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A gas hunter’s paradise
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It appears the gas crisis centers around area QT stores.
Aside from their fine fountain drinks and clean restrooms, QT has now become the first franchise to host its own history of social development. Why QT? Probably because each station has over one-thousand gas pumps fueling over 2.4 million cars daily each.
That’s great until you run out of gas. Then, customers equaling the population of Scion, Texas, instead of rolling out and moving toward more fertile ground, will stay and plant roots at the pumps. This literally creates a new history of people. Large groups of people, masses of them, not leaders, literally shape history. This is good timing for the QT squatters since our leadership is (hopefully only temporarily) thin.
Now, from a historical perspective, if history is to repeat itself, these squatters will begin to create a new social development and literally start a new history. You and I both know this means one thing:
Viking helmets and wagon trains.
We will survive. History will show that sooner or later we’ll overcome the absence of gasoline and form small communities surviving on convenient store burritos and Cappuccinos. We will eventually migrate north to the mountains near Helen where we’ll combine to form larger social communities selling beer and fudge to the invading Norwegians who will invade but due to their lack of enthusiasm for weapons, will quickly surrender to the members of the Moose Lodge in East Brunswick.
As bleak as it seems, the gas is moving from Texas through Georgia and up the coast. It will cover 3-5 miles a day and once again we will full and happy gas pumps around the year 2013.
Soon? We’ll get there and then once we’re putting around town in we can turn our attention to other matters such as how the hell we’re going to retire now. The good news: It’s 5 O’clock somewhere.
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By BigJake
October 3, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
I am blessed to be able to wok from home, and I do my best to manage my trips to clients so that I do not criss-cross the city, but schedule calls within a radus of each other.
My search for gas has been fairly productive - last Saturday morning I passed up a line at the Venezuelan-owned commie Citgo station ($4.19 a gallon) and went to a Kroger close by (yes, I save $.10 a gallon with my Kroger Plus card). I knew there were two ways in - through the parking lot or by a major highway, so I chose the parking lot. I had to wait behind only 4 cars to the pump ($3.99 less .10 a gallon), and there were Kroger employees out there to help direct traffic. Other than a disabled veteran in a pick-up truck waiting a bit impatiently behind me - thank you for serving our country, btw - it was a most pleasant experience. He had less patience than I did for the lady in front of me that looked a bit lost on how to pump her own gas and took perhaps a few seconds longer than most to get going once the job was done. Through all of this, I have still never paid over $3.89 a gallon for gas. Amen to that!
By sb
October 3, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this
Thank Goodness I don’t need Premium Gas cause there aint none. (That was fun.) Truthfully, Thank God I don’t need gas because there is none to be found.
By reader
October 3, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this
Got gas on the way home from work Thurs evening. Things have gotten so twisted that $4.09/gal sounded like a bargain. No lines, though.
By "Spank" the monkey
October 3, 2008 7:54 PM | Link to this
Don’t eat those burritos from Quick Trip man they will give you heartburn and the worst gas. Your woman will have nothing to do with you. I ate so many, that’s how I got my name. So many lonely nights with nothing else to do but…. well, beat it like it owed me money.
By Dixie
October 4, 2008 6:01 AM | Link to this
“Spank” the monkey - You’re saying you got gas for less than $3 a gallon?
Stone - I read at least 6 papers a week. NY Times, Miami Herald, Arizona Republic, Washington Post, AJC and Chicago Tribune in addition to CNN. The newspapers that have been around over 100 years are my faves. But AJC is always first & I spend the most time here.
By Analchord
October 4, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this
Officer Pete Rose. I waited until now to give you the benefit of the doubt. I liked some of your imagery, and some of your material was gold.
But overall, you lack the little voice that tells you where the zeitgeist is.
U C, the ZEITGEIST used to be fixed. The common knowledge lasted for eons then millenia, then centuries, then decades, then years, then months, then weeks then days then hours and now it’s instantaneous.
OKAY?
I could charge all of you thousands each for what I just wrote, but I am not a sellout, or a rat, I am ANALCHORD, (a thirteenth century demon who managed to escape God’s wrath, and who faked his own decent into hell. God, the Son, and the Holy Ghost actually think I’m burning in hell. What a trio of fall guys, eh? What a bunch of maroons! What a triplet of dopes!)
