God knows why I've better-than-skimmed this WHOLE THREAD, considering I've never played Pasatiempo, Cinnabar Hills, Stanford, Stevinson Ranch, San Juan Oaks, or any of 'em!
Oh, I know why, too: This has been a very fine, entertaining conversation. Thank you, gentlemen. (Don't anyone say anything funny, though! The whole thread'll be gone before nightfall. You can take that from me, Dan Kelly [tm], reporting in from Greenland [tm].)
A few notes:
-- TO ALL: No Smoking at San Juan Oaks? What's the deal there? I could certainly understand a No-Littering-Your-Big-Ol'-Cigar-Butts (and a No-Flicking-Your-Big-Ol'-Stogie-Ashes-On-The-Greens) policy -- but no smoking? Is this an indoor golf course? Is this common in California? Is this the future in California? How can a Libertarian survive in California?
-- TO TOM HUCKABY: Vive la difference. Indeed.
-- TO RICH GOODALE: Someone said you don't like blindness -- and unless I missed something (happens daily), I didn't hear you contradict him (whoever it was). Is that right? You don't like blindness? Why? Semi-blindness, too? Why? Seems to me your trademark here is to favor VARIETY and THRILLINGNESS in golf shots -- which blind and semi-blind shots would seem to offer in spades, at least to my ... eyes.
-- TO TOM HUCKABY: "Damn you Goodale!
" Indeed.
-- TO DAN KING: Thanks for the elegant and eloquent statement on the difference between a golf course and a cart-ball course -- and on the difference between Miss Crawford and Ms. Crawford. (Don't care for either of 'em, personally. Have you read "Mildred Pierce" -- possibly the worst-adapted screenplay, ever, and a great novel by any standard, by one of the least appreciated geniuses, ever, Mr. James M. Cain?)
One more question for you: Is it possible to have a "golf course" (flowing with the land) that is unwalkable (except, perhaps, by Tenzing Norgay)? If it's possible: Do you know of any?
-- TO JONATHAN SWIFT: Rest in peace, sir. Rest in peace.