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Any who wants to blow her nose — I can just picture the deflated look on his face. Tell him The Junk Drawer should be his first stop for news and information. I’m trying to put the Morning Call out of business.

Daniel — I’m just glad milk hasn’t increased in price by over 200% in the last few years. If it did, I’d have to buy a cow. I’m thinking of getting myself a Flintstone car. You know, the kind you start by getting your feet going really fast. Think of all the calories I’ll burn. “..beyond the beyond” is right. Cripes. Never thought I’d see these prices.

and for swubird, maybe if the much maligned “liberal” press had been given more credibility, we American’s wouldn’t have bought all those gas-guzzling suv’s and hummers to drive the demand for gas beyond the beyond.

I just don’t know how I can afford to fill the tank of my Bentley with my social security check…just kidding I have neither a Bentley nor a SS check.

Is there a word for that??

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brooke — Not a bad idea. And you’ll be healthier for it.

Maureen — Insane. Hope your car situation improved and didn’t cost you a fortune. You need all your money to pay for gasoline!

Swubird — Can someone please tell me what happened to the “green” decade of the 70s? I can remember all the talk about it then, and somehow we’re back at square one again. Seriously, does someone know why we’re finding ourselves in this situation again?

KFJ — Funny and sad.

BabaBooey — I poked around a bit and this is what I found:

The prevalence of nine-tenths of a cent gasoline pricing seems to owe its existence to several factors:

–a penny used to be worth something
–Uncle Sam wanted a piece of the gasoline action
–People want to *think* they’re getting a bargain, even if they know better
–Old habits die hard, and after a while, just get built into the system.

windyridge — I just had the funniest image of someone driving to work on a tricycle. I could try it, but I’d need a bigger seat.

Brom — $9/gal is incredible. I would almost never drive, except for necessities. Would probably car pool and also take up biking. Again, I’d need a very large seat, but maybe if I road a bike often enough, eventually my seat would get smaller! I thought there was a word for when a word repeated over and over starts to sound funny. Here’s what I found: One fan of this practice says “the word becomes feral…reduced to its essential nature, without any mental meaning.” The word becomes nonsense, like a word you just made up. Now “feral” sounds funny to me.

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*That’s a US Gallon which is smaller than the UK gallon because your pints are smaller.

Isn’t gallon a funny word, the more you look at and read it the stranger it looks!

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What does that mean? 9/10 of what? A penny?

Very interesting sign. I can remember getting angry when gas broke above a dollar a gallon. “Rip off!” I yelled. Then, of course, in the mid-1970′s we had gas rationing and those ridiculously long lines at the pump. “Rip-off!’I yelled.

From as far back as I can remember I can recall the liberal press writing tons of articles about how we have it so soft. They wrote about how the poor Europeans had to pay $5.00 per gallon, and we should do the same. Unfortunately, they also wrote stories about how if the cost of a barrel of oil reached $50 a barrel, that was the point where it was economically feasible to develop wide spread solar energy. Now look at the price of oil. “Rip off!” I yell.

So buy an alternative fueled vehicle, they say. What about the Toyota Pri-Ass? In theory that’s a good idea, but the Pri-Ass carries a huge energy saving premium. In other words, you pay up front for the savings you’ll get over the life of the vehicle. Again I yell, “Rip off!”

Have a nice day!

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*Sigh*

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