Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hp-pcd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!hp-dcd!donn From: donn@hp-dcd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf) Message-ID: <1444@hp-pcd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Aug-83 03:23:51 EDT Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.1444 Posted: Mon Aug 1 03:23:51 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Aug-83 12:54:53 EDT Sender: netnews@hp-pcd.UUCP Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Corvallis OR Lines: 20 #R:mprvaxa:0:hp-dcd:16600005:37777777600:646 hp-dcd!donn Jul 30 20:30:00 1983 If it's the sign I remember its always (at least since the early '70's) had that picture of Uncle Sam, and although the details of the message change, the spirit does not. Apparantly some very conservative farmer owns that land, and funds the billboard out of his own pocket. (That's hearsay, but given the nature of politics in that neck of the woods, not an unreasonable explanation.) I vaguely remember some anti-UN sentiment appearing there, and assuming my memory is to be trusted, it isn't Government propaganda. As we on the net are clearly advocates of free speech (typing?)... Donn Terry ...hplabs!hp-dcd!donn ...csu-cs!hp-dcd!donn