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  • P Prakash Nadar

    What is PRC?

    -prakash

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    Ok I got it, Peoples' Republic of California

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    • R Roger Wright

      Well, I'm here. How do these people live like this? Like rats in a cage, rabbits in a warren, sardines in a can. My god, where's a huge earthquake when you need one? There's nothing wrong with this state, really, that killing off 28 million useless liberal parasites wouldn't solve. It's too late now to make them all move back to wherever they came from; they're into a second generation now, and too many are entitled to call themselves "natives." But that's beside the point, and beyond my ability to cure. The hotel is great, if you don't mind being raped while simultaneously having your pockets picked. At $125/night, the rate isn't unusual for the PRC (compared to $35/night in AZ). But then there's a $14/day charge to park the car, $10/day to access the Internet, $12 for a glass of juice and a donut for breakfast, $7 for beer ($8 for a well drink), and you can't smoke anywhere except in the room or around the pool. It's bloody cold out there! The Rec room is a joke - a few weight machines, a half dozen mechanical substitutes for a brisk walk, and no room at all to practice tae kwon do. I'd gladly get out for a drive to see the sights and find someplace reasonable for entertainment, but on the way here my truck's clutch master cylinder failed. It won't disengage, so I can only operate it by matching speeds between the engine and transmission and hoping I can slide it into and out of gear without destroying the gears. Thank Bog for syncros! Stop and go traffic - the only kind they have here - is rough. Somehow I don't think I'm going to get to stop by Crestline on the way back to hell (again). Something like this has kept me from visiting my home every time I've managed to get within 100 miles of the place for 5 years.:( I'm so glad I have a bit of a buffer in the bank - four days here is going to cost me more than two weeks' pay. I have no idea how these fools can keep on living here... Don't get me wrong - everyone should visit Disneyland (I'm two blocks away at the Hyatt Regency) at least once in life, and if you're young enough, and very well employed, you should be able to do so by the time you're 60. But living here is unhealthy, expensive, and risky - the stress alone will kill you before you turn 40, just from the overcrowding. It's well known from lab research that rats will, when overcrowded by experimenters, become schizophrenic, cease eating and forming relationships, engage in mindless violent acts, then sink into suicidal depression. Homo sapiens is the only specie known to

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      Roger Wright wrote: Like rats in a cage, rabbits in a warren, sardines in a can. My god, where's a huge earthquake when you need one? There's nothing wrong with this state, really, that killing off 28 million useless liberal parasites wouldn't solve. :-D

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      • A Albert Pascual

        So welcome to California, I hope you have a great time!

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        Roger Wright
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        Thanks!:-D Someday you should visit the US!:laugh: I was born and raised here, but left when it became a dictatorship of the proletariate and their nanny-state puppet masters. Like a bad marriage that you've tried for years to save, you can't appreciate just how horrid it is until you leave it. It's a terrible feeling to be ashamed of one's home, and powerless to change it.:sigh: "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

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        • J Jon Sagara

          Wow. Why do you think so many PRC-ans (myself included) are jumping ship? :-D Jon Sagara As you may presently yourself be fully made aware of, my grammar sucks. Sagara.org | Blog | My Articles

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          So when are you leaving? I have friends in high places - I'll help you get your green card...;) Or are you going for a H1b? Can't help you there... [EDIT] Sorry about that. I posted the above to reply to Jon. Twice. Both times it attached itself to your reply. [/EDIT] "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9 -- modified at 0:51 Wednesday 12th October, 2005

