Because maybe, uhmmm - I don't know, ummm, oh yeah.

They don't make as much money as he does.

Hobbies are fine, but they seldomly pay the bills as well as one would like.

Kill him dead
Smash his head
Stomp him till
He turns bright red

With a snap
And a crunch
And a solid meaty thud
Let's see some purple dino blood!

Apologies to the owner. Not myself.

I can only speak from my viewpoint in Eugene, Oregon area, but two of the three you name are each the third most expensive in their respective areas.

Half the stores in the area were closed in the Kroger/Albersons/Safeway merger. There is now no competition between them in any neighborhood. You get one or the other.

ATT owns all communication infrastructure in Oregon (going back to the Ma Bell break-up and the acquisition of some Internet backbone), they license to Verizon, who sell licenses to anyone else. T-Mobile has a nice pre-pay plan, but their regular service wasn't cheaper, you just got a better free phone.

There is one tower where I live, it belongs to Verizon. There is one cable company (under many names, but all are equal to Comcast, who leases hanging wire space from ATT, or WiFi/Satellite from Verizon) and it's not cheap.

And before someone tries to blame the big corps here, Oregon as a State issues all these exclusive licenses, and is 95 percent Democrat and has been since 1982.

Mergers are never for the consumer.

Unless they own stock.

Are you pregnant?

Just asking.

Played that at a friend's house day before yesterday.

I forgot how stupid it was.

She liked it.

You (probably - well let's face it, couldn't possibly) care what I think, but while I frequently disagree some of your viewpoints, I find I notice them.

(e.g: you got the chops)

Keep being the spike in my living under a tree world.

In all seriousness, it's why I like my tree, and I hope to not give it up anytime soon.

Posted from McKenzie Bridge after 3 2oz tequila shots.

Your CRC check bounced.

Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)

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I always thought that while she was attractive enough, she was a little twitchy and had too much emotional baggage.

I just want to know if they are going to completely remove my TOP SECRET:PRESS access. What will I do for entertainment?

Less tasty?

Sorry, carnivore here who still make his own ice cream a couple times a year.

Sugar and vanilla the only non animal products in it.

Just exactly like Grandma used to make.

Really. He should SOOOO get a Cherry 2000. Be better for him.

Wow. Another novel way to redistribute someone else's earnings to someone who doesn't deserve it.

Gee. Never heard that one before.

Entertaining +1

Perhaps someone has noticed this with you before, but your second paragraph argument could have been lifted straight from any confederate newspaper in the 1850's.

Thank you for clarifying that for me.

Note to self: Immigrants are the new slaves that no one can live without.