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Parking meters take in 10-12 grand a week!!?!?! did I hear that right?

http://northcarolina.cox.net/cci/apvideo/0510dv_meter_theft_300.wmv
Carlette
1:57:55 PM
5/10/05

I think they meant 10-12k/wk for all of the city's meters combined....
BowlderMan
2:11:26 PM
5/10/05

I know that still sounds like a lot! to me...but then again I have yet to have to place money in a meter where I live. Score 1 for living in BFE.
Carlette
2:12:27 PM
5/10/05

yeah, that would be a hell of a lot of quarters.
y2
2:12:37 PM
5/10/05

Though it does cost $15-$20 a day to park in downtown DC.
y2
2:13:23 PM
5/10/05

they still don't charge for hitchin' posts in BFE?

give it time. give it time.
sacco
2:13:56 PM
5/10/05

ok, call me foreign, but wtf is BFE?
y2
2:15:14 PM
5/10/05

BFE=Big Frickin' Edifice?
BowlderMan
2:15:27 PM
5/10/05

I've seen dem dare meter do hickeys when I goes to da big city.
Carlette
2:15:51 PM
5/10/05

Bum #&%!$ Egypt.
bitpusher
2:16:24 PM
5/10/05

i'm guessing

Bum-Fck-Egypt
sacco
2:16:28 PM
5/10/05

4 seconds
BowlderMan
2:17:00 PM
5/10/05

y'all are slippin if you didn't know that one...
Carlette
2:17:32 PM
5/10/05

dam these slow digits o' mine. dam them to hell i tells ya
sacco
2:18:20 PM
5/10/05

<blowing the smoke off his digits>
bitpusher
2:19:16 PM
5/10/05

Egypt?
I got the bum #&%!$ part.
y2
2:20:35 PM
5/10/05

It's an Americanism, y2, we don't expect you to understand.
bitpusher
2:21:40 PM
5/10/05

There is much about Americana which is beyond my comprehension.
y2
2:22:54 PM
5/10/05

y2, it's just another expression for woodchuckville
sacco
2:24:12 PM
5/10/05

I feel the same way about many Britishisms as well, like blood and kidney pudding, f'rinstance.
last edited: 5/10/05 2:28:01 PM
bitpusher
2:25:27 PM
5/10/05

woodchuck?

y2
2:26:50 PM
5/10/05

or the spicegirls
sacco
2:27:07 PM
5/10/05

it's blood pudding and Steak and Kidney Pie or pudding, but I guess you can mix the two.

Grits, wtf is that all about?
last edited: 5/10/05 2:30:26 PM
y2
2:27:42 PM
5/10/05

When you are poor, you will eat just about anything. This is the reason for most of the really gross stuff we eat in the South sometimes.
bitpusher
2:28:39 PM
5/10/05

y2, don't confuse the confederacy with the U.S.
sacco
2:29:17 PM
5/10/05

hey but it's still about, people still eat that nasty stuff. Ruined perfectly good bacon and eggs at Eastern Market last and only time I had grits.
last edited: 5/10/05 2:36:35 PM
y2
2:31:13 PM
5/10/05

Easily done Sacco.
last edited: 5/10/05 2:36:14 PM
y2
2:32:55 PM
5/10/05

It's just feed corn that's had the husk removed by rinsing it in lye. What's your frickin' problem? lol...
bitpusher
2:33:32 PM
5/10/05

BTW, if you want them to be really good, add bacon grease to them. Yum yum.
bitpusher
2:34:24 PM
5/10/05

the grittiness. Hey, you were blaming it on poverty a minute ago.
y2
2:34:26 PM
5/10/05

Personally, I don't think it should be legal to charge for parking on a State maintained road.
hyway
2:35:17 PM
5/10/05

Well, yah, but once a food gets locked into a regional cuisine, sometimes it's hard to get it out. Like chitlins. and poke salat.

I was never a big fan of grits either, but I've tried them different ways and I can eat them now.
bitpusher
2:36:15 PM
5/10/05

hyway- i think it's normally on city or village maintained roads
sacco
2:36:31 PM
5/10/05

Or scrambled pork brains. And pickled pig's feet. Pork rinds. Souse. You know.
bitpusher
2:38:02 PM
5/10/05

Dammit, I'm hungry again.
bitpusher
2:38:46 PM
5/10/05

sacco, thats usually true, but I have paved roads that have city owned meters on them, usually in beach towns.
hyway
2:39:22 PM
5/10/05

oh ok. i never noticed, but i believe you.

i agree with you anyway. i hate paying for parking anywhere, anytime.

and don't even get me started on cover charges at bars
sacco
2:45:53 PM
5/10/05

Big Frigging Empty
I'll translate for Y2.

And I now have this almost unbearable craving for snake and pygmy pud.

All food is good IMO.
Gremlin
2:48:36 PM
5/10/05

Okay, sacco and hyway are talking about parking on a public street and bit is talking about camel spit mixed with bacon grease.

WTF mate?
Wounded Knee
2:50:31 PM
5/10/05

Deep-fried pig lips. Sand Mountain oysters. Deep-fried Twinkies. Deep-fried Snickers bars.

I will say though, that for gross, bizarre food, the Chinese have the rest of the world pretty much beat all to hell.
bitpusher
2:52:52 PM
5/10/05

Okay, sacco and hyway are talking about parking on a public street and bit is talking about camel spit mixed with bacon grease.

WTF mate?”
Wounded Knee
3:50:31 PM




leave it to a dumbass liberal to not be able to follow 2 conversations at once. bet you don't even hike with a gun, do you WK?
sacco
2:54:15 PM
5/10/05

OH MY GOD! I had to shut my door because I am laughing so hard. I think I may have schart as well!
Wounded Knee
2:56:37 PM
5/10/05

Quit bragging.
bitpusher
2:57:37 PM
5/10/05

There is much about Americana which is beyond my comprehension.”
y2


Welcome to America Y2. Pull up a floorboard and sit a spell. It's beyond our comprehension too, but few of us are able to admit it.
Geobeet
3:02:08 PM
5/10/05

think I may have schart as well!”
Wounded Knee



sorry, next time i'll try harder WK :D
sacco
3:03:51 PM
5/10/05

I agree with Bit on the Chinese part.

Hey Grits are good eatin! That is my breakfast for trails! My Wife is from England and she cant stand them. It is all about finding the flavor you want for them and that can also affect the texture some as well. Cheese, Jelly, Bacon grease, Ham, tomatoes, Peppers, and etc.

Now you want something interesting, go to a mom and pops store that sells chitlins and ask for "salad" Trust me, it is nothing like any salad you have ever had before. LOL

Dangit Im hungry now too. I want to go to England and get me a Kebab with Chilli sauce!
frantic
3:08:15 PM
5/10/05

schart???

Is that some kinda fart?
MarkO
3:08:44 PM
5/10/05

shi t and fart.

or a wet one.
sacco
3:10:31 PM
5/10/05

Who'd a ever imagined....
that a pretty girl starts a thread at TT about a parking meter and she gets more then 50 replies.
DeoreDX
3:12:24 PM
5/10/05

Hmmmmm, a seat slurry

Very refreshing!!
MarkO
3:13:09 PM
5/10/05

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