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Anybody ever been to/live in San Francisco?

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 9:23 am
by The Doc
I was just thinking of taking a trip there and I was wondering what it's like.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 9:58 am
by Zeta
I don't know. But I'm pretty sure I'm religiously required to make a pilgrimage to there at least once in my life.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:04 am
by The Doc
I don't have religion, and I can barely pronounce 'pilgrimage', but I should go there at least once in my life, too.

I'd like to go to Tokyo as well, but I don't know Japanese, so that's out until I can memorize this hiragana and katakana shit...

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:17 am
by Green Gibbon!
I think there's a bridge or something.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:45 am
by Zeta
San Francisco has a couple of things worth seeing:

1) China Town
2) Rice
3) Streetcars
4) Big Bridge
5) Lots and lots of gay people

So if you want to get the complete experience, ride a streetcar across a bridge while watching a chinese gay guy eat rice.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:49 am
by The Doc
Reminds me of something Robin Williams used in his show, Live from Broadway:

"On one end of the bridge is a hummer and two guardsmen, on the OTHER is a hummer and two guardsmen. The problem is, the hummer and the soldiers are in jungle camouflage. For those who have never been to San Francisco, the bridge is bright orange."

I forget the rest, but the whole thing is funny.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:25 am
by -wyvern
San Francisco is on the San Andreas fault, you know.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:44 am
by The Doc
Thank you for your useless trivia.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 2:11 pm
by Spazz
Zeta wrote:So if you want to get the complete experience, ride a streetcar across a bridge while watching a chinese gay guy eat rice.
You mean <a href="http://www.ricearoni.com/">Rice-A-Roni</a>?

It's the San Francisco treat, y'know.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 5:41 pm
by j-man
Sega Of America are in San Fran, aren't they? Go throw rocks at them.

And Pachuka. Go on.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 5:46 pm
by The Doc
Not a big fan of rice.

And how can Rice-A-Roni be the San Francisco treat if rice is fuckin' Chinese? Wouldn't it be the Beijing treat?

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 5:57 pm
by Delphine
Rice is Chinese, but Rice-A-Roni is not.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:08 pm
by The Doc
...Says who?

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:55 pm
by Spazz
<a href="http://www.ricearoni.com/RAR_Products/r ... ">Actually, there <i>is</i> Chinese Rice-A-Roni.</a>

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:46 pm
by Delphine
The Doc wrote:...Says who?
It's made by an American company. America is not China. Therefore.

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 4:27 pm
by The Doc
Oh. Well, with all the Chinatowns in this Godforsaken country, I got confused.

But then again, what do you know? You're a horrid pompous wench. AND you're from New Hampshire. WHO (besides you, of course) is from New Hampshire? I'm lucky I know the state capitol, let alone know it's even in the Union.

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 4:47 pm
by plasticwingsband
The Doc wrote: But then again, what do you know? You're a horrid pompous wench. AND you're from New Hampshire. WHO (besides you, of course) is from New Hampshire? I'm lucky I know the state capitol, let alone know it's even in the Union.
While I wasn't born there, I spent most of my younger years (ages 3 - 9) in New Hampshire.

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:12 pm
by j-man
The Doc wrote:You're a horrid pompous wench.
Pmpous.
The Doc wrote:I'm lucky I know the state capitol
Capital.

There's a good lad.

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:42 pm
by Delphine
The Doc wrote:Oh. Well, with all the Chinatowns in this Godforsaken country, I got confused.

But then again, what do you know? You're a horrid pompous wench. AND you're from New Hampshire. WHO (besides you, of course) is from New Hampshire? I'm lucky I know the state capitol, let alone know it's even in the Union.
<a href="http://www.areaconnect.com/population.htm?s=NH">There are over a million people in NH as of 2002</a>. Which isn't as much as, say, <a href="http://www.areaconnect.com/population.h ... ">Texas</a>, but it's certainly more than just me.

Most people don't know the names of all 50 states and can't point most states out on the map, so I'm really not surprised.

And, as j-man also pointed out, it's <i>pmpous</i>.

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:54 pm
by j-man
It's not just a typo. It's a statement.

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 12:25 am
by Light Speed
I remember taking this National Geograpic test once and they had a world map. Each ocean had a number on it and they asked which number was the Pacific. Apparently 70% of American teenagers got it right. That means that 30% did not know what the biggest thing on the planet was.

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 12:42 am
by Segaholic2
Pop's mom?

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:26 am
by The Doc
Actually, me. But Pop's mom is in the top four or five.

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Dover, Delaware
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Atlanta, Georgia
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Memphis, Tennessee
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Olympia, Washington
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Madison, Wisconsin
Cheyenne, Wyoming

I r smrt.

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:49 pm
by Bo
I could drive you around the city from my Crazy Taxi experience, but you might want to wear a seat belt.

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:28 pm
by j-man
But then you wouldn't make any crrrrraaazy money. Seat belts are for squares. Like pants.