This Space for Rent

Idle Hands are the Devil’s Playthings (2006 edition)

I don't just have floorplans. No, no, it's just not the same without a few architectural models to complete the "Orc has gone completely around the bend" scenario.

Postscript: The best asked "what colo(u)r should we paint it?", and after Russell made the expected reply of "Green!", I said that we'd paint it orange, so we'd have the Big Yellow House and the Little Orange House, and besides, if it's going to be a summer camp, we have to paint it orange so that the hunters won't shoot at it. My family thinks I'm wierd, but I don't really know why.

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Thanks your lucky stars you don’t live in Oklahoma City, where the Evil Party representative Ernest Istook singlehandledly overturned the results of a local election to approve the construction/restoration of a pilot trolley project. The voters said yes, but Istook blocked $15 million of the $18 million in federal funds to which we were entitled and instead substituted a handful of stinky little shuttle buses dressed up to look like Birney-style trolleys. The city government, which is also dominated by the Evil Party, didn’t say a word in protest, and now participate in full-fledged fraud by calling the buses “trolleys.”

Eric Berger Thu Jan 12 12:46:58 2006

Oh, living in Oklahoma City has never been an option for me; any interest I might have had in living there withered up completely after we visited some friends who live in Norman, and then had their kid come down sick so we ended up spending most of the visit sitting around a hospital somewhere in Oklahoma City.

Calling busses trolley dates at least from the 1970s; the reason trolleybusses are now called Electric trolleybusses in the USA is because there was a taxbreak on trolleybusses in the 1970s which was massively overused by the diesel faux-trolley busses. It was very annoying when I was just out of high school and trying to track down where trolleys (obUK: trams) still ran in North America, but kept finding all these “trolley” routes that turned out to just be another stupid bus line.

David Parsons Thu Jan 12 16:03:43 2006

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