The reasons to bail on SoCal keep multiplying. First it was the drought, then the earthquakes, then the taxes.
Now it’s the giant squid.
Doesn’t help that we’re experiencing a heat wave. It’s supposed to reach 79°F today.
We’re fairly melting.
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Oh, HA! That “fairly melting” comment is very tacky!
Well despite the fact we are experiencing something like our 7th day in a row of triple digit temps here in DFW I wouldn’t trade. What good is great weather when you can’t afford to enjoy it? Well I suppose being on the cusp of experiments in self-governance gone awry is something, I kinda like the fact that at least my state government knows how to balance a budget. I can hear the moaners who will denigrate our education accomplishments as somehow being tied to spending within our means but that fact alone is something obviously not taught or learned in Sacramento.
Too bad you can’t pack up Sandy Eggo and bring it with you.
Especially tacky from the viewpoint of those of us down South where it is 90+ and darned humid!
Ain’t no way I’m moving further south than NC. Miss those Michigan summers, though that is about all.
We yousta serve giant squid at our local Palo Alto Elks Club before meetings. The calamari slices were on the order of 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick, and quite delicious. Add a little garlic-butter sauce, some rice pilaf on the side and a good vegetable, and this was a really wonderful meal on the cheap.
I thought the giant fried squid were delicious in Barcelona. That and a pitcher of Sangria prior to boarding the bouncing liberty launch back to the boat were a perfect cap to a wonderful day. Add the multi colored tossed cookies into the noxious gruel washing the deck, the green faces of the newbies, the yelling coxswain to feed the fishies not the boots…. ahhh wonderful memories…. few I’d care to repeat (well ,maybe the original point, the fried squid and sangria. That really was wonderful. The rest? Not so much.)
The best fried squid I have found in the states is the panko fried Calimari steak at the fish market in Santa Clara. Haven’t been there in years but I have fond memories of that.
Well dang, if y’all paid yer taxes they’d tarn the a-year conditioner back on. Chaw-lston 95 deg 90% relative humidity. And down heyunh we call that stuff “bait”.
G-man, THAT is why I’m as far south as I intend to go. Unless the family decides otherwise.
Ron
Always room for one more that appreciates the finer things in life like flying and Lex and fishing and Lex and golfing and Lex and women and Lex, and booze and Lex. Throw in guns and Lex and you got the complete collector’s edition.
Yes, definitely tacky. All you aristocrats bragging about the cool temps on the ocean while us po’ folks swelter at 10-15 higher only a few miles inland… Whatever happened to nobless oblige?
It didn’t even get down to 79 last night in Dallas.
However, I could jump on the old Moto Guzzi and run over to Fort Worth for a little air combat training in a SIAI Marchetti SF 260. A nice little plane even if it lacks the really cool tandem cockpit layout of the Varga.
Earthquakes? Everyone knows it was evil Navy sonars that caused these gentle giants to beach themselves.
“Giant” squid? That seagull is about to swallow one whole. You all are getting kind of timorous out there in California, aren’t you?
We actually had a record low North of Pittsburgh last night. 49 degrees in July. Of course it happens 2 days after I take the furnace apart for cleaning.
Up heya in the elitist northeast we’re experiencing wild wet weatha. Well, the sun has been shining for the past 4 days – for the first time since late May! Jim Collins is right – we woke up to temps in the 40s for the past few mornings. I rather like this kind of weather – cool nights and mornings, bright sun, light breeze, temps in the low 80s.
Didn’t anybody notice that the news story said there were idiots who attempted to drag these beasts back into the ocean?
Large squid like these have been known to attack skin divers in the Gulf of California. They are carnivores and large enough to take on any adult who is foolish enough to get within reach of their TENticles (count them, 10). And the suckers are barbed. Once they make the grab, you get loose only if they wish to let you go.
Not a “giant” squid – pretty big, but not a giant. Giants run 4 meters, not including the tentacles.