Re: Re: Re: Re: Random Sputterings 3.3.2002
 

Yep...and once Rho gets out of the hospital, we're going to burn our W-2's and run up and down Academy Road screaming "REVOLUTION!" It'll be a hoot.

Apparently, your imagination is as active as mine. :)

Sycamore's plan to free the common man in Pennsylvania
 

Since PA will probably never become like VA or MO and sell in grocery stores, I have a good compromise.

Allow delis, bars, beer distributors, and state stores to sell everything at their discretion. Foster good competition. If the state were forced to be competitive, they could generate more business and more $$$. No unionized state employees would lose their jobs and the state could set a good example for the nation...not to mention, more money for the state coffers.*

(*--Although Sycamore has experience in running a business, he does NOT have an MBA ;) .)

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Random Sputterings 3.3.2002
 

For some reason, this brought "Punk Rock Girl" to my mind...

"So we jumped up on the tables and shouted, 'ANARCHY!'"

Heh. :)

One Saturday I took a walk to Zipperhead, I met a girl there and she almost knocked me dead...

Somebody that knows: Wasn't that song based in Philadelphia?

Not only the song, but the band too.

Re: Sycamore's plan to free the common man in Pennsylvania
 

*Everything?* Cool...I'd like to be able to stop into 7-11 and buy high-quality marihuana and hollow-point 9mm ammo. :-) Actually, I'd settle for full metal jacket; I don't fire hollow-points in practice.

I think state stores are a stupid idea, don't get me wrong.

Re: Re: Sycamore's plan to free the common man in Pennsylvania
 

Syc: "Yeah, ummm...do you have any Southern Missouri Stinkbuds?"

Clerk: "Oh, I'm really sorry. We're out right now. Have you tried the Southern California Chronic?"

Syc: "Yeah, but that's just a bit harsh. I'm looking for something more mellow. Something that goes good with a bottle of merlot."

I can see it now...a marijuana connoisseur magazine from the Commonwealth...much like the current Wine Quarterly. "Acapulco Gold goes great with fish!"

The fact that I do not see beer at my local 7-Eleven still confuses me. It really shouldn't though...they were always the most expensive place to get beer. That was like the last stop if everything else was closed.

Well, that may be an official definition somewhere, but that wasn't how I'm using it. I don't consider an 18 yo having a couple beers "alcohol abuse". When you're talking about five or six drinks at a sitting, more than once a week, on a regular basis, well, in my book that's a problem. I've worked or done graduate study on enough campuses to be convinced that the "problem" is a) a lot worse than when I was in college 15 years ago and b) is not simply an anecdotal effort to justify increased budgets for certain departments.

Just wait until you see the over-protected generation enter college - which they are due to do in the next few years. The kids whose moms bought SUVs just for them are not going to stand for this kind of thing. They will surprise their elders by demanding change. By 2015 there will be half as much alcohol as there currently is on campus. That's my prediction and I'm stickin' to it.

This is relevant to Sycamoreland because Syc and I are both child-free by choice.

Me too!

At least for the next 10 years, anyway. :)

My brother says the same thing, he won't breed because he sees disaster for the next generation, of course he is a socialist and an educater, two groups that always see the end of the world right around the corner. (griff puts away his broad brush) I don't see it that way any more. We have kids because they will be a positive counter force to two common trends in child rearing, the over protected and the ignored. We're raising two sweet, tough, counter culture, individualists. I've seen quite a few of these kinda kids out in the world and I'm optimistic. (of course I just got back from showing my daughters baby chicks to her kindergarten class and theres nothing like being the big hero in a room full of 5 year olds to put you in a good mood)

Damn you Tony! You HAD to have read my mind. I was just thinking about starting a thread regarding being childfree this morning...and so I will start it.

Re: Re: Re: Sycamore's plan to free the common man in Pennsylvania
 

Obviously you've never heard "A Child's Garden of Grass", released as an LP (the vinyl kind, not the political; party) when I was in college....a pretty distinction, since I wasn't in college long.

There's a cut on that album that sounds very much like your hypothetical conversation... including the enumerating of minor options one typically gets buying tobacco: ("Mexican, Vietnamese or domestic?" "Mexican" ""Hard pack, flip top, soft pack or bulk?")

I should put that on the list of "tracks to be ripped from vinyl to MP3" one of these days.

I browse the comedy mp3 groups all the time, and someone did encode that and post it. It was... odd. Culturally obsolete. I think the weed subculture has completely changed since that came out.