practical recycling

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Just trying to "think outside of the box".

I want to participate in recycling,but I don't trust these guys. If I put out aluminum cans, do they really recycle them or just tell you that? You can't really know.

Anyway, every so often, some of the road gets a fresh coat of shell. In front of one guys house, he uses clay.

One person is using recycled asphalt millings from road-resurfacing projects. Instead of putting them in a landfill, they are reused on another road. Excellent.

So, I thought, I have all these aluminum cans...


My driveway has some ruts from wear. The tires cut through the grass and the sand blows away.

I'm thinking, what if I put the flattened cans in the ruts? They won't wear out and the the ruts don't get any deeper. Stellar.

The neighbors are on board with the idea. They even stop over early Friday evening and assist me.
However, the cops came out because of a neighborhood domestic issue and noticed. They were perturbed about my driveway.

I explained that it was "practical art".
The woman at this website makes clothes out of condoms. clicky

Her art raises awareness for condoms. It was educating the public while being fashionable and practical.

They said that the aluminum wasn't being worn by a semi-dressed attractive woman.

Anyway, the city had an art critic review my driveway and agreed with me. In fact, it is so valuable that they increased my property value assessment by 35%.
The art-league has put my home on the Gallery of Homes. People are complaining about the traffic.

So, my question is this? Should I get some tshirts printed?

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So, my question is this? Should I get some tshirts printed?

Umm ... I don't know. What do you think?

'Shell

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You could start with a pic so we can all enjoy your art!

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone!

I like to start my day off with a little Ray of Soulshine™!!

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So, my question is this? Should I get some tshirts printed?

Umm ... I don't know. What do you think?

Now you're thinkin'.

Some tshirts would be a great money maker.
There used to be an old-school bordello on SR 27.
Most of the hookers are gone now, but they make a killing on tshirts.

I may just be too far ahead of the crowd on this one.

Remember when hot tubs came out in California?
Everyone else was saying, "Are you friggin' kidding me? It's 92 degrees here already."
They caught on.

I'll bet that once this gets out, some skinny tree-hugging herbivore out there on the Pacific coast will try to take credit for my idea and make a tv appearance with Letterman.

That's what happens when you are an intellectual powerhouse. Save the world and everyone else gets rich.

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So, my question is this? Should I get some tshirts printed?

"Bohemian Redneck."

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So, my question is this? Should I get some tshirts printed?

"Bohemian Redneck."

Sounds promising. I just need something to get me through the short-term.

I'm going to spend the next couple of years stockpiling. Get a good six-inch thick layer of cans going.

Eventually, everyone will start doing it. The price of aluminum will skyrocket because none of it will be going to those "recyclers".

Once it gets expensive, Rodeo Drive will be elbow-to-elbow gleaming driveways because rich people don't need to have any other reason that it costs more.
"Uh... yeah, my $10,000 Rolex doesn't keep any better time than your cell phone, but it's a financial statement, not anything practical."

It will become fashionable, cool, and haute coutre to have an aluminum driveway. Rapper 50-Cent will be parking his Ben-z-ee on latest in shiny bling.

I'm just waiting for the price to top out, then I'll cash in.

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So, my question is this? Should I get some tshirts printed?

"Bohemian Redneck."

Sounds promising. I just need something to get me through the short-term.

I'm going to spend the next couple of years stockpiling. Get a good six-inch thick layer of cans going.

Eventually, everyone will start doing it. The price of aluminum will skyrocket because none of it will be going to those "recyclers".

Once it gets expensive, Rodeo Drive will be elbow-to-elbow gleaming driveways because rich people don't need to have any other reason that it costs more.
"Uh... yeah, my $10,000 Rolex doesn't keep any better time than your cell phone, but it's a financial statement, not anything practical."

It will become fashionable, cool, and haute coutre to have an aluminum driveway. Rapper 50-Cent will be parking his Ben-z-ee on latest in shiny bling.

I'm just waiting for the price to top out, then I'll cash in.

Well, if you're targeting that market, you could use something along the lines of Park your Beemer on something that GLEEMers


Never mind ... it sounded much better in my head.

'Shell

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Well, if you're targeting that market, you could use something along the lines of Park your Beemer on something that GLEEMers

Never mind ... it sounded much better in my head.

That will work. Remember the target audience, rappers who spell "here" as "herr", and global warming peeps.

I figure that I can explain how asphalt absorbs solar heat and radiates it all night, making asphalt the largest "direct" contributor to global warming (according to my studies ).

Aluminum REFLECTS sunlight. Therefore, people with aluminum driveways are fighting global warming.

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Well, if you're targeting that market, you could use something along the lines of Park your Beemer on something that GLEEMers

Never mind ... it sounded much better in my head.

