ricker 0 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 so I'm sitting here eating a delicious carne asada burrito and I can't help but thinking about how much I LOVE living in SoCal.1) I'm 15 minutes from the Mexican border so there are plenty of people here that know how to make great mexican food.I lived in Dallas for two years and the crap that is known as tex-mex doesnt come anywhere close to what real mexican food should taste like. Anywhere other than California doesn't know how to make a decent Carne Asada burrito. New York? I don't even think what they serve there is legally considered mexican food.2) Poker is legal in California so at any time I'm not more than 40 minutes away from a casino spreading a good hold 'em gameThis was done back in the 50's to let the Judges keep their games going and legal.3) There are more beautiful women per capita in California than anywhere else in the world AINEC.4) We're the worlds 4th largest economy....SUCK ON THAT TREBEK!5)EDIT: (cause I got called out on it) We get on average 333 clear sun shiny days. Now, I'm not one to dismiss the downsides cause there are certaintly.1) We're the hotbed of illegal immerigration right now. So it can be difficult getting places with all the protests going on.2) Our govenor made Last Action Hero....nuff said... :(3) Our legistslature legalized marijuana...then took it away in the ultimate cocktease. As a matter of fact, I'd say we have the most dsylexic legislature out there.California is cool...Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying states like Montana or New Hampshire suck or anything like that. I'm just really happy I live in So Cal...Thanks for reading Link to post Share on other sites
XX44466XX 0 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Alex Trebek is now working as a pit boss in Harveys Lake Tahoe.I swear it was him.OK, maybe not, but it really looked like him.PS We need a new guv'nor...PPS NorCal grows better so we can tax fools from SoCal-thx guys! Link to post Share on other sites
speedz99 145 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 so I'm sitting here eating a delicious carne asada burrito and I can't help but thinking about how much I LOVE living in SoCal.3) There are more beautiful women per capita in California than anywhere else in the world AINEC.5) We get on average 360 clear sun shiny days.3) Yeah...that's just not true. #1 by far is Brazil. I doubt Southern Cali even breaks the top 5.5) No you don't. I've been there twice this year and 3 of the days were cloudy. Either I have really bad luck, or you're exaggerating. In Phoenix we have 325 sunny days a year...I doubt you can have much more than that.No big deal, I'm just calling you a liar. Link to post Share on other sites
tyfgine 0 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 It's also about 75 degrees outside and perfectly sunny right now.Suggestion: Get yourself a California Burrito next time. Thank me later. Link to post Share on other sites
ricker 0 Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 3) Yeah...that's just not true. #1 by far is Brazil. I doubt Southern Cali even breaks the top 5.5) No you don't. I've been there twice this year and 3 of the days were cloudy. Either I have really bad luck, or you're exaggerating. In Phoenix we have 325 sunny days a year...I doubt you can have much more than that.No big deal, I'm just calling you a liar. Matt Damon knows how great this place isPPS NorCal grows better so we can tax fools from SoCal-thx guys!QFT...so true... Link to post Share on other sites
HangukMiguk 8 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Matt Damon knows how great this place isQFT...so true...Can we get some confirmation of that?I won't believe it until I hear it from the man himself. Link to post Share on other sites
Hobbes 1 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 No big deal, I'm just calling you a liar.Haha, I'm going to use this line sometime. Link to post Share on other sites
LadyGrey 8 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 I love living in Oxford. 1. It is home to the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world.2. Well-known Oxford-based authors include: Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis, Iris Murdoch, Philip Pullman, J. R. R. Tolkien. 3. Other notable Oxonians include Emma Watson ("Harry Potter" film actress), Radiohead, Myself.4. Yasmin Le Bon went to my high school.5. 6. Residents of my village developed penicillin, without which you would probably be dead by now or never have been born at all.There are loads more reasons why Oxford is so great, but those are the first six I came up with and I'm too lazy to post more. Thanks for reading. Link to post Share on other sites
