Did anyone see that Simpson's where they wanted to build a stamp museum across from Evergreen Terrace and Homer and all the residents got pissed off and demanded they don't build it? So, yeah, so instead of building the stamp museum there, the city had to locate it somewhere else and then Lisa is all like "I want to go to the stamp museum!" and so they go there and Homer is like "Why couldn't they build the stamp museum closer!"
See, it's funny because people around where I live get pissed off anytime they try to build a Wal-Mart, and then when they build one the next town over, everyone drives there to shop at Wal-Mart.
Stupid people. Stupid Wal-Mart.
i think it's the old NIMBY argument...certain things are great...just Not In My Back Yard
Right, that's what I was getting at it and that's why I found that episode to be so clever. Also near me they proposed to build an ethanol plant in a secluded, out-of-the way area. The plant would provide the area with E85 Ethanol, a boost to the local corn farmer economy (which is struggling) and create jobs. Everyone opposed it so adamantly that they left. It was like if you asked someone why they were opposing it, they didn't have a good reason. I couldn't see how the cons outweighed the pros, yet the 8 people who lived within 5 miles of the proposed plant screamed bloody murder.
People are dumb look who we elected to be leader of the world
Did anyone see that Simpson's where they wanted to build a stamp museum across from Evergreen Terrace and Homer and all the residents got pissed off and demanded they don't build it? So, yeah, so instead of building the stamp museum there, the city had to locate it somewhere else and then Lisa is all like "I want to go to the stamp museum!" and so they go there and Homer is like "Why couldn't they build the stamp museum closer!"
See, it's funny because people around where I live get pissed off anytime they try to build a Wal-Mart, and then when they build one the next town over, everyone drives there to shop at Wal-Mart.
Stupid people. Stupid Wal-Mart.
i think it's the old NIMBY argument...certain things are great...just Not In My Back Yard
Right, that's what I was getting at it and that's why I found that episode to be so clever. Also near me they proposed to build an ethanol plant in a secluded, out-of-the way area. The plant would provide the area with E85 Ethanol, a boost to the local corn farmer economy (which is struggling) and create jobs. Everyone opposed it so adamantly that they left. It was like if you asked someone why they were opposing it, they didn't have a good reason. I couldn't see how the cons outweighed the pros, yet the 8 people who lived within 5 miles of the proposed plant screamed bloody murder.
People are dumb look who we elected to be leader of the world
Yeah, Rick Santorum won in my county by a higher margin than any other county in the state; and he got blown away by Bob Casey... so how do you think I feel?
If you're a battery, you're either working or you're dead....
Did anyone see that Simpson's where they wanted to build a stamp museum across from Evergreen Terrace and Homer and all the residents got pissed off and demanded they don't build it? So, yeah, so instead of building the stamp museum there, the city had to locate it somewhere else and then Lisa is all like "I want to go to the stamp museum!" and so they go there and Homer is like "Why couldn't they build the stamp museum closer!"
See, it's funny because people around where I live get pissed off anytime they try to build a Wal-Mart, and then when they build one the next town over, everyone drives there to shop at Wal-Mart.
Stupid people. Stupid Wal-Mart.
i think it's the old NIMBY argument...certain things are great...just Not In My Back Yard
Right, that's what I was getting at it and that's why I found that episode to be so clever. Also near me they proposed to build an ethanol plant in a secluded, out-of-the way area. The plant would provide the area with E85 Ethanol, a boost to the local corn farmer economy (which is struggling) and create jobs. Everyone opposed it so adamantly that they left. It was like if you asked someone why they were opposing it, they didn't have a good reason. I couldn't see how the cons outweighed the pros, yet the 8 people who lived within 5 miles of the proposed plant screamed bloody murder.
People are dumb look who we elected to be leader of the world
Yeah, Rick Santorum won in my county by a higher margin than any other county in the state; and he got blown away by Bob Casey... so how do you think I feel?
Wow that really stinks...so can you drive your car on a sunday or are you given some sort of scarlet letter?
