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[edit] miscengenate
I changed the reference to "miscengenate" population to "multiracial." That seems to me a bit less controversial and less likely to cause hurt feelings. And "miscengenate" was spelled wrong, to boot. - Matt Wood
[edit] clean water supply
In several national tap water tests, Desert Hot Springs Cal. ranks in the top 10 in the country. It's very clean, naturally filtered and came from an underground geothermal spring. The town has five hotel resorts built on hot springs and tourists from around the world come by to rejuvenate in them. The town struggled with socio-economic problems and city council rivalries, but a rapid-growing population and new homes by the hundreds every year made Desert Hot Springs one of California's fastest growing cities. + Mike D 26 04:48, 28 October 2006 (UTC) 12:47, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mad Willie Winston
I propose that four references to 'Mad Willie Winston' or the ghost thereof be removed. LorenzoLorenzoB 16:12, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
Here is a copy of that:
[edit] History
The first homesteader in the area was Cabot Yerxa. His large adobe is now one of the oldest adobe structures in Riverside County, and houses Cabot's Old Indian Pueblo Museum. The town was founded by L.W. Coffee on July 12, 1941. The town once featured a movie theater, though this structure was destroyed in a fire by Mad Willy Winston's ghost.
Okay, now, who wrote that?
It is fine to say that there is a ghost's legend, & that some people assert various acts or attributions,...
However, this actually claims it all as fact.
If some of you believe in ghosts, have you interviewed them? That sentence reads as a movie script's opening premise.
Yuck, yuck.
I've been here | there for a few years, & I don't otherwise know of this legend. If it is a popular legend, or rumor, then, maybe it should be called "legend" &/or "rumor".
If there are any other local residents reading this, please say so. And if you can help regarding clarifying these claims, please state that.
Thank You.
Hopiakuta 17:54, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
On Saturday, twenty-second, July, the temperature, according to a shaded thermometer, got to 128° fahrenheit. That had been the hottest shaded teperature that I recall experiencing. In approximately 1977 I recall a sun temperature that I had measured @ 130°, 118°, shade, Scottsdale. I do not currently have a thermometer in direct sunlight, though, I might later.
Hopiakuta 17:54, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
I was born in Palm springs and raised in DHS and have been to the theater when it was open ( Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Secret of the Ooze) and have NEVER heard of Mad Willie Winston nor the fire that occured there.Does this help?---angie
[edit] Thank You, user :angie[??]. Please do see "user:205.188.116.197".
Thank You, user :angie[??]. Please do see "user:205.188.116.197".
Please do sign your messages.
You've said that you're from the neighborhood.
You referenced "Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_II:_The_Secret_of_the_Ooze";
that would be 1991????
[I am not certain which "Ninja" movies I've seen;
however, my turtle is "HopiaKuta".]
Is the structure yet there, @ all?? @ what address had been this edifice? It's likely either Pierson Bl. ("Pierson", not "Pearson"), or Palm Dr. (Gene Autry Tr., Gene Autry); virtually everything about the city involves those two boulevards, each of which is very dangerous to wheelchair-users, & other disabled [ handicappist ].
I do doubt that it would be any of these; however, I don't know:
Two Bunch Tr. | Cuando Wy. (not Kwando_River, Angola)
Mission Bl.
Indian Av.
[Little] Morongo Rd. (Morongo_Valley, California, casino Morongo, Morongo_Casino,_Resort_&_Spa, Morongo Basin, Big_Morongo_Canyon_Preserve)
West Dr.
Mountain View Rd.
Long Canyon Rd.
Dillon Rd.
Those being the primary choices, please, where is [was] it?
Thank You.
hopiakuta 19:42, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] help:revert revert
hopiakuta 17:45, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] proof that this is a scam:
< http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=110238319 >:
Mad Willy Winston's Blurbs About me: Hey there, I'm William Winston, better known to the public as Mad Willy Winston! Ha ha, I guess you could say I'm a swinging bachelor, but when you're this old, parts of you are swinging no matter what you're doing! I'm really into rock climbing, I once tried to scale Everest, but you know how that turned out! Ha ha! Who I'd like to meet: Ghandi, L. Ron Hubbard, the fellow who invented root beer, hot ladies who know how to have fun!
