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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 04:21 PM
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I wish the stuff was 20 bucks a gallon
I am sick and damn tired of chocking on exhaust fumes when I ride my bike to and from work.

Maybe if people had to pay real money they'd think a little harder about their transportation choices.

If you've read this far and can't figure out that this is a rather lame April Fool's choke then you're a bit dense.

Happy Day Anyway!

:toast:
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 04:25 PM
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1. Get out of the road you dirty hippie.
HONK HONK!!!! MOVE IT! I GOTS TO GET TO MAC DONALDS!!
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 04:28 PM
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3. Hippy? I prefer to called 'Dude that Can't Afford a Car'
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MajorChode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 05:05 PM
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15. When the choices are weed or car you have to get your priorities straight
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 05:45 PM
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19. One brings peace, happiness and contentment. The other fucks up the planet
Tough call.

Attn Agent Mike: Please don't forget that this is a joke.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 04:32 PM
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8. Zing!!!
:rofl:
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 04:27 PM
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2. D'oh!
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 04:28 PM
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4. Not as well executed as your Pole Dancing
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 04:29 PM
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6. I should be executed for trying
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 08:00 PM
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23. If at first you don't succeed . . .
Skydiving is not for you.

(Think that's stolen from Steven Wright but can't be sure)
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 07:41 AM
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31. I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
~Steven Wright....LOfuckingL
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 09:07 AM
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32. Keep up the good work!
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 11:21 AM
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33. !
:loveya:
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Tailormyst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 04:29 PM
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5. I'm going to run you off the road in my escalade on the way to Walmart.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 04:32 PM
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7. As if that doesn't happen to me every God damn day anyway
Take a number
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 04:34 PM
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9. GET OFF THE DAMN SIDEWALK IF YOU WANNA AVOID MY EXHAUST!!!
STAY OFF MY LAWN WHILE YER AT IT!!! :P

:rofl:
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 04:36 PM
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10. Sidewalks are too dangerous for bicycles, traffic doesn't see them
And that's one reply in this thread that's not in jest.
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endless october Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 04:36 PM
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11. prohibitively expensive energy will ensure that you have nowhere to bike to.
Edited on Thu Apr-01-10 04:37 PM by endless october
America is very large and a lot of us have to commute to work. i am happy to be commuting to work again. i did get a fuel efficient vehicle. but artificially high energy prices would decimate my area. and yours, as well.

the best solution is to make energy independence a top priority, end the wars, and devote that money to research and universal health care.

however, i see no political party currently promoting that solution.
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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 04:43 PM
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12. And keep the air, Earth, and water clean
You can't eat peace, health care, or gasoline.

Or, as a dear departed acquaintance used to say, "Don't shit in your own mess kit."



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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 05:34 PM
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16. Hence the 'April Fools joke'
Or are you just joking about my joke?
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 04:45 PM
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13. Yeah, and people here like smoking bans in bars - but with cars...Guess they are not too worried
about the health others, but do like restricting choice.
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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 05:01 PM
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14. +1 n/t
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 05:36 PM
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17. If I smoked cigarettes
I would blow smoke on you.




























:p
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 05:42 PM
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18. What's stopping you from starting?
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 08:46 PM
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24. Maybe I should...
Edited on Thu Apr-01-10 08:47 PM by Texasgal
Just to blow smoke in your face.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 09:05 PM
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25. Cigarette smoke has an appetizing aroma
Unlike that fucking car exhaust
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 09:07 PM
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26. Really?
does it make you horny?
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 09:11 PM
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27. I'm a male
Almost anything makes me horny
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 09:19 PM
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29. Cool
I'm gonna go get some marlboros... sit tight.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 06:42 AM
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30. Oh baby
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 06:13 PM
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20. since you don't smoke
just fart in his general direction :)
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 06:20 PM
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21. Last week we had people complaining about $3 a gallon gasoline
Edited on Thu Apr-01-10 06:20 PM by NNN0LHI
Not so much this week.

Don
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 06:22 PM
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22. I always complain about $3.00 gasoline.
It should be 20.

Damnit!
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 09:11 PM
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28. Harboring an automobile ought to be a felony.
Why tax gasoline when we can simply ban personal automobiles and deport anyone caught driving one?

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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 11:31 AM
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34. it is, actually
when you consider the cost of extracting, transporting, delivering it then dealing with the millions of pounds of it pumped into the air. I think a lot of govt. help, taxes we pay in other ways & payments we'll be making in the future are what keep the numbers on the gas stations signs reasonable enough to keep the average person depending on it.
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