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PGA Championship Twitter account refers to SF fog as 'Karl,' incensed locals rage

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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateMany Bay Area locals thoroughly detest the name "Karl" as a label for the region's fog, and the PGA Championship's official Twitter account decided to step on that beehive prior to the weekend's first major of the year at San Francisco's Harding Park."Karl is what they call the fog in San Francisco... and it looks like he'll be staying around a bit today," read a accompanied by an image of the fog over the course.People were extremely angry."ITS CALLED FOG NOT KARL - NO ONE FROM HERE EVER CALLED IT KARL THAT TRANSPLANT HOODWINKED ALL THE NEWBIES, WROTE A BOOK, BOUNCED BACK TO WHATEVER STATE, &amp; HAS BEEN ON MILKCART BOX EVER SINCE - ITS CALLED FOG THATS IT STRAIGHT FRISCO FOG," .ITS CALLED FOG NOT KARL - NO ONE FROM HERE EVER CALLED IT KARL THAT TRANSPLANT HOODWINKED ALL THE NEWBIES, WROTE A BOOK, BOUNCED BACK TO WHATEVER STATE, &amp; HAS BEEN ON MILKCART BOX EVER SINCE - ITS CALLED FOG THATS IT STRAIGHT FRISCO FOG — Joe Shasky (@ButcherBoy415)Shasky is referencing the still-anonymous owner of the @KarlTheFog Twitter. The account first popped up in 2010, and the owner has since , all while being almost universally reviled by locals."Who’s they? I’ve been in the Bay Area for my 34 years of life, never heard a soul refer to it as that," . "Try and be a bit more accurate, for the sake of the residents here."That’s not true. I don’t refer to the fog as Karl and never have.— Sal Castaneda (@sal_castaneda)KTVU's Sal Castaneda even got dragged into the replies after someone accused him of referring to the fog as "Karl." Castaneda understandably&nbsp;felt the need to publicly refute the damning charges."That’s not true," he tweeted. "I don’t refer to the fog as Karl and never have."Same here, Sal. Same here.Eric Ting is an SFGATE reporter. Email: | Twitter:

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateMany Bay Area locals thoroughly detest the name "Karl" as a label for the region's fog, and the PGA Championship's official Twitter account decided to step on that beehive prior to the weekend's first major of the year at San Francisco's Harding Park."Karl is what they call the fog in San Francisco... and it looks like he'll be staying around a bit today," read a accompanied by an image of the fog over the course.People were extremely angry."ITS CALLED FOG NOT KARL - NO ONE FROM HERE EVER CALLED IT KARL THAT TRANSPLANT HOODWINKED...

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