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Old 06-09-2010, 11:34 AM   #1846
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....Seriously, I'm trying to remember what would have been comparable in my childhood and I don't remember anything...it was even before Beanie Babies.
that's because, like me, you were too busy finding a light to smoke a cig in the restroom between classes while drinking a nice big cup of java!
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Old 06-09-2010, 11:44 AM   #1847
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that's because, like me, you were too busy finding a light to smoke a cig in the restroom between classes while drinking a nice big cup of java!
That's what I'm talking about! We collected switch-blades and empty smoke packs!
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Old 06-09-2010, 12:06 PM   #1848
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click clacks, baseball cards.
And black superballs. We'd hit them with a baseball bat and put them into orbit.
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Old 06-09-2010, 12:23 PM   #1849
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Yeah, clackers and superballs! Yay!

I don't remember them causing any problems during school, though, except the occasional "outing of someone's eye."
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Old 06-09-2010, 12:27 PM   #1850
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oh and yeah...listening to foreigner's new single "feels like the first time"
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Old 06-10-2010, 03:16 PM   #1851
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Old 06-10-2010, 03:45 PM   #1852
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"We are writing to inform you of proposed modifications to your property frontage within the existing legal right-of-way along Main Street as part of the Borough's proposed Streetscape Project".

Bring it, bitches. Streetscape the fuck out the place for all I care.
Is that a warning that there me be some emminent domain shit happening to your property?
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Old 06-10-2010, 04:03 PM   #1853
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Speaking of which - What exactly DOES that mean?
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Old 06-10-2010, 04:06 PM   #1854
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it's where the government steals your land and throws a few dollars at you.
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Old 06-10-2010, 04:21 PM   #1855
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But but but - IIRC there isn't that much room out front of their place as it is. What are they gonna do start putting street signs on the front door?
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Old 06-10-2010, 04:27 PM   #1856
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nah. Jinx will take care of it. She'll dress her cats up with some tattoos and vinyl and scare all the evil government workers away. Jim will be so happy when he gets home he'll record himself singing a song and a take a picture of jinx trying not to laugh at him. Then they'll have posts for about 8 different threads telling us about their day.
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Old 06-10-2010, 07:00 PM   #1857
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Is that a warning that there me be some emminent domain shit happening to your property?
Nothing that serious - they (the borough) just want to spend grant money re-doing our sidewalks, curbs, driveway entries... We'll lose our fence but they'll replace it. I don't know what's going to happen with our big weeping cherry tree. Would be a sin to harm it. Gotta look into that more.

The plan to put in a traffic light - now that pisses me right the crap off. Not gonna allow that to happen without putting up a gigantic stink.
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Old 06-10-2010, 10:57 PM   #1858
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Nothing that serious - they (the borough) just want to spend grant money re-doing our sidewalks, curbs, driveway entries... We'll lose our fence but they'll replace it. I don't know what's going to happen with our big weeping cherry tree. Would be a sin to harm it. Gotta look into that more.

The plan to put in a traffic light - now that pisses me right the crap off. Not gonna allow that to happen without putting up a gigantic stink.
If you can't win you might be able to get them to put in a quaint old fashioned one, we did that with our post office. They were going to put in a heinous brick mausoleum and we historicalled them into putting up a nice, vinyl sided, faux Victorian office building. I sound snarky, but it is a heap better than what was planned.
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Old 06-11-2010, 11:34 AM   #1859
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There's 1 big accident in the intersection every year - caused by the parking on the street that blocks the view of cars coming. If they would just not allow street parking for a few hundred feet in each direction everything would be fine. But they say that would hurt the business of the pizza place (owner of which is opposed to street light) - but pizza place has parking in the rear.
It's stupid.
The people who are all for don't live near the intersection (mostly self-important volunteer firemen who stand around drinking coffee, spitting tobacco juice, and talking about 'something needs to be done" once a year when there's an accident) - the people that are against it do.

It's not about how the light would look, it's about big trucks slowing down, idling, and accelerating right in front of my house. That would suck.
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Old 06-11-2010, 01:16 PM   #1860
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Are the trucks just trying to avoid paying turnpike tolls?
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