Free Free Free Free!!!!

[Ldub]

BJ and the bear. That is showing your age.

Hell, that's nothin...Leave it to Beaver, the Munsters, Adams family, Get Smart, Beverly Hillbillies, and on & on were all in their first run AND in black & white when I was a kid.
I'm glad to be closing in on 50...last I checked, the only thing in second place is a dirtnap!
Sorry for the thread jack, but it's pretty much done for anyway.

[PHO2GR4]

Here in Seattle, we finally voted down our bona-fide, electrified monorail!
(What's that? MONORAIL!)

No, really. The city council wanted to build a huge monorail here.

No, I'm not joking.



Bonus points: Who WROTE that 'Monorail' episode?

[nfpgasmask]

[cyronman]

Here in Seattle, we finally voted down our bona-fide, electrified monorail!
(What's that? MONORAIL!)

No, really. The city council wanted to build a huge monorail here.

No, I'm not joking.



Bonus points: Who WROTE that 'Monorail' episode?

did they finally?
i lived there from 99-03 and remember always hearing about that.
i thought it would have been done by now.

they still got the pink elephants there?

[PHO2GR4]

No, after raising our vehicle registration fees to astronomic levels, then collecting stratospheric taxes for a few years, then using "eminent domain" to take away businesses and homes for the monorail stations, and after frittering away hundreds of millions of dollars.......

.......they finally trashed the whole process. All of that time and money was wasted.

The people who lost their businesses and homes in the land grab were given the option of buying BACK the very properties that were taken from them...but only if they paid what the government decided was the "current fair market value", which after a few years of Seattle's booming real estate market was often three times what the poor sap was given when the government took the property in the first place.

Here's how that worked. Let's say you had a family-run business that was about 35 years old. It was doing great because of its location and loyal clientele. Then the gov't walks in and says "Hey, we've decided that this would be a great spot for a monorail station! We're shutting you down and confiscating this property. Oh, and we've decided that the property is worth, say, $350,000".

Then, three years later, the whole Monorail project comes crapping...I mean, crashing down. Great! You can restart your family business! Only, the government will only sell you your property back for, let's call it $750,000 now. Seems fair, right?

Seattle...jeez.

[Chopper]

Biju and the bear???! Just choked on my beer. Silly boy

[biju]

"I'm Idaho!" - ralph wiggum.

I have more stuff to give away. Let me think of a trivia Q and I'll post soon.

-biju.