Dirtydutch 9 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 "Writing is the most easy, pain-free, and happy way to pass the time of all the arts. As I write this, for example, I am sitting comfortable in my rose garden and typing on my new computer. Each rose represents a story, so I'm never at a loss for what to type. I just look deep into the heart of the rose, read its story, and then write it down. I could be typing kjfiu joew.mv jiw and enjoy it as much as typing words that actually make sense, because I simply relish the movements of my fingers on the keys. It is true that sometimes agony visits the head of a writer. At those moments, I stop writing and relax with a coffee at my favorite restaurant, knowing that words can be changed, rethought, fiddled with, and ultimately denied. Painters don't have that luxury. If they go to a coffee shop, their paint dries into a hard mass.LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATIONI would like to recommend that all writers live in California, because here, in between those moments when one is looking into the heart of a rose, on can look up at the calming blue sky. I feel sorry for writers - and there are some pretty famous ones - who live in places like South American and Czechoslovakia, where I imagine it gets pretty dank. These writers are easy to spot. Their books are often filled with disease and negativity. If you're going to write about disease, I would say California is the place to do it. Dwarfism is never funny, but look at what happened when it was dealt with in California. Seven happy dwarfs. Can you imagine seven dwarfs in Czechoslovakia? You would get seven melancholic dwarfs at best - seven melancholic dwarfs and no handicap-parking spaces.LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA: WHY IT'S A BAD TITLEI admit that "Love in the time of..." is a great title, up to a point. You're reading along, you're happy, it's about love. I like the way the word time comes in - a nice, nice feeling. Then the morbid Cholera appears. I was happy till then. Why not "Love in the Time of the Blue, Blue, Bluebirds"? "Love in the Time of Oozing Sores and Pustules" is probably an earlier title the author used as he was writing in a rat-infested tree house on an old Smith Corona. This writer, whoever he is, could have used a couple of weeks in Pacific Daylight Time.A LITTLE EXPERIMENTI took the following passage, which was no doubt written in some depressing place, and attempted to rewrite it under the sunny influence of California:Most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in redressibility (of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs). Both are false faiths. In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed. - Milan Kundera.Sitting in my garden, watching the bees glide from flower to flower, I let the above paragraph filter through my mind. The following New Paragraph emerged:I feel pretty,Oh so pretty,I feel pretty, and witty, and bright.Kundera was just too wordy. Sometimes the delete key is your best friend.WRITER'S BLOCK: A MYTHWriter's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. Sure, a writer can get stuck for a while, but when that happens to a real author -- say, a Socrates or a Rodman -- he goes out and gets an "as told to." The alternative is to hire yourself out as an "as heard from," thus taking all the credit. The other trick I use when I have a momentary stoppage is virtually foolproof, and I'm happy to pass it along. Go to an already published novel and find a sentence that you absolutely adore. Copy it down in your manuscript. Usually, that sentence will lead you to another sentence, and pretty soon your own ideas will start to flow. If they don't, copy down the next sentence in the novel. You can safely use up to three sentences of someone else's work -- unless you're friends, then two. The odds of being found out are very slim, and even if you are there's usually no jail time.A DEMONSTRATION OF ACTUAL WRITINGIt's easy to talk about writing, and even easier to do it. Watch:Call me Ishmael. It was cold, very cold here in the mountain of Kilimanjaroville. I could hear a bell. It was tolling. I knew exactly for who it was tolling, too. It was tolling for me, Ishmael Twist. [Author's note: I am now stuck. I walk over to a rose and look into its heart.] That's right, Ishmael Twist.This is an example of what I call "pure" Writing, which occurs when there is no possibility of its becoming a screenplay. Pure writing is the most rewarding of all, because it is constantly accompanied by a voice that repeats, "Why am I writing this?" Then, and only then, can the writer hope for his finest achievement: the voice of the reader uttering its complement, "Why am I reading this?"(This sentence written by Steve Martin as heard from Cindy Adams.)" Link to post Share on other sites
LadyGrey 8 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Long humorous tract.That was funny, very nice. Link to post Share on other sites
ricker 0 Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 very cool Dutch....Is that from a particular book? Or just a random essay? Link to post Share on other sites
Dirtydutch 9 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 That was funny, very nice. very cool Dutch....Is that from a particular book? Or just a random essay? http://stevemartin.com/world_of_steve/prin...ays_stories.php Thank Wang for the link, he turned me on to those. Link to post Share on other sites
ricker 0 Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 looks like a great site, but really hard on the eyes... Link to post Share on other sites
Dirtydutch 9 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 looks like a great site, but really hard on the eyes...Keeps assholes from eating up his bandwith, no doubt. Link to post Share on other sites
Matt_Damon 0 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Can we get some confirmation of that?I won't believe it until I hear it from the man himself.Matt Damon Link to post Share on other sites
