I guess now is as good a time to insert this as any...

In a message dated 5/4/2000 6:48:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
cametobe at ix.netcom.com writes:

> ...as somebody suggested we do for poor Utah, stuck with
> the California gull...

Of course, the territory we now know as Utah *was* part of the California
Republic, incorporated into the U.S. after the Mexican-American War.

Nick Pharris
Olympia, WA
NJPharris at aol.com