Posted in reply to Wardensworry's ~ 8:30 AM Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 comment on the Bangor Daily News story "Bangor City Council Outlaws 'aggressive' Panhandling" by Nick McRea:
"I thought AUTUMN RUSH was a great movie...maybe a different approach is needed. "
"August Rush" movie starring Robin Williams from Wiki
"August Rush" DVD used - "very good condition" Amazon $.01 + $3.99 S+H June 11, 2013
"August Rush" streamed video Amazon $2.99 to rent for 48 hours, $7.99 to buy
If you ever become homeless or your water gets shut off Washington State Department of Health says to add 3 drops of chlorine to each liter or quart of water to make it potable.
Treating Water with a 5-6 Percent Liquid Chlorine Bleach Solution | ||
| Volume of Water to be Treated | Treating Clear/Cloudy Water: Bleach Solution to Add | Treating Cloudy, Very Cold, or Surface Water: Bleach Solution to Add |
| 1 quart/1 liter | 3 drops | 5 drops |
| 1/2 gallon/2 quarts/2 liters | 5 drops | 10 drops |
| 1 gallon | 1/8 teaspoon | 1/4 teaspoon |
| 5 gallons | 1/2 teaspoon | 1 teaspoon |
| 10 gallons | 1 teaspoon | 2 teaspoons |
.....Water Purification :: Washington State Dept. of Health
...If you really would like to help someone asking for money on the streets, you might want to give them an inexpensive musical instrument.
...You may not believe it at first, but people actually enjoy giving some cash, food and/or mylar emergency blankets to someone actually doing something instead of just unintentionally making people feel guilty.
You could also look up and print out a list of jokes like these from duckster.com on the internet for prospective buskers to tell while entertaining as well.
Sock puppets make great punch line deliverers too.
Opening that first dumpster lid and finding that first pizza behind Little Caesar's across from the K-Mart on 9th St. North in St. Pete after losing my efficiency - when the day labor work shut down for Christmas 1990 - was one of the most liberating experiences I've ever felt or heard anyone describe.
My only regret is that I had a mandolin with a broken neck which the pawn shop on Central Ave. charged $80 for (might have been able to pay the rent if i hadn't bought it ) and i couldn't work up the courage to go and play it at the intersection where the Frontage road that passes in front of K-Mart (now Sears-after K-Mart kicked my friend Jackie - who was like James Bond, Jessie from Toy Story, Margeurite from The Lost World and Emily Dickenson rolled into one - out from sitting on the bench in front of the old Kash N Karry) intersected with Gandy Blvd.
I soon found that I had stumbled into one of my favorite novels of all time - Cannery Row by John Steinbeck - when I met James who I later discovered was encamped only about 50 ' away from my tent in the Gandy median strip.
James' friend who told me everyone called him "Whiskey Bill" was and probably still is legendary throughout the greater Pinellas County Jail jurisdiction - only you'll have to inquire using the cognomen "Lysol Bill"
James didn't say when he had served on the US Navy aircraft carrier as a cook, but it was probably during the Vietnam war. He had run a company and said, if memory serves, that he had been sent to prison for some kind of fraudulent activity involved with his company, and when he got out he started living on the streets.
Bill told me one time that it was perfectly healthy to drink Lysol, explaining the active ingredients in it, because he had been to medical school before he entered WWII where, like Kurt Vonnegut Jr., he was also an Army scout working behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge. But he added: "The Army gave me a dishonorable discharge because I used to get drunk with the Germans"
"Litlle Billy" was the misnomer of a quite handsome and healthy appearing young man who camped with James and Bill now and then in the lot that used to be next to the Kash N Karry, which is now a U-Store It.
Kash N Karry decided to do a promotion where if you had to wait in line behind 3 people, your groceries would be free. So Billy loaded up his cart with MD and steaks, waited untill a line at the register filled up during peak hours, then wheeled his cart out the door.
One of the baggers followed him out and confronted him in the lot next door. Billy pulled a knife, the bagger went back and called the cops, and since this narrative is related second hand from James, you'll have to ask him whether they got to keep the steaks and vino.
