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|    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:       >       [....]       >       > 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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