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 Re: Tragedy: Bird Flu hits Florida Trailer Park... [message #67596 is a reply to message #67571] |
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I'd have been first in line to buy 5 or 6. These people are the
same ones that make everyone join a "homeowners association"
which then bans working on your car, flags in the yard, and tells
you what colors are approved for painting your house.
Oh, and NO home studios (it's noisy and a business!) would pass
muster.
grrrr
DC
"DJ" <animix_spam-this-ahole_@animas.net> wrote:
>A funny story..........years ago, when we were living in Austin, we lived
in
>a small incorporated city which was surrounded by Austin. It was named
>Westlake Hills and over the years it became a very desirable locale for
both
>extremely wealthy folks and still had it's shar of hippies living in the
>woods along the river that ran through the area. There were a couple of
>restauranteurs in Austin at the time named Cookie and Joy Swanson who didn't
>live too far from us and Cookie's brother owned a nursery in Westlake Hills
>that sold plastic pink lawn flamingoes. Well as the years passed, people
>like Tommy Lee Jones, Shawn Colvin and Sandra Bullock all moved into the
>neighborhood and then Michael Dell built as 65 million dollar obscenity
>about a mile down the road and brought along all of his Dellionaire friends.
>The property values skyrocketed and the politics started getting a bit
>.....errrrrr....Reagan'esque and PC at the same time. The city council
>eventually was set upon by the rich developers and landowners to pass an
>ordinance banning the display of pink lawn flamingoes. Well, about two weeks
>before this ordinance was to go into effect about 70% of the the citizenry
>of Westlake Hills started making a run on Cookies brother's nursery and
>every other nursery and any other spot in Austin where you could get pink
>lawn flamingoes and by the day this ordinance was in effect, there were
>thousands of them all over the little town. Eventually this all died down
>and I'm not sure if the ordinance was ever taken off the books but this
kind
>of rebelliousness was the kind of thing I loved about Austin and was fast
>disappearing by the end of the 90's. I was pretty much ready to sell my
>place by 2000 when we moved to Durango. My property taxes had gone up to
>around $1000.00 per month due to the numerous gawdzillionaires living in
the
>area.......and upon arriving in Durango, who do you think the first people
I
>ran into were????......Cookie and Joy. They opened a restaurant here about
6
>months before we moved here. Now a substantial part of the old Austin crew
>hangs out in Durango and we all sit around and talk about the good 'ol
>days.....and nobody really misses Austin We just miss what it used to be.
>
>It's a wierd world sometimes.....just look at what lawn flamingoes can do.
>
>;o)
>
>
>"DC" <dc@spamthemoon.com> wrote in message news:4457ca88$1@linux...
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| Re: Tragedy: Bird Flu hits Florida Trailer Park... [message #67599 is a reply to message #67596] |
Wed, 03 May 2006 10:23 |
excelav
Messages: 2130
Registered: July 2005
Location: Metro Detroit
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"DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote:
>
>I'd have been first in line to buy 5 or 6. These people are the
>same ones that make everyone join a "homeowners association"
>which then bans working on your car, flags in the yard, and tells
>you what colors are approved for painting your house.
>
>Oh, and NO home studios (it's noisy and a business!) would pass
>muster.
>
>grrrr
>
>DC
>
I used to work with this guy Larry Palmer, LCP Audio some years ago. He
bought a house on some property in a rural area, and he wanted to build
a poll barn for his new tractor trailer. His neighbors, which included a
township council member complained about his truck being parked on his property.
The township passed an ordinance banning his truck and denied him a permit
to build his poll barn. After fighting with them for some time, he told
them that their were things that they couldn't stop him from doing.
As the story goes, one day he started painting his house like a circus tent,
with big stripes, in purple, bright yellow and green. The township council
summonsed him to the township hall. They agreed to give him a permit to
build his poll barn and let him park this truck if he repainted his house
back to the way it was.
>"DJ" <animix_spam-this-ahole_@animas.net> wrote:
>>A funny story..........years ago, when we were living in Austin, we lived
>in
>>a small incorporated city which was surrounded by Austin. It was named
>>Westlake Hills and over the years it became a very desirable locale for
>both
>>extremely wealthy folks and still had it's shar of hippies living in the
>>woods along the river that ran through the area. There were a couple of
>>restauranteurs in Austin at the time named Cookie and Joy Swanson who didn't
>>live too far from us and Cookie's brother owned a nursery in Westlake Hills
>>that sold plastic pink lawn flamingoes. Well as the years passed, people
>>like Tommy Lee Jones, Shawn Colvin and Sandra Bullock all moved into the
>>neighborhood and then Michael Dell built as 65 million dollar obscenity
>>about a mile down the road and brought along all of his Dellionaire friends.
>>The property values skyrocketed and the politics started getting a bit
>>.....errrrrr....Reagan'esque and PC at the same time. The city council
>>eventually was set upon by the rich developers and landowners to pass an
>>ordinance banning the display of pink lawn flamingoes. Well, about two
weeks
>>before this ordinance was to go into effect about 70% of the the citizenry
>>of Westlake Hills started making a run on Cookies brother's nursery and
>>every other nursery and any other spot in Austin where you could get pink
>>lawn flamingoes and by the day this ordinance was in effect, there were
>>thousands of them all over the little town. Eventually this all died down
>>and I'm not sure if the ordinance was ever taken off the books but this
>kind
>>of rebelliousness was the kind of thing I loved about Austin and was fast
>>disappearing by the end of the 90's. I was pretty much ready to sell my
>>place by 2000 when we moved to Durango. My property taxes had gone up to
>>around $1000.00 per month due to the numerous gawdzillionaires living in
>the
>>area.......and upon arriving in Durango, who do you think the first people
>I
>>ran into were????......Cookie and Joy. They opened a restaurant here about
>6
>>months before we moved here. Now a substantial part of the old Austin crew
>>hangs out in Durango and we all sit around and talk about the good 'ol
>>days.....and nobody really misses Austin We just miss what it used to be.
>>
>>It's a wierd world sometimes.....just look at what lawn flamingoes can
do.
>>
>>;o)
>>
>>
>>"DC" <dc@spamthemoon.com> wrote in message news:4457ca88$1@linux...
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