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Post by Kampy on Dec 17, 2006 22:43:19 GMT -5
Publius, of course he can't claim diplomatic immunity, it's a joke. Also, upon being named Governor, he thanked Stanford and John Dunning for making it possible. (another joke) Pavan refused to shake the Governors hand, Cook called a timeout in the first minute of the ceremony, and worst of all they got to host the ceremony at home. I lol'd! ;D
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Post by hwy101 on Dec 18, 2006 1:19:42 GMT -5
Well Palo Alto's neighbor is East Palo Alto, count yourself lucky you don't know your neighbor. Isn't Stanford officially in Stanford, California now rather than Palo Alto? I think Stanford was there even before there was a City of Palo Alto.
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Post by BearClause on Dec 18, 2006 1:25:27 GMT -5
Isn't Stanford officially in Stanford, California now rather than Palo Alto? I think Stanford was there even before there was a City of Palo Alto. It's never been part of Palo Alto. The city limits of Palo Alto end right at the Stanford campus, which is located in an unicorporated part of Santa Clara County.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2006 10:49:25 GMT -5
Little known fact: Palo Alto is Spanish for "friend of the guy in the chorus" and was originally called Amigo Liberace.
It's true!
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Post by Floyd R. Turbo on Dec 18, 2006 12:05:26 GMT -5
Cook looks like a cartoon. No, actually he looks like the coach of the National Champions.
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Post by bigfan on Dec 18, 2006 12:57:39 GMT -5
Little known fact: Palo Alto is Spanish for "friend of the guy in the chorus" and was originally called Amigo Liberace. It's true! Why the name change.....political correctness?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2006 13:40:33 GMT -5
Cultural sensitivity was how they put it, so, yes.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2006 13:45:53 GMT -5
Little known fact: Palo Alto is Spanish for "friend of the guy in the chorus" and was originally called Amigo Liberace. It's true! Minor correction: Amiga Liberace
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Post by jgrout on Dec 18, 2006 16:12:13 GMT -5
I think Stanford was there even before there was a City of Palo Alto. It's never been part of Palo Alto. The city limits of Palo Alto end right at the Stanford campus, which is located in an unicorporated part of Santa Clara County. Palo Alto, whose name refers to the tall double-trunked old-growth redwood tree portrayed on its city seal, does have ties to Stanford's founders, Senator Leland Stanford and his wife Jane, who were ardent prohibitionists. The Stanford campus and the original city of Palo Alto had strict bans on alcohol that predated national Prohibition. As Palo Alto grew south and west of campus toward today's cities of Los Altos and Mountain View and township of Los Altos Hills, the campus and an area around it remained "dry" at least into the early 1960's, when a friend of mine attended Stanford. Because most undergrads are under 21, the campus is becoming steadily less alcohol-friendly, but the City of Palo Alto has liquor stores and bars in downtown areas that were once "dry". Its rich neighborhoods are known for out-of-control high-school drinking parties... those hosted by brazen parents, who can be arrested and charged with crimes for doing so, have garnered the most press coverage, but the most common hosts are high-schoolers whose parents left them unsupervised... "junior Trees" .
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