PHOTO PROMPT – © Jean L. Hays
NOSY PARKER
I managed to acquire a small commercial lot downtown, near the sports arena, perfect for a deli/restaurant. I used a small crane to demolish the derelict building on it.
Then the city hall bureaucrats said that my building licence could take a year or more – oh, and your taxes are due. How can I pay taxes without a business, generating income?
The wife said, “Turn it into a parking lot.” We can’t park enough cars to make it viable. “You’ve still got the crane. Stack them on end; get more in.”
I guess we should have paved the lot first.
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Archon's Den 
There’s always that one little important detail that gets forgotten 🙂
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A depressed old Scot is loading the old Webley. His wife asks what he’s doing. He replies that he’s angry, and is going to commit suicide. Glad to finally be rid of him, she starts laughing, “Doona laff, witch. Yoor next.” 😳
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Naw….don’t pave it. Boys, both big and little, like dirt and cars.
DJ
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New fuel-injected engines might run, but the carbs on those old Caddies are gonna need cleaning. 🙂
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I agree. Wondering how many boys growing up today with know what carbs are?
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I think this covers it … http://tinyurl.com/2lmyu3
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Thanx, again! If I say I miss Johnny Carson, do you get the connection? 😕 🙂
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Hmmmm … well Johnny was a drummer and the rimshot was commonly used.
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Well….I miss Johnny just because he was a great, funny performer. He also had very little spiteful ego. One night when a joke bombed, the drummer gave him a rimshot – perhaps dangerous with other Emcees – but it got a laugh, and he allowed it, so it became an infrequent running gag.
One night he faced the drummer, and in mock irritation, demanded, “Where does it say, the host gets a rimshot?” Obviously planned, the drummer held up a 2′ X 3′ sign that said, SAVE THE PRINCE. Oh, okay – and the audience dissolved!
I’m in good company.
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Charge a fee to graffiti them…
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Who would pay, when there’s so many free underpasses, and cable TV switchboxes? I’ve got a post in the can about that. 😆
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Haha, maybe he should have made it a junkyard instead.
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Great idea! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. I’ve been doing it with my posts for years. 😉 😳
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Don’t we all? 😉
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Maybe so. But the artists wouldn’t have minded, I guess. 🙂
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Just as I don’t mind having a little fun at their expense. 😆
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Fck taxes.
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Yeah! Once from both directions. 😛
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Who needs a crane. Add a ramp and make it self service!!!
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Spoken like a true Dukes of Hazzard fan. Just remember to paint over the Rebel flag. It’s no longer PC. 😦
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Charge a small fee and advertise them as art installations.
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Maybe in your town, but not this one. The Mennonites would walk around all day with a pained expression on their face, rather than put a quarter in a pay toilet. 😆
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Hilarious, Archon. 😀 — Suzanne
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My writing often turns the world on its head. 😯
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“Pave paradise, put up a parking lot!” Very clever and funny, Archon, and classic in the way bureaucrats work!
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I published a post, lamenting paving Paradise, a couple of years ago.
It is classic bureaucracy. As Will Rogers stated, he didn’t have to write jokes about politicians. He just had to open the newspaper. 😳
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And that’s probably how an art installation was invented instead… very funny story.
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