Mad Willy Winston's Friend Space
"Desert Livin' is all I know!"
Male 71 years old DESERT HOT SPRINGS, California United States
Mad Willy does in fact exist...he is an actual Desert Hot Springs resident and is the the only verifiable instance of a living person posessing a coexistant spiritual entity (hence referred to as "mad willy winston's ghost). Though quite a bitter man, Willy's ghost is quite benevolent, and only once burned down a theatre in Desert Hot Springs, which did once reside on Palm Drive and is now a seventh day adventist church.
71.102.2.7 22:52, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 128°fahrenheit in July; 53.1°, right now, 07:14, Saturday seventh, October. {º ʘ}
hopiakuta 14:14, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
& my thermometer has now sunk to 52.4°, colder than Long_Island,_New_York_State; however, we've had less daylight here than New York, as for the three-hour difference.
Anyhow, no more July temperature for a few months.
Thank You.
hopiakuta 14:28, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
I was just reminded, by television, that it's three years ago, today, that we [not me, personally] voted-in the "goobernator".
hopiakuta 14:38, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] UN/LOCODE:USDHS
hopiakuta 23:21, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
< http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UN/LOCODE:USDHS&action=history >.
hopiakuta 23:23, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
hopiakuta 00:08, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Sunset_in_the_Valley"
"Sunset_in_the_Valley": 2007 movie.
hopiakuta 05:21, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
< http://reference.com/browse/wiki/Desert_Hot_Springs%2C_California >;
< http://reference.com/browse/wiki/Desert_Hot_Springs >.
hopiakuta ; <nowiki> { [[ %7e%7e%7e%7e ]] } ; </nowiki>]] 23:40, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mad Willy Winston again
Mad Willy Winston is a citywide legend born of one real person. The tall tales about him are well-known throughout the town and deserve at least a small section of the article. I'll take the time to add what I know.
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- Wihtuot a reliable source, like an article on the local newspaper, this information is unverifiable and potentially defamatory. Let's leave it out until we can find a 3rd-party source. -Will Beback 19:52, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Or,... Is there @ least one person who can directly testify to anything?? Especially regarding something so difficult to verify as involving "...ranging from being the only living man to have a ghost,..."
I do enjoy watching science fiction, very often, sometimes even addictively,...
However, there should be @ least one person who can verifiably testify to sincerely believing such a claim.
Or, someone who can make a list of verifiable incidents of mysterious nature.
Are you working-up a movie-promotion? Are you opening some sort of haunted house tourist trap? I do suspect this sort of motive.
Please understand that I do want to improve this article.
&, more crucially, I want to improve this city, this county, state, nation, & Earth.
How does writing "science fiction as though truth" improve the article? How does it improve the city, or anything?
A verifiably strange legend might be very good for the article. & it might help the city.
However, sincerity, verifiability & good authorship are crucial f/ such absurdity.
&, why are you not signing? To not sign, reduces your perceived credibility. Vengefully deleting what you disgree w/, also, reduces your perceived credibility.
Writing science fiction into a census bureau paragraph reduces your perceived credibility. When you have proof, please do not conflate it with the census.
Thank You.
hopiakuta ; [[ <nowiki> </nowiki> { [[%c2%a1]] [[%c2%bf]] [[ %7e%7e%7e%7e ]] } ;]] 22:21, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "miscegenate"; "miscegenation".
The comment of
uses the word
"miscengenate",
thrice.
I have not located the original edit{s} that had inspired this message.
If you check
< http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?miscegenation >,
you would learn that the spelling is:
"miscegenate";
Thank You.
[[ hopiakuta | [[ [[%c2%a1]] [[%c2%bf]] [[ %7e%7e%7e%7e ]] -]] 17:14, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
