Watching the Rain Fall

If you are going to bother doing a localized commercial for a national company, please, PLEASE, check how to pronounce the names of the towns. I was watching TV just now and there was a State Farm commercial. They say: “For Gresham call Joe Blow. For Alo-HA call Kiss my Ass.”   Geez, how hard is it to check the pronunciation of the town. I know it is spelled Aloha but in Oregon (because we have a zillion names that we are 1) impossible to pronounce correctly by looking at the word in the first place or 2) pronounced in a way you would NEVER expect.) we pronounce Aloha the town with a silent H. So, it’s ah-LOW-ah. How hard is it…

On another note. When cows fly: One did in Washington. Granted it was a brief glorious downward bound flight that resulted in her landing on the hood of a car.