like when you need to shorten the title of a thread...this is not the Associated Press, and you are not the editor

but thanks for the distinction. whatev.

So, I sometimes comment on things that interest me. Thanks for reading my post and for kicking it back up in the thread list. Much appreciated.

If I need to abbreviate California, I use CA, the postal abbreviation. In years past, the postal abbreviation was Calif. It's never been "Cali."

Frisco is?

Boy, I hate when people pronounce it with that hard "C" syllable. It should be Wi scone sin. The s and c are pronounced together, sort of like that Scandinavian toast....skol.....scon!

Frisco is in 'Rado in the Rockies on I-70. Seen it with my own eyes, I did.

I would be in wonderful shape. You were very rude to the poster who did this in another thread. I thought it was a bit over the top. Life is too short to get bent out of shape for something so unimportant.

The dock is the area of water between two piers. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Drives me crazy.

Annoying, isn't it.

And to think I now reside in the SF Bay Area of Cali. It cracks me up to hear the tourists refer to 'SF' or 'Cali'.

at least half the people I knew called it San Antone. Everyone I knew was a Native Texan and I was not aware of anyone who had been to San Antonio. Until I was 13, I had only been as far west as Tyler, once. Heck, Beaumont was exotica to us.

"Houston, Austin, or San Antone. Gotta go. Got the Texas in my soul"
Bob Wills? Webb Pierce? Ernest Tubb?

He's still the King.

It isn't NoCal or SoCal, and definitely not Southern Cal. (which is the name of a private school attended by mostly smart kids who are turned into arrogant asses by alumni)

For the next week you should be forced to use your entire address. For example, posts should be ended with Ms. Tikki DUer, Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America.

No sarcasm, because I mean the part about USC!

ok, Mrs. Tikki of Ventura County and the great debate of whether Ventura County is actually in the
Central Coast region of California OR Southern California but is in California, fer shur and very much part
of the United States of America.


Tikki

I was always under the impression that Santa Barbara was still SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

Come to think of it where does Central Coast/California end?

San Jose is definitely NoCal, I'm sorry SAN JOSE, SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.

Others say just North of Ventura up to just South of San Jose.

Here is what many consider California's GOLD COAST:
http://www.californiagoldcoastguide.com

I've always considered Malibu more of my neighbors than Reseda..
but as the crow flies they are about the same distance.


Tikki

Looking at the coastline, I'd say Central Coast should be Point Pinos down to Point Conception. (Although Point Arguello would be equally arguable, I want to claim Jalama... )

aka San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, and Ventura County

I don't know why there should be any difficulty identifying Ventura as part of the Central Coast. I know I am within hailing distance of HOME when I head down the Conejo Grade because when I get to the bottom I can roll down the windows of my car and breathe the air. Suddenly there is a faint sea-tang and a little coastal fog that feels so cooling to the skin. Long before I get to Summerland, the coastal curve of mountains in the distance embraces my soul.

Hekate
Goleta, CA

from Pasadena!

around a bit and pick out the homes we wished we could live in.

The NUMB3RS House..

Tikki

I love all the Craftsman style houses, especially in SW Pasadena, over by S. Arroyo Blvd. I'm an apt. dweller myself

...know you consider him to have become an arrogant ass. You are right about him being smart, however.

which is in Northern California, is officially called Cal. By calling USC Southern Cal, it sounds like it's a part of Cal Berkeley, only in the south, and it's not. The football fans and alum are especially sensitive to that, though it shouldn't really matter because Cal Berkeley is such a good school

NorCal, or Nor-Cal. I believe there is even a Nor-Cal Soccer League.

I miss it. I miss the sense of hope and possibility I had when I lived there.

I even miss the drunken college kids puking their guts out on So Ill Ave in Carbondale.

I tease; I lived in the Anaheim area up until about the age of 10, but that was over 40 years ago. That may actually fit within the boundaries; don't recall it being called that back then, though.

It was the first thing I thought of when reading the thread.

Well, then.

Actually I was born in San Francisco, California and have never used "Frisco" or "Cali" in my life. When that song come out--many moons ago, I wasn't sure what he was talking about...

Interesting thread.

and have used that particular F word once: I was attending a Westercon in San Francisco, and the guy next to me in the restaurant asked,

"What's going on? Some kinda SCI-FI convention?"

