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06-19-2007, 07:19 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Christmas Lights Still/Lazy Neighbor!!!
My neighbor is a nice guy...always very polite. However he has to be the laziest SOB on the planet! He had one of those plastic, build it yourself sheds in a box next to his house for over a year before he had his daughter and her boyfriend put it together! Then they had a beautiful new walkway put in the front of the house......he let his grass grow to about a foot high before he finally hired a landscaper to come cut it!?!? Why spend the dough on a beautiful brick walkway when you let the grass grow too high to see the darn thing??? They also left their Christmas tree in the front window till almost the middle of February before they took it down!!!! Alright.......this is the part that really peeves me.......its friggin mid-June.....they took down all their Christmas lights a few months ago......except the damn icicle string that is dangling from the front gutter.........I am damn sick of looking at it!!!!!!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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06-19-2007, 07:34 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Let your dog crap on his front lawn
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06-19-2007, 07:40 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,182
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06-19-2007, 09:45 AM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 8,672
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Seriously Larry....is he a fisherman? My lawn is always higher than my neighbors, fall leaves pile up until late Nov. etc. Im not a slob but my yard is the last thing on my list since my weekends are in the suds
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making s-b.com a kinder, gentler place for all 
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06-19-2007, 01:15 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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No! He is home all the time....just does nothing?!?!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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06-19-2007, 01:23 PM
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Boston Anglah
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Sitting on top of the world with my legs hangin free
Posts: 3,322
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Christmas in July!
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Used hard and put away dirty....
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06-26-2007, 03:10 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: SC
Posts: 149
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As a Rhode Islander living in the south, it just burns me up to see Christmas lights up all year long. It doesn't even phase most people here unless they are actually turned on too.
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06-30-2007, 09:16 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 10
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Hehehe, BigFish, I empathize with you entirely on the lawn, but maybe on the Christmas lights your neighbor is just a very big lover of Christmas.  But then again I would say that given I look like the patriarch of Christmas himself. (Not Jesus, the other one) Lol
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06-30-2007, 05:51 PM
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><(((°> ><((( °> ><(((°>
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Falmouth, Ma
Posts: 1,520
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No, he's not lazy, he's just early for next x-mas |
60 % of the time, it works every time.
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06-30-2007, 06:15 PM
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got gas?
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 1,716
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is he sick or depressed or has A.D.D... Don't be a hater.  |
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07-09-2007, 10:56 PM
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...and in person!
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Scituate MA
Posts: 999
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my icicle lights came down two days ago due to heat fatique on the gutter clips. I like having the white lights around the porch. this winter I will be using icicle lights inside the porch - so the wife and inlaws and nosy neighbors dont complain - which can then come down whenever I feel like it (if ever) and straight lines along the gutters that will stay up all winter long.
they arent christmas lights in my mind anyway.
they are night-scape lights
I have been thinking of running the icicle lights across the back side of the house to use as lighting for summer parties and barbecueus.
I havent seen StripedBass party lights yet...
but I do have a couple strings of red chili peppers.
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07-16-2008, 11:24 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Bulletin!!
On a good note....my neighbor finally got around to taking his Christmas lights down! Its only July 16th! Shame is he is gonna have to put them back up in 5 months??  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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07-16-2008, 11:49 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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I am the lazy neighbor, but I mind my own business.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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07-16-2008, 12:00 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,178
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Who Cares  .....if the guys wants to have Pink Flamingos and a Statue of the Madonna in a half bathtub on his front lawn means nothing to me.
Just as long as he leaves my Tractor Tire Planter and Garden Gnomes alone I'm OK with him. |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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07-16-2008, 12:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Cumberland,RI
Posts: 8,555
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Maybe they were 4 th of July lights that he put up early?
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Saltheart
Custom Crafted Rods by Saltheart
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07-16-2008, 12:45 PM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
Posts: 5,871
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
No! He is home all the time....just does nothing?!?! |
So my neighbor after he got foreclosed on moved to your neighborhood?
