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What to do with spare $75,000
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Here's what one of my neighbors built. As you can see it is quite tall. We all thought at first it was going to be a garage for a large motorhome; there are lots of those out here.
But, no overhead door, no windows. There are two regular "people" doors, on the opposite corner from the picture. We've all been surprised at what it really is.
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Re: What to do with spare $75,000
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12/12/04 02:33 PM
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Raquetball court.
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12/12/04 02:38 PM
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Racquetball? Chris, I thought you were from Michigan. Everyone knows thats the septic tank for an engineered system. Shame on you!! 
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Re: What to do with spare $75,000
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12/12/04 06:39 PM
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Looks like a personal movie theater.
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Re: What to do with spare $75,000
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12/12/04 07:44 PM
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Oversized shipping container.
Or has it some religious significance?
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Re: What to do with spare $75,000
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12/12/04 08:53 PM
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Remember the story about Noah's Art! Well I hope he don't know something we wish we new when we're all standing out there beating on the door when that mushroom clouds start risin! I hope U understand what I'm saying cause I'm not sure I DO UNDERSTAND WHAT I"M SAYING! But I'm sure theres somebody that can explain to me as to what I'm saying!heheh ! Oh well neat lizard on concrete building anyway! roho
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Re: What to do with spare $75,000
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12/12/04 09:09 PM
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My guess: sound studio
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Re: What to do with spare $75,000
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12/12/04 09:48 PM
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or handball court...
Maybe it is a facility for growing mushrooms for fun or profit!
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Re: What to do with spare $75,000
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12/13/04 05:35 AM
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This thread would be alot shorter if you just told us what it was.
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12/13/04 06:58 AM
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Yeah - your right - the ground floor door makes it easier to pump! 
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Re: What to do with spare $75,000
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12/13/04 08:17 AM
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Let's hope Hank doesn't get run over by a street car before he tells us what that building is.
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Re: What to do with spare $75,000
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12/13/04 08:29 AM
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This thread would be alot shorter if you just told us what it was
Sorry, my Internet was down since shortly after I posted it until this morning. DocHeb got it right away....it's a racquetball court....20' x 40' x 20' high. But everything mentioned was among the guesses we made before we finally found out. Other guesses I heard from neighbors were a place for the kids' band practice, a place for growing marijuana, and an indoor pool.
The owner used SIPS construction on the house and racqetball court. They went up in no time at all.
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Re: What to do with spare $75,000
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12/13/04 04:26 PM
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Too bad they didn't put in some fake "windows" and "doors" or other architectural details that would show from the outside - that way it wouldn't look so "raquetball-courtish".
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Re: What to do with spare $75,000
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12/13/04 07:12 PM
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No kidding, what an eyesore, they should have buried it.
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Re: What to do with spare $75,000
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This thread would be alot shorter if you just told us what it was.
Yeah, but what fun would that be?
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I would think for that kind of money you could at least get it to match the house.
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Have you seen the inside? Maybe it is a hydroponic growing operation. You'd think decent CC&Rs would protect the neighborhood from such an egregious eyesore. Underground would have indeed been better, far better and would have provided a decent hidey hole at the same time.
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I like Picasso Paintings:
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"egregious", where do you come up with these words?
Ever play Boggle or Scrabble?
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Some of us are better educated than the rest. Even with a college degree and being well read, my use of words remains on somewhat of a level that the people one is conversing with can understand, not that my skills are that great.
Learned this lesson the hard way with some of the mechanical help I use to have, just got tired of explaining everything in plain lanquage that they could understand.
More power to the ones that can use such words, wish that I could, better yet if they can spell them.
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my use of words remains on somewhat of a level that the people one is conversing with can understand
That method of conversing was taught in the police academy way back when I was a rookie. And the guy I considered the best English professor in college said it's usually best to "write" like the Reader's Digest; 9th grade level. Talking and writing in that manner provides the best chance of there being no misunderstanding.
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DU-UH, like yeah... and you could like save a lot of money printing dictionaries too. If your dictionary has only about 200 words you could get pretty familiar with the contents.
The part of Reader's Digest I like to read first is the word power quiz and the jokes.
Where in deed do those "strange" words come from? I think they are all in the smallest commonly published dictionary. I am willing to bet they have all been used in the pages of Reader's Digest within the last year.
The US Navy has standards to which training materials are written. Over time, they are consistently being lowered to target the deteriorating verbal skills of the students. You might be surprised to see hom much training is produced in comic book form or at the 6th grade level so as not to "shoot over the heads" of too many students. This is not a good thing. Not a point of pride. Much of the rest of the world values an educaton much more highly than many in the US.
Of course it is good to communicate at the level of the audience but note, there is as of yet no civil or criminal code prohibiting the use of polysylabic communications.
Now lets form a circle with our horns to the outside for mutual protection of our linguistic backsides.
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Somewhere in the last couple of years, read somewhere where the amount of word usage in the everyday lanquage of the American public has gone down considerably. We now use about one half of the words that were used in 1900.
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Egregious is a great word. Now if he had called it arrant, flagitious or odius then we would all scramble for the dictionary.
You can have great fun with these words by using them in an argument and watching the other guy struggle for comprehension, but not admit he hasn't a clue what you just said.
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You can have great fun with these words by using them in an argument and watching the other guy struggle for comprehension, but not admit he hasn't a clue what you just said
And what's even more comical is when you hear someone using words to try to impress folks, and you know he's using the wrong words. 
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Uh . . ., by the way, did you mean "odious"? 
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I think he just called me a stinky old fart.
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