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La Mareada
06/18/09

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These articles in the East Coast media romanticizing Oregon never mention that the state was the worst place for jobs for the past 10-15 years. Portland had a tech bump in the late 90s, but not much job expansion in the 2000s compared to Seattle, Boise, or SLC. The hipsters in Portland will never admit how much parent subsidies supplement their retail/restaurant wages and they just won't stop coming. The Coast, Bend, and Ashland had a construction boom building McMansions for California retirees. The rest of the state is borderline Appalachia.(Okay not all of it, Salem and Eugene are nice, just no jobs)
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HiredGoons
06/18/09

@La Mareada: I've been to that Goonies rock.
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BookishLookish
06/18/09

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Fuck that, fireworks over the Hudson? Who's coming to chez BL for cocktails, bbq and homegrown (if this incessant rain does not kill 'em)?
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HiredGoons
06/18/09

@BookishLookish: I would, but I'm afraid my spinach dip would steal your virtue.
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Cheap Shot
06/18/09

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This is the very reason I'm holding off on making my divorce to my Canadian ex official. May come in very handy.
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El Matardillo
06/18/09

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I've got these great parachute flares and the 4th of July is the only time you can set them off or people might think you were actually in distress.
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CaptainFantastic
06/18/09

@El Matardillo: Not around here. My neighbors shoot off (semi-professional) fireworks for Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, and New Years Eve. Usually shortly after I go to bed.
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kathotdog
06/18/09

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Fourth of July is normally brauts and my very own patriotic red, white, and blue Jell-O-Jiggler Vodka Shots.
This year it'll be hot dogs, sparklers and wine coolers.
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HiredGoons
06/18/09

@kathotdog: what IS a wine cooler, exactly?

I mean, I've had one, but...
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blix
06/18/09

@HiredGoons: When asked if I want a sprizter I always think "No thanks, I'll take the socks off too".
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resipsaloquacious
06/18/09

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As long as Ernst Borgnine is my taxi driver, I fear nothing.
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son of spam
06/18/09

@resipsaloquacious: I really enjoyed him on TV singing that song from "Les Mis."
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resipsaloquacious
06/18/09

@son of spam:

He's the very definition of an entertainment "triple threat".
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BookishLookish
06/18/09

@resipsaloquacious: I always sit in the Ernie B. booth at Tortilla Flats.

[www.tortillaflatsnyc.com]
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Mediahohoho
06/18/09

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We're about to become Canada's illegal immigration nightmare. And by "we," I mean "me."
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HiredGoons
06/18/09

@Mediahohoho: good thing Canadians are too nice to build a fence.

Really, all they would need is a mid-shin picket fence, most Americans would be too fat to hop over.
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Ohcaptainmycaptain
06/18/09

@Mediahohoho: Reconsider. (English) Canadian women are lame, unsexy harpies. The music scene isn't nearly as good as Pickfork would have you believe and even if you love poutine, you'll miss eating a decent slice.
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ms.conniving
06/18/09

@Ohcaptainmycaptain: Lame, unsexy harpies? Perhaps something was lost in the translation from American to Canadian. I believe you meant to say Canadian girls are full of sex and awesomeness.
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Ohcaptainmycaptain
06/18/09

@ms.conniving: French-Canadian, yes. Urban Ontario female? (shudder)
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HiredGoons
06/18/09

@Ohcaptainmycaptain: Quebecois female strippers are hairier than the males.
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Cheap Shot
06/18/09

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Tell us how you really feel Hamilton.
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restless
06/18/09

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Oh, yeah, this myth has been OVER for years. I call it the "Geographic Cure" or, as some of my friends called it "Escape from New York." I tried it, and you know what? There is no Shangra-La, or I should say, there is, it's YOU and how you feel about where you are. Moving around doesn't do a damn thing to soothe the soul except change the scenery.
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HiredGoons
06/18/09

@restless: There actually is a Shengri-La - China is turning it into some wretched Disneyesque hellscape, check out last month's (?) National Geographic.
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Smitros
06/18/09

@restless:

Although I largely agree, the exception would be if you truly feel called to run a herd of goats or something, which might get difficult in Manhattan, or in DC.
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restless
06/18/09

@Smitros: Oh sure. A.k.a "Let's move to Vermont, buy and run a B&B, and make our own goat cheese." I heard that one a time or two!
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Smitros
06/18/09

@restless:

That's the part where people find out they're not truly called.
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HiredGoons
06/18/09

@restless: Bob Newhart?
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
06/18/09

@HiredGoons:

You don't read the paper's do you. This thing will be over by the end of the year. We're going to pull a Sully, then take off again 2 or 3Q 2010. The reporters said so, and they quote think tanks and stuff.

The grass is actually greener elsewhere, but that wears off after about a month. (Unless people are trying to kill you and steal your toilet paper where you are now, in which case the grass remains greener for much longer).
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Xenu Warrior God
06/18/09

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I'm hoping the independence movement here in Vermont starts to pick up steam again.
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daveyjonesisdead
06/18/09

@CountFrisian: I have always wanted to see the Federated Republics of Vermont and Brooklyn come into being. It would be awesome.
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paxcincinnatus
06/18/09

@daveyjonesisdead: would need immediately a two-state solution between Chittenden County and the rest of the state.
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HiredGoons
06/18/09

@paxcincinnatus: at least the Northeast Kingdom.
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