stone me baby

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I reside in India and grass is easily available, its all prevalent and the older generation is totally into it. The brits spoiled the fun bringing in their puritan views else the place would have been a potter’s utopia.

The cops take a huge cut off the pusher, as much as 50-60% of the cost of the pot. The problem is that once in a while the cops go on this arresting spree, to demonstrate to their superiors that they are doing some work, and the pushers are put in the cooler for a few weeks. The pushers then have to change their place of ‘business’ too. I hence have to scout for new pushers every once in a while and this is being a pain.

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Is school already out?

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Countdown to closing…

THREE…TWO…ONE…

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::::picks up rock and boinks crimsonshriek upside the head with it:::::

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Has anyone ever read “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson? Basically, once a year, the residents of this little village/town get together and draw lots to see who will be stoned to death that year.

So in the spirit of the story, and taking the title of this thread literally, I propose that we do a mock stoning. Since Skerri has started, I will continue.

spies conveniently-located wheelbarrow full of stones in varying sizes

picks one up, aims at crimsonshriek, and lets fly, hitting him in the center of his forehead

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Stop! Stop, will you?! Stop that! Stop it!

Now, look! No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle! Do you understand?! Even, and I want to make this absolutely clear, even if they do say ‘Jehovah’.

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“Sticks and stones may break my bones…”

Flamsterette, did you know that Shirley Jackson is the mayor of Atlanta? And the first African American female mayor of a major city in the United States?

::chukks a stone at the OP’er::

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Scratch that. Our mayor’s name is Shirley FRANKLIN! I am most definitely retarded.

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“Scratch that. Our mayor’s name is Shirley FRANKLIN!”

Are you high? :slight_smile:

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Oh my gosh. I was all set to come back in here and ask when Shirley Jackson came back from the dead to run for Mayor. :eek: :smiley:

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Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone.

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::finds a nice pointy rock, checks it for weight, hurls it in crimsonshriek’s general direction::

:: finds a nice smooth pebble, walks up to ** pbrtallboy**, tells him to quit being so silly, hands him the pebble so he can bonk hisself with it.::

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Let he who has not stones. . . get 'em from me for two bits each.

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Well, how much are you paying? Ain’t that the key, here?

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all i said was ‘this bag of grass is good enough for jehovah!’

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Apparently Jesus got his Klondike bar…

What Would Jesus Do For a Klondike Bar

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Shirley Jackson is/was black? I did not know that.

As a pacifist, I can’t participate in any stonings going on around here. I’ll be off lying in the hammock in the shade, having some lemonade and reading a good book.

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Hey guys, lay off the newbie. :slight_smile:

Welcome aboard, crimsonshriek. Perhaps you misunderstood the phrase “Straight Dope”? A little reading of the archives will do you good, no doubt. A small hint: the name of our site does not refer to drugs.

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thanks guardian angel. and no i did not misunderstand the phrase ‘straight dope’; i have been a regular reader for quite sometime now, but am new to the messsage boards. and i just had to share this mundane pointless stuff to vent my frustration.

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Ah, OK. Well, as long as you keep our house rules in mind at all times, I don’t see anything wong with that.

Guardian angel, eh? That’s a first. :wink: