[Publius]

Sh-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h!!!!! Now you'll have everybody moving here.

For the record it rains every day. We don't tan, we rust. The state tree is a fungus.

(Jeez, bedolido, what are you trying to do?!!)

[RobRoy]

Oh no! Now I have GUILT!

My bad. It was downtown SAN FRANCISCO I was really talking about. Yeah, that's the ticket.

[bedolido]

I'm from Portland and understand. My brother and his wife live in Tacoma and other relatives live in Bellevue and Olympia... They tell me Seattle gets 36" of rain a year (like Portland).

[lelio]

You mean it isn't raining outside today? I haven't taken off my rainjacket in 4 years.

[RinaseaofDs]

Correct. It's awful here.

And the place is crawling with liberals. They are everywhere. You can't eat a bowl of rice with chopsticks without one popping right out of the bowl to accuse you of denuding a rainforest.

We have scary volcanoes and earthquakes too. We drink expensive coffee, and when we do, our breath smells bad.

Never come here. OK, come here, spend some dough, and then go.

[shotgun]

I lived in Bothell the year, 1998, we had 110 days straight of measurable rain, which broke the then record. It stopped for one day and started again for like another 50, to my best recollection....

Man you folks over there must really be getting your monies worth from your fans this year. Are the news stations still doing live reports from the department stores about the shortage of fans. I think they do that story every year for the one "hot" week a year....

Try living over here on real "eastside" of the state and not on the east side of Lake Washington!

[Eala]

Sh-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h!!!!! Now you'll have everybody moving here.
For the record it rains every day. We don't tan, we rust. The state tree is a fungus.
(Jeez, bedolido, what are you trying to do?!!)

Not only that, there are our absolutely gorgeous Seattle winters -- commuting for hours and hours at 5 MPH (when you're moving at all) in the interminable dark rain, never seeing daylight unless you step outside, never seeing the sun for months at a stretch.

And there's the spectacular variety of precipitation to enjoy. Most places just have "rain," but in Seattle we get to enjoy and discern the differences between mist, sprinkle, drip, drizzle, rain, shower, downpour and more, all coming with various combinations of the modifiers "light", "intermittent", "heavy", "times of" and more.

And once a while a "sun-break."

[rockrr]

Yea, and we had smog. Yea. That's it. Lot's of smog. So thick you couldn't see the muggers, see?
And plagues of locusts. and frogs fallin from the trees.
Better go to Portland. It's MUCH nicer there......

[djf]

Don't forget to mention that our state gastropod, the banana slug, is ravenously carnivorous.