"Justin" > wrote in message
news:ge7Cg.79462$fG3.66725@dukeread09...
> 8-Aug-2006 JXStern wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 12:25:34 -0400, "karl" >
>> wrote:
>> >>>Filled with blind spots and hairpin curves wrapped around some of the
>> >>>most beautifully distracting scenery in the country, the PCH has been
>> >>>called an accident waiting to happen.
>> >>
>> >> There are no blind spots or hairpin turns within fifty miles of where
>> >> Gibson had his fun, the bad stuff is way north of Santa Barbara around
>> >> Hearst Castle, anything at all challenging is past Zuma, about ten
>> >> miles north.
>> >>
>> >> And it's not "the PCH", it's just PCH.
>> >
>> > Given that the OP did not capitalize 'the', he is correct and you are
>> > not.
>> >If the proper name is Pacific Coast Highway rather than The Pacific
>> >Coast
>> >Highway then his usage is correct.
>> >
>> >/pendantry mode = off/
>>
>> The common usage omits the "the", the "proper" usage is not the common
>> usage. Maybe some pedantic editor "corrected" good reporting by
>> inserting the "the", but it reads poorly to anyone who knows Los
>> Angeles. Then again, there's "The OC", which no native ever said
>> until some creative type coined the phrase, but now is occassionally
>> heard, so, y'know, whatever.
>>
>
> I think you need to get together with my ex. What an insufferable
> ****ing snob she is...
>
> "Only hicks from Iowa use Frisco, dahling! Either call it *The City*
> or don't talk about it at all."

I'm torn. My first reaction was to ask if you hit her with a brick. But
then, you being the guy, you can't really answer "yup". So....

Didja kick her in the shin after that one?

Tara