Text 25092, 91 rader
Skriven 2006-11-14 18:53:29 av Mimi Gallandt (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 25087 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Election
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John Hull -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 JH> Mimi Gallandt -> John Hull wrote:
 MG>> John Hull -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 JH>>> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG>>>> Ed Hulett -> VERN HUMPHREY wrote:
 EH>>>>> VERN HUMPHREY -> ED HULETT wrote:
 EH>>>>>>>>> How Alan came up with his fantasy about the Dems cleaning up
 JH>>> *any*
 VH>>>>>>>> budget me
 EH>>>>>>>>> is a mystery.

 VH>>>>>>>> Unfortunately, the day may be coming when the budget is the
 VH>>>>>> least of ou
 VH>>>>>>>> worries.

 EH>>>>>>> Sadly, you are correct.

 VH>>>>>> I pulled out my old Prefix-5 data and have been doing fallout
 VH>>>>>> predictions from all the major cities.  I think I picked a good
 EH>>>>> place to
 VH>>>>>> live.

 EH>>>>> I live right next to both Fort Lewis and Machord AFB. I am doomed.

 MG>>>> I can beat that: I live right next to the West Coast's largest Naval
 MG>>>> station. I'm about midway between 32nd st Naval Station and Mexico.
 JH>>> It's
 MG>>>> beautiful here.



 JH>>> That would put you in Chula Weasel then, right?  How far inland?

 MG>> Chula Vista, yes; about 3000 feet from the bay. Most cities have
 MG>> nicknames, NYC is "the big apple", Chicago is "the windy city" (and
 JH> long
 MG>> ago "the city of big shoulders") Chula Vista is "the city of trees".

 JH> Don't know how long you've lived there in that area, but here's a few

I'm actually a native San Diegan lived here most of my life.

 JH> bits of the raunchier history you may or may not know:  Those of us who
 JH> lived in San Diego always thought of Chula Vista as either Chula Juana,
 JH> Chula Weasel, or Chula Whistle, but mostly Chula Juana.  In those days
 JH> it was decidedly lower class blue collar, and LOTS of illegals. National
 JH> City was either Nasty City, or National Shitty, depending on what kind

and Imperial Beach was Venereal Beach :)

 JH> of day you were having.  High crime rate, high drug trafficking rate
 JH> too.  There was a bar a half block off the main drag toward the water,
 JH> and just two blocks across the city limits from 32nd Street called the
 JH> The Westerner.  Biggest meat market I've ever seen. You had to be either
 JH> dead or a flaming gay not to get laid in that place - and every single
 JH> female in there was a WestPac Widow.  National City PD and the Shore
 JH> Patrol spent more time in the five block radius around that joint than
 JH> anywhere in the whole 11th Naval District!

 JH> There used to be a dance club out at the far end of University Ave. just
 JH> before you got to La Mesa back in the 70's that was the college
 JH> equivalent of the Westerner.  Everybody bad mouthed the sailors but the
 JH> woman sure showed in droves at those joints on paydays!

Between then and now (the 80s and early 90s) there was a bad problem with
gangs. I don't know where the gangs went but they're mostly gone from the south
bay. I wonder if they've moved out Tim's way?

 JH> Loved that city, though, and still have a lot of friends out there.
 JH> Wouldn't have traded those years for anything!

There's a kind of "magic" (for lack of a better word) to San Francisco, but
I'll take San Diego over it any day of the week.

This seems to be going the way of our talk on anthropology so maybe this is as
good a time as any to introduce our new group.



-- 
L'Chaim

Mimi

In the beginning
the Word already was.

mimigalATcoxDOTnet

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