Re: Re: Re: Buddleia davidii a noxious weed???

You really want a good laugh? Call one of the Bubba types a waste of
protoplasm and watch them stand there and self-destruct as they try to
figure out whether you just insulted them or not!!

LOL
Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrea H
Sent: 3/20/2004 10:56:41 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] Buddleia davidii a noxious weed???

> Marge, I generally refer to those types as a waste of space, or my new
> personal favorite from a book I'm reading, " a waste of skin."
> HA!
> Andrea H
> Beaufort, SC
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 7:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] Buddleia davidii a noxious weed???
> 
> 
> > > From: gardenqueen@academicplanet.com
> > > Like our friend Jesse says folks "repeat after me, People are
> > STUPID"
> > ----------
> >
> > Well, Pam, there are a lot of folks out and about who are two bricks
> > shy of a load and you wonder how they manage to get up; get through
> > the day and back to bed at night in one piece.
> >
> > But, when it comes to developers, there is another factor at play.
> > MONEY.  Developers build to make money...period.  They have no taste;
> > they do not care what they do to the environment nor what the end
> > product looks like (nor what the quality is - it will be as low as
> > they can get away with; no matter how expensive the house).  They
> > want to put the maximum number of units on any given piece of ground;
> > get them up as fast as possible, sell them as fast as possible; get
> > out and go on to the next lot.
> >
> > When a developer gets hands on some ground and hires a civil engineer
> > or land planner to lay out the development, they don't pay one bit of
> > attention to what the ground actually does in three dimensions nor
> > what's on it - unless it's wetland or something else they have to
> > deal with  - they just lay out the maximum number of lots that can be
> > legally crammed on it.  Developments with 'common space' got that
> > because it wasn't buildable for some reason OR because with it the
> > developer could increase the density on the rest of the property.
> > It's all about $$$$.
> >
> > Buyers of what they produce are also governed more by money than
> > taste...they want the most house they can get for the least amount of
> > money.   In some cases, it's simply that they can actually afford one
> > of the ticky-tacky houses and could not get a loan to buy anything
> > better.
> >
> > I have maintained for several years that people who buy some of the
> > tract mansions around here have to sign a paper that states "I am
> > totally tasteless" before they can even go in to look at the house;
> > the builders have to do the same before they can file for a permit.
> > It's a vast, tasteless conspiracy out there:-)
> >
> > Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> > mtalt@hort.net
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