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From: mom@sfmag.UUCP (M.Modig)
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Subject: Re: yah for california!!!
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Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 14:18:45 EDT
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> >sour grapes, dude.  you are just jealous because southern california
> >has it all:  the best beaches, the best women, the best skiing (mammoth),
> >the best weather, and of course, the best schools.
> 
> Best beaches, I'll give you that one, but let's see you body surf at Santa
> Cruz without a wet suit.

Uh, I believe Santa Cruz is really considerably closer to SF than it
is to LA-- it's hardly in SoCal.  As for the water temperature,
guess you guys just can't take it if the water temperature is below
80, eh? Me, I find the mid-60s rather refreshing, and that's what
the water typically is over the summer.  Sometimes it even gets over
70.
> Best women???  You mean all the beach bunnies that look identical?  And have
> as much personality as a newt?  (No offense to you So.Cal women who are 
> atypical.)

We'll call this one a draw, with a slight edge to you northerners. 
You have to look hard to find a SoCal woman with anything
approaching intelligence, tho the the guys I've known are even
worse.  NoCal people tend to be stRAnge-- you just have to find
people with strangeness that you find aceeptable.

> Best skiing!!???  First of all, Mammoth is in Central California.  Second,
> when was the last time you've been to Tahoe?  Or were you to busy figuring
> out where the plug was to drain it?

Hands down for the North here.  I'm not sure where the first poster
got the idea Mammoth was in SoCal.

> Best weather?  Is a first stage smog alert better or worse than a third stage
> alert?  I guess first degree is mildly hazardous, and third is deadly.

Smog != weather.  I cannot remeber a single stage thrre alert in the
twenty odd years I lived in SoCal.  Pollution now is much less
severe than it was say, 10-15 years ago, when it could get pretty
bad.

> Best schools?  I guess you haven't heard of these two little schools: Cal and
> Stanford.  Do some research, DUDE (a strictly SoCal term).
> 

Perhaps you've never heard of USC, UCLA, Caltech, and (my alma
mater) Harvey Mudd?  There are many other schools in SoCal, many
with outstanding departments.  Granted, you've got Berkeley,
Stanford, plus perhaps Davis and San Francisco, but then what?
Santa Cruz? Humboldt? San Luis Obispo?  Give me a break!!!

Mark Modig
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