Colorado?

blue • Jun 26, 2004 12:08 am
Anybody from Colorado here? Christ I'm starting to hate you pricks! ;-) I've been on the phone with these idiots for 2 months now.

I lived on Lowry Air Base for 5 months in....1985-6 I think, loved it. Having trouble reconciling it with the people I talk to now.
wolf • Jun 26, 2004 1:06 am
An awful lot of liberals (the antifur, antigun types) moved there after the whole Sundance Film Festival thing got going.
lumberjim • Jun 26, 2004 2:25 am
perth, case and marichiko are all in Co


oh, and perth is the boy.
elSicomoro • Jun 26, 2004 2:44 am
Originally posted by wolf
An awful lot of liberals (the antifur, antigun types) moved there after the whole Sundance Film Festival thing got going.


But Sundance is in Utah...what, are they scared of Mormons?
wolf • Jun 26, 2004 2:49 am
Isn't the damn thing in Aspen?
elSicomoro • Jun 26, 2004 2:53 am
No...Sundance, UT (near SLC)
jaguar • Jun 26, 2004 3:53 am
Is aspen all it's cracked up to be? I got invited once but I'm better at falling into things than skiing.
blue • Jun 26, 2004 8:21 am
Originally posted by lumberjim
oh, and perth is the boy.


I'm probably not gonna live this down am I?

So has anybody been to Lowery? I heard they turned it into student housing or something?

And no I wasn't an Air Force wing nut weenie....Rocky Mountain Navy, last group there.
wolf • Jun 26, 2004 10:01 am
Originally posted by sycamore
No...Sundance, UT (near SLC)


Park City. I looked it up.

I became confused by the South Park episode.

But the statement stands otherwise ... what had been a perfectly good state has gotten an influx of liberals who no longer just ski and leave. They stay, and have, from what I understand, changed the character of the state.
perth • Jun 26, 2004 10:19 am
I think Elf and Mrnoodle live on Colorado too.

Boy? I'm ALL MAN, dammit!
elSicomoro • Jun 26, 2004 12:33 pm
Originally posted by wolf
But the statement stands otherwise ... what had been a perfectly good state has gotten an influx of liberals who no longer just ski and leave. They stay, and have, from what I understand, changed the character of the state.


And this is a problem...why?
perth • Jun 26, 2004 12:43 pm
Originally posted by sycamore


And this is a problem...why?

Because they have more money than God and have driven housing prices way the fuck up. And most of 'em dont know how to drive in the summer, let alone the winter. :D
Happy Monkey • Jun 26, 2004 9:01 pm
Sounds like DC.
xoxoxoBruce • Jun 27, 2004 9:40 am
Originally posted by sycamore


And this is a problem...why?
Columbine.;)
elSicomoro • Jun 27, 2004 11:54 am
Originally posted by perth
Because they have more money than God and have driven housing prices way the fuck up. And most of 'em dont know how to drive in the summer, let alone the winter.


Ah, I see. Now, let's talk about what happened to the original inhabitants of the state...

;)
perth • Jun 27, 2004 1:14 pm
Originally posted by sycamore


Ah, I see. Now, let's talk about what happened to the original inhabitants of the state...

;)

Hey, shaddap! None of this pot/kettle/black stuff from you.

One thing I will say for Colorado, we have some damn fine microbreweries.
xoxoxoBruce • Jun 27, 2004 5:21 pm
And 3.2 beer.:vomit:
marichiko • Jul 5, 2004 3:15 pm
wolf wrote:
Park City. I looked it up.

I became confused by the South Park episode.

But the statement stands otherwise ... what had been a perfectly good state has gotten an influx of liberals who no longer just ski and leave. They stay, and have, from what I understand, changed the character of the state.


I only just now noticed this thread due to the new format. Wolf, I'm afraid you are working under some misapprehension regarding the political make-up of Colorado. It remains a very conservative state except for a few small enclaves like, Boulder, home of the University of Colorado; and possibly one or two ski towns, Aspen being the most notable example. Places like Aspen and Telluride and the rest have very small numbers of year 'round residents, so they do little to counteract the largely Republican make-up of big population centers like Colorado Springs or the extremely conservative element of ranchers and farmers who live in rural Colorado outside the glitzy ski resorts. We liberals here in Colorado form a small and beleagured group. Our govener is Republican, the majority of the state legislature is Republican and the Colorado Congressional delegation is mostly Republican. I think you are mixing up Colorado with some other state.

As far as Blue's question regarding, Lowery: I used to go there with my Dad when he was still with the military. Since that time the base has been down-graded to the vanishing point, and I believe it no longer has any official existance.