Did anyone see that Simpson's where they wanted to build a stamp museum across from Evergreen Terrace and Homer and all the residents got pissed off and demanded they don't build it? So, yeah, so instead of building the stamp museum there, the city had to locate it somewhere else and then Lisa is all like "I want to go to the stamp museum!" and so they go there and Homer is like "Why couldn't they build the stamp museum closer!"
See, it's funny because people around where I live get pissed off anytime they try to build a Wal-Mart, and then when they build one the next town over, everyone drives there to shop at Wal-Mart.
Stupid people. Stupid Wal-Mart.
i think it's the old NIMBY argument...certain things are great...just Not In My Back Yard
Right, that's what I was getting at it and that's why I found that episode to be so clever. Also near me they proposed to build an ethanol plant in a secluded, out-of-the way area. The plant would provide the area with E85 Ethanol, a boost to the local corn farmer economy (which is struggling) and create jobs. Everyone opposed it so adamantly that they left. It was like if you asked someone why they were opposing it, they didn't have a good reason. I couldn't see how the cons outweighed the pros, yet the 8 people who lived within 5 miles of the proposed plant screamed bloody murder.
People are dumb look who we elected to be leader of the world
Yeah, Rick Santorum won in my county by a higher margin than any other county in the state; and he got blown away by Bob Casey... so how do you think I feel?
Wow that really stinks...so can you drive your car on a sunday or are you given some sort of scarlet letter?
I call it "The County of Single-Issue Voters."
Sundays are dead although the commonwealth recently allowed alcohol sales on Sundays. Now if I can only convince them to sell me six packs
Seriously though, every single business, restaurant, whatever that isn't a national chain is closed on Sunday here.
If you're a battery, you're either working or you're dead....
Wow, I'd like to hear more about this story.. I'm very curious if it was a forgery or not.
I took stamp collecting merit badge as a boy scout ( ) and the Inverted Jenny was always treated with great reverence. Here's a picture for anyone too lazy or apathetic to google it-
Simulacrum wrote:Wow, I'd like to hear more about this story.. I'm very curious if it was a forgery or not.
I took stamp collecting merit badge as a boy scout ( ) and the Inverted Jenny was always treated with great reverence. Here's a picture for anyone too lazy or apathetic to google it-
Seems to me whoever sent the letter was short 15 cents.
If you're a battery, you're either working or you're dead....
Simulacrum wrote:Wow, I'd like to hear more about this story.. I'm very curious if it was a forgery or not.
I took stamp collecting merit badge as a boy scout ( ) and the Inverted Jenny was always treated with great reverence. Here's a picture for anyone too lazy or apathetic to google it-
Seems to me whoever sent the letter was short 15 cents.
FORT LAUDERDALE -- What was first thought to be a rare stamp worth up to $300,000 and used to mail an absentee ballot now appears to be a fake, experts said Tuesday.
Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom discovered what was thought to be the famous "Inverted Jenny" stamp while reviewing absentee ballots for the Nov. 7 elections. There was no name on the envelope, so the vote didn't count.
Rodstrom noticed the stamp was from 1936 and had an upside-down World War I-era airplane -- the hallmark of an Inverted Jenny. It now appears the hype was all for nothing.
"It is our opinion, from what we've seen, that this stamp is questionable, and we are of the opinion at this point that it appears to be a reproduction," said Peter Mastrangelo, director of the Pennsylvania-based American Philatelic Society, which reviewed a digital photograph of the stamp.
He said an in-person review was needed to be sure, but that all indications are that the stamp is a counterfeit.
"The perforations on top and bottom do not match our reference copies," Mastrangelo said Tuesday. "The colors of the blue ink are consistent with the counterfeit."
The 24-cent Jenny stamps were printed in 1918. Sheets were run through presses twice to process all the colors, and on one pass, four Jenny sheets went through backward.
Inspectors caught the errors on three sheets and destroyed them, but a sheet of 100 stamps got through.
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by acsguitar » Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:35 pm 
) and the Inverted Jenny was always treated with great reverence. Here's a picture for anyone too lazy or apathetic to google it-
