[TheForge] [YAK] Re: Small shop questions

[Ralph Sproul]

AAaahh,  Mike...........you got that slogan a bit off............  I live in
New Hampshire and it is really "Live, Freeze, and Die".   :-)

Ralph (who's dreading a reply from Frosty on this one)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 11:19 PM
Subject: [TheForge] [YAK] Re: Small shop questions


>
> Bill>  Sorry, can't let it pass. Start small: visit freestateproject.org
>
> Andy> Already a member. :)
>
> Umm, so, lessee now.  New Hampshire.  That's the place with "Live Free
> or Die" on the lisence plates.  Mind you, that's not a suggestion.
> It's a *order*.
>
> Friend of mine in NH nearly went to jail because he didn't believe the
> State should be able to oblige him to advertize any particular slogan
> or political position.  The DMV refused to give him plates without the
> slogan so he cut it off with tin snips.  They busted him.
>
> [Long story omitted, details of which, in any case, I have now forgotten.]
>
> Eventually he went with plates that still had the slogan but har been
> um... accidentally damaged by flying rocks -- quite a few of them -- just
> in that part where the slogan was.
>
> So: When all you come-from-away freedom dudes take over...er.. inhabit
> the Granite State, are folks going to be free *not* to advertize
> some pre-chosen slogan on their vehicles?  Eh?
>
> Maybe you should start with just one township, say, Odell, NH.
> Quoting from the Statistical Gazeteer of New Hampshire (1875),
>
>       ODELL, Coos County.  In 1860 the town had one white inhabitant.
>       In 1870 the person had died or moved away.
>
> Not too sure what the population of Odell is now but it was around a
> dozen hast time I heard a number.  Most of the land is owned by paper
> companies so there's a nice, ready-made liberation issue right on your
> door-step.
>
> And now back to your regularly scheduled blacksmithing...
>
> - Alonzo J. Fogg
>
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