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  • CONGRESS $HOPPING CARTS

    02/11/2009 10:16:14 AM PST · by Nachum · 5 replies · 364+ views
    NY Post ^ | 2/11/09 | GEOFF EARLE
    WASHINGTON - "Fore!" The federal government is preparing to spend millions to purchase a fleet of small electric vehicles that critics compare to golf carts. The $838 billion economic stimulus bill that passed the Senate yesterday contains $300 million for the government to purchase a fleet of "green" cars.
  • Hopping John (Black-Eyed Peas On New Year's Day)

    01/01/2007 10:50:17 AM PST · by blam · 126 replies · 4,281+ views
    Why do they call it Hopping John? On New Years Day east Tennesseans, and people here and there all over the South, eat black eyed peas and rice and call the mixture "Hopping John" (often written "Hoppin' John".) Over the years I have eaten hopping John with good friends in the kitchen, been served it from chafing dishes by well-off San Antonio ladies three sheets to the wind, and walked into a roadside restaurant in Maryland with a can of black eyed peas and asked to be indulged. Somebody at the table always asks "Why do they call it hopping...