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plthijinx · 06-09-2010, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

....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!

Shawnee123 · 06-09-2010, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by plthijinx

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!

squirell nutkin · 06-09-2010, 12:06 PM

click clacks, baseball cards.
And black superballs. We'd hit them with a baseball bat and put them into orbit.

Shawnee123 · 06-09-2010, 12:23 PM

Yeah, clackers and superballs! Yay!

I don't remember them causing any problems during school, though, except the occasional "outing of someone's eye."

plthijinx · 06-09-2010, 12:27 PM

oh and yeah...listening to foreigner's new single "feels like the first time"

monster · 06-10-2010, 03:16 PM

The cake was yummy and my bra is digging in.

lookout123 · 06-10-2010, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by jinx

"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?

classicman · 06-10-2010, 04:03 PM

Speaking of which - What exactly DOES that mean?

lookout123 · 06-10-2010, 04:06 PM

it's where the government steals your land and throws a few dollars at you.

classicman · 06-10-2010, 04:21 PM

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?

lookout123 · 06-10-2010, 04:27 PM

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.

jinx · 06-10-2010, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by lookout123

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.

squirell nutkin · 06-10-2010, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by jinx

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.

jinx · 06-11-2010, 11:34 AM

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.

Undertoad · 06-11-2010, 01:16 PM

Are the trucks just trying to avoid paying turnpike tolls?

06-09-2010, 12:06 PM	#1848
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06-09-2010, 12:23 PM	#1849
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Yeah, clackers and superballs! Yay! I don't remember them causing any problems during school, though, except the occasional "outing of someone's eye." __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

06-09-2010, 12:27 PM	#1850
plthijinx Master Dwellar Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,197	oh and yeah...listening to foreigner's new single "feels like the first time" __________________ For your dreams to come true, you must first have a dream.

06-10-2010, 03:16 PM	#1851
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	The cake was yummy and my bra is digging in. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

06-10-2010, 04:03 PM	#1853
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Speaking of which - What exactly DOES that mean? __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

06-10-2010, 04:06 PM	#1854
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	it's where the government steals your land and throws a few dollars at you. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

06-10-2010, 04:21 PM	#1855
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	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? __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

06-10-2010, 04:27 PM	#1856
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	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. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

06-11-2010, 11:34 AM	#1859
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	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. __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

06-11-2010, 01:16 PM	#1860
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Are the trucks just trying to avoid paying turnpike tolls?

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