Ye New Galactic Bar & Grill & Phong's Head Cantina - After Hours - Page 31

Growltigga · #**301** August 6th, 2002, 03:45 PM

I was thinking of Tiggas trick of having a picture of the Justice Minister in my wallet, but have a better solution. I will keep a picture of my mother in my wallet, the sight of whom should make any man flee in terror.

Ooh, that is a bit nasty - I am sure Mummy Saxon would be mortified to think her baby boy was casting dispersions about her on a website full of north americans and other idiots.. Saxon, these are bent policemen, they may think you mother is a complete fox and chase YOU all over the shop

Trajan · #**302** August 6th, 2002, 04:26 PM

Bored out of his mind, waiting for the latest run of collateral needed for this weekend's trade show to finish printing, Trajan decides to stop by the cantina and babble.

Babble

Babble

Gryphin · #**303** August 6th, 2002, 04:46 PM

Tigga,
All generalizations are false, (including the statement that all generalizations are false).
Please remember,
I am not idiotic.
I am chaotic and quixotic.

I don’t post as often these days because the stuff they have given me for my ADD has ripped a lot of my impulsive humor out of me. In short, I have gotten more serious, focused, and calculating. I used to end a game about the time I had 30 planets. It was just too much for me to deal with. Now I can keep going well past 50. For me that is a major achievement. I know I’ll have to get better to complete on PBW.
Categorical Statement:
I will be ready when the time comes to handle any empire I can build or capture.

tesco samoa · #**304** August 6th, 2002, 05:17 PM

Tolls now that is a different topic... They are starting to pop up in canada...

Don't know if I am happy about that... Kind of a double dip if you ask me.

Trajan · #**305** August 6th, 2002, 05:56 PM

There are several toll roads around Washington DC. One of them is set as a toll-road to the Dulles Airport. If you are going only to the airport and back out again, then you can ride in the "Free" internal lanes. If you are using the road to commute to and from work/home then you pay $.50 (US) to enter and I think $.50 to exit. I may be wrong on the amounts, but that's approximately right.

There is another toll-road that was initally built using private monies with some state/federal assistance. The toll's for this road (The DUlles Greenway) are substantially higher. I think they are in the $2.00 (US) range, with no charge to exit, though I may be wrong.

I don't mind paying the tolls, if the highways are kept up and continuously updated. So long as the roads are repaired, plowed, patrolled etc...then I am happy...though poorer.

Cheers!
Trajan

tesco samoa · #**306** August 6th, 2002, 06:01 PM

DVD release day..

Tesco purchases Simpsons season 2 and the Wrath of Khan directors cut....

LOTR is in november for me... I want the 4 dvd package..

DirectorTsaarx · #**307** August 6th, 2002, 11:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Trajan:
There are several toll roads around Washington DC. One of them is set as a toll-road to the Dulles Airport. If you are going only to the airport and back out again, then you can ride in the "Free" internal lanes. If you are using the road to commute to and from work/home then you pay $.50 (US) to enter and I think $.50 to exit. I may be wrong on the amounts, but that's approximately right.

There is another toll-road that was initally built using private monies with some state/federal assistance. The toll's for this road (The DUlles Greenway) are substantially higher. I think they are in the $2.00 (US) range, with no charge to exit, though I may be wrong.

I don't mind paying the tolls, if the highways are kept up and continuously updated. So long as the roads are repaired, plowed, patrolled etc...then I am happy...though poorer.

Cheers!
Trajan

Technically, the Dulles Greenway is just an extension of the Dulles Toll Road, connecting out to Leesburg. I forget what the toll is at the main plaza, and if you're heading to Leesburg I don't think there's a toll for exiting. But if you're heading back towards Dulles Airport there's a toll for exiting. Or, if you go that far, a toll at the main plaza. Same thing at the other end (Tyson's Corner area): there's a main toll plaza with a 50 cent charge; certain exits/entrances have tolls of 25 cents (and the exit/entrance at Route 28 has a 35 cent toll) depending on how far they are from the main plaza.

Yeah, I know the above is only of interest to those of us who live in the area, but since I commute to work on that road I thought I'd provide some enlightenment. I'd also like to point out that tolls enforce a certain amount of supply/demand theory on traffic: that is, some people would prefer to use other roads rather than pay tolls. Therefore, the cost of using the road is less than the cost of extra time and/or hassle to use other roads. Which means less traffic for me to deal with. Oh yeah, that reminds me - I also know someone who routinely (as in every single workday) goes to the gas station at the airport, buys $1.00 - $2.00 worth of gas, and then uses the "free" lanes to commute to the office. If he gets stopped, he can prove that he "had business at the airport" and he gets to use the "free" lanes (which, most importantly for the morning commute, have VERY little traffic - after all, he can't be saving much money after paying higher prices for the gasoline).

Growltigga · #**308** August 7th, 2002, 01:52 AM

and drinking Corsendonk Abby Pale Ale from Belgem. Nice end to a day if my charm failed and my procliveties are not persuable.

Verily, there speaketh a man who is contenteth with his lot in life..

Good to see you back posting - I have kind of missed our verbal scraps - Geo is a good debater but our discussions just have not been as, ahem, mucky as yours and my discussions were

mac5732 · #**309** August 7th, 2002, 04:45 AM

Tolls here in the good old USA are becoming more prevalent all over. I went to Flordia (Disney World, and went to the space center etc) and there were tolls every few miles. The cost wasn't more then, If I remember right, 10-25 cents. Here in Ohio, we have the Turnpike which is a toll road. I'm with Trajan, as long as the money for the tolls goes for the up keep of the highway, I have no problem paying, its the cost of quick access to where your going and worth the money in the long run, in fact during the winter the Turnpike is probably the best plowed interstate in Ohio vs some of the others we have I-71, I480 etc. A road tax, if it was only and used only for the road up keep, I believe most people would be for it. The problem would be to keep the politicians from using the money for their pet projects instead. The Ohio Lottery was originally supposed to go for our schools, well, in reality that is not the case, not all that money goes to them. If I'm not mistaken Michigan either still has or used to have a highway tax and their interstates were always in great shape compared to a lot of other states. Just my 2 cents worth

Saxon, its most illuminating to see you posting once again, also the Gryphin, Now if we can only get Mephisto back from his partying to partake of the new cantina.... but until he returns, TAZ, PUT THE DRINKS ON HIS TAB...

Tesco, I must say you did wonders with the new patio here at the new improved cantina, and the new outdoor FBW outfits are most appreciated to us older, more mature, studious, minions of the study of the farther reaches of the cosmos, aahh

Tigga, the scientific information on the Line Dancing Boogie was researched in depth thru various universities and in which The Gryphin most selflessly added his own research input into the study of this barbaric ritual and which I understand is becoming somewhat of a fad in some of the Europeans countries once more. If one looks closly at the Minuet one can see a resemblence to the current day boogie which is just a modern day Version of the older dance from way back, Thus, you see that Line Dancing has been around for quite some time and was used by everyone's forefathers at one time or another and we are just now reclaiming the heritage from everyones past

just some ideas mac

Taz-in-Space · #**310** August 7th, 2002, 06:33 AM

...Taz pauses from wiping the bar to check on Mephisto's tab and sees that there is plenty room on it to fill...

"Hmmm, seems to me that most of the regulars prefer to use somebody else's tab! Oh Well, not my concern, I'm here to serve the drinks. (and Um 'quality check' the potables) It's the management's job to police the 'tab situation'"

BTW Thanks Trajan. Always wanted to know what a 'Tower of Babble' looked like!

Babble

Sigh...Taz no can spel...

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