🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <70p5g2$6km$1@bashir.peak.org>,  <andre@chezdre.com> wrote:
>I was urged to get some conversation going in the cor.general newsgroup.  I wo
nder if this is it.  Anyway, the topic?  The smoking ban.  Anyone care to debat
e it here?

I don't know about this smoking ban, but what about banning any news
article with lines longer than 72 characters? I've rewrapped it above
so it looks like it does on my screen, and should have simply cut it
off at the "wo" like some other newsreaders would have.

And what about the trees? If you force people to smoke outside by
banning smoking in bars, you will be making the trees breathe second
hand smoke.  Do you think just because you can't hear the trees they
aren't crying? Gaia weeps for the sick; her tears flow as the rain. Why
do you think it is so wet here in Corvallis? It isn't just because the
Beavers had a losing football season, although statistical trends show
that to be the main cause. 40% football. 30% basketball. 20% sick
trees. 10% dead cows from Tillamook being washed out to sea to show up
on Tokyo beaches. Oh, the humanity. Ummm, I mean the cowmanity.
(Competition for the Kobe beef, I say.)

What about the wood cancer the second hand smoke will cause?  Do you
want YOUR next house built with cancerous wood? Do you want to be 
picking YOUR teeth with maple carcinomas? Do you put your feet up
on the furniture at home, too?

And 9 MILLION dollars to put new banks on a river that will just flood
in a year and wash them all away? And how many dollars to rebuild a
swimming pool that should have been paid for with user fees?  I know,
let the kiddies swim in the river. Put them in south of town at the
boat ramp, pull them out at Michael's landing. Much healthier to swim
in cold water. Look at how long all them Finns live and they jump from
sweat boxes right into the fiords. And it will be more exercise, trying
to swim up river. Heh, it will even teach the youngsters about how hard
it is to make a living as a salmon. That way they'll appreciate it
even more when they don't get fed Salmon Surprise Loaf in their school
lunches, if not getting Salmon Surprise Loaf wasn't enough reason to
be appreciative all by itself.

Of course if they do manage to swim upriver, we don't want them
spawning. The kids, that is. And you can pay for riverbank improvements
by selling tickets to watch the swimming. That way, local citizens can
come root for their favorite kiddy, or for the undertow if they want
to. I'm betting on the middle pylon of the bridge.

And I don't know about you, but MY health won't improve by adding a 35
mil tax to pay for "health and safety." It will make my blood pressure
go up, that's what it will do. I say, let my 35 automatic provide my
safety, let me keep the 35 mils. Well, ok, it's really a 45, but I got
it on sale, and 35 makes it alliterative. I could have bought three 9
mil, but that's only 27.

Let the games begin.