[ale] Off topic - And now, Arizona

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Fri Jul 9 17:17:34 EDT 2010


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Larrry,
>
> I was thinking that Michael Moore calling someone fat would be much a more
> apropos comparison.
> Pardon my ignorance, but what is a Vogon?
>

HHGTTG - Vogons destroyed the earth to put in a transgalactic-freeway  thus
begining Aurther Dent's strange and hilarous adventures.


> I live in and grew up Fayetteville (10 miles East of Peachtree City). My
> father, about 50-52 yrs ago, as a Delta Airlines pilot tried to build the
> first house in P'tree City but couldn't get a loan from the Atl banks
> because it was too far out in the country. That's not relevant to the topic,
> but you comment about destroying East Atl for a Mega Bypass to get from
> P'tree City to Woodstock makes no sense, both are on the West side of Atl
> and one can go straight up Hwy 74 to I-85 to I-285 to I-75 to I-575 and be
> in Woodstock much quicker than any conceivable "eastern passage" as you
> propose. Are you perhaps thinking of the roadway that DID destroy some of
> East Atl but Jimmy Carter killed the project when he was Gov. and the road
> now takes you to his Library and on to E. Ponce?
>
> GC
>
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Larry Johnson <
> larryfeltonjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>   On 07/09/2010 03:50 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>>> > Especially the Roberts Supreme Court.
>>> >
>>> > Don't worry about Georgia being passed by Arizona though - at least one
>>> of the Republican gubernatorial candidates has something in their ad about
>>> how we should follow Arizona's lead.  I forget which one though.
>>> >
>>> That would be Nathan Deal. He's doing his best to out-wingnut the other
>>> candidates. I don't think he can catch Oxendine or Handel, though.
>>>
>>
>> I live in East Atlanta, and grew up in Grant Park, so Oxendine holds a
>> special place in my pantheon of wingnuts, since part of his platform
>> includes destroying the east side of Atlanta  to create some sort of
>> mega-bypass, so that the Vogons can get from Woodstock to Peachtree City
>> without encountering any inhabited places in between.
>>
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