You have inadvertently stumbled upon a genius idea. It would work! I can see the marketing:
Billboard & Box:
Done in paint like an old pin-up POV: from behind a young girl in cut-offs, wedge sandals, and a too-short button down top. She’s turning at the waist, looking over her shoulder, holding a box of the product & winking. “Best Damn Cake YOU’LL Ever Taste…!”
in light blue font
I could see that as a billboard along highways and by the outfield walls in baseball stadiums in CA.
TV commercial:
“Mommy…! I want 'Winky Dinky Ho Cakes!!!”
“Shut up! You’ll eat Healthy Choice prune-newtons and Like it…!”
[announcers voice]“Right about now, don’t you wish you were eating a Winky Dinky Ho Cake…?” [/announcers voice]
Dirty Trix Internet Rumor (spread on Facebook, of course)
“Sarah Palin refuses to let her kids have ‘Winky Dinky Ho Cakes’ in their lunch boxes!”
“Way back in the early part of the 21st century, the State of California faced bankruptcy & ruin. Yet today, as I open the 2075 Worlds Fair, less than 60 years later, we are the wealthiest of the 53 states. We, as descendants of those Californians, owe a debt of gratitude to the ‘Winky Dinky Ho Cake’…”
Joke’s on you: it’ll just kill all of us relatively normal folks here, while the tweakers will survive. I mean, their trailers can survive meth lab explosions, so I’m inclined to believe they can survive anything.
I know I’m doing my best to up Bakersfield’s forn. . . oh, nevermind.
Personally, I’ve always favored the much-discussed proposal* of splitting the state into East California and West California along the median of the 5.
West Cal gets most of LA and the valley, Santa Barbara & the Bay area. Not to mention Coronado and PETCO Park. San Jose can be its capital (although a sizable minority want it to be Avalon).
East Cal gets Fresno, Bakersfield, Sacramento and the Inland Empire. Plus the San Diego Zoo and Yosemite. Pasadena becomes its cultural capital (well, either Pasadena or Death Valley).
Orange County gets split in two, which sounds only fitting. East Cal gets the Big A, West Cal gets Disneyland.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to have an east and west California split along the San Andreas Fault? You know? Before it splits along the San Andreas Fault?
Actually, it makes sense if you split California into the wet part and the dry part. Joel Garreau had that idea in “The Nine Nations of North America”, which proposed including northern California in “Ecotopia” (hippies, temperate rainforest, etc) which went northwards to include Washington, Oregon, and Britich Columbia, as far inland as the crest of the mountains. The more southern parts of California he assigned to “MexAmerica” (strong colours, desert, etc).
Is the idea being floated seriously, or is it just the same griping erupting again? The idea of splitting the state first happened before California became a state, so I’m going to assume that this is a case of once more, with internet.
One of my former professors said that we’d eventually have to split in order to make the Diet States: Low Cal and No. Cal.
(And I’m going to repeat that lame joke every time we have a thread about splitting the state. You’ve been warned.)
We don’t give a damn about the whole state of Michigan
The whole state of Michigan
The whole state of Michigan
We don’t give a damn about the whole state of Michigan
'Cause we’re from Western Reserve!
