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Having been Voiced
All us Californi@s look alike from the Village.
Posted by: Chris Clarke
Note: A database glitch in 2008 ate a bunch of archived comments. Don't be offended if yours isn't here, or confused if the conversation seems disjointed. Thanks!
Of course, my understanding of the world tails off at about the Sierras. There are the lovely White Mountains past that, and then I think that dragons roam around in mesas or something before you get to a big huge cliff that drops off forever.
By: By Megan on 2008 03 20
Truckee: gateway to Europe.
By: By Chris Clarke on 2008 03 20
What is Europe?
By: By Megan on 2008 03 20
Megan, you may know it better by the Bush pronunciation - “Yurp”.
By: By Rob G on 2008 03 20
Isn’t Lake Lahontan, and then some big ice-sheets, out past Truckee?
By: By Fred Levitan on 2008 03 20
Calcutta is the state between Oklahoma and Connetticcutt right?
By: By R. Mildred on 2008 03 20
That would be Okalkutta.
By: By Chris Clarke on 2008 03 20
*guffaws*
...then remembers she’s at work, whoops!
By: By embee on 2008 03 20
And as I’ve always suspected: the south is totally nonexistent.
By: By Daisy on 2008 03 20
I particularly appreciated how Utah is south of Las Vegas. Um. not.
By: By sravana on 2008 03 20
I always think of California as one big blob of Californiosity.
By: By Mandos on 2008 03 21
I once had an Easterner insist to me, heatedly and vociferously, that Iowa is south of South Dakota and north of Nebraska. Nothing would convince him—not even telling him that I grew up in Iowa and had some firsthand knowledge of the subject. Unfortunately we were nowhere near a map at the time.
Does anyone besides me remember the Duck’s Breath Mystery Theatre parody of Oh Calcutta?
Oh, Calcutta!
Kama Sutra, Yoga and the re-est!
Oh, Calcutta!
Conway Twitty!
Of all the English colonies you’re the best!
By: By Charles on 2008 03 21
Mandos, Mandos, Mandos.
By: By Chris Clarke on 2008 03 21
Bah. Those words aren’t right. The old memory is fading on me.
By: By Charles on 2008 03 21
Hee.
I remember at least one acquaintance in the Midwest wondering whether I ever “just” visited San Francisco for the weekend on a whim - when I was living in San Diego.
Um… no.
This misunderstanding of the scale of California geography goes back a good ways—I remember reading a bit of correspondence from the 1930s (or 1920s - it’s been a while) between the BIA headquarters back in DC and the local agent for Southern California, in which the agent was trying to explain why, yes, he did need a car to administer all of the reservations in the area (which ran from north of LA, east to the area around Joshua Tree, and south to the border - which even today requires at minimum 4 hours one way to go from one corner to the next, driving like a nut during off hours on modern freeways), and that, unlike what his superior thought, San Francisco was not just down the road from Los Angeles.
By: By Rachel Shaw on 2008 03 21
I remember at least one acquaintance in the Midwest wondering whether I ever “just” visited San Francisco for the weekend on a whim - when I was living in San Diego.
Um… no.
And my feelings are still hurt.
Snif.
By: By Chris Clarke on 2008 03 21
*pat pat*
Shall I fling a virtual chocolate at you? :)
By: By Rachel Shaw on 2008 03 21
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