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On Fri, 15 May 2009 14:31:12 -0700 (PDT), Princess Tiaamii
wrote: On May 15, 9:10*pm, hackamore wrote: the article was on an experimental vehicle used only on airport grounds. no real range, not fast enough even for city traffic, and only "green" if you neglect to count the pollution created by the power plant to run the compressor, the petrochemicals for the air tanks, etc. someone probably said that about cars v horses some time back......was that you ? although....thinking about it....perhaps we should have stuck with horses ;-) Horse**** on city streets was already a major headache in most cities by the time cars were becoming popular. Some of you may have seen some old movies where there's a streetsweeper wearing a white jacket and pants, and pushing a sort of trash barrel with brooms and rakes sticking up. His job was keeping the streets clear of horse****. Perhaps the most famous such portrayal is by Charlie Chaplin at the beginning of his classic film, "City Lights". There's a great comic bit not much understood by modern audiences. At one point a circus parade and a line of elephants is crossing at an intersection about a block away. Charlie disgustedly throws down the broom and takes off the white jacket and walks off the job. -- ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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On May 16, 5:48*am, Hatunen wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 14:31:12 -0700 (PDT), Princess Tiaamii wrote: On May 15, 9:10*pm, hackamore wrote: the article was on an experimental vehicle used only on airport grounds. no real range, not fast enough even for city traffic, and only "green" if you neglect to count the pollution created by the power plant to run the compressor, the petrochemicals for the air tanks, etc. someone probably said that about cars v horses some time back......was that you ? although....thinking about it....perhaps we should have stuck with horses ;-) Horse**** on city streets was already a major headache in most cities by the time cars were becoming popular. Some of you may have seen some old movies where there's a streetsweeper wearing a white jacket and pants, and pushing a sort of trash barrel with brooms and rakes sticking up. His job was keeping the streets clear of horse****. Perhaps the most famous such portrayal is by Charlie Chaplin at the beginning of his classic film, "City Lights". There's a great comic bit not much understood by modern audiences. At one point a circus parade and a line of elephants is crossing at an intersection about a block away. Charlie disgustedly throws down the broom and takes off the white jacket and walks off the job. -- * ************** DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * ** * * * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * * * * * ** My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * a natural headache with gardening uses, as opposed to particulates invading our lungs..... |
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"Princess Tiaamii" wrote in message ... ..... less rats too Probably quite a lot more. We are a much more wasteful society than the early Victorians, so there is more food thrown away for the rat population to thrive on. Current estimates put the rat population in the UK at up to 81 million. Colin Bignell |
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On Sat, 16 May 2009 11:15:34 +0100, "nightjar" cpb@insert my surname
here.me.uk wrote: Current estimates put the rat population in the UK at up to 81 million. Colin Bignell did you include MPs? -- Mike |
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On Fri, 15 May 2009 20:48:57 -0700, Hatunen wrote:
His job was keeping the streets clear of horse****. how do you keep NGs clear of horse****? Thats what I want to know. -- Mike |
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"Hatunen" wrote in message ... On Fri, 15 May 2009 14:31:12 -0700 (PDT), Princess Tiaamii wrote: Horse**** on city streets was already a major headache in most cities by the time cars were becoming popular. Some of you may have seen some old movies where there's a streetsweeper wearing a white jacket and pants, and pushing a sort of trash barrel with brooms and rakes sticking up. His job was keeping the streets clear of horse****. A city horse produced more than 20 pounds of manure a day and there were huge numbers of them on the streets of every major city. In 1850 over 5,000 horse riders passed Temple Bar every day Writing in Appleton's Magazine in 1908, Harold Bolce argued that most of the modern city's sanitary and economic problems were caused by the horse. Bolce charged that each year 20,000 New Yorkers died from "maladies that fly in the dust, created mainly by horse manure." Then there was the problem of overworked animals dying in harness. In 1880, New York City removed 15,000 dead horses from its streets, and late as 1916 Chicago carted away 9,202 horse carcasses. Special trucks were devised to remove dead horses; since the average weight of dead horses was 1,300 pounds, one text on municipal refuse advised that "trucks for the removal of dead horses should be hung low, to avoid an excessive lift." Keith |
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On Fri, 15 May 2009 20:48:57 -0700, Hatunen wrote:
His job was keeping the streets clear of horse****. how do you keep NGs clear of horse****? Thats what I want to know. -- Mike |
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On Sat, 16 May 2009 11:15:34 +0100, "nightjar" cpb@insert my surname
here.me.uk wrote: Current estimates put the rat population in the UK at up to 81 million. Colin Bignell did you include MPs? -- Mike |
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On May 16, 1:00*pm, "Keith Willshaw"
wrote: "Hatunen" wrote in message ... On Fri, 15 May 2009 14:31:12 -0700 (PDT), Princess Tiaamii wrote: Horse**** on city streets was already a major headache in most cities by the time cars were becoming popular. Some of you may have seen some old movies where there's a streetsweeper wearing a white jacket and pants, and pushing a sort of trash barrel with brooms and rakes sticking up. His job was keeping the streets clear of horse****. A city horse produced more than 20 pounds of manure a day and there were huge numbers of them on the streets of every major city. In 1850 over 5,000 horse riders passed Temple Bar every day Writing in Appleton's Magazine in 1908, Harold Bolce argued that most of the modern city's sanitary and economic problems were caused by the horse. Bolce charged that each year 20,000 New Yorkers died from "maladies that fly in the dust, created mainly by horse manure." Then there was the problem of overworked animals dying in harness. In 1880, New York City removed 15,000 dead horses from its streets, and late as 1916 Chicago carted away 9,202 horse carcasses. Special trucks were devised to remove dead horses; since the average weight of dead horses was 1,300 pounds, one text on municipal refuse advised that "trucks for the removal of dead horses should be hung low, to avoid an excessive lift." Keith Q.Horse A.Chainsaw |
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On May 16, 12:15*pm, "nightjar" cpb@insert my surname here.me.uk
wrote: "Princess Tiaamii" wrote in message ... .... less rats too Probably quite a lot more. We are a much more wasteful society than the early Victorians, so there is more food thrown away for the rat population to thrive on. Current estimates put the rat population in the UK at up to 81 million. Colin Bignell nono....the rats ate the leather.... |
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