Anyway, the only reason anyone should read your blog is for the facts, which you have amazing talent for presenting. The facts about the police reports of morons who think that they can commit the perfect crime. You shine. You could write a book that would sell millions. Stick with the actual true behavior of humanity and YOU CANT MISS, SIR!!!
I think you’re a great American, and I’m your number one fan. You deserve the thanx of all of us for the brave sacrifices and risks you have made in your career keeping us all safe, as any police officer deserves.
They cant pay you guys enough. I wouldn’t do it. No way.
Stay safe, Officer Rose.
By "Spank" the monkey
October 4, 2008 11:01 PM | Link to this
Analcord (a Thirteenth century sexual device) or should we call you political foreskin, poste haste, Oz? You’re a hack, a poser who should take advice and not give it. Don’t go away mad just go away.
By Fred
October 5, 2008 1:03 AM | Link to this
Gee, Spank, we have heard THAT diatribe against Anal from another one of your alts. And here I wondered for a second why Dixie was replying to Stone when Stone hadn’t posted. I see he has. He just got “spanked’ one could say.
Zeitgeist explained for those like me who are stupid so you don’t have to google as I did: Zeitgeist” refers to the ethos of an identified group of people, that expresses a particular world view which is prevalent at a particular period of socio-cultural progression.
Zeitgeist is the experience of a dominant cultural climate that defines, particularly in Hegelian thinking, an era in the dialectical progression of a people or the world at large. Hegel’s main contribution to the formulation of the concept of Volksgeist is the attribution of a historical character to the concept. The spirit of a nation is one of the manifestations of “World Spirit” (Weltgeist). That Spirit is essentially alive and active throughout mankind’s history. Now, the spirit of a nation is an intermediate stage of world history as the history of the World Spirit. The World Spirit gives impetus to the realization of the historical spirits of various nations (Volksgeister’).
The spirits of individual nations are both the articulations (Gliederungen) of an organization and its realization. The spirits of individual nations represent a segment of the World Spirit out of which emerges the unlimited universal spirit. A comparison is introduced here between the status of an individual and that of a nation’s spirit. In the process of his formation the individual undergoes various changes without, however, losing his identity. As a part of world history, a nation—exhibiting a certain trend expressed in its Volksgeist— plays its part in the total process of world history. But once it contributes its share to world history it can no longer play a role in the process of world history. The submersion in the total process prevents a people’s cultural rebirth, because it has exhausted its creativity in the historical growth of its guiding spirit. It is for this reason that one of Hegel’s disciples, Michelet, considered the idea of a renaissance of the Jewish people as philosophically impossible.
By Stone
October 5, 2008 7:58 AM | Link to this
Uh, I think Dixie was replying to my joke from the Lt’s previous blog about her stepping out on us.(is that right Dixie?)Thought you had gotten over your creepy obsession with me Fred and turned positive, guess not. What I have to do with spank and anal….I’m sorry, you got me on that one. Maybe you can explain …. on second thought, don’t even bother.
Dixie, I too read multiple papers- NY Times and AJC everyday as well as the websites of CNN, WSJ, Drudge. I’m a news junkie ‘cause it’s always something new, something interesting. Plus, I can’t stand something going on that I don’t know a little about. Obviously, some of this stuff is over my head, but I try to get the gist anyway.
Haven’t heard from Cindy in awhile, maybe she’s left with ElBubba?
Y’all, write down two celebrities that you feel are the unhappiest:
Naomi Campbell Elton John
By Dixie Chick
October 5, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this
Stone admits that he went “over the edge” in the past, probably spent time in prison for his role as a self-annointed avenging angel over some misguided sense of a disinherited entitlement, probably maimed some poor sot, and then was “given a second chance.”
He squanders his new-life trying to park his high-school yearbook delivery on the AJC blogs. Stone is a 23 point clinical criteria match for “delusional sociopath”. If you tease him, it sticks in his craw and he’ll stalk you for years from chatroom to blog to whatever. He is what people refer to as the “dangerous stranger” on the internet, and why children need to be protected. Would you trust the emotionally-unevolved Stone with a child, your child, anybody’s child??? Think about it.
He’s quite mad, you know.
By Ragmop Duty
October 5, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this
Fred, I’m going to be kind. I like you, and mostly, you’ve only earned a “simpleton” rating from me, and I think that puts you in the top 2% of bloggers here.
