I would like to apologize to the world for being from the Americanterritories.

Somewhere on teh intarwebs VanguardLH wrote:
Glenn Who-Nobody-Gives-A-Gnat's-Fart-About wrote:

Path: ...!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail

America (or, to deflate the American ego, "the United States part of
America") has destroyed everything it has touched, ...
snipped the drivel

The boob provides further evidence of why *unregistered* free Usenet
providers (e.g., AIOE) should be filtered out en masse.

Newsgroups: sci.electronics.basics,alt.pets.cats,alt.comp.hard ware

Wannabe troll's peurile attempt to flame across multiple unrelated
newsgroups thwarted by altering Newsgroups header before replying.

Wow! Did you see the bites he got? There are either a lot of morons around
or people are very, very bored.

Hmmm. I guess this post could look like a bite. Best change the subject.
--
Shaun.

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a
monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also
into you." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Someone wrote:


The entire landscape is now strip malls, department stores, drive
thrus, liquor racks, convenience stores, outlet malls and concrete,
plastic, metal, concrete, concrete, concrete.

Obviously you've never driven the coast highway from SF to Portland, Oregon.
Or anywhere in Oregon or Washington state. Or across the desert from
Wendover Nevada to Salt Lake City. Or flown across Alaska. Get away from
those cities, bro....It'll open up your eyes......

Bill Graham wrote:

Someone wrote:


The entire landscape is now strip malls, department stores, drive
thrus, liquor racks, convenience stores, outlet malls and concrete,
plastic, metal, concrete, concrete, concrete.

Obviously you've never driven the coast highway from SF to Portland,
Oregon. Or anywhere in Oregon or Washington state. Or across the desert
from Wendover Nevada to Salt Lake City. Or flown across Alaska. Get away
from those cities, bro....It'll open up your eyes......

Or if you like vast expanses of uninhabited desert, there's always
Wyoming. I was driving through there one time, and the highway exit
signs were mind-boggling. Things like coming up to a diamond interchange,
and the signs say

- Alphatown 18 miles
Betaville 23 miles -
Next Exit 84 miles

Cheers!
Rich

On 6/6/2011 9:31 AM, Bill Graham wrote:
Someone wrote:


The entire landscape is now strip malls, department stores, drive
thrus, liquor racks, convenience stores, outlet malls and concrete,
plastic, metal, concrete, concrete, concrete.

Obviously you've never driven the coast highway from SF to Portland,
Oregon. Or anywhere in Oregon or Washington state. Or across the desert
from Wendover Nevada to Salt Lake City. Or flown across Alaska. Get away
from those cities, bro....It'll open up your eyes......

Do it fast, that scene is fast disappearing even in OR, WA, MT, ID and
all those places you thought you knew.

Case in point:
"Marysville/Smokey Point/Arlington WA" (about 30 miles north of Seattle)

This used to be a mix of "real rural-as in farms" and a few older
"subdivisions" for those who did work in Seattle and willing to "pay the
commute" to be more-or-less out in the sticks.

That disappeared over the last 5 years, now it may as well be
"strip-mall/Costco/WallyWorld/HomeDespot" just like the Ft. Lauderdale
FLA area was 20 years ago. If you didn't see the type of store you
wanted (or missed it), just drive another 5-20 miles and you see it again.



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"**** this is it, all the pieces do fit.
We're like that crazy old man jumping
out of the alleyway with a baseball bat,
saying, "Remember me mother****er?"
Jim “Dandy” Mangrum