Comments on: GUARDIAN Random Thoughts https://boiseguardian.com/2009/03/27/guardian-random-thoughts/ A different slant on the news. Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:13:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Serendipity https://boiseguardian.com/2009/03/27/guardian-random-thoughts/#comment-12333 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:13:33 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2296#comment-12333 Maybe it’s Arizona’s bridge to nowhere?

]]> By: Gordon https://boiseguardian.com/2009/03/27/guardian-random-thoughts/#comment-12287 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:59:12 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2296#comment-12287 Guardian:
Did you take a good look at that new bridge? Wow!
Big beautiful arch — very decorative, but seems highly impractical. Floating a zillion pounds of concrete, steel, vehicles and people that high in the air?
I ain’t gonna drive across that sucker, even if I have to detour through Mexico and Canada to get around it.
Hope you’ll be off to the side somewhere with your camera the first time a vehicle goes over the edge about halfway across — and again when the structure finally collapses.
Yeah, it takes a while to drive across the dam, but so what? If you’re in a hurry, fly. If not, drive slowly and enjoy the scenery.
Would be interesting to know what that bridge is costing — and how many thousand miles of surface road could have been built, improved, repaired or whatever with that much money.
Next project: A road to the moon, so we don’t need to use up so much rocket fuel getting there.

]]> By: Mike Murphy https://boiseguardian.com/2009/03/27/guardian-random-thoughts/#comment-12275 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:58:19 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2296#comment-12275 My random thought…

It’s almost No Pants Day!

“Boise’s 1st Annual No Pants Day was a resounding success with a good time had by all. Agents estimated scenes of chaos and joy created by about 500 throughout the day Downtown, at BSU, and Private Parties. Even Goths at the Mall!

About 30 sans pants citizens boarded buses downtown, and bus a ride to Hyde Park resulted in an impromptu “Parade” down a portion of North 13th Street that inspired instances of spontaneous pantlessness on the street.

Boise’s 1st Annual No Pants Day was a no budget grassroots bit o’ nonsense put together by some people who are old enough to know better and still young enough not to care, and who would like to remind everyone that No Pants Day is Always the 1st Friday in May.”

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“In keeping with the “true nature” of No Pants Day, the folks who are “old enough to know better and still young enough not to care” are taking a hands off approach to future No Pants Day celebrations – having brought it to Boise last year, and wanting it to evolve organically.

You are welcome to use any of the copyright free art and photos found @ http://www.BoiseNoPantsDay.com in pursuit of your No Pants Celebration / Event / Special

]]> By: Anne https://boiseguardian.com/2009/03/27/guardian-random-thoughts/#comment-12274 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:58:07 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2296#comment-12274 Well, some slot machines still burp coins if you desire but they always stick and it takes several tries by the-person-who-takes-forever-to-get-there to make them work.

We spent a couple of days on the south side of Boulder City overlooking what’s left of Lake Mead in mid-March. And even though the highway was not far away, you really didn’t hear it since the heavy trucks had to go off on 95. It was really delightful.

Seligman has always been delightfully tacky, at least since the late 50s.

]]> By: ericn1300 https://boiseguardian.com/2009/03/27/guardian-random-thoughts/#comment-12270 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:41:10 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2296#comment-12270 Sounds like an awesome road trip but you could have at least posted a post card to all your loyal followers. I’m sure you came across more than a few cheesy ones and found one that made you laugh.

You might also want to post your pics as a thumbnail that allows us, those that bow to you, to click on them for a full screen view.

And as an aside, no dams in Idaho have allowed traffic over them since shortly after 911. If “random checks” are the norm in Nevada I’ll settle for the norm, rather than a detour, when out for a drive.

EDITOR NOTE–Lucky Peak and Anderson Ranch both have traffic across them and Anderson Ranch has traffic right to the top and around one side. Heavy trucks do in deed detour around Hoover Dam.

]]> By: duder123 https://boiseguardian.com/2009/03/27/guardian-random-thoughts/#comment-12269 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:44:48 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2296#comment-12269 Nevada no longer has the monopoly on gambling and sin. Boise is one of a few metropolitan areas in the US where legal gambling isn’t a stones throw away. Vegas is a bloated overvalued fat pig much like the houses surrounding it. Now the UAW will do its part to run struggling casinos into the ground, union style.

]]> By: Roberto https://boiseguardian.com/2009/03/27/guardian-random-thoughts/#comment-12268 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:19:21 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2296#comment-12268 Loved the anecdote about the gas station clerk!

Although I have spent most of my life in Idaho, I did have a four year hiatus in the great state of Arizona and enjoyed it rugged and arid beauty.

I was wondering how that bridge by Hoover Dam was coming along. Thanks for the photo update.

]]> By: erico49 https://boiseguardian.com/2009/03/27/guardian-random-thoughts/#comment-12264 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:12:36 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2296#comment-12264 I read that something like 60% of the mortgages in Las Vegas are upside down. Sounds like you might have a libertarian streak in you. Go Dave!

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