Zeitgeist is from the German. It’s as old as tribes. When people lived out in the open, and were outside nearly every moment, they absorbed nature in a way we cant really imagine today, but maybe this will help: When you were a child, at band camp, and you lived for those two weeks in a tent, and you were outside before dawn milling around, trying to find where someone had shoved your flute, well, try to remember how that morning air felt and visualize the tricks light played on your shadow in the wet grass.
That’s the spirit the ancient German People thought was the Zeitgeist, the aura around your shadow when you see it in the early morning light as it shimmers on the dew in the grass. You have to spend alot of time outdoors to notice it. It’s ancient, sir.
Today, the Zeitgeist, (and I hate the word) refers to the accumulating supposition of cause and effect, presumed human reaction and interaction, and this collective epistimology evolves constantly at a rate that accelerated geometrically as we go through space-time, (whatever THAT is).
The internet has accelerated the global zeitgeist learning curve to nearly a real time change. Like I called you a simpleton five minutes ago, and already that’s obslolete, you’re now more of a dunderputz, no I missed again, you’re a nudnik…too late, darn, I have to try to get ahead of the zeitgeist, so I’ll go three hours ahead of it….here it is: ahem, uh, Fred is a moron. Bingo!
jklol
By Vegas Ellis
October 5, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this
POINT: The only difference between a tankerload of regular gas and a tankerload of premium gas is ONE QUART OF ADDITIVE!
If your car has to have premium gas, you can buy a bottle of OCTANE BOOSTER at the auto parts store and fill up with it and regular gas. It’s actually higher octane thus than premium-grade gasoline.
By Dixie
October 5, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this
Stone’s right. It was a response to to previous post. (it’s a dotting Is - crossing Ts thing)
Fred you know I’m all for expanding your mind. Google is a great tool.
Dipsie Chick - Shut the f up.
Stone - I can’t think of who I’d vote unhappiest. Kevin Kline is likely who I’d think to be happiest though.
By Stone
October 5, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this
I’ve got a new fan! Probably burger boy or anal-chord in disguise. I’m guessing anal-chord, because I can’t recognize the name Dixie Chick and he is the one who likes to change names (or am I confusing him with someone else?)
Dixie- Kevin Kline? isn’t he married to that babe from Fast Times? What’s her name? I’d be happy too.
Can’t think who I’d vote happiest.
By "Spank" the monkey
October 5, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this
“Dixie Chick” and “Ragmop Duty” are both aliases of Analcord. This poor soul is soooo transparent it’s laughable. Fred, stone, the lost mind that has posts under three different names on this same article is now calling you morons and sociopaths. I’d consider it a compliment. Too figgin’ funny.
By Dixie
October 5, 2008 10:29 PM | Link to this
Yep - Kevin Kline. He’s got great chemistry with everyone he stars with and the list of ladies he’s kissed is most impressive. Not only a great screen talent but on broadway too. ( Deep smooth singing voice & excellent dancer) Yes Pheobe Cates is his wife. She and thier children look quite happy too. You know what they say… .
If a woman has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
By Stone
October 6, 2008 6:14 AM | Link to this
Couldn’t remember her name to save my life, but I’ve been humming the Cars tune all day. Get it?
By Cassie
October 6, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this
Great, now you’ve done it.
I’m going to have “drive” stuck in my head all day. Thanks. Not that I don’t like The Cars, mind you….
And if we must go Kevin Kline-ish….A Fish Called Wanda (being a Python Fan, this is a fav)…and he did an “album” in collaboration with public radio a few years back, a primer to get folks to listen to classical music…like a two cd set where he does a little bit of background on the composer, introduces the pieces (all famous pieces, Rhapsody in Blue, etc) and then plays about three minutes from each piece).
Lovely really. He’s such a soothing voice. Not creepy like Malkovich (but i bet he gives great phone).
By Stone
October 6, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this
Thanks Cassie and I thought it was only a guy thing. All I could come up with was “life’s a stage…moving in stereo, life’s a stage, duh, duh duh duh duh….it’s all inside you, dunt,dunt dunt dunts,da da dunt dunt. I guess I can understand Kevin Kline, tall nice looking always smiling, but that dude John Mayer, don’t get how he gets laid so much and man, the guy gets laaaaaaiiid.
By Cindy
October 6, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this
Hey Stone! I’m here. Grrr, didn’t realize “they” (analchord’s many personalities) were here too. Oh well, we’ll just have to make the best of it. :)
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