MooPig's Puzzlement Department :: "Deconstructing Detroit"

Detroit Re-Photography: Slideshow: Places: Design Observer:
Waiting Room, Michigan Central RR Depot, Detroit, 1973-2010
'via Blog this'

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http://places.designobserver.com/slideshow/detroit-rephotography/32008/2208/9#slide

Fwd: giggle at this Snagglepuss...

from Composthlestoy... Michigan Correspondent.

Michigan

Subject: Why I love Michigan
"I didn't write this, but I have been saying the exact same thing since the second week in December."
R [Compost- holestoy]
"F'get about it !"






"Yeah, sure you didn't write this one... the one who says he didn't is the one who did it... Did you think we were all born yesterday?!"

Dear Diary::

Aug. 12 - Moved into our new home in Michigan. It is so beautiful here. The state is so picturesque. I have a beautiful old oak tree in my front yard. Can hardly wait to see the change in the seasons. This is truly God's Country.

Oct. 14 - Michigan is such a gorgeous place to live, one of the real special places on Earth. The leaves are turning a multitude of different colors. I love all of the shades of reds, oranges and yellows, they are so bright. I want to walk through all of the beautiful hills and spot some white tail deer. They are so graceful, certainly they must be the most peaceful creatures on Earth. This must be paradise.

Nov. 11 - Deer season opens this week. I can't imagine why anyone would want to shoot these elegant animals. They are the very symbol of peace and tranquility here in Michigan. Can’t believe that Oak tree out front can drop so many leaves. I hope it snows soon. I love it here!

Dec. 2 - It snowed last night. I woke to the usual wonderful sight: everything covered in a beautiful blanket of white. The oak tree is magnificent. It looks like a postcard. We went out and swept the snow from the steps and driveway. The air is so crisp, clean and refreshing. We had a snowball fight. I won, and the snowplow came down the street. He must have gotten too close to the driveway because we had to go out and shovel the end of the driveway again. What a beautiful place. Nature in harmony. I love it here!

Dec. 12 - More snow last night. I love it! The plow did his cute little trick again. What a rascal. A winter wonderland. I love it here!

Dec. 19 - More snow - couldn't get out of the driveway to get to work on time. I'm exhausted from all of the shoveling. And that snowplow!

Dec. 21 - More of that white stuff coming down. I've got blisters on my hands and a kink in my back. I think that the snowplow driver waits around the corner until I'm done shoveling the driveway. Jackass.

Dec. 25 - White Christmas? More freakin' snow. If I ever get my hands on the SOB who drives that snowplow, I swear I'll castrate him. And why don't they use more salt on these roads to melt this crap??

Dec. 28 - It hasn't stopped snowing since Christmas. I have been inside since then, except of course when that SOB "Snowplow Harry" comes by. Can't go anywhere, cars are buried up to the windows. Weather man says to expect another 10 inches. Do you have any idea how many shovelfuls 10 inches is??

Jan. 1 - Happy New Year? The way it's coming down, it won't melt until the month of July! The snowplow got stuck down the road and the jackass actually had the stones to come and ask to borrow a shovel! I told him I'd broken 6 already this season.

Jan. 4 - Finally got out of the house. We went to the store to get some food and a damn deer ran out in front of my car and I hit the bastard. It did $3,000 in damage to the car. Those beasts ought to be killed. The hunters should have a longer season if you ask me.

Jan. 27 - Warmed up a little and rained today. The rain turned the snow into ice and the weight of it broke a big limb of the oak tree in the front yard and it went through our roof. I should have cut that old piece of crap into fireplace wood when I had the chance.

May 3 - Took my car to the local garage. Would you believe the whole underside of the car is rusted away from all of that damn salt they dump on the road? Car looks like a bashed up, heap of rusted cow shit!

May 10 - Sold the car, the house, and moved to Florida. I can't imagine why anyone in their freakin' mind would ever want to live in the God forsaken State of Michigan.

Report from ZEELAND: "Under the [SnowPlow] Glacier"

Philosopher and Poet Shoveler reports from the Heart of Michigan:
by R C at Zeeland,

HQ: "Rick, is there a glacier forming there in Zeeland?"

*[glick, glitch, snafoooo, bloww, squeaky, squeaky, Whirrrrrrr, static, static]*

Zeeland: My ass is too cold, it's global warming.

My ass is too hot, its global warming.

Nice frickin' theory - CAN'T BE WRONG NO MATTER WHAT ! Sounds like an argument only a wife would come up with!

Well, I'm combining the hot with the cold in chapter 76 of my new book Ric's Inferno : page attached.

HQ: "So, you are writing again, Rick?"

*[crumble, swish, blast, crumble crackle, grind... flooooooshhh !!!!]*

We've lost live transmission, but this FAX from our Michigan correspondent just came across:

Ric’s Inferno – chpt. 76
But…. Some of us don’t want to wait for eternal JUSTICE. We are making plans to deal with them in this dispensation……..
I will be waiting for them next time …….!!! They won’t know what hit ‘em!

Snowplowmen suffer their just rewards …… endlessly shoveling the end of a residential driveway ………….just to have a devil-driven plow come by as they think they’ve finished.
Ha-ha, piled up again…ad infinitum !!!

PHOTO: Rick, those photo's you sent were too full of snow, so we went online and found this one... is that your car parked on the street?

HQ: "Would that btw be 'Joe the SnowPlowboy,' Rick?"

(to be continued)
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Update: Cold winters of the 1980s

ASK TOM [SOURCE]
Dear Tom,
When people claim, "Back in my time, the winters were more severe," it is
usually a case of the weather being exaggerated in their memories. Well, I
grew up in the 1980s and winters were more severe then, but a neighbor who
moved here from Seattle thinks I'm wrong when I say I can remember many days
with temperatures 20 below zero.
Help me convince him...?
John Potempka, Chicago

Dear John,
You are absolutely correct. A computer sweep of the entire data set of
Chicago's official temperatures from Nov. 1, 1870, to the present supports
your recollections. In that period, Chicago recorded 15 days on which the
minimum temperature sank to 20 degrees below zero or lower. Five of those
days occurred before 1900 and nine of them in the winters from 1982 through
1985. The most recent occurrence was 21 below on Jan. 18, 1994.