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Article #1604Re: Oregon Bottle Bill
From: Paul J. Berg
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:47
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:47
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--WebTV-Mail-25089-9 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit 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. --WebTV-Mail-25089-9 Content-Description: signature Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/HTML; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit <html><center><a href="http://www.oregonbrewfest.com"><img src="http://www.oregonbrewfest.com/images/web-banners/2006_oregon_brewfest.gif"></a></center></html> --WebTV-Mail-25089-9--
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X-Google-Thread: 1128d6,39963f61ca1b44 X-Google-Thread: 10a18d,cfbc167cf442ff44,start X-Google-Thread: 111a85,11a121e119c4ac4c X-Google-Thread: 104eff,cfbc167cf442ff44,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1128d6,gid10a18d,gid111a85,gid104eff,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed-3001.bay.webtv.net!newssorter-3001.bay.webtv.net!not-for-mail From: pjberg@webtv.net (Paul J. Berg) Newsgroups: pdx.general,or.general,or.politics,ca.politics Subject: Re: Oregon Bottle Bill Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:47:33 -0700 Organization: WebTV Subscriber Lines: 50 Message-ID: <11699-44BE9A65-9@storefull-3236.bay.webtv.net> References: <94wvg.5682$oa1.4320@news02.roc.ny> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.webtv.net Mime-Version: 1.0 (WebTV) Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; Boundary=WebTV-Mail-25089-9 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAsAhQmCcs50KwvdvsQN4DZntHbwMPIrAIUC2KiFo/aYZObXIU/YJOTiSPcMO0= Content-Disposition: Inline