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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.garden,net.consumers
Subject: Re: Grass
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 16:04:56 EDT
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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.
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