Palmdale Is Da City!

like Jimbo says it must be we are simply smarter up here.

But Jimbo- it is Interstate 5 not Highway 5. But I-5 will do.

   When we use the “definite article” THE before the aforementioned freeway number, it clears up a lot of potential ambiguity that phasiology would otherwise create. For example, if you called your pharmacist because the prescribed dosage had you believing that the walls were whispering to you in Japanese, and the pharmacist, in an effort to provide you with directions to the store, said, “No problem at all sir, dont worry, just take 5 to 10 all the way into Santa Monica until you reach the Pacific Coast Highway,etc……”. Needless to say, odds are that before you got to the pharmacy, you’d be the cause of a SIG-ALERT on the Golden State Fwy. If the article “the” is to be dropped, then one must add an object noun following the number. For example, “just take 5 fwy to 10 fwy…etc” But in fairness, although less ambiguous, it sounds rather Cro-Magnun, or perhaps a bit like Tarzan might speak when giving directions to his jungle friends.
  What I really find to be the debacle of this issue however, is the fact that freeways in any given stretch can have up to three different names. For example, the Long Beach Freeway is only the Long Beach Freeway when traveling southbound. It’s the Pasadena Freeway if you are traveling northbound while south of the 105. Its otherwise best called the 710 in either direction. Worst of all, it was never completed as it was designed, and although the entrance ramps to the 710 N still say “Pasadena”, it actually stops many miles from Pasadena….I guess it was easier for CalTrans to abandon the construction than it was to fix the signs. Anyway, it really is a lot for all of the pretentious, aspiring actors and rock stars to grasp. I think a working knowledge of the local fwys should be incorporated into the written portion of the DMV class “C” test.

   When we use the “definite article” THE before the aforementioned freeway number, it clears up a lot of potential ambiguity that phasiology would otherwise create. For example, if you called your pharmacist because the prescribed dosage had you believing that the walls were whispering to you in Japanese, and the pharmacist, in an effort to provide you with directions to the store, said, “No problem at all sir, dont worry, just take 5 to 10 all the way into Santa Monica until you reach the Pacific Coast Highway,etc……”. Needless to say, odds are that before you got to the pharmacy, you’d be the cause of a SIG-ALERT on the Golden State Fwy. If the article “the” is to be dropped, then one must add an object noun following the number. For example, “just take 5 fwy to 10 fwy…etc” But in fairness, although less ambiguous, it sounds rather Cro-Magnun, or perhaps a bit like Tarzan might speak when giving directions to his jungle friends.
  What I really find to be the debacle of this issue however, is the fact that freeways in any given stretch can have up to three different names. For example, the Long Beach Freeway is only the Long Beach Freeway when traveling southbound. It’s the Pasadena Freeway if you are traveling northbound while south of the 105. Its otherwise best called the 710 in either direction. Worst of all, it was never completed as it was designed, and although the entrance ramps to the 710 N still say “Pasadena”, it actually stops many miles from Pasadena….I guess it was easier for CalTrans to abandon the construction than it was to fix the signs. Anyway, it really is a lot for all of the pretentious, aspiring actors and rock stars to grasp. I think a working knowledge of the local fwys should be incorporated into the written portion of the DMV class “C” test.

 we can probably agree that it’s a California thing to discuss freeway nomenclature.

Personally, I’m still bathing in Gerolsteiner – I get it delivered in 55 gal drums. Feels fantastic, nothing like it.

so much more character than the multi-plex.

I liked the small town atmosphere in So Pas. A friend of mine had to go to the police station to get fingerprints taken for a high level security clearance for a job at the White House. He offered to show the woman taking his fingerprints his id, and she sweetly replied “that won’t be necessary, you told me who you are”

In my home town, Arcadia, California. The peacocks are still there and so is the Queen Ann Cottage, made famous as Mr. Roarke’s house in Fantasy Island complete with the bell tower that Tattoo would ring the bell. When I was in high school, sneaking in at night and climbing up onto the roof and ringing the bell and yelling “Da Plane! Da Plane!” and then escaping without getting caught was a rite of passage.

If he’s being called “The Doctor”, then what’s next? Calling Chris the “Messiah”?