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California Syndrome

1.) People, typically from the Midwest who believe everything about California is fantastic and talk constantly about running away and/or hitchhiking there.

2.) California natives as well as others who've become increasingly obsessed with California state; Primarily major Southern California cities (Los Angeles, Hollywood & San Diego). As well as California (pop)culture; Including the California Pizza Kitchen, PAC-Sun, Rodeo Drive and Sunset Boulevard.
I'm moving to Fresno as to avoid further damage from the infectious California Syndrome.

California Syndrome

A behavioral pattern characterized by an obsessive concern regarding health, especially nutrition, but contrasted by a lack of regard for, or lazy attitude toward, obvious safety practices, often afflicting Indie Rock singers and bisexual free-spirits.
-"Dude, my yoga teacher was gonna lead a macrobiotic raw foods class next week, but he did too much Special K on Saturday and now he's in the ICU."

-"Shit man, sounds like a bad case of California Syndrome. Let's drive over and do some reiki on him."

-"Alright dude, right after we finish this blunt."

California Syndrome

A state of mind that all people who have migrated to california have been afflicted with, see also naivety, idiocy, airhead, dumbass. People with California syndrome are so foolish as to think that the whole world revolves around all things that happen in California, specifically L.A. and Hollywood. These poor people, for reasons unknown, feel they must dress, talk, act, and behave like their "Gods"; all of the actors who work in Hollywood, and make millions of dollars while having little or no talent whatsoever, who succeed by selling the worst films ever made, to their fellow Californians, along with their idea of what "trendy fashion" is.
Any group of people who would elect Ronald Reagan or Arnold Schwarzenegger as their state governor is collectively afflicted with California Syndrome.
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A man who dates women with the sole purpose of exploiting their time, energy, and labor while he sucks the joy and happiness from their lives.
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pod person 

A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.
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A dead drop is a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet.

Spies have been known to use dead drops, using various techniques to hide the items and to signal that the drop has been made. Drug dealers use this as well.

A common place is to duct tape the item to the underside of a toilet cover in a public restroom.

A signal is sometimes used as well to indicate there is something to pickup, like a pile of stones in a certain formation. After checking the drop the signal is removed.
"The dead drop is the restroom toilet at the Gulf station at the corner of Commercial Ave. and Georges Rd."
dead drop by rubberroom July 23, 2008
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