1999-08-01 07:00:00+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
No guarantees this is truly the original attribution, but it's one of the better written versions of the old gag:
California, n.:
From Latin "calor", meaning "heat" (as in English "calorie" or Spanish "caliente"); and "fornia'" for "sexual intercourse" or "fornication." Hence: Tierra de California, "the land of hot sex."
-- Ed Moran