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Thread ID: 146714	2018-10-31 04:04:00	Another Blow.....	B.M. (505)	PC World Chat

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1455138	2018-11-11 04:21:00	Heck-fire youse guyses! If you use a plastic bag in California, you go to jail . Plastic straws too - (unless there's a NZ-equivalent for that word: NZ = Liquid Refreshment Sucker-Upper?) - Use A Straw - Go To Jail . I've seen plastic bags floating in the water off California a lot of the times I was living there - which is over 8 years ago now . They littered the beach at low tide and the animals try to eat them, thinking they are sickly squid . I saw logos from Bi-Lo, and Metcash and Pak'N Sav IIRC . Do youses guyses know who they are? They are pretty inconsiderate sending their trash to Balboa and Newport Beach and Dana Point, California! I think a lawsuit is in the works .	SurferJoe46 (51)
1455139	2018-11-11 06:30:00	Ahhh yes, California, described by many as a dumping place for “Lunatics of the World”, and it seems the animals aren’t too bright either. Anyway Joe, congratulations, on getting out of the place years ago :)	B.M. (505)
1455140	2018-11-11 16:30:00	@ B . M . ---> 'Tis so! The saying was that to live in California was akin to sitting naked in a bowl of Crunchy Granola Cereal - what surrounds you is flakes and nuts with some fruits thrown in . In case NZ has no inkling on what Crunchy Granola is, it's a Euell Gibbons special - twigs and tree bark in a honey sweetened melody that not only is healthy for you - but it's a lot safer for cows and pigs . Euell Gibbons was a nut-case who advertised that health food had to hurt to eat for it to have any true healthy lifestyle powers at all . He died while trying to eat his front porch . %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Excerpt from Wiki: Gibbons was born in Clarksville, Texas, on September 8, 1911, and spent much of his youth in the hilly terrain of northwestern New Mexico . His father drifted from job to job, usually taking his family (a wife and four children) with him . During one difficult interval of homesteading, Gibbons began foraging for local plants and berries to supplement the family diet . After leaving home at 15, he drifted throughout the Southwest, finding work as a dairyman, carpenter, trapper, gold panner, and cowboy . The early years of the Dust Bowl era found Gibbons in California, where he lived as a self-described “bindle stiff” (hobo) and, in sympathy with labor causes, began writing Communist Party leaflets . Later in the 1930s he settled in Seattle, served a stint in the US Army, married, and worked as a carpenter, surveyor, and boatbuilder . During the late 1930s, Gibbons was still giving "more time to his political activity than to his work, and more time to wild food than to politics . After Russia invaded Poland in 1939, however, he renounced Communism and spent most of World War II in Hawaii, building and repairing boats for the Navy . His first marriage, Gibbons recalled, became a "casualty of the war", and in the postwar years he chose the life of a beachcomber on the Hawaiian Islands . After entering the University of Hawaii as a 36-year-old freshman, Gibbons majored in anthropology and won the university's creative-writing prize . In 1948, he married Freda Fryer, a teacher, and both decided to join the Society of Friends (the Quakers), stating "I became a Quaker because it was the only group I could join without pretending to beliefs that I didn't have or concealing beliefs that I did have . The couple relocated to the US mainland in 1953, where (after a failed attempt to found a cooperative agricultural community in Indiana) Gibbons became a staff member at Pendle Hill Quaker Study Center near Philadelphia, cooking breakfast for everyone every day . Around 1960, through his wife's urging and support, he was able to follow through on his earlier aspirations and turn to writing . He had a few claims-to-fame on US TV shows: A 1974 television commercial for Post Grape-Nuts cereal featured Gibbons asking viewers "Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible . " While he recommended eating Grape Nuts over eating pine trees (Grape Nuts' taste "reminds me of wild hickory nuts"), the quote caught the public's imagination and fueled his celebrity status . Johnny Carson joked about sending Gibbons a "lumber-gram", and Gibbons himself joined in the humor; when presented with a wooden award plaque by Sonny and Cher, he good-naturedly took a bite out of it . (The "plaque" was actually an edible prop . ) He was satirized by John Byner on the Carol Burnett Show episode which aired October 6, 1973, shown eating tree parts and asking related questions, including "Ever lick a river?" Me here: in 1970 or so, is when I first saw him and he soon became notorious for his advertising of breakfast cereals . He had sold-out on his Communist legacy .	SurferJoe46 (51)
1455141	2018-11-11 17:18:00	Sounds much like the North Island Joe	gary67 (56)
1455142	2018-11-11 20:52:00	The saying was that to live in California was akin to sitting naked in a bowl of Crunchy Granola Cereal - what surrounds you is flakes and nuts with some fruits thrown in. In case NZ has no inkling on what Crunchy Granola is Let me hear that, let me near that Crunchy granola suite Drop your shrink, and stop your drinkin' Crunchy granola's neat… Click HERE (www.youtube.com) :banana	WalOne (4202)
1455143	2018-11-11 21:23:00	Hmmm, Neil Diamond from memory. I wonder how he is doing handling Parkinson's? One of the greats! Ken	kenj (9738)
1455144	2018-11-11 23:09:00	Sounds much like the North Island Joe Much like North Canterbury as well	prefect (6291)
1455145	2018-11-12 00:20:00	Linda Ronstadt too.She's quit singing. The music world is much darker without her voice.	SurferJoe46 (51)
1455146	2018-11-12 00:51:00	Ahhh yes, California, described by many as a dumping place for “Lunatics of the World”, and it seems the animals aren’t too bright either. Anyway Joe, congratulations, on getting out of the place years ago :) Is this the California that makes up over 14% of total US GDP and is a net donor to the Fed? The California that pays for the assistance given to the poor states? ;)	Nick G (16709)
1455147	2018-11-12 02:16:00	Is this the California that makes up over 14% of total US GDP and is a net donor to the Fed? The California that pays for the assistance given to the poor states? ;) That’s the one. Biggest State by miles Population wise (>10M), and 3rd biggest Area wise (Alaska being the biggest) so nothing exceptional about producing only 14% of the GDP. I think you would fit in well there though. :)	B.M. (505)
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