speedz99 145 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 It's also about 75 degrees outside and perfectly sunny right now.Suggestion: Get yourself a California Burrito next time. Thank me later.75 is freezing. I'll take a dry 101 in Phoenix any day.Good call on the Cali Burrito. Try Albierto's in Mission Beach. At 3:30am. And again at 4:15. Trust me. Link to post Share on other sites
SunDrop 0 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Yeah ******? Well in Wisconsin we have lakes. Lots of lakes. Link to post Share on other sites
ricker 0 Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 Good call on the Cali Burrito. Try Albierto's in Mission Beach. At 3:30am. And again at 4:15. Trust me.Absolutely, the man knows what he's saying....Cotixan in Kearny Mesa is also a great call.Yeah ******? Well in Wisconsin we have lakes. Lots of lakes.Oh yeah...sorry...Lakes...we haev those too in California...lots and lots of lakes. Link to post Share on other sites
renaedawn 1 Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 I love living in Oxford. 1. It is home to the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world.2. Well-known Oxford-based authors include: Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis, Iris Murdoch, Philip Pullman, J. R. R. Tolkien. 3. Other notable Oxonians include Emma Watson ("Harry Potter" film actress), Radiohead, Myself.4. Yasmin Le Bon went to my high school.5. 6. Residents of my village developed penicillin, without which you would probably be dead by now or never have been born at all.There are loads more reasons why Oxford is so great, but those are the first six I came up with and I'm too lazy to post more. Thanks for reading.Wouldn't 2 and 3 really just be a footnote of 1? Link to post Share on other sites
loogie 115 Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 Last Action Hero is a great movie. Link to post Share on other sites
SunDrop 0 Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 Haha, Hello? Land of 10,000 lakes here. Actually, 11,842 to be exact, and also a fact, MN lakes have more shoreline than all of Cali, Florida and Hawaii's shoreline combined. The more you know.Yeah except Minnesota is actually part of Canada....dumbass. Also I hope Ryan Longwell breaks his leg on his first extra point this year. Link to post Share on other sites
Thriceknurd 0 Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 Did anyone mention how horrid the traffic is out here? The traffic on beautiful a sunny day is bad enough... to top it off, when it rains, people driving in the cars look up and think "WTF is this **** falling from the sky?!" and panic ensues.... and traffic is much, much worse. Accidents all over the place. On the 10, the 60, 91, 15, you name it, mangled bodies on the streets. It's sad really... Link to post Share on other sites
Balloon guy 158 Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 Even the traffic isn't that bad because we have decent roads. Try Dallas, or CHicago. Never been to NY but I'm sure it's worse.Of course I'm in Palm Springs where we have 4 lane highway when we could get by with 2 lanes most of the time. So average speed is 85+We have the most blue skies, way more than San Diego. San Diego doesn't know if they are going to have blue skies until after 11:00But the temp in San Diego is prettty incredible, and the zoo is cool. And so is 5th street, the best place to get good food in the world, from ****'s Last Resort to Croces, food galore.I'm hungry Link to post Share on other sites
brvheart 1,768 Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 so I'm sitting here eating a delicious carne asada burrito and I can't help but thinking about how much I LOVE living in SoCal.1) I'm 15 minutes from the Mexican border so there are plenty of people here that know how to make great mexican food.I lived in Dallas for two years and the crap that is known as tex-mex doesnt come anywhere close to what real mexican food should taste like. Anywhere other than California doesn't know how to make a decent Carne Asada burrito. New York? I don't even think what they serve there is legally considered mexican food.2) Poker is legal in California so at any time I'm not more than 40 minutes away from a casino spreading a good hold 'em gameThis was done back in the 50's to let the Judges keep their games going and legal.3) There are more beautiful women per capita in California than anywhere else in the world AINEC.4) We're the worlds 4th largest economy....SUCK ON THAT TREBEK!5)EDIT: (cause I got called out on it) We get on average 333 clear sun shiny days. Now, I'm not one to dismiss the downsides cause there are certaintly.1) We're the hotbed of illegal immerigration right now. So it can be difficult getting places with all the protests going on.2) Our govenor made Last Action Hero....nuff said... 3) Our legistslature legalized marijuana...then took it away in the ultimate cocktease. As a matter of fact, I'd say we have the most dsylexic legislature out there.California is cool...Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying states like Montana or New Hampshire suck or anything like that. I'm just really happy I live in So Cal...Thanks for reading WTF!?!?!?Last Action Hero was awesome... of course you did have to be intelligent to understand all the subtleties. Link to post Share on other sites
ricker 0 Posted May 26, 2006 Author Share Posted May 26, 2006 WTF!?!?!?Last Action Hero was awesome... of course you did have to be intelligent to understand all the subtleties.You're right, I apologize.... Link to post Share on other sites
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