Strange things found in the woods

[Lazyfaire]

Hasn't that been banned?

Was in the beer business for years. There weren't very many things you couldn't swap for beer. Even got my golf clubs re-gripped in trade.......Drank in military school, college, TGIF, a major beer company and finally at a major private distributor.

At the end of your life and you are given a choice. A 6 pack of beer, or a loaf of bread. What would you choose??? Its a barter currency.

 

[tac]

Was in the beer business for years. There weren't very many things you couldn't swap for beer. Even got my golf clubs re-gripped in trade.......Drank in military school, college, TGIF, a major beer company and finally at a major private distributor.

At the end of your life and you are given a choice. A 6 pack of beer, or a loaf of bread. What would you choose??? Its a barter currency.

Wasn't talking about beer, I was talking about the 'Tom Sawyer' story.

 

[orygun]

Not only have I read the Tom Sawyer story, I visited Mark Twain's house, the fence and the cave from Huck Finn.

 

[Lazyfaire]

Wasn't talking about beer, I was talking about the 'Tom Sawyer' story.

Not only have I read the Tom Sawyer story, I visited Mark Twain's house, the fence and the cave from Huck Finn.

Ha! Born and raised in eastern Illinois. I too have made the 'trek' to St Petersburg IL to see it all. Was under 10 at the time but it was common reading material for youngsters.

 

[OldBroad44]

I think Huckleberry Finn would be much more likely to be banned or avoided in schools, at least back when I was a kid, than Tom Sawyer. As I recall, TS was mostly about TS and other white friends. HF, in which HF and an adult slave hand run away down the Mississippi on a raft. HF is running away from his father who abuses him. The slave is running away from slavery. Along with various adventures HF struggles with his conviction that helping a slave escape is wrong and he will go to he'll for it, and his initial belief that n-words are in all ways inferior, only to have it disproved over and over on the trip. A revolutionary book when written compared to the pablum of TS. HF decides when they reach their destination, he'll tie the runaway slave up and turn him in, but finds himself unable to bring himself to do so. Still remember his decision. "Okay. I'll just go to he'll then." Something like that.

 

[pharmseller]

I thought he was a modern day warrior.

 

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[Hybrid Slave]

Generally, IME, people in the country let their garbage pile up somewhere. If it is burnable (like a mattress or a sofa) then it goes on a burn pile and gets burnt. If it is a junk car/etc., then it gets left on their property - you see this in the countryside; where farmers/etc. have junk cars, tractors/etc. sitting on their property. We live here, so we don't dump our garbage in the ditches. The city folk bring theirs out to the countryside and the woods and dump it in the ditches or the rock pits/etc. - out of their sight, for us to deal with.


Yes - I hauled some junk to the dumps a couple years ago, both mine and my kids, and it was $40 for WA county for a small pickup load, while in Yamhill it was $25 (IIRC) for my large flatbed.

I have one grocery sack full of trash per week - I am not going to pay $20/mo for that. My neighbor lets me put in their garbage bin for weekly pickup, I let him borrow my drag harrow occasionally and things like that. I would never just dump anything in a ditch.

Some people, be they city OR rural folk, unfortunately, were never taught not to shyte where they sleep.

 

[Flopsweat]

I thought he was a modern day warrior.

I wouldn't Rush to judgement.

 

[sobo]

I wouldn't Rush to judgement.

I thought he was a New World Man...

 

[Flopsweat]

I thought he was a New World Man...

He's a rebel and a runner, I'll grant you that.

 

[sobo]

He's a rebel and a runner, I'll grant you that.

Welp, here we go again...

 

[Flopsweat]

Welp, here we go again...

He just thinks of himself as a Working Man.

 

[DirectDrive]

I guess that's what I am

 

[sobo]

I guess that's what I am

Wins the thread!

 

[Ura-Ki]

Did he win a Red Barchetta?

 

[sobo]

Did he win a Red Barchetta?

MAKE IT STOPPPPPPPPPP!

 

[Flopsweat]

Did he win a Red Barchetta?

I hear those things drive like the wind.

 

[sobo]

I hear those things drive like the wind.

I'll bet they can spin around with shrieking tires, so one can run a deadly race...

 

[Flopsweat]

I'll bet they can spin around with shrieking tires, so one can run a deadly race...

They like hogging the Limelight.