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   Message 5,515 of 6,995   
   Jim to John Gilmer   
   Re: RIP - "city person" - in your city   
   13 Dec 06 17:50:38   
   
   XPost: alt.forestry, misc.rural   
   From: jimled@bellsouth.net   
      
   John Gilmer wrote:   
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   [....]   
   >   
   > We used to have friends who came from Iowa.   They told us that typically   
   > each season a "city person" freezes to death while attempting to walk to an   
   > apparently nearby "farmhouse."   
      
   city people are very different from persons raised up in a rural   
   environment.   back some years ago when my area was a rural area   
   with no relocated city people and none of the negative effects   
   brought on by relocated city people, we had a much better way of   
   life with a lot less things to develop a tolerance for.   
      
   take for example, trash and city people.  city people have such   
   little regard for the environment and the natural beauty of their   
   surroundings they'll toss their fast food wrappers down just as   
   soon as they're finished with their double chin crap food.  the   
   problem of trash piling up produced the resulting need for a machine   
   to be invented called the street sweeper.  a large high capacity   
   powerful machine capable of taking on the enormous miserable task   
   of cleaning up behind city people.   
      
   it'd be really nice if we'd had a law stating how city people are   
   prohibited from relocating to a rural environment.  something along   
   the lines of: no you were born in a city and therefore you must   
   continue your existence in a city and are thus restricted from   
   relocating outside of the city. this restriction is for the sake of   
   your own safety since you'd only attempt to walk to an apparent nearby   
   farmhouse and end up freezing to death and thereby depriving us, your   
   governing betters, of your tax paying potential.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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