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eric2
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response 25 of 46:
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Jun 25 17:04 UTC 1993 |
grass.
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jdg
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response 26 of 46:
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Jun 25 20:47 UTC 1993 |
re 23: that would explain why it doesn't show up as an easement on our
survey (we just refinanced, so I had a recent glance at it). Our property
line ends before the sidewalk (or exactly at it...whatever..).
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aa8ij
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response 27 of 46:
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Jun 25 22:33 UTC 1993 |
In Detroit, "that which still needs mowing" was about 6 feet wide,
with the sidewalk being 3 feet wide and about 7 feet for my dad's
precious lawn.
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steve
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response 28 of 46:
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Jun 27 23:25 UTC 1993 |
I've always heard the term extension.
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kentn
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response 29 of 46:
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Jun 28 15:15 UTC 1993 |
We always called it the "parking" though I always thought that seemed
funny because cards park in the street, not on the grass.
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tsty
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response 30 of 46:
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Jun 28 16:32 UTC 1993 |
<< you playing with a full deck today??>><<G>>
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kentn
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response 31 of 46:
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Jun 28 22:51 UTC 1993 |
PicoSpan sucks...can't edit responses. When will we get a real
conferencing system?
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mju
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response 32 of 46:
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Jun 28 23:30 UTC 1993 |
Do you mean responses you've already made and entered, or a response
you're currently entering? If the former, then keep in mind that
you can't un-say something you blurt out in a conversation, either.
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davel
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response 33 of 46:
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Jun 28 23:56 UTC 1993 |
You can always expurgate & re-enter - assumuing it's *your* response you
want to edit, of course. And that won't keep anyone who can type
more /bbs/censored
from reading it. But personally, I consider the stability of stuff once
entered to be a virtue. It's a real pain to read responses that have
been made irrelevant because whatever they responded to has been changed.
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tsty
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response 34 of 46:
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Jun 29 07:05 UTC 1993 |
Sorry to poker a little fun at you kentn, I hope you would know, even
without the <<G>>, that is was not at all serious.
About editing, and the unspoken reference to Confer (tm), which allows
such an operation, I consider it subject to not only the innocent
corrections that you would wish (wouldn't we all on occasion!) but
also (as I and others have +witnessed+) also subject to some rather
vicious abuses. Given my druthers, I'd rather subject myself to an
occasional typo (and friendly jesting from it, I even laugh at myself),
than create an environment that can be as badly misused (!) as is
Confer (tm) every now and then.
Besides, for the diligent searcher, the existance of 2-3 versions of
a thought that took time to polish shows more maturity on the writer
part than simply the finished "ascii plop."
but then I've been known to have different opinions every now and then.
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popcorn
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response 35 of 46:
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Jun 29 22:42 UTC 1993 |
This response has been erased.
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tsty
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response 36 of 46:
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Jun 30 08:56 UTC 1993 |
<<awwh, popcorn, there was some wonderful drift going on ... <g> >>
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gracel
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response 37 of 46:
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Aug 2 00:40 UTC 1993 |
The boulevard. (Provenance: non-Chicago Illinois)
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davidtg
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response 38 of 46:
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Aug 24 23:35 UTC 1993 |
that~r wasteland of tar where the grass is bold enough to grow
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gracel
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response 39 of 46:
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Oct 24 01:54 UTC 1994 |
The City of Milan Dept. of Public Works calls it the parkway, they
want the leaves piled onto it and *not* in the street.
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rcurl
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response 40 of 46:
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Oct 24 05:13 UTC 1994 |
Really a seasonal item, isn;t it? We are of the "let the leaves lie
where they fall" school. I like the appearance of a leaf littered lawn
(as well as the alliteration), and anything that hides grass for a
while is a welcome relief.
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davel
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response 41 of 46:
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Oct 24 11:18 UTC 1994 |
I suggest you get a big, opaque plastic drop cloth. Weigh it down at the
edges. This will solve your problem until the next really big wind, Rane.
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gracel
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response 42 of 46:
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Nov 21 03:15 UTC 1994 |
I noticed recently that some other city department (or maybe just
somebody else at the DPW writing the memo) called it the greenbelt.
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gracel
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response 43 of 46:
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Nov 23 18:06 UTC 1998 |
Sometime in the last month, while my mind has not been working well, the
Monroe paper included a small statement from some City of Monroe official who
gave *his* version of the correct term, and I believe it was something brand
new to me -- I meant to clip the item, but it escaped into recycling after
all. I *think* he said it was called the "parkway terrace". (FWIW, the point
at issue was who should take responsibility for a rotting tree thereon)
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happyboy
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response 44 of 46:
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Dec 6 00:37 UTC 1998 |
"The place where my dogs poop."
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micklpkl
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response 45 of 46:
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Oct 21 18:57 UTC 2004 |
This item is fascinating. I have never heard it called a "lawn extension" or
simply "extension." In fact, none of the terms listed here is familiar to me.
My father always called it the "Hell Strip" and as a result, I do as well.
In the land surveying industry, we simply call it as part of the right-of-way.
I've noticed in newer subdivisions, the sidewalk is poured right up to the
back of curb, which makes much more sense..
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rcurl
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response 46 of 46:
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Oct 22 03:40 UTC 2004 |
We don't have one out front - no sidewalk. But there is a virtual line
between the city's right-of-way and my lawn. I will call it the "extended
lawn".
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