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   Lobby Dosser to Gatt   
   Re: "californication"   
   22 Nov 07 01:08:50   
   
   XPost: or.politics, or.general   
   From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   "Gatt"  wrote:   
      
   > So, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are suing Showtime over the new David   
   > Duchovney show "Californication", since it was the title of their 1999   
   > album:   
   >   
   > '"In July 2007, Kapinos told reporters at a Television Critics   
   > Association press tour in Beverly Hills that he first heard the term   
   > in reference to Oregon.   
   >   
   > "Apparently in the '70s there were bumper stickers that said 'Don't   
   > Californicate Oregon,' because Californians were coming up there, and   
   > I just thought it was a great, great title for this show," said   
   > Kapinos.' http://www.katu.com/news/entertainment/11639041.html   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > Ooooh!  Californians lawyering up and suing each other over something   
   > that neither of them created or own.  How ironic is that?  You guys   
   > remember when people in Oregon used to say 'Californication'?  Back in   
   > the day?     That was, what, Saturday? Sunday?   
      
   Sometime around 1971 0r 1972.   
      
   "Thank you for visiting Oregon. Now, Go Home!"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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