Does anyone refer to highways with the definite article other than Southern Californians?

The Parkway, the Thruway, the Turnpike... :)

Does anyone refer to highways with the definite article other than Southern Californians?

You mean like "The 101"? Not that I can think of.

Does anyone refer to highways with the definite article other than Southern Californians?

Does anyone outside of California have pink bakery boxes? I'll never forget the first time I was in LA and saw one. I said "look! just like they have on TV!"

Except that we're the only state in the union with parishes.

And it would make sense to hip the rest of the country to that fact. But I wonder if, rather than a mistake, the word choice was as conscious as the language shifts from the British to the US Harry Potter books. Not a dumbing down so much as a homogenization. Though, I suppose if that were the goal, the entire story line would have been set in Des Moines. It's just that I can hear the writers in the room squeaking...Oh, don't say parish, people will think we are talking about churches.

Quite a bad argument...and useless to boot...but not beyond the realm of possibility.

Does anyone outside of California have pink bakery boxes?

Washington State.

I think the only time I'd refer to a highway with the definite article is if I were calling it by a name, not the numerical. "The Dan Ryan," for example.

The series of 8 described in Wikipedia:

"Lizards" A painting which depicts the death of Kaito Nakamura. It was said by Noah Bennet to be the first of eight painted before Isaac's death that hadn't come true at the time.

"Kindred" A painting which depicts the death of Noah Bennet while a blonde stands nearby with a man in shadows. This is the final painting of the eight that has not come to pass.

"The Line" The rest of the Series of 8 are shown. Claire Bennet lying on a staircase; a man holding a vial of clear liquid; a blonde woman hitting a matalic surface; Peter Petrelli and an unknown man stan(d)ing together, (a biohazard symbol is at the bottom); Hiro Nakamura and Kensei sword fighting; Mohinder Suresh after firing a pistol.

Screencaps of the paintings.

especially since the witchy cheerleader wasn't physically hurt during the prank.

No, but Claire WAS, given that even if one survives falling twenty feet and breaking multiple bones including one's neck it can be presumed to cause pain. And I'm deeply bothered that the show chooses to depict such things as if they aren't problematic. Didn't HRG say he wanted to save her from suffering precisely those kinds of injuries because he didn't want them to push her past her pain threshhold? Turns out he needn't have bothered.

eh. I mean, I guess I can just read it as Claire is deeply fucked up, but then I can't also be expected to see her as the engenue anymore.

I think Claire is - or was - only moderately fucked up. Flyboy is leading her down the path to deeply.