Today on The Mom Blog I get peeved at the use of the term “The OC”
Here is my full post…if you want to comment please head on over to my blog “Mommy’s Mind is not a Toy” and tell me what you think…is this just a non-issue?
…and now something totally un-mom related.
I’ve never heard anyone from Orange County ever refer to it as “The OC.” It’s not like this is the biggest deal in the world, but as a native, it bugs.
It feels a little like media carpetbagging when you hear it called “The OC” on the news or see it on a t-shirt.
I think it’s a lot like when I lived in San Francisco and I’d be at a party and someone would say “Oh, I just love Frisco.” That person would be instantly marked as a poser from Mountain View and avoided for the rest of the night for fear he would start talking about “Kerouac.”
Don’t get me started on my hometown Huntington Beach, oops…oh, I mean “Surf City.”
Surf City Frozen Yogurt? Yes. Surf City Marathon? Okay. I’ll meet you at Sugar Shack in Surf City? Never.
I know it’s just supposed to be a tagline, but I don’t want my memories, my hometown, my life, taglined.
Okay, maybe I should just get over this–it’s a little petty and adolescent. It just rings untrue in my ear. Like when someone says “Supposably” or “for all intensive purposes.”
It just ain’t right.
I am right there with ya sister. I say Orange County or Southern California. However in writing (like on my blog) I have been known to use the term OC. It is the THE I object to the most……mainly because there is a world a differce between say Yorba Linda and Hunington Beach. We are all horse country and conservative and well you know those beach folks with thier casual ways! I mean I never felt comfortable lumping all of us together into the term THE OC. And you know folks we aren’t the only OC out there…There is an OC in Florida and one in upstate New york to name a few……
Well…. we southerners think everything is more glamourous when its goes by its initials. So thats why our really HOT, and usually hairy, men go by names like J.B. (for Jim Bob) and, um.. CV (for Clarance Vernon… I swear I knew a guy named this) and B.B. (for Billy Bob). So I’m going to have to stick with the OC. Despite your protests, b/c everybody knows that the COOLEST things dont need a full name, the initials will suffice.