For This Year's Miss April
Apr. 11th, 2006 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xthreadDear California,
We give up.
You have been coming up here and driving up our property taxes for decades, buying our hard-built houses with the ill-gotten gains of your booming, out-of-control economy. Imagine, that money comes from building gadgets and making moving pictures, instead of being chopped down or dug up, as God intended!
We hereby formerly acknowledge defeat. We will no longer sit here and jealously guard our borders, intent on keeping you from moving up 'to share the experience.' Instead, we will move en masse and annex the region you have previously referred to as 'Northern California.' Henceforth, it shall be known as 'Really, really Southern Oregon,' or, to some of our most special friends, simply 'Humboldt,' in honor of those few Californians who understand how to properly make a living, through simple toil and the fruits of the Earth.
And we're bringing our Weather.
Sincerely,
Oregon and Washington
We give up.
You have been coming up here and driving up our property taxes for decades, buying our hard-built houses with the ill-gotten gains of your booming, out-of-control economy. Imagine, that money comes from building gadgets and making moving pictures, instead of being chopped down or dug up, as God intended!
We hereby formerly acknowledge defeat. We will no longer sit here and jealously guard our borders, intent on keeping you from moving up 'to share the experience.' Instead, we will move en masse and annex the region you have previously referred to as 'Northern California.' Henceforth, it shall be known as 'Really, really Southern Oregon,' or, to some of our most special friends, simply 'Humboldt,' in honor of those few Californians who understand how to properly make a living, through simple toil and the fruits of the Earth.
And we're bringing our Weather.
Sincerely,
Oregon and Washington
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Date: 2006-04-12 04:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-12 05:02 am (UTC)You call it 'Rain'
It's what the air is made of.
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Date: 2006-04-12 05:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-12 05:36 am (UTC)There's an interesting article in the latest New Scientist about how much of the
useful-to-life properties of this stuff derive not from the chemistry of it, but
from the quantum physical properties of it.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19025461.200 is the online
teaser, or look for the issue on newsstands.
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Date: 2006-04-12 06:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-12 06:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-12 06:19 am (UTC)Not long ago, there was an article in the SF Chronicle about a bay area exodus to Reno for the cheaper housing and lower taxes. CA is already going for NV's throat with indian gaming (modulo troubles like this).
If NV gifted CA with its weather, the central valley would be a desert, and the coastal range would get 200 to 400 inches of snow every winter.
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Date: 2006-04-12 06:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-12 06:56 am (UTC)We like science snacks...
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