Maryland or Massachusetts? - Page 4

Pie · 08-18-2008, 12:48 PM

Hey SG, I was in grad school once. I know how cool it is to get something like that. In fact, I'm currently looking at a pair of chairs we got for $5 from a fellow student. The chairs are coming with us.

jinx · 08-18-2008, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

Pie, you should freecycle your crap. Someone out there will come and take it. You would be amazed.

Both here and at our last house freecycling is/was as easy as dragging the stuff out onto the sidewalk. There's no changing your mind, it goes quick.

Ibby · 10-16-2008, 08:04 AM

so pie...
whereabouts in columbia are you now? which 'village'? school district?

classicman · 10-16-2008, 08:12 AM

Yeh - How's it going?... Whats it like? ... Where's the video?

Pico and ME · 10-16-2008, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by jinx

Both here and at our last house freecycling is/was as easy as dragging the stuff out onto the sidewalk. There's no changing your mind, it goes quick.

Same here mostly, except for the time we put out a broken and beaten-up gas grill. It stayed there for 2 days!?! So we put a sign on it that said $50 and it was gone the next morning.

ZenGum · 10-16-2008, 08:29 AM

Human nature in a nutshell.

Pie · 10-16-2008, 08:33 AM

We're in a fly-by-night rental place in "hobbit's glen" right now -- not too happy with it. WTF is up with the street names around here??? I have vetoed certain properties because I am not goddamn living on freakin' Bare Bush Path. What were these folks smoking?

My husband and I are pretty close to making an offer on a place in Hickory Ridge. It backs on the Little Patuxent nature preserve; that's its best feature.

To be honest, Ibby, I don't like Columbia much. There is no soul here. It's suburbia to the n-th power; all strip malls, no downtown. But it's still the best commute to our places of employment, and we can go to DC or Baltimore on the weekends. :shrug: We'll make do.

ZenGum · 10-16-2008, 08:42 AM

Between Bare Bush Path

and Madam's Wood Estate (from ... was it Dana? Or Sundae?

), we have some rather saucy place naming going on.

Please, think of the children.

Sundae · 10-16-2008, 08:56 AM

That was Dani.
I grew up Elmhurst Estate.
No rudies there.

We have some crackingly rude place names here, all genuinely old. How someone managed to call something Bare Bush Path in recent times I have no diea - classic!

Pie · 10-16-2008, 09:08 AM

Columbia's street names are mostly taken from poetry. Or from Tolkien.
I suppose I'll get used to it after a while.

Pico and ME · 10-16-2008, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

Human nature in a nutshell.

They just needed that little 'added value' push. My husband thought he was a pretty smart for thinking it up. lol

Shawnee123 · 10-16-2008, 12:31 PM

Tell your husband it was brilliant! I will keep that tactic in mind.

Pie · 10-16-2008, 12:42 PM

(Ibby has probably put me on 'Ignore' since I dissed his hometown.)

wolf · 10-17-2008, 01:22 AM

Well, since none of the above isn't an option ... at least the People's Democratic Republic of Maryland is closer to The Cellar.

I go to Baltimore every other year for a conference, never liked chowdah, but love a good crab cake.

edit: note to self. Check original post date and read entire thread before posting, as the deal is done and I'm 4 months late and probably a dollar short.

Pie · 10-17-2008, 07:12 AM

Wolf, I'll take your "dollar-short" any day!

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08-18-2008, 12:48 PM	#46
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	Hey SG, I was in grad school once. I know how cool it is to get something like that. In fact, I'm currently looking at a pair of chairs we got for $5 from a fellow student. The chairs are coming with us. __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

10-16-2008, 08:04 AM	#48
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	so pie... whereabouts in columbia are you now? which 'village'? school district? __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

10-16-2008, 08:12 AM	#49
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Yeh - How's it going?... Whats it like? ... Where's the video? __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

10-16-2008, 08:29 AM	#51
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Human nature in a nutshell. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

10-16-2008, 08:33 AM	#52
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	We're in a fly-by-night rental place in "hobbit's glen" right now -- not too happy with it. WTF is up with the street names around here??? I have vetoed certain properties because I am not goddamn living on freakin' Bare Bush Path. What were these folks smoking? My husband and I are pretty close to making an offer on a place in Hickory Ridge. It backs on the Little Patuxent nature preserve; that's its best feature. To be honest, Ibby, I don't like Columbia much. There is no soul here. It's suburbia to the n-th power; all strip malls, no downtown. But it's still the best commute to our places of employment, and we can go to DC or Baltimore on the weekends. :shrug: We'll make do. __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not. Last edited by Pie; 10-16-2008 at 08:39 AM.

10-16-2008, 08:42 AM	#53
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Between Bare Bush Path and Madam's Wood Estate (from ... was it Dana? Or Sundae? ), we have some rather saucy place naming going on. Please, think of the children. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

10-16-2008, 08:56 AM	#54
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	That was Dani. I grew up Elmhurst Estate. No rudies there. We have some crackingly rude place names here, all genuinely old. How someone managed to call something Bare Bush Path in recent times I have no diea - classic! __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

10-16-2008, 09:08 AM	#55
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	Columbia's street names are mostly taken from poetry. Or from Tolkien. I suppose I'll get used to it after a while. __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

10-16-2008, 12:31 PM	#57
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Tell your husband it was brilliant! I will keep that tactic in mind. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

10-16-2008, 12:42 PM	#58
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	(Ibby has probably put me on 'Ignore' since I dissed his hometown.) __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

10-17-2008, 01:22 AM	#59
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Well, since none of the above isn't an option ... at least the People's Democratic Republic of Maryland is closer to The Cellar. I go to Baltimore every other year for a conference, never liked chowdah, but love a good crab cake. edit: note to self. Check original post date and read entire thread before posting, as the deal is done and I'm 4 months late and probably a dollar short. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

10-17-2008, 07:12 AM	#60
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	Wolf, I'll take your "dollar-short" any day! __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

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