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          • R Roger Wright

            Well, I'm here. How do these people live like this? Like rats in a cage, rabbits in a warren, sardines in a can. My god, where's a huge earthquake when you need one? There's nothing wrong with this state, really, that killing off 28 million useless liberal parasites wouldn't solve. It's too late now to make them all move back to wherever they came from; they're into a second generation now, and too many are entitled to call themselves "natives." But that's beside the point, and beyond my ability to cure. The hotel is great, if you don't mind being raped while simultaneously having your pockets picked. At $125/night, the rate isn't unusual for the PRC (compared to $35/night in AZ). But then there's a $14/day charge to park the car, $10/day to access the Internet, $12 for a glass of juice and a donut for breakfast, $7 for beer ($8 for a well drink), and you can't smoke anywhere except in the room or around the pool. It's bloody cold out there! The Rec room is a joke - a few weight machines, a half dozen mechanical substitutes for a brisk walk, and no room at all to practice tae kwon do. I'd gladly get out for a drive to see the sights and find someplace reasonable for entertainment, but on the way here my truck's clutch master cylinder failed. It won't disengage, so I can only operate it by matching speeds between the engine and transmission and hoping I can slide it into and out of gear without destroying the gears. Thank Bog for syncros! Stop and go traffic - the only kind they have here - is rough. Somehow I don't think I'm going to get to stop by Crestline on the way back to hell (again). Something like this has kept me from visiting my home every time I've managed to get within 100 miles of the place for 5 years.:( I'm so glad I have a bit of a buffer in the bank - four days here is going to cost me more than two weeks' pay. I have no idea how these fools can keep on living here... Don't get me wrong - everyone should visit Disneyland (I'm two blocks away at the Hyatt Regency) at least once in life, and if you're young enough, and very well employed, you should be able to do so by the time you're 60. But living here is unhealthy, expensive, and risky - the stress alone will kill you before you turn 40, just from the overcrowding. It's well known from lab research that rats will, when overcrowded by experimenters, become schizophrenic, cease eating and forming relationships, engage in mindless violent acts, then sink into suicidal depression. Homo sapiens is the only specie known to

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            Stop being an old grouch, Roger. Go back from whence you came. ;P Seriously, San Diego is a lot better than LA/Anaheim. You should come down here some day. :)

            Picture a huge catholic cathedral. In it there's many people, including a gregorian monk choir. You know, those who sing beautifully. Then they start singing, in latin, as they always do: "Ad hominem..." -Jörgen Sigvardsson

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            • R Roger Wright

              So when are you leaving? I have friends in high places - I'll help you get your green card...;) Or are you going for a H1b? Can't help you there... [EDIT] Sorry about that. I posted the above to reply to Jon. Twice. Both times it attached itself to your reply. [/EDIT] "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9 -- modified at 0:51 Wednesday 12th October, 2005

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              Roger Wright wrote: So when are you leaving? I have friends in high places - I'll help you get your green card... Or are you going for a H1b? Can't help you there... Jesus! I wondered how you got to know that I was looking for a H1B.:omg:

              -prakash

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              • R Roger Wright

                Well, I'm here. How do these people live like this? Like rats in a cage, rabbits in a warren, sardines in a can. My god, where's a huge earthquake when you need one? There's nothing wrong with this state, really, that killing off 28 million useless liberal parasites wouldn't solve. It's too late now to make them all move back to wherever they came from; they're into a second generation now, and too many are entitled to call themselves "natives." But that's beside the point, and beyond my ability to cure. The hotel is great, if you don't mind being raped while simultaneously having your pockets picked. At $125/night, the rate isn't unusual for the PRC (compared to $35/night in AZ). But then there's a $14/day charge to park the car, $10/day to access the Internet, $12 for a glass of juice and a donut for breakfast, $7 for beer ($8 for a well drink), and you can't smoke anywhere except in the room or around the pool. It's bloody cold out there! The Rec room is a joke - a few weight machines, a half dozen mechanical substitutes for a brisk walk, and no room at all to practice tae kwon do. I'd gladly get out for a drive to see the sights and find someplace reasonable for entertainment, but on the way here my truck's clutch master cylinder failed. It won't disengage, so I can only operate it by matching speeds between the engine and transmission and hoping I can slide it into and out of gear without destroying the gears. Thank Bog for syncros! Stop and go traffic - the only kind they have here - is rough. Somehow I don't think I'm going to get to stop by Crestline on the way back to hell (again). Something like this has kept me from visiting my home every time I've managed to get within 100 miles of the place for 5 years.:( I'm so glad I have a bit of a buffer in the bank - four days here is going to cost me more than two weeks' pay. I have no idea how these fools can keep on living here... Don't get me wrong - everyone should visit Disneyland (I'm two blocks away at the Hyatt Regency) at least once in life, and if you're young enough, and very well employed, you should be able to do so by the time you're 60. But living here is unhealthy, expensive, and risky - the stress alone will kill you before you turn 40, just from the overcrowding. It's well known from lab research that rats will, when overcrowded by experimenters, become schizophrenic, cease eating and forming relationships, engage in mindless violent acts, then sink into suicidal depression. Homo sapiens is the only specie known to

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                "a donut for breakfast" Mmmm, donut's for breakfast ;P

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                • R Roger Wright

