I'm about to post right on top of this. I'm sorry. Fortunately, it's a terribly boring reminder post about Mafia and it's increasing unlikeliness.
You could wait, you know. Especially if your post is terribly boring.
Oh wait, I thought I ended registration at 5:00, but it's actually at 6:00. The masses still have time. Carry on.
Its increasing unlikeliness, heebster.
Is Irvine the wackiest part of OC? I thought the wackiness was even spread through the county.
Um, what's the connection between the part you wrote and the part you quote, ben?
...Fighting urge....must resist temptation...to go into Unfogged management and edit comments so that mine is correct and Ben's correction is incorrect...
That article's full of lies. Irvine's the dhimmi capital of the world, don't you know?
Also it's "Down Syndrome", not "Down's Syndrome".
M/lls, are you trolling me? Did you read the link?
The university doesn't count, SEK.
When I first met people from Orange County I looked at them with confusion and wonder, imagining they must live in terrified isolation amidst the seas of tucked in polo shirts and ingratiatingly overtanned surf Nazis. Now I realize it's just kinda like this part of Southern California, you know?
the version i recalled involves not headshakes or nods, but winks or blinking to kill and one who got the wink just announces that got killed
it's pretty difficult to wink without getting caught
and i don't recall any sleeping times and narrators
so maybe it was some other different game
it's pretty difficult to wink without getting caught
No kidding. Our prisons are full of people who just got something in their eye.
10: But are you implying that Irvine is somehow special in its fear of scary muslims? Do you resist mentioning that you're from the United States too?
So this post was prompted by one thing in particular, M/tch. So sue me.
This post deserves to be crushed by heebie's Mafia post!
I'm always impressed by the weird varieties of Republicanism in Orange County. Fourth generation race-baiting Vietnamese-speaking Republican evangelicals? Fascinating! It's like Miami in that way.
As a life-long Angeleno, my only real belief about Orange County is that it is so goddamn impeccably clean. Seriously, it's not just white people -- the white buildings are whiter down there.
My relatively short stint in California in the early '80s was in northern Orange County (Fullerton). I found the OC an interesting chunk of social and physical geography. Some notables things I recall:
I lived not too far from Lon Nol, the exiled Cambodian premier who proved that palindromic names (and circles of magic sand sprinkled around your capital) are helpless against genocidal rebels.
At the time I balked at the directions to write your check for taxes payable directly to the county treasurer himself (Robert Citron). Some years later it was found out that he had totally blown up the county finances with risky investments.
Highest point in Orange County is higher than highest point in all but 4 states in the east (Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina & New Hampshire).
Voting in a neighbors garage (was that just Fullerton?) Oh, the other Democrat hasn't voted yet? She told me she'd stop by after work.
Congresscritters Bob Dornan & William Dannemeyer, John Wayne airport ....
Highest point in Orange County is higher than highest point in all but 4 states in the east (Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina & New Hampshire).
Taking the toll road north through Orange County, on a clear day you can see downtown LA from the road's highest point, which is just east of Irvine. It's pretty darn cool.
22: Santiago Canyon Road (near there) used to be a favorite bike ride.
There has also been at least one (I'm thinking two?) humans killed by mountain lions in Orange County in relatively recent times.
In the early 1990s my wife and I spent a year in Fullerton, and she became involved, through the Red Cross, in local HIV/AIDS education. Sometimes when she spoke she would be paired with a "positive" speaker, who actually had AIDS. (She'd provide the public health facts; he'd put a personal face on the disease.)
After one of these sessions they got to talking, and he noted that he always got two questions after he spoke: "How did you get AIDS?" and "What did you think when you first found out you had it?" His answer to the second question was: "Oh, my God, I'm going to die!" But he told my wife that he omitted from his public remarks his actual follow-up thought, which was: "Oh, my God, I'm going to die in Orange County!"
True story.
I remember when South Coast Plaza was still beanfields. And the OC would reliably vote 98% Republican, and offset San Francisco.