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 Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:10 am
CONTEST ENDS: 7-20-06Welcome to the first guild contest! Yay! 4laugh Like the guild, this contest is about california. Here is how it works. Example Post [your bump plus its number] [a little tid-bit about california] You can change the order of the two however you wish, but the posts have to have the two. RulesNO QUOTING!!
Number your bumps
Keep your 'tid-bit's' about CA
Have fun Prizes 1st Place:  2nd Place: 500g 3rd Place: 200g Top Three Bumpers so farThis will be updated whenever a crew member gets the chance. I will check often to keep up, but if we mess up please PM one of us with the link to the correct bump number1st: Donovinhs Knight 2nd: -DJIced- 3rd: skyblueandblack
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:16 pm
Bump 1
California has Bison on Catalina Island
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:24 pm
... I've never played one of these before...
Bump 2?
Or since it's my first bump is it bump 1? (sorry!)
Anyway...
The agricultural product produced in the greatest amount in California is... marijuana. (Or it was about five years ago; my figures might be outdated, but I figure it's still relevant enough to be interesting)
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:26 pm
((yes, it would be bump 1 for you since its your first bump 3nodding
and it is? does that really count as an agriculture product? xD))
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:32 pm
Ah, thankee. Wanted to double-check on that... And yeah... it's a plant, it's grown, so it's agriculture. It's a joke in Riverside, too -- that at UCR, the chemistry and agriculture/botany departments always have such high enrollment numbers. I mean, they're really good, respected departments, but because Riverside's got the stereotype of being such a druggie city (not to mention it's the official "meth capital of the world"), the irony's certainly not lost on anyone there!
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:38 pm
((I just normally consider agriculture as in...done like on a high and organized scale with large crops and farms across vast distances))
bump 2
California is home to the largest land locked port...
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:47 pm
((Well... yeah. High and very organized scale, large crops and vast farms... that's about right, actually.
Knew a guy... forgive me for getting really vague at this point... anyway, he'd find trusted "tenants" for apartments he'd rent -- 2 bedroom units, in many different areas. Tenants would be expected to keep a low profile, not have company, and otherwise be respectable. One bedroom would belong to this dude's crop, which he'd come by every month or so to check on and harvest.
He'd never worked a day in his life, and he owns (not rents, not leases, owns a nice house in a good city, is married and has a baby, an SUV, etc etc. You'd never figure him for running the business, as it were.))
bump 2
The name "California" comes from a 16th-century romance novel called Amadis de Gallia.
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:53 pm
bump 3
the name california is disupted but the earliest example of the name is califerne in a story about charlamagne. others think it comes from caliph, but thats a stretch
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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:35 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:29 pm
((I have no information on California. gonk ))
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MisfortunesOnlyFriend Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:07 pm
me will participate!
Bump 1
In 1925 a giant sequoia located in California's Kings Canyon National Park was named the nation's national Christmas tree. The tree is over 300 feet in height.
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:09 pm
Bump 2
In Pacific Grove there is a law on the books establishing a $500 fine for molesting butterflies.
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MisfortunesOnlyFriend Vice Captain
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MisfortunesOnlyFriend Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:10 pm
bump 3
The first motion picture theater opened in Los Angeles on April 2, 1902.
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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:50 am
Bump 4
There are more than 300,000 tons of grapes grown in California annually.
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MisfortunesOnlyFriend Vice Captain
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MisfortunesOnlyFriend Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:51 am
Bump 5
Fresno proclaims itself the Raisin Capital of the World.
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