As far as faux pas go, the California governor is certainly giving Yahoo’s former CEO Scott Thompson a run for his money today – OK maybe not a huge run, but a pretty good distance, especially since most of the world hasn’t been living under a rock for the past eight years.

During his appearance this morning on “CBS This Morning,” California Gov. Jerry Brown had a senior moment when he said that the Sunshine State was not only home to Kim Kardashian and Arnold Schwarzenegger, but also the magic land where the Facebook (News - Alert) empire was first created. Talk about a big senior moment, especially on the day of Facebook’s much anticipated IPO. (And for those of you who for some unfathomable reason don’t know in what state the idea for the social networking site was first born, it was in Boston, more specifically a Harvard dorm room).

And if you thought it couldn’t get any worse, Brown went on to say that it was in fact in California where Facebook was started and not “Texas, not in Arizona, not in Manhattan and certainly not, you know, under the White House or the Congress,” according to a recent article.

Fortunately for television viewers watching pleasure, interviewer Charlie Rose was kind enough to point out that CEO Mark Zuckerberg (News - Alert) and his team actually decided to create the social network at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Brown’s cover? He quickly responded that the Facebook inventors quickly came to California, "where all the other innovative people are."

You know what? There is something really wonderful about Brown’s slip up. Perhaps it shows us that not every single person in this world is Facebook crazed, Mark Zuckerberg awe inspired and social networking obsessed. It also shows us that we are all human – from the person who doesn’t truly know where Facebook was started to the Yahoo CEO who padded (cough, cough, fabricated) his resume just as any college grad would to the person who deep down doesn’t really understand what an IPO is.

So keep your head held high Mr. Brown. Those slip ups happen to the best of us and we are pretty sure the Zuck will still let you buy your shares.