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Originally posted by paigowprincess
my dad is a serious republican who thinks Deer are cute and mooned Cuba from the deck of his cabin on a ship once.

This makes your crush on Spanky veeeeeeeeery iiiiiiiiiinteresting.

etf some weird transposition that happened instead of a deletion.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Spanky
Where is Searsville lake? Does Sandhill go by it? I don't remember a lake in Portola Valley. It is somewhere near the Alpine Inn (Rosatti's)?

Your Google-fu leaves much to be desired, grasshopper. Here.
Just south of the western end of the SLAC. (Cue usual pic of Eva Silverstein.)

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I for one think the save the redwood people should take after the no fur and make it gross to have redwood furniture or a deck. You kill a 1000 year old tree because you can't bar b que on pine?

As usual, this is not well thought out. (1) You can't make a deck out of old-growth redwood anymore. (2) Julia "Butterfly" Hill was not sitting in a second-growth tree. (3) There's no such thing as old-growth ermine. (4) Redwood makes terrible furniture anyway.

There are many stupid things about the movement to save the redwoods, but this is not one of them.

[Atticus Grinch]

[list=1][*]When the sheep gets zapped with static in "Electricity, Electricity," the black curls depicting its wool turn into "666."[*]The pair of numeral "1"s that leapfrog over each other in "The Good Eleven" closely resemble penises when they're bent.[*]The map of the USA made up of the diverse people of America at the end of "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" has a naked black chick where LA should be. (Also, the guy where NYC is looks a little Jew-ish. NTTAWWT.)[/list=1]

I am kidding about none of this.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Spanky
I heard that San Jose use to have a port, but that the all the runoff from the water hoses used to blast the mountains and hills looking for gold filled in the sourthern portion of the bay, creating the marshes and cutting off San Jose. Do you know if that is true?

The port was Alviso, which has always been a little ways inside the mouth of the Guadalupe River. (I had to look this up, Paigow --- will your Pub Quiz team have WiFi access?) It died more from the introduction of daily train service to SF, which killed the overnight steamboat service from Alviso, than from the silting up of the river mouth.

I have never heard of gold mining in San Jose. It seems unlikely, as there aren't many hills in the vicinity, and it would take a lot of water volume to get the silt all the way to the Bay.

I discovered on Google Earth that Alviso is quite near the Bay Area's only real ghost town, Drawbridge, California. It's on land owned by Cargill Salt, so you can't visit. The entire bayshore to the south is now a protected national wildfowl refuge, so Alviso was doomed, 49ers or no.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Your Google-fu leaves much to be desired, grasshopper. Here.
Just south of the western end of the SLAC. (Cue usual pic of Eva Silverstein.)

The lake is pretty well hidden. I have lived here all my life and never knew it was there.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch [list=1][*]When the sheep gets zapped with static in "Electricity, Electricity," the black curls depicting its wool turn into "666."[*]The pair of numeral "1"s that leapfrog over each other in "The Good Eleven" closely resemble penises when they're bent.[*]The map of the USA made up of the diverse people of America at the end of "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" has a naked black chick where LA should be. (Also, the guy where NYC is looks a little Jew-ish. NTTAWWT.)[/list=1]

I am kidding about none of this.

That is rather disturbing.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Spanky
The lake is pretty well hidden. I have lived here all my life and never knew it was there.

If you think the lake is well hidden, you should see the town. Bah-dum. Thank you, folks, I'll be here all week.

Confidential to Spanky: Ix-nay on the uoting-qay. You'll lose your second biggest fan.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
The port was Alviso, which has always been a little ways inside the mouth of the Guadalupe River. (I had to look this up, Paigow --- will your Pub Quiz team have WiFi access?) It died more from the introduction of daily train service to SF, which killed the overnight steamboat service from Alviso, than from the silting up of the river mouth.

I have never heard of gold mining in San Jose. It seems unlikely, as there aren't many hills in the vicinity, and it would take a lot of water volume to get the silt all the way to the Bay.

I discovered on Google Earth that Alviso is quite near the Bay Area's only real ghost town, Drawbridge, California. It's on land owned by Cargill Salt, so you can't visit. The entire bayshore to the south is now a protected national wildfowl refuge, so Alviso was doomed, 49ers or no.

I saw a KQED special on Drawbridge. They interviewed a lot of the former residents. It was very interesting. They should terminate the salt ponds.

When driving across the Dumbarton it doesn't seem like a boat could make it to Alviso. If they can, I think they should start the ferry service again. How cool would it be to take a ferry from San Jose to San Francisco.

As far as dirt filling the bay, the way I heard it was the silt came all the way from gold country and it filled the entire bay. The south end was the shallowist so it was hurt the worst. I was also told that treasure island was dredged from this "gold" silt so that it is why it is called "treasure". That is all suspect hearsay.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Spanky
That is rather disturbing.

2. As usual, Atticus is not helping your declining Q score here, no offence.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
As usual, this is not well thought out. (1) You can't make a deck out of old-growth redwood anymore. (2) Julia "Butterfly" Hill was not sitting in a second-growth tree. (3) There's no such thing as old-growth ermine. (4) Redwood makes terrible furniture anyway.

There are many stupid things about the movement to save the redwoods, but this is not one of them.

Atticus, i take it you don't donate time to the visitors bureau.

Spanky, isn't there such a thing as redwood poachers?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Spanky
As far as dirt filling the bay, the way I heard it was the silt came all the way from gold country and it filled the entire bay. The south end was the shallowist so it was hurt the worst. I was also told that treasure island was dredged from this "gold" silt so that it is why it is called "treasure". That is all suspect hearsay.

Huh. Apparently a lot of Sacramento River silt that lines the Bay is the result of hydraulic mining in the Gold Country before it was banned in 1884.

However, I don't think that destroyed Alviso's potential as an international port. The introduction of faster train service and a high-profile explosion of the steamer Jenny Lind did more to seal Alviso's fate.

Other than that your story checks out.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch


Other than that your story checks out.

Looks like it's navigable by ships with a pretty deep draw down to about the East Palo Alto Yacht Club.

link to ginormous nautical chart

scroll down for chart 18651

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Spanky
The lake is pretty well hidden. I have lived here all my life and never knew it was there.

Aha! I knew you never lived in Japan.

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Aha! I knew you never lived in Japan.

Or LA. Lying bastard. Nice catch, lizard.

I don't like that pedantic Spanky is appearing here, though admittedly lectures on, uh, some water stuff are better than lectures on Cuba.