# I hope I survive the day! (If not, I love you!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 21, 1999, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219 "1999-12-21T10:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/21 "1999-12-22T03:35:00Z")
Hot damn! I just knew that beachfront property I bought in Nevada was going to be worth something someday! Can ye hurry it up? The developers are already breathin’ down my neck . . . Dr. Watson “Apocalypse? Isn’t that a small town in Jersey?” ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/22 "1999-12-22T04:03:00Z")
Ooooooh… **don’t** get me started on the Braves. Arghhh! That’s all I can say in MPSIMS. It’s 8:08 in San Francisco, and we’re fine. Let’s see the Braves survive a 7. earthquake at game time, huh? * * * JMcC, San Francisco, [JJM’s page from the Bay](http://members.tripod.com/~weirdstuff/index.html) If I were beaned with a fastball, fling my limp, lifeless body to first, cause, dammit, I earned it! ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/23 "1999-12-22T04:13:00Z")
I’m a geophysicist - I believe _everything_ geologists say (where’s Pantellerite?). Really, I didn’t catch the broadcast, but it doesn’t sound like something any geologist I know (and I know, literally, hundreds) would say. 'Quake prediction isn’t that refined as yet. We can identify areas where quakes can be expected, and there is a bit of indication that very low frequency acoustic waves may be detected in short advance of our realization of movement along a fault. Southern California _is_ in for relocation, but to what degree that will happen in our lifetimes is hardly something one can quantify on a calendar. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/24 "1999-12-22T06:27:00Z")
10:27 p.m. and all’s well. * * * **StoryTyler** “Not everybody does it, but everybody should.” [I Spy Ty.](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/25 "1999-12-22T06:28:00Z")
10:27 p.m. and all’s well. * * * **StoryTyler** “Not everybody does it, but everybody should.” [I Spy Ty.](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/26 "1999-12-22T06:28:00Z")
10:27 p.m. and all’s well. * * * **StoryTyler** “Not everybody does it, but everybody should.” [I Spy Ty.](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage) ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/27 "1999-12-22T06:40:00Z")
Are you sure the guy didn’t mean in the “21st century”? Jill ps – and don’t let the Hollywood and granola-types fool you, California also has more rednecks than Georgia and Alabama put together. ---
**Author:** ![Jois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@Jois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jois)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/28 "1999-12-22T06:41:00Z")
Gee, after 12 and not a peep. I guess they are gone. Bye CA. * * * Oh, I’m gonna keep using these #%@&\* codes 'til I get 'em right. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/29 "1999-12-22T06:42:00Z")
Methinks we’ve detected a tremor. Dr. Watson “Why yes, that is my monkey, why do ye ask?” ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/30 "1999-12-22T06:59:00Z")
Well, it’s 11:00 now in L.A., and there’s been not even a teeny rumble all day. But there’s still an hour to go, so don’t give up hope, CA-bashers. Of course, the Central Valley or the Bay Area may be gone by now, for all I know. It’s a big state. Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/31 "1999-12-22T07:18:00Z")
11:21 p.m. PST in Southern California, and at the moment I am more worried about being burned out than shaken out. -Melin ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/32 "1999-12-22T08:08:00Z")
Okay, it’s 12:11 am. We survived! Whew. BTW, the Braves will pay yet for 1993. ::walks away muttering about 103 wins:: * * * ~Kyla “You couldn’t fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine.” ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/33 "1999-12-23T01:02:00Z")
## Does this mean you don’t love me, Kyla? Let’s see. I lathered and I rinsed. But did I repeat? ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/34 "1999-12-23T01:41:00Z")
> [@](#): > > …the Braves will pay yet for 1993. ::walks away muttering about 103 wins:: Kyla, will you marry me? * * * JMcC, San Francisco, [JJM’s page from the Bay](http://members.tripod.com/~weirdstuff/index.html) If I were beaned with a fastball, fling my limp, lifeless body to first, cause, dammit, I earned it! ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/35 "1999-12-23T03:31:00Z")
StoryTyler wrote: > [@](#): > > I want you all to know that the high in the Bay Area today will be in the low 70s… You live in the SF Bay Area too? \ Okay, two questions: How close are you to Morgan Hill, and Are you single? 🙂 * * * The truth, as always, is more complicated than that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219.md?page=1)