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When ya live out in the middle of the ocean, you are greatful
when cable TV finally arrives to your neighborhood.

But the cable supplier bids out their signals once a year
so we never quite know what we are going to get. New York
city is good, Wash DC is Good, Montgomery, Alabama is pretty grim
but.........

Erie, Pennsylvania is absolute bottom of the beer keg.
We woke up this morning to the local news and weather from
Erie, PA. Tha Erie farm report in the summer is funny as
are the hog futures.

But REALLY! Sending Erie, PA cable programming to San Juan?
(When we hear 'And now for the local weather report' we about crackup.


I mean no disrespect to anyone who might actually live
in Erie, PA.

dale
 
It actually got up to 40* there last weekend.
 
Hey guys,
Erie is straight south of me about 50 miles. Just a small pond called Lake Erie in the way. As the crow flies, it is the closest American city to me.
They get way more snow than us because of lake effects.
See Dale, the cable Gods are just trying to let you know what I'm dealing with. Subliminal Weather!!!!!!


Dave :savewave:
 
Cheer up, it could be worse... you might actually be there instead of just getting their reports. :devilgrin: :jester:

Of course, the situation might reverse itself during hurricane season....
 
JamesWilson said:
Cheer up, it could be worse... you might actually be there instead of just getting their reports. :devilgrin: :jester:

Of course, the situation might reverse itself during hurricane season....
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Hey!

I'll take hurricanes over having to watch manure spreading machine
commercials. And the greatest news of the year was when an 800 pound
blob person had to have his house wall cut out to get him to hospital.

d
 
Tinster said:
JamesWilson said:
Cheer up, it could be worse... you might actually be there instead of just getting their reports. :devilgrin: :jester:

Of course, the situation might reverse itself during hurricane season....
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Hey!

I'll take hurricanes over having to watch manure spreading machine
commercials. And the greatest news of the year was when an 800 pound
blob person had to have his house wall cut out to get him to hospital.

d
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tinster, keep eatin up em roasted porks and you may be next!!! :jester:
 
Dale, Kwitcherbellyakin!

Talk about 3rd world country affectations.

Sadly, here on Oahu we are a STATE. But a "third world state", run ineptly by incompetents.

Last week during a thunderstorm we had lightning take out 4 of the 5 major transmission lines leaving the power plant(supposedly, they still haven't completed a pinpoint investigation).

Took them over 18 hours to get power restored to the whole island.

Now this is where we pay more for electricity than anywhere else in the country. The head honcho of the monopoly utility takes home over 500K a year. Yet they can not(or will not) engineer in safety redundancy about 290K consumers.... The area where the future Pres was staying was the first to get their power backup... Politics anyone????
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]But a "third world state", run ineptly by incompetents.
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Ron,

I thought you were talking about Rhode Island. That's a perfect description.

But WE keep electing them, over and over.............
 
Ron- All I know is that must of had the secret service FREAKIN!!!
 
Our previous governor will be going to Federal prison
in February.

Our newly elected Governor was sworn in yesterday
at 3:00 PM. We have high hopes for him. He belongs
to the statehood party here.

d
 
Brosky: <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]
I thought you were talking about Rhode Island. That's a perfect description.

But WE keep electing them, over and over.............[/QUOTE]

Some of you guys might remember a "famous" Texas governor, Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel.

First earned reknown when he formed a dance band called "The Light Crust Dough Boys" (sponsored by Burrus Mills' Light Crust Flour) back after WW1. Radio appearances were often introduced with "Pass the biscuits Pappy!" And Bob Wills got his start with the Doughboys.

Toured the state, developed name recognition, and was first elected Governor of Texas in 1938, on the promise to raise pensions, lower taxes, and bake more biscuits.

Funny thing was, no one ever remembered voting for him. But he never lost an election for governor.

Yeehaa!
Tom
PS - he was the only man to defeat LBJ in an election. And his "character" keeps reappearing in the movie O Brother Where Art Thou.
 
And then there was "Ma" Ferguson elected Texas Governor before him sometime, after her husnad ("Pa" Ferguson) was impeached and removed from office.

She's been credited with the quote: “If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it ought to be good enough for the children of Texas." but that's probably a slander by her opponents....
 
JamesWilson said:
And then there was "Ma" Ferguson elected Texas Governor before him sometime, after her husnad ("Pa" Ferguson) was impeached and removed from office.

She's been credited with the quote: “If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it ought to be good enough for the children of Texas." but that's probably a slander by her opponents....
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Whoa! I am *impressed*. I don't have a clue about life in the GĂ idhlig part of the world, but you know Texas history!

Many folks said that when Ma Ferguson became governor, she immediately released every single prisoner in the state men's prisons.

She could just never let a man finish a sentence.

:jester:

Tom
 
NutmegCT said:
Whoa! I am *impressed*. I don't have a clue about life in the GĂ idhlig part of the world, but you know Texas history!
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Don't be impressed much: before I came to Scotland in 1984 I'd lived in Texas from 1965 onwards and was somewhat educated there. I've now been here longer than I was in Texas, but I still don't think I qualify as a Glaswegian (my accent is all screwy compared to the local impenetrable one)....

Before Texas I'd lived near Seattle (the suburb of Des Moines), Rhode Island (some forgotten suburb of Providence), Hawaii (Honolulu), Philadelphia and Chicago; each one was for a year or two or three while I was an innocent youth... Hawaii was the absolute best- too young (8) to have any real concerns and in a tropical paradise. I still like to read Hawaiian history, James Mitchener's stories and other South Seas escapism... all go down well with a single malt on a cold, wet night.
 
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