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2012-03-29 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Boulder Couple Builds 125 Square-Foot House

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Posted by Glenmore 2012-03-29 19:30|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 and a composting toilet.

"Its just a five-gallon bucket that you put peat moss and sawdust in, Smith said. You'd be surprised how well it works and how much it doesn't smell.

Wait till high summer and the flies. There was a reason for 'outhouses'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-03-29 19:40|| 2012-03-29 19:40|| Front Page Top

#2 S'okey liberals don't think their sh*t stinks...

Posted by M. Murcek 2012-03-29 20:19|| 2012-03-29 20:19|| Front Page Top

#3 You can buy 125 square foot houses ready-made from factories, that even have wheels on 'em. Some of them have engines. They're called 'RVs.'

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-03-29 20:20|| 2012-03-29 20:20|| Front Page Top

#4 But that would be tacky, Thing.

They may want to ~~pat themselves on the back and tell everybody how wonderful they are~~ "minimize their housing footprint," but they certainly don't want to be tacky, dontcha know.

Posted by Barbara 2012-03-29 20:25|| 2012-03-29 20:25|| Front Page Top

#5 They're called 'RVs.'

In my neck of the woods, it's called a garden shed or the kids' playhouse. Something I think this couple won't be having. Exit left the gene pool.

Posted by Shimble Guelph5793 2012-03-29 20:43|| 2012-03-29 20:43|| Front Page Top

#6 ...And, parked out in that cute 4' long mud-puddle pocked driveway, sits a sleek, inoperative and "Totally Off-the Grid" Yugo "automobile"---
Song Lyrics:
(Parody of In The Ghetto by Elvis Presley by:Paul Shanklin...and broadcast by Rush on numerous occasions)

As the snow flies...

At a used car lot on the edge of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo
And they drive with pride

'cause if there's one thing that this world needs
It's environmental friends who'll take the lead
In a Yugo

They say, "People don't you understand?
Those Suburbans are ruining the land!"
But they'll wish they had a full-size van one day

They're pointing fingers at you and me
They say we're too blind to see
But do we simply use our heads
And choose a better way
As those small wheels turn

Fifty miles to the gallon and their knees on their chests
We're gonna save enough gas for all the rest
In a Yugo
Then one day on the interstate
They suddenly lose control
They swerve to miss a baby duck
And are squashed beneath a produce truck
But they drove with pride

And as the crowds drive past the little flat car
You know they saved a lot of gas but they didn't get far
In a Yugo
And as they're trapped inside

At a used car lot on the other side of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo
And they drive with pride...

Posted by canalzone 2012-03-29 23:01|| 2012-03-29 23:01|| Front Page Top

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