Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) Newsgroups: net.garden,net.consumers Subject: Re: Grass Message-ID: <559@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 16:04:56 EDT Article-I.D.: ttidcc.559 Posted: Tue Jul 16 16:04:56 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 06:50:17 EDT References: <11461@brl-tgr.ARPA> <3341@dartvax.UUCP> <114@tommif.UUCP> Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) Distribution: net Organization: The Cat Factory Lines: 22 Xref: watmath net.garden:624 net.consumers:2649 In article <114@tommif.UUCP> cat@tommif.UUCP (Catherine Mikkelsen) writes: >Again, I mention the quaint Californian (southern, that is) custom of >merely paving one's front yard with, say concrete, and then covering said >concrete with -- -- -- ASTROTURF!!!! A few red and blue spray painted >rocks and, say, we're having fun now!!! Not in _my_ end of Southern California you don't. The road maintenanace department once tried to put astroturf and plastic bushes on the median strips here. The locals protested loudly and finally resorted to vandalism (gasoline is just as hard on astroturf as it is on real grass). They wouldn't let up even when the city pointed out that there wasn't sufficient depth of soil on the strip for grass or the pipes to water it. Score one for Southern California esthetics. --- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe) Citicorp TTI Common Sense is what tells you that a ten 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. pound weight falls ten times as fast as a Santa Monica, CA 90405 one pound weight. (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {philabs,randvax,trwrb,vortex}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe