One of the new features in The Californian is the “Did you know” section. Sometimes it has interesting little factoids, but a lot of the time it just shares useless information like, “There are four types of rattlesnakes native to Kern County” or there are X number of light poles in town. Today it reads “Gold near Isabella Lake was found in the late 1850s when a prospector with the name of Lovely Rogers was about to heave a rock at his unruly mule when he took a second look at the rock in his hand…”
Okay, first of all, that is one strangely constructed sentence. Second, the prospectors name was Lovely? That sounds like a stripper’s name. When I picture a burly prospector from the 1850s hucking rocks at his mule, the name Lovely does not come to mind.
Makes me wonder what the mule’s name was.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
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