Inherent Vice: L.A. Times Review

[rich]

as opposed to flatliners which is a really bad movie

On 7/31/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:21 PM, rich<richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> sorry, if this has been asked before but puzzled by "flatlanders"--i
>> get the meaning by context but is this a reference endemic to
>> California, geography?, flat=boring, flat=straight. curious about the
>> origins of the term
>
> I don't know about California, but it's a, uh, perjorative slang term
> for Illionoisans here (Wisconsin), and that's coming from us, so ...
>