>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:06:54 -0500, Joseph DeMartino wrote   
   (in article    
   <43ef5951-48aa-4c67-b9d0-861a8152049f@g11g2000vbq.googlegroups.com>):   
   > On Feb 15, 7:03 pm, Blair Leatherwood    
   > wrote:   
   >    
   >> I have the same issue with The Mentalist and their grasp (or lack   
   >> thereof) of Northern California.- Hide quoted text -   
   >    
   > "Silk Stalkings", supposedly set in Palm Beach, was one of the worst   
   > offenders in this regard.  The Town of Palm Beach is a tiny enclave at   
   > the north end of a very small island - a couple of miles long, less   
   > than a mile across in most places.  The only supermarket has valet   
   > parking and there are no poor sections of town.  (The poor people who   
   > work there - like me not too long ago - live on the mainland side of   
   > the bridges in places like West Palm Beach and Lake Worht.)   
   >    
   > This whole part of the state is pooltable flat.  The highest point of   
   > elevation within 50 miles is about 30 feet high - a landfill in Ft.   
   > Lauderdale. Yet "Silk Stalkings" always had mountains in the   
   > background, winding hilly roads, and no shortage of run-down   
   > neighborhoods within the jurisdiction of the (surprisingly large) Palm   
   > Beach police department.  ("Criminal Minds" also featured a   
   > surprisingly hilly Palm Beach in one episode.) <<   
   In our house, as in so many others, M*A*S*H was a family tradition.  But my    
   father ‹ who'd been in Korea ‹ used to laugh and point out how the California    
   geography they showed didn't look anything like actual Korea.   
   Amy   
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