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From: g@crcomp.net
Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
> djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
> news:osDpx3.KEt@kithrup.com:
>
>> In article ,
>> Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>mimus99 writes:
>>>>On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 14:33:21 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> mimus99 writes:
>>>>>>On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 02:50:49 +0000 (UTC), Contrarian wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk mimus99
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Seems Northern California got a lot of warm rain in
>>>>>>>> December, which gave 'em a bumper-crop of _ Amanita
>>>>>>>> phalloides _, which took fourteen
>>>people out
>>>>>>>> (one died).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cali has about 50 cases per year on average, one death every
>>>>>> other year, liver-transplants frequently indicated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Where is Cali?
>>>>
>>>>Southwest Coast of the US, on the Pacific.
>>>>
>>>
>>>like the term 'frisco', it's generally frowned upon by
>>>locals to abbreviate the state name.
>>
>> Well, yeah, but you have to choose your battles.
>>
> SoCal, on the other hand, is perfectly acceptable to those of us in
> southern California (and expecially so Behind The Orange Curtain).
> Cuz we like making it clear we have nothing to do with either the
> drunken, inbred rednecks of nothern California, nor the moonbat
> crazies of the Bay Area.
Scott, Dorothy, does SanFranCali ring your bell?
Nicolas, the protagonist in _Radio Free Albemuth_ (PKD) starts out
working at a vinyl record store in Berkeley. Then VALIS instructs him to
move Behind The Orange Curtain and start an indie record label named
Progressive Records.
Thank you,
--
Don
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