OT*****Re: Hello, it's me..

[Tony Alfrey]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 19:52 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> Ric Moore wrote:
> 

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> 
> Ha! Real Texans, and other students of history, know California's story.
> It's made up mostly of displaced redneck Okies and Cornhuskers from the
> Depression Era Dustbowl who are firmly in denial, 
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Hey, I resemble that!  Were it not for WWII, my father never would have 
made it out here from Ohio.
Actually were it not for trying to build farms on land in Oklahoma with 
only 2" of topsoil that wouldn't support a family of four on less than 
2000 acres, we wouldn't have had all of the displaced rednecks, we would 
have just had the Mexicans (from whom we stole California fair and 
square) and all those New Yorkers that came out 80 years before the 
rednecks in search of gold.

> 
> When I lived in Helena Montana, most of the inhabitants lived in fear of
> the invasion of Californians. They demanded bike trails, public
> transport, disco's, coffee bars, bistros, pesticide-free veggies and the
> freedom to build out where the bears and cougars lived, 
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See, isn't it much nicer now that we fixed things up?
What you got against babes in discos?  And we don't 'demand' coffee 
bars, we just import Peet's while the rest of Montana is drinking 
Folgers or Yuban.  Then we periodically let the locals taste a little of 
the good stuff, get addicted, and then we open up a little coffee bar 
out in the woods to satisfy the addiction.  It's a much better addiction 
than all that crystal meth they're brewin' up out in the woods.
However, I will take issue with the "public transport" dig.  There is 
*NO* public transit in California.  Clearly, you've not been to L.A. 
You're confusing Californians with New Yorkers, who really understand 
what public transit is.

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> Montana had no sales tax as they didn't have stupid things
> like speed limits and bike trails. 

Yeah, in fact I read a sad article in the NYTimes the other day that 
said that the incidence of traffic accidents due to juvenile drunkenness 
was so high in Montana that it was becoming a real public health issue. 
  Maybe we can give the kids bicycles for those bike trails that we 
helped build and keep 'em out of the cars?  A drunk mountain biker can't 
do a lot of damage.  Californians have perfected the sport of 'wasted 
mountain biking'.

> 
> Got a great story about a family of New Yorkers visiting Montana too,
> but I'll save that one for another day! Montana'ns are just Texans
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OK, let's take a poll:  "How many Texans think they'd feel at home in 
Montana?"  And my next question is:  "Is there *real* barbecue in Montana?"



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Tony Alfrey
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"I'd Rather Be Sailing"