                  Well, I'm here. How do these people live like this? Like rats in a cage, rabbits in a warren, sardines in a can. My god, where's a huge earthquake when you need one? There's nothing wrong with this state, really, that killing off 28 million useless liberal parasites wouldn't solve. It's too late now to make them all move back to wherever they came from; they're into a second generation now, and too many are entitled to call themselves "natives." But that's beside the point, and beyond my ability to cure. The hotel is great, if you don't mind being raped while simultaneously having your pockets picked. At $125/night, the rate isn't unusual for the PRC (compared to $35/night in AZ). But then there's a $14/day charge to park the car, $10/day to access the Internet, $12 for a glass of juice and a donut for breakfast, $7 for beer ($8 for a well drink), and you can't smoke anywhere except in the room or around the pool. It's bloody cold out there! The Rec room is a joke - a few weight machines, a half dozen mechanical substitutes for a brisk walk, and no room at all to practice tae kwon do. I'd gladly get out for a drive to see the sights and find someplace reasonable for entertainment, but on the way here my truck's clutch master cylinder failed. It won't disengage, so I can only operate it by matching speeds between the engine and transmission and hoping I can slide it into and out of gear without destroying the gears. Thank Bog for syncros! Stop and go traffic - the only kind they have here - is rough. Somehow I don't think I'm going to get to stop by Crestline on the way back to hell (again). Something like this has kept me from visiting my home every time I've managed to get within 100 miles of the place for 5 years.:( I'm so glad I have a bit of a buffer in the bank - four days here is going to cost me more than two weeks' pay. I have no idea how these fools can keep on living here... Don't get me wrong - everyone should visit Disneyland (I'm two blocks away at the Hyatt Regency) at least once in life, and if you're young enough, and very well employed, you should be able to do so by the time you're 60. But living here is unhealthy, expensive, and risky - the stress alone will kill you before you turn 40, just from the overcrowding. It's well known from lab research that rats will, when overcrowded by experimenters, become schizophrenic, cease eating and forming relationships, engage in mindless violent acts, then sink into suicidal depression. Homo sapiens is the only specie known to

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                  Freedom - liberal style :) In Arizona we have a saying, "Don't Californicate Arizona" - it's a must have bumper sticker... C. Gilley Will program for food... My son's PDA is an M249 SAW.

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                  • R Roger Wright

                    Well, I'm here. How do these people live like this? Like rats in a cage, rabbits in a warren, sardines in a can. My god, where's a huge earthquake when you need one? There's nothing wrong with this state, really, that killing off 28 million useless liberal parasites wouldn't solve. It's too late now to make them all move back to wherever they came from; they're into a second generation now, and too many are entitled to call themselves "natives." But that's beside the point, and beyond my ability to cure. The hotel is great, if you don't mind being raped while simultaneously having your pockets picked. At $125/night, the rate isn't unusual for the PRC (compared to $35/night in AZ). But then there's a $14/day charge to park the car, $10/day to access the Internet, $12 for a glass of juice and a donut for breakfast, $7 for beer ($8 for a well drink), and you can't smoke anywhere except in the room or around the pool. It's bloody cold out there! The Rec room is a joke - a few weight machines, a half dozen mechanical substitutes for a brisk walk, and no room at all to practice tae kwon do. I'd gladly get out for a drive to see the sights and find someplace reasonable for entertainment, but on the way here my truck's clutch master cylinder failed. It won't disengage, so I can only operate it by matching speeds between the engine and transmission and hoping I can slide it into and out of gear without destroying the gears. Thank Bog for syncros! Stop and go traffic - the only kind they have here - is rough. Somehow I don't think I'm going to get to stop by Crestline on the way back to hell (again). Something like this has kept me from visiting my home every time I've managed to get within 100 miles of the place for 5 years.:( I'm so glad I have a bit of a buffer in the bank - four days here is going to cost me more than two weeks' pay. I have no idea how these fools can keep on living here... Don't get me wrong - everyone should visit Disneyland (I'm two blocks away at the Hyatt Regency) at least once in life, and if you're young enough, and very well employed, you should be able to do so by the time you're 60. But living here is unhealthy, expensive, and risky - the stress alone will kill you before you turn 40, just from the overcrowding. It's well known from lab research that rats will, when overcrowded by experimenters, become schizophrenic, cease eating and forming relationships, engage in mindless violent acts, then sink into suicidal depression. Homo sapiens is the only specie known to

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                    • R Roger Wright

