must admit I have no personal experience with northern california skiing but have talked to several people and they said that it is the same.
cdanderson@watarts.UUCP (02/22/84)
For truly fabulous skiing with no lines try, if at all affordable,
helicopter skiing in the Bugaboo's, Cariboo's, or Monashee's. These are
mountain ranges in beautiful British Columbia with bottomless powder (try
skiing with a snorkel, it's incredible).
Among regular resorts, Todd or Panorama mountains in B.C., or any of
the Big Three (Sunshine, Lake Louise, Norquay) in Alberta offer fresh powder
almost daily. As well, on the latter three one is above tree line for most of
the runs so wide-open bowls with incredible moguls are common (YEAHH!!).
For people who really enjoy skiing followed by sun tanning at beach-side,
try Morocco, New Zealand, or Chile (if the dictatorship changes).
There is more to the world than the U.S.A., even if it is trying to be
everywhere.
I'd rather be skiing,
Cameron Anderson
watarts!cdanderson
formerly living in Alberta, skiing everywhere!
p.s. Yes, the skiing in the U.S. Rockies is good but the prices & lineups,
terrible!
|-) |-) |-) |-)berry@zehntel.UUCP (02/28/84)
#R:heurikon:-18600:zinfandel:8200070:000:340 zinfandel!berry Feb 16 08:51:00 1984 >>Just think of the famous people that state has given us: >> James Jones, Charlie Manson, Jerry Brown, and Richard Nixon... Hey! Don't forget Uncle Ronnie, ex-governer of CA. You're all correct, CA is a lousy place, you're better off where you are. (Hee hee) Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900