BS: The Truth about Grass!

Subject: RE: BS: The Truth about Grass!
From: Raptor
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 05:51 PM

Little Hawk

I'd love to go to cuba if only for the birdwatching

As usual you'd probably end up teaching me something new as well

I'd go too if my wife would let me spend the money, If I did it without asking she'd have my balls for bookends!

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: The Truth about Grass!
From: toadfrog
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 06:05 PM

Truth about grass (in the American West) is that it is an extremely serious problem because of the water it consumes. One of these times we are going to exhaust all our aquifers and go bone dry. Land is already beginning, in some places, to sink into collapsing aquifers. Colorado has the lushest, greenest lawns I have ever seen. Even Western Colorado, which is part of the Great Basin. They love those green lawns, in part if Colorado does not consume all that water, it might get consigned to other States, or to Mexico.

Subject: RE: BS: The Truth about Grass!
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 08:15 PM

Actually, some in The West are trying to do something about stupid water usage: Xeriscape, for one.

Subject: RE: BS: The Truth about Grass!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 12:50 AM

Good point, toadfrog. Water is needed for far more vital matters than providing Joe Sixpack with a nice, green lawn. If the Indians could have foreseen what was going to happen to America they would probably all have joined forces and stopped the European invasion on the Atlantic beaches.

Now, however, the water and all the other resources will simply go "where the money is"...until even the money is no longer enough to prevent an overall collapse of our social pyramid scheme.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: The Truth about Grass!
From: Sam L
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 11:14 AM

An inventor who has a solar power company and some audio products told me one of the biggest dampers to solar was that it just looks different, having panels on the roof. He also said he couldn't sell his innovative audio speakers in line with how cheaply he can produce them, because in audio, people just want to pay more. Like water for lawns.

   Lawns seem to be another of these absurd forces that persist against any amount or degree of plain sense. Manipulating social discomfort and embarrassment is probably the only forceful argument, short of actual disaster.

Subject: RE: BS: The Truth about Grass!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 12:20 PM

People are creatures of habit...no matter how silly, useless or harmful the habit is, they will persist once the habit has been established. And that is why I am concerned that George Bush may launch another war...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: The Truth about Grass!
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 06 Jul 03 - 11:25 AM

Hey Raptor who are you trying to kid " balls for bookends". Next time use Elephant Man as you name you might get believed.

Subject: RE: BS: The Truth about Grass!
From: Raptor
Date: 06 Jul 03 - 07:59 PM

I didn't mean that!

I AM NOT AN ANIMAL...

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: The Truth about Grass!
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Jul 03 - 08:35 PM

Hey, there's a place fir grass, folks. In me and L.H.'s peace pipes... Jus funnin'...

Other than than, not much us fir the stuff. I got lots of gardens and use the stuff between beds fir paths and effect but that's about it.

Man, there are folks who think that growing grass is gardening??? Where did that idea cone from? Oh, Scott's... Yer right. Hey, howz about the cool plants that do more than, ahhh, grass?...

Man, I was just someplace out in Wes Ginny ridin' thru this town and there was nuthin' but grass. Acrea and acres of freshly cut, ahhhh, grass.

How original...

Geeze...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: The Truth about Grass!
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jul 03 - 10:55 PM

Shucks, LH, I've thought for a long time that most of the problems in the Americas stem from the lax immigration policies of the Indians.

Subject: RE: BS: The Truth about Grass!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 12:30 AM

Well, I can remember a time when dealing with the many white immigrants to the American West certainly taxed my patience... :-)

Some of my friends at that time had the attitude that "the only good white-eye is a dead white-eye". These kind of ideas take hold of people and lead to all kinds of trouble...specially considering that he who lives by the vendetta generally ends up dying by it as well. Of course, some of us would rather go out with a bang than die quietly of old age. I seem to be going for the old age option in this life, having tried the "die young and have a good looking corpse" routine so many times before.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: The Truth about Grass!
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 09:05 AM

Shucks, dealing with some of those folks taxes my patience even now.

Considering what I've often been told is my probable destination, it sounds so unpleasant that I don't think I'll make the journey at all.
When the roll is called up yonder, I won't be there. 8-)