                      Well, I'm here. How do these people live like this? Like rats in a cage, rabbits in a warren, sardines in a can. My god, where's a huge earthquake when you need one? There's nothing wrong with this state, really, that killing off 28 million useless liberal parasites wouldn't solve. It's too late now to make them all move back to wherever they came from; they're into a second generation now, and too many are entitled to call themselves "natives." But that's beside the point, and beyond my ability to cure. The hotel is great, if you don't mind being raped while simultaneously having your pockets picked. At $125/night, the rate isn't unusual for the PRC (compared to $35/night in AZ). But then there's a $14/day charge to park the car, $10/day to access the Internet, $12 for a glass of juice and a donut for breakfast, $7 for beer ($8 for a well drink), and you can't smoke anywhere except in the room or around the pool. It's bloody cold out there! The Rec room is a joke - a few weight machines, a half dozen mechanical substitutes for a brisk walk, and no room at all to practice tae kwon do. I'd gladly get out for a drive to see the sights and find someplace reasonable for entertainment, but on the way here my truck's clutch master cylinder failed. It won't disengage, so I can only operate it by matching speeds between the engine and transmission and hoping I can slide it into and out of gear without destroying the gears. Thank Bog for syncros! Stop and go traffic - the only kind they have here - is rough. Somehow I don't think I'm going to get to stop by Crestline on the way back to hell (again). Something like this has kept me from visiting my home every time I've managed to get within 100 miles of the place for 5 years.:( I'm so glad I have a bit of a buffer in the bank - four days here is going to cost me more than two weeks' pay. I have no idea how these fools can keep on living here... Don't get me wrong - everyone should visit Disneyland (I'm two blocks away at the Hyatt Regency) at least once in life, and if you're young enough, and very well employed, you should be able to do so by the time you're 60. But living here is unhealthy, expensive, and risky - the stress alone will kill you before you turn 40, just from the overcrowding. It's well known from lab research that rats will, when overcrowded by experimenters, become schizophrenic, cease eating and forming relationships, engage in mindless violent acts, then sink into suicidal depression. Homo sapiens is the only specie known to

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                      Sounds like you are having great time... I [wish to] think that there are still a few rebels left in the Bay Area that bravely try to resist the widespread imbecillities. Spank me if I'm wrong!:sigh: _____________________________________ Action without thought is not action Action without emotion is not life -- modified at 8:40 Wednesday 12th October, 2005

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                        Learn to swim - See you down in Arizona Bay! E

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                        Yeah, you know there's a reason the lead singer for Tool spent some time in a psycho ward and Roger is stating it:) ------------------------------------- Do not do what has already been done.

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                          Stop being an old grouch, Roger. Go back from whence you came. ;P Seriously, San Diego is a lot better than LA/Anaheim. You should come down here some day. :)

                          Picture a huge catholic cathedral. In it there's many people, including a gregorian monk choir. You know, those who sing beautifully. Then they start singing, in latin, as they always do: "Ad hominem..." -Jörgen Sigvardsson

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                          Agree. Besure to visit Gas lamp. SD is bit pricey (especially the hotels near Gaslamp area) compared to OC. I remember paying ~$18/day for parking @ Wyndham which was nothing compared to the nightly rate -- $320!! :wtf: (dont worry ... it was a fully-paid trip) - Malhar

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                          • P Prakash Nadar

                            Roger Wright wrote: So when are you leaving? I have friends in high places - I'll help you get your green card... Or are you going for a H1b? Can't help you there... Jesus! I wondered how you got to know that I was looking for a H1B.:omg:

                            -prakash

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                            :laugh: Didn't they warn you that I'm psychotic psychic?;) "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

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                              Stop being an old grouch, Roger. Go back from whence you came. ;P Seriously, San Diego is a lot better than LA/Anaheim. You should come down here some day. :)

                              Picture a huge catholic cathedral. In it there's many people, including a gregorian monk choir. You know, those who sing beautifully. Then they start singing, in latin, as they always do: "Ad hominem..." -Jörgen Sigvardsson

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                              Never! My mother lives in San Diego, and I hate to visit. Picture a dark, two lane road, surrounded on all sides by natural scenery, punctuated occasionally by a farm or two, and trees everywhere. Beaches where one could simply pull over, park, and spend the day (or night) for free. Mountains without developed trails, and the only roads being narrow country lanes. The few people one meets are warm, friendly, and always happy to stop and visit for a minute, give directions, and suggest favorite places to hike to. No fees for everything, no laws against anything a rational person might want to do... That was San Diego when I lived there. When the woods and groves disappeared, and all the wild critters moved on to be replaced bt neighbors who had the right to dictate what you may plant in your yard, what color you can paint your house, the end was near. It's now long past redemption. Granted, no place on earth has nicer weather, but how much can you afford to sacrifice for sunny days and cool nights? "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

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                                Freedom - liberal style :) In Arizona we have a saying, "Don't Californicate Arizona" - it's a must have bumper sticker... C. Gilley Will program for food... My son's PDA is an M249 SAW.

