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52 Reasons To Stop Mowing (Zot a la Gallagher)
Fruitarian Network ^ | 1973 first version | Nonmowing Coalition

Posted on 07/25/2006 6:58:41 AM PDT by fruitarian108

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To: Military family member


"The word desertification was first used in 1949 by the French geographer Andre Aubreville to describe the change in North and equatorial Africa from productive savanna forest, grasslands, and shrublands into unproductive desert"

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141 posted on 07/25/2006 8:17:04 AM PDT by fruitarian108
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To: fruitarian108
what's a zot

A zot is a group taunting that usually involves lightening and violent kitties, prior to your being banned for gross stupidity--pointless, but fun!

142 posted on 07/25/2006 8:18:07 AM PDT by Dutchgirl (Don't mess with Knesset.)
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To: fruitarian108

I kind of like this idea, mainly because it would free up a couple of hours each Saturday from April to October. I don't golf, but maybe I would if I had some extra free time. On second thought, maybe not -- because golf courses are mowed and if I give up mowing, how could I affilate myself with someone who still mows? Maybe I'll go fishing instead.

I'm not sure Mrs. Southside is going to like it, though. She checks the long-term weather forecasts and gets antsy at the thought of rain on Saturdays, which would delay the mowing; and so she comes up with schemes for me to cut out of work early and do the mowing on Friday. But you know, I can count on one hand the number of times it's actually rained on a Saturday and I point this out to her and I tell her if it does rain, well, "que sera, sera baby."

She is also no big fan of the abandoned house down the street from us that has been uninhabited for years and the lawn of which is "returning to nature." There's stuff growing in the back yard that's taller than I am, and the place has become a home for raccoons and opossums and feral cats and who knows what else. Right here in Chicago.

The main drawback for me is -- if I let the place go from lawn to meadow to thicket to forest, where are the kid and I going to toss around the football and stuff? And, Mrs. Southside mentions from time to time her desire to get a swimming pool, but I'm not sure how that would work in a thicket. I'd worry about chiggers. I don't know if we have chiggers in Chicago, but we did when I lived down in southern IL and, let me tell you, they are no fun.


143 posted on 07/25/2006 8:18:58 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on......)
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To: dighton
Men are able to conjure up some reason, ANY reason, not to perform some sort of household chore.
144 posted on 07/25/2006 8:19:33 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: MozarkDawg

Yes, because God did not design a world of work but
a fruit tree paradise.

http://www.all-creatures.org


145 posted on 07/25/2006 8:20:25 AM PDT by fruitarian108
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To: fruitarian108
how do you add pictures to your posts?

Use this formula:

<img src="(img URL here)" width=(width of image) height=(height of image)>

Replace the items highlighted in red with the attributes requited.

Eagerly anticipating the forthcoming images.

146 posted on 07/25/2006 8:20:51 AM PDT by jellybean (Proud to be an Ann-droid and a Steyn-aholic)
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To: jellybean; Osage Orange; fruitarian108
Laz, are you kindred??

I'm a hundred kindred.

Kinda like a West Virgina wedding.

BTW: Kindred, when rearranged, spells DRINKED.

I don't drink no mo.

147 posted on 07/25/2006 8:21:46 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
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To: fruitarian108

So you are just another globalist micromanager. Yawnn... so dreary and predictable. But the big question is....will YOU be on of the chosen elites allowed to live in your dream world?


148 posted on 07/25/2006 8:22:07 AM PDT by tertiary01 (The latest business model: Socialize the costs- privatize the profits,)
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To: cripplecreek
After a tree attacked my house last fall and costme about $10,000, I've launched an all out herbijihad.

That's horrible! But you have to hand it to the tree for that kind of conviction...lay low as a terror cell for a few decades, gain your trust, and when you least expect it, kill itself and damage your home as retribution for all of its brethren who died so you could build your house.

NO WOOD FOR DWELLING!

149 posted on 07/25/2006 8:22:32 AM PDT by Zeppelin (You've been Zarqed !)
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To: jellybean

If one specifies either the width or the height, but not both, the image will scale up proportionally. But specifying width AND height means those two numbers must be in the precise proportion, or the picture will end up stretched.


150 posted on 07/25/2006 8:22:39 AM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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To: Petronski
You live under powerlines as a kid?

I think his binky was dipped in Weed-B-Gone.

151 posted on 07/25/2006 8:23:19 AM PDT by Ditto
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To: fruitarian108
Trees piss me off.

They just stand there and bark.

152 posted on 07/25/2006 8:24:08 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
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To: fruitarian108
Eli Lilly which makes Prozac is constantly sued by Leonard Finz...

Sounds abusive.

153 posted on 07/25/2006 8:24:25 AM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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To: Dutchgirl

your cartoon is of an Ohio State Vet School prisoner,
a cat given aids by the school... organizing its fellows

http://www.poetwill.org


154 posted on 07/25/2006 8:24:54 AM PDT by fruitarian108
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To: jellybean

thanks


155 posted on 07/25/2006 8:25:45 AM PDT by fruitarian108
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To: fruitarian108
The fact that you can quote other authors does not make it good science.

As for some of your other sources, Christianveg.org cites works that seem to be endorsed by its own membership. Hardly good scholarship there.

It states that Jesus ate a "Mediteranean diet." He also ate lamb on a semi-regular basis. Jesus was by no means a vegetarian.

156 posted on 07/25/2006 8:25:48 AM PDT by Military family member (GO Colts!!)
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To: Petronski


157 posted on 07/25/2006 8:26:45 AM PDT by bwteim (bwteim = Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

thank you... I especially liked your quote about golf courses

what do you think of the Bush regime?


158 posted on 07/25/2006 8:27:40 AM PDT by fruitarian108
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To: fruitarian108
My new MIL got me a wedding present:

It's a 15 amp vivisecter! I'm an arbicidal maniac!

159 posted on 07/25/2006 8:28:39 AM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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To: Zeppelin

great word: herbijihad


160 posted on 07/25/2006 8:28:53 AM PDT by fruitarian108
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