James eventually mentioned years later that Billy had moved back up to I guess the Carolinas, got married and became rather successful, by the usual Amerimammon standards.
James introduced me one day to a very likeable young man who's name allegedly was Danny. He had a Toyota He'd park at the dog track at night and told me to come visit him some time. " I'm at light pole 89." [I think that was the one - it would have put him in the Gandy median East of 9th St, and just East of the pond there. He used to get by picking up discarded betting slips which sometimes would be winners betters didn't know they had won, but eventually the dog track told him to stop.
KVAW.com mentions giving people "Blessings Bags":
http://www.ducksters.com/jokesforkids/food.php
Comments on Bangor council outlaws ‘aggressive’ panhandling, solicitation — Bangor — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine
...If you really would like to help someone asking for money on the streets, you might want to give them an inexpensive musical instrument.
...You may not believe it at first, but people actually enjoy giving some cash, food and/or mylar emergency blankets to someone actually doing something instead of just unintentionally making people feel guilty.
You could also look up and print out a list of jokes like these from duckster.com on the internet for prospective buskers to tell while entertaining as well.
Sock puppets make great punch line deliverers too.
Opening that first dumpster lid and finding that first pizza behind Little Caesar's across from the K-Mart on 9th St. North in St. Pete after losing my efficiency - when the day labor work shut down for Christmas 1990 - was one of the most liberating experiences I've ever felt or heard anyone describe.
My only regret is that I had a mandolin with a broken neck which the pawn shop on Central Ave. charged $80 for (might have been able to pay the rent if i hadn't bought it ) and i couldn't work up the courage to go and play it at the intersection where the Frontage road that passes in front of K-Mart (now Sears-after K-Mart kicked my friend Jackie - who was like James Bond, Jessie from Toy Story, Margeurite from The Lost World and Emily Dickenson rolled into one - out from sitting on the bench in front of the old Kash N Karry) intersected with Gandy Blvd.
I soon found that I had stumbled into one of my favorite novels of all time - Cannery Row by John Steinbeck - when I met James who I later discovered was encamped only about 50 ' away from my tent in the Gandy median strip.
James' friend who told me everyone called him "Whiskey Bill" was and probably still is legendary throughout the greater Pinellas County Jail jurisdiction - only you'll have to inquire using the cognomen "Lysol Bill"
James didn't say when he had served on the US Navy aircraft carrier as a cook, but it was probably during the Vietnam war. He had run a company and said, if memory serves, that he had been sent to prison for some kind of fraudulent activity involved with his company, and when he got out he started living on the streets.
Bill told me one time that it was perfectly healthy to drink Lysol, explaining the active ingredients in it, because he had been to medical school before he entered WWII where, like Kurt Vonnegut Jr., he was also an Army scout working behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge. But he added: "The Army gave me a dishonorable discharge because I used to get drunk with the Germans"
"Litlle Billy" was the misnomer of a quite handsome and healthy appearing young man who camped with James and Bill now and then in the lot that used to be next to the Kash N Karry, which is now a U-Store It.
Kash N Karry decided to do a promotion where if you had to wait in line behind 3 people, your groceries would be free. So Billy loaded up his cart with MD and steaks, waited untill a line at the register filled up during peak hours, then wheeled his cart out the door.
One of the baggers followed him out and confronted him in the lot next door. Billy pulled a knife, the bagger went back and called the cops, and since this narrative is related second hand from James, you'll have to ask him whether they got to keep the steaks and vino.
James eventually mentioned years later that Billy had moved back up to I guess the Carolinas, got married and became rather successful, by the usual Amerimammon standards.
James introduced me one day to a very likeable young man who's name allegedly was Danny. He had a Toyota He'd park at the dog track at night and told me to come visit him some time. " I'm at light pole 89." [I think that was the one - it would have put him in the Gandy median East of 9th St, and just East of the pond there. He used to get by picking up discarded betting slips which sometimes would be winners betters didn't know they had won, but eventually the dog track told him to stop.
KVAW.com mentions giving people "Blessings Bags":
BeccaAugust 29, 2011 at 12:15 PM :
Replyhttp://www.ducksters.com/jokesforkids/food.php
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