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                                CharlieG wrote: Don't Californicate Arizona I've been saying that for years, but the bastards are coming there anyway, bringing their total lack of taste and values with them. It's time to print the bumper sticker, and close all the bridges. "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

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                                  I'm looking forward to having beachfront property one day soon, and some of the small Pacific islands left behind may be attractive places to visit. True, I'll lose most of my family in the quake, but it will be worth it. "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

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                                    Sounds like you are having great time... I [wish to] think that there are still a few rebels left in the Bay Area that bravely try to resist the widespread imbecillities. Spank me if I'm wrong!:sigh: _____________________________________ Action without thought is not action Action without emotion is not life -- modified at 8:40 Wednesday 12th October, 2005

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                                    :spank: :spank: :slap!: Wake up and run for your quality of life!:omg: "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

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                                      :spank: :spank: :slap!: Wake up and run for your quality of life!:omg: "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

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                                      :ouch: :pain: And I do not even live on that continent. I would rather starve than pay 7$ for a donut or somthin... /Adam _____________________________________ Action without thought is not action Action without emotion is not life

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                                        Thanks!:-D Someday you should visit the US!:laugh: I was born and raised here, but left when it became a dictatorship of the proletariate and their nanny-state puppet masters. Like a bad marriage that you've tried for years to save, you can't appreciate just how horrid it is until you leave it. It's a terrible feeling to be ashamed of one's home, and powerless to change it.:sigh: "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

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                                        Roger, It's not that bad at all, I love California, I have been leaving here for 6 years now. I move from England to California and got to say after leaving in England for about 8 years California is a wonderful place to be. I was born and raise in Spain, and I don't even want to consider to go back there. So maybe when you move out from where you have been born and find somewhere else better, you look back and find only the bad things from the previous place instead of the good things? Where do you like in the US? Cheers Al

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                                          Well, I'm here. How do these people live like this? Like rats in a cage, rabbits in a warren, sardines in a can. My god, where's a huge earthquake when you need one? There's nothing wrong with this state, really, that killing off 28 million useless liberal parasites wouldn't solve. It's too late now to make them all move back to wherever they came from; they're into a second generation now, and too many are entitled to call themselves "natives." But that's beside the point, and beyond my ability to cure. The hotel is great, if you don't mind being raped while simultaneously having your pockets picked. At $125/night, the rate isn't unusual for the PRC (compared to $35/night in AZ). But then there's a $14/day charge to park the car, $10/day to access the Internet, $12 for a glass of juice and a donut for breakfast, $7 for beer ($8 for a well drink), and you can't smoke anywhere except in the room or around the pool. It's bloody cold out there! The Rec room is a joke - a few weight machines, a half dozen mechanical substitutes for a brisk walk, and no room at all to practice tae kwon do. I'd gladly get out for a drive to see the sights and find someplace reasonable for entertainment, but on the way here my truck's clutch master cylinder failed. It won't disengage, so I can only operate it by matching speeds between the engine and transmission and hoping I can slide it into and out of gear without destroying the gears. Thank Bog for syncros! Stop and go traffic - the only kind they have here - is rough. Somehow I don't think I'm going to get to stop by Crestline on the way back to hell (again). Something like this has kept me from visiting my home every time I've managed to get within 100 miles of the place for 5 years.:( I'm so glad I have a bit of a buffer in the bank - four days here is going to cost me more than two weeks' pay. I have no idea how these fools can keep on living here... Don't get me wrong - everyone should visit Disneyland (I'm two blocks away at the Hyatt Regency) at least once in life, and if you're young enough, and very well employed, you should be able to do so by the time you're 60. But living here is unhealthy, expensive, and risky - the stress alone will kill you before you turn 40, just from the overcrowding. It's well known from lab research that rats will, when overcrowded by experimenters, become schizophrenic, cease eating and forming relationships, engage in mindless violent acts, then sink into suicidal depression. Homo sapiens is the only specie known to

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                                          Every country needs a place for people to go that feel like they don't fit in with their local area. Do you really want them to decide Arizona is better? Best hope that Arnie doesn't get re-elected.

                                          "Hello, hello, what's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here! This is a Local Shop for Local People, there's nothing for you here!" -Edward Tattsyrup

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