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Guess I've seen it all - a rational Tim May post. Why waste your time 
being offensive?

Dennis

Tim May wrote:

> Yep, what he said. 
> 
> I first lived in SoCal in 1956, though I was too young to appreciate
> restaurants (though I liked what I understood later was
> Jack-in-the-Box, #2, not far from Balboa Avenue, above Mission Bay, in
> San Diego, of course.). And I used to hear about Anthony's, in La
> Jolla.
> 
> After leaving in 1961, I returned to the Extended SoCal Megalopolis in
> 1970, to attend UCSB. 
> 
> I spend time in the LA area, as my sister used to work at the
> Troubador, and other places, and lived in Santa Monica (1977-88). And
> my brother has lived in the LA area continuously since 1977, mostly in
> Thousand Oaks, Westwood (UCLA), Santa Monica, Hermosa Beach, and, for
> the past 8-9 years, Manhattan Beach. My parents lived at various times
> in the LA area, mostly near Thousand Oaks.
> 
> So I visit LA a lot, and know the area. Possibly for years longer than
> Arne Adolfsen has know the area...not that this matters, as "length of
> time in an area" has never been a Usenet posting requirement.
> 
> And, honestly, I don't see Arnie posting independent reviews or
> comments with even a fraction of the verve I see in the ba.food group.
> (I moved to the Silicon Valley in 1974, to join a small company, and
> have considered the Extended Bay Area my home ever since. Even so, I
> sometimes get people saying that "ba.food" is for San Francisco or
> maybe Sausalito or Berkeley posters, not for those living in the
> hinterlands of Santa Rosa or Vallejo or Sunnyvale or Santa Cruz.)
> 
> Fact is, ba.food is for anyone who either lives in the roughly 130-mile
> north-south between Healdsburg and Monterey, and inland appropriately.
> Or for anyone who travesl to this area or has an interest in this area.
> 
> Ditto for la.eats, from roughly Santa Barbara down to San Diego (even
> if they have have their own group, which they may) and inland to Palm
> Springs.
> 
> And since I have eaten at, and commented on, various LA eateries
> including felafel places in Westwood, a Russian deli in downtown,
> various Cuban and Mexican and ribs places around the western area, and
> even chains like Islands (which generated a long thread, longer than
> most that Arnie Adolfsen has ever generated!), I am not at feeling
> guilty for being off-topic. 
> 
> Finally, many who regularly post in ba.food have spent time (their
> childhoods, their college years, later) in the LA area. We don't insult
> them for their LA backgrounds. So you, Arnie, should take a lesson from
> their playbook and stop insulting those you think are from some
> contaminated northern province.
> 
> Though I sometimes kid around, and even insult, Meg, our loss in
> ba.food is your gain. She will contribute a lot more reviews of LA
> eateries than you, Arnie, ever do.
> 
> --Tim May