That will work. Remember the target audience, rappers who spell "here" as "herr", and global warming peeps.

I figure that I can explain how asphalt absorbs solar heat and radiates it all night, making asphalt the largest "direct" contributor to global warming (according to my studies ).

Aluminum REFLECTS sunlight. Therefore, people with aluminum driveways are fighting global warming.

And getting a tan. Kevin Federline might bite.

'Shell

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Well, if you're targeting that market, you could use something along the lines of Park your Beemer on something that GLEEMers

Never mind ... it sounded much better in my head.

That will work. Remember the target audience, rappers who spell "here" as "herr", and global warming peeps.

I figure that I can explain how asphalt absorbs solar heat and radiates it all night, making asphalt the largest "direct" contributor to global warming (according to my studies ).

Aluminum REFLECTS sunlight. Therefore, people with aluminum driveways are fighting global warming.

Oh, have you thought about obtaining funding from the beer companies that are littering the country with said aluminum cans??

They might be looking for a way to "look good" for making such bad beer.

It's another angle.

'Shell

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Oh, have you thought about obtaining funding from the beer companies that are littering the country with said aluminum cans??

They might be looking for a way to "look good" for making such bad beer.

It's another angle.

On it. Negotiating a contract with the Dept of Transportation.

I'm having homeless people find the cans that are laying on their side and standing them up on end on the edge of the road. Mini-road reflectors.

It's more cost effective because there is no lost hours traveling to the work site.

Also, referring back to the "wearable art" scenario.

The road crews will be using vests made from recycled cans. So, I've got the advertising angle all lined up for the beer companies.

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Oh, have you thought about obtaining funding from the beer companies that are littering the country with said aluminum cans??

They might be looking for a way to "look good" for making such bad beer.

It's another angle.

On it. Negotiating a contract with the Dept of Transportation.

I'm having homeless people find the cans that are laying on their side and standing them up on end on the edge of the road. Mini-road reflectors.

It's more cost effective because there is no lost hours traveling to the work site.

Also, referring back to the "wearable art" scenario.

The road crews will be using vests made from recycled cans. So, I've got the advertising angle all lined up for the beer companies.

Look at our little entrepreneur. You're making us so proud.

'Shell

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And getting a tan. Kevin Federline might bite.

K-Fed is the man. I am using him as a consultant on the Celebrity Baby Lottery. He's introducing me to rich weird women so that I can get child support from them.
"Yes, the baby does need a 26' Donzi. It for his education."

There would be no charge for tanning sessions at my salons for women.
(I charge $10 an hour to guys to hold the aluminum reflectors around them, and $3 a beer.)

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Eventually, everyone will start doing it. The price of aluminum will skyrocket because none of it will be going to those "recyclers"

Then some homeless guy will steal you damn driveway.

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Look at our little entrepreneur. You're making us so proud.

There are only two real types of industries in the world that make money. Stupidity and nudity. Everything else pales in comparison.

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Eventually, everyone will start doing it. The price of aluminum will skyrocket because none of it will be going to those "recyclers"

Then some homeless guy will steal you damn driveway.

The general rule for my neighborhood is, "If you are in my yard, I get to keep ya."

(Modeled after the legal precedent in the famed rural documentary, Deliverance.)

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Look at our little entrepreneur. You're making us so proud.

There are only two real types of industries in the world that make money. Stupidity and nudity. Everything else pales in comparison.

Well then you should make sure you're naked when you're lining your driveway in aluminum cans. You'll be TWICE as rich!

'Shell

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Look at our little entrepreneur. You're making us so proud.

There are only two real types of industries in the world that make money. Stupidity and nudity. Everything else pales in comparison.

Well then you should make sure you're naked when you're lining your driveway in aluminum cans. You'll be TWICE as rich!

Let's just say that the first time, it surprised the neighbors.

We try not to be too involved in other peoples business.

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Look at our little entrepreneur. You're making us so proud.

There are only two real types of industries in the world that make money. Stupidity and nudity. Everything else pales in comparison.

Well then you should make sure you're naked when you're lining your driveway in aluminum cans. You'll be TWICE as rich!

Let's just say that the first time, it surprised the neighbors.

We try not to be too involved in other peoples business.

Surprised or scared? There's a difference.

'Shell

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More practical (?) recycling...

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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I dunno, Bill. I'm the typical pessimist adn I see what's going to happen. It is all going to create just one more thing to get all snobby about like "high fashion".

I can see it now...

Rich guy A: My driveway is all aluminum!
Rich guy B: Yeah but, my driveway is all Coke aluminum!
Rich guy C: You poor provincials. You should have an all-Heineken beer aluminum driveway like mine!!

Bill: STFU and pay the royalties.

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
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