Happy Gay

[Wilson Gray]

Doug writes:

"... be glad you're not in whatever they call the wilds in Alaska:
"Gasoline there, according to NPR yesterday, is already costing upwards of
"$7 per gallon. Sometimes $8.00."

Damn! And, with the way that the snow is melting, the Inuit aren't
even going to be able to switch back to sled dogs. Native Americans
used sledges pulled by dogs to travel over dry ground, but both the
breed of dog and the knowledge of how to make the runners for the
sledges are extinct.

-Wilson

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Doug Harris <cats22 at frontiernet.net> wrote:
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> Quoted by Katherine The Grate 5/17:
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> Really, who cares about happy gay people getting married when it costs 4
> bucks a gallon to get to Wal-Mart? Priorities, people.
> Mark Morford
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> And it wasn't all _that_ many years ago, in geological time, that 'gay'
> and 'happy' were more or less synonymous. It's queer, sometimes, how our
> use of language changes.
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> Oh, and BTW, be glad you're not in whatever they call the wilds in Alaska:
> Gasoline there, according to NPR yesterday, is already costing upwards of
> $7 per gallon. Sometimes $8.00.
>
> dh
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