So I felt compelled to match his tone and answer "Yeah, we're holding it in FRISCO this year."

Lives there.

I don't know anybody who calls California "Cali"--I was born there, and still have relatives there, but never lived there, not really

the culture and it is always complimentary. I'll hip the to the right way later, but I no longer get the vapors about it. I do blame Cool James for the whole thing.

Meh.

Kerman, to be exact, calls it Cali.

And she spells her screen name "cali."

I had quite forgotten

On the southern fringe of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. When I lived there we would often say we were headed south to Cali to hit the big city of Saint Jo.

(no idea where that came from, but it seems to be in use around here!).

Born in Little Rhody (that makes some sense)....but always remember meeting people who said "you are from Rhode Island - isn't that a city in Massachusetts?

just mho, of course.

I'd forgotten about Cali, Colombia. I can imagine someone from Kansas calling to book a flight to Cali, and then getting off the plane and being somewhat confused.

so don't bet on it..... (JOKE, OKAY, JOKE)

I'd be OK in Cali, I think.

Bienvenidos a California

Lewis' mishap began March 31 when he flew home from a European vacation. He took an Air New Zealand London-to-Auckland flight and should have gotten off in Los Angeles and taken another plane to Oakland.

Instead, convinced that the Air New Zealand crew was directing Oakland-bound passengers into a transit area, Lewis headed off with the Auckland-bound passengers and later reboarded with them. Questioned by airplane personnel before the plane took off, he was asked twice if he was going to Auckland and twice answered affirmatively, according to an Air New Zealand spokesman.

'They Talk Different'

http://articles.latimes.com/1985-04-11/local/me-11793_1_auckland

Sacramento dude flies to Auckland and lowers the IQ of both cities (JOKE, OLD OKAY JOKE, OKAY )

On edit: Oops, unblock beat me

and they returned the plane back to the gate, because apparently someone onboard the plane was actually booked to Auckland.

True story.

new zealand (aukland)!

all the hallmarks of an urban myth, so it must be true

I'd love to visit that part of the world. Can't afford it, though.

Moved out and never looked back. We called ourselves Okies, sang Oklahoma, and Oklahoma City was "The City," as in, "Goin to the city for brewsky." It was a strange place, even back then.

My step dad, a truck driver, called San Francisco "Frisco," Las Vegas, Lost Wages or Vegas, Chicago "Chi Town."

As much as I agree with you: it grates on my sensibilities a little, like "Frisco", a growing number of young natives seem to be using "Cali" to self-identify.

Given my age, I'm willing to let go a little and let the younger residents have their way with it.

That, and it's just too late.

But I would never try to give the impression that I was from Frisco or even Cali.

and I use CALI (but always in caps) all the time on the computer, but never when speaking.

And "Frisco" rankles me as do most lame names for THE CITY........ or San Francisco...... (SF is passable) like "the gay bay", Frisco, San Fran (the announcer at the Niners game kept using it last week and I wanted to punch him in the mouth), and worst of all "Oakland West"......

It's always been San Francisco or The City to me. Never Frisco. Surest sign of someone not from the area. Not a fan of calling California Cali either. I have made the distinction of SoCal and NorCal, but usually online, not verbally.

more than Cali surely and more in speech as well....

are really barely outside of MidCal. There's a whole lot of Cali north of what NorCal folks call NorCal...


(MidCal is my invention by the way - if it takes off, I want credit! )

My home town. But being so provincial, NORCAL Starts at the Tehachapi's.

Wow, you're claiming quite a swath of territory for NorCal" Well we don't really like to call people in Bakersfield NorCalians (Norcalites?)
Claim them we do, but we don't like it much.

NOCOCAL is Fort Bragg to the border.

BANOCAL is the area from Fort Bragg to Half Moon bay.
NOMID CAL redding and Shasta area.... MIDCAL Yuba City to Stockton, foothills to foothills. (UGH!)

i agree!

Lighten up.

It's not the end of the world...LOL.

You can always tell an incomer by how they talk at the bubbler.

Most folks, though, don't even know there's a bay at all. Odd.

but people from other parts of the country, when you say you're from New York State, think the entire state looks like Manhattan.

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I hear californians using those terms all the time, can't you just say "I'm from orange county". But I guess they think it sounds cool.

Although, most Lowpers don't call themselves that.

That's because we live "under" the bridge.