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Re: Oregon Bottle Bill

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From: Paul J. Berg
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:47
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gatt wrote:
> Good plan.   When the bottle bill was passed nobody expected people
would 
> pay more for a small bottle of water than they would for an entire
gallon of 
> it, so it's reasonable to understand that the bill needs to be
updated. 
> Which reminds me of one of my favorite Oregonian jokes:
> 
> Three cowboys were sitting around a fire.  One of them, a Mexican,
sips from 
> a bottle of tequila, throws it into the air and shoots it.  "Where I
come 
> from, tequila is abundant," he says.
> 
> The second cowboy, a Californian, sips from bottle of wine and then
throws 
> it into the air and shoots it.  "Well, where I come from wine is
> abund--"
> 
> The third cowboy, an Oregonian, drinks a bottle of Henry's, throws the 
> bottle behind him and shoots the Californian.  "Where I come from, 
> Californians are abundant, but bottles are worth a nickel."
> 
> -c

As a charter member of the James G. Blaine Society, I love the joke that
Gatt posted.

But, the joke needs to be updated, "Henry's" should be change to the
name of your favorite Oregon microbrew.


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From: pjberg@webtv.net (Paul J. Berg)
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