Actually, I meant it as more of a rhetorical question to prove that our speech mannerisms do extend to our southern neighbers.

/me seconds

And speaking of lingo, the "Valley" dialect still has some influence all across the nation, even though it's generally dead, even in the Valley.

I don't know, I live in the valley north of "the valley" and I know a lot of people who still talk like that. I know that I say "like" far too much and whenever I go to conferences type things around the country they point it out. I can slip into it if I really want, such as in Tigerbolt just to annoy the northern california people.

Oh, and on a sidenote: Hella Good is the worst song ever! I've said it many times and I'll say it again, I'll scream and change the song everytime it comes on the radio and I even ran off of the dancefloor at prom. Oh, how I hate that song.

Why don't we split the state at Bakersfield and give anything north of Bakersfield to Oregon?

Heh, If California broke away from the U.S. with President Warhawk in office, he would wait a day and send troops in and overtake California again. Then it would be run by the U.S., Puerto Rico would become the 50th State and life would be ok again ;)

<edit> So basically, California would be back in the Union, W/O representation in Congress and still have to pay tax up the wazoo, so I think California would be better of staying ;) </edit>

Hey, if Dean Kamen can successfully secede from the United States of America, then California can too.

huh?

/me=newbie=more confusedness.

please do tell.

Dean Kamen owns an island somewhere in the atlantic? (I don't remember where) that he has his own little governing system on. I dont know too much about this...

Maybe Dean should run CA!

I'd love to secede, the only problem is that we should take New York with us, and there's so much space between us.. Actually, at HW we like to say that the only reason the US includes the Midwest at all is connect CA and NY. =)
(To be taken with a grain of salt. ;) )