SWEET!
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Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
Who Cares .....if the guys wants to have Pink Flamingos and a Statue of the Madonna in a half bathtub on his front lawn means nothing to me. |
Those are portugese people. 
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Just as long as he leaves my Tractor Tire Planter and Garden Gnomes alone I'm OK with him.
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Order more garden gnomes.
One by one make them face his yard and house.
Make sure to do this at night when he doesn't notice it. |
Ski Quicks Hole
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07-16-2008, 02:10 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,178
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We use to do this fund-raiser with the scouts where if you donated, say $25 to the troop we would sneak into someones yard and "Flamingo" them...they'd wake up in the morning and there would be a dozen or so pink flamingos on there front lawn.
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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07-16-2008, 03:29 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: N.K.
Posts: 1,330
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I recently came across a sasquatch garden statue in one of those airmall books on airplanes.A bunch of them in the front yard would be fun.
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07-16-2008, 04:44 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Between the thighs
Posts: 559
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Sounds like someone needs to get laid.....get a coffee pot for home and cut his puter line for a few months cause he's sounding like that cs fella.
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07-16-2008, 05:42 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 4 hours from my favorite place
Posts: 5,366
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I admit I still have a wooden frosty the snowman in the flower bed....he was there till April as a joke and so many people busted me about it I then said he would stay there all year!
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Simplify.......
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07-16-2008, 05:57 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
We use to do this fund-raiser with the scouts where if you donated, say $25 to the troop we would sneak into someones yard and "Flamingo" them...they'd wake up in the morning and there would be a dozen or so pink flamingos on there front lawn.
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A private school in Mansfield curently does that.
They've stolen 6 flamingos from yard, or maybe my wife donated them I haven't gotten the straight answer yet. |
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07-17-2008, 09:24 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
Posts: 5,451
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
My neighbor is a nice guy...always very polite. However he has to be the laziest SOB on the planet! He had one of those plastic, build it yourself sheds in a box next to his house for over a year before he had his daughter and her boyfriend put it together! Then they had a beautiful new walkway put in the front of the house......he let his grass grow to about a foot high before he finally hired a landscaper to come cut it!?!? Why spend the dough on a beautiful brick walkway when you let the grass grow too high to see the darn thing??? They also left their Christmas tree in the front window till almost the middle of February before they took it down!!!! Alright.......this is the part that really peeves me.......its friggin mid-June.....they took down all their Christmas lights a few months ago......except the damn icicle string that is dangling from the front gutter.........I am damn sick of looking at it!!!!!! |
LARRY, IF YOU DON'T CALM DOWN ONE OF THESE DAYS THESE LITTLE PEEVES ARE GOING CAUSE YOU TO DROP UNEXPECTEDLY LIKE A STONE!!!!
Chill out Bro! |
Why even try......... 
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07-19-2008, 04:37 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flaptail
LARRY, IF YOU DON'T CALM DOWN ONE OF THESE DAYS THESE LITTLE PEEVES ARE GOING CAUSE YOU TO DROP UNEXPECTEDLY LIKE A STONE!!!!
Chill out Bro!
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Hey, BF - I've got one thing to say.
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"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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07-19-2008, 07:03 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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I venture to guess if one of you had a neighbor directly across the street who left his Christmas decorations up all year long, or had 2 broken down jalopies on the lawn, or let his lawn and shrubs grow rampant without cutting them ever.....you might also get a little tired of looking at them......in fact I can guarantee it! I was not stressed about it or anything....just damn sick and tired of looking out my living room window across the street and seeing these icicle lights dangling off his gutter in mid freakin July for the past 2 years! They are gone now, I am happy! He is a very good neighbor though, nice folks, so of course I never said anything or would I! I had thought of a covert zero dark thirty mission to cross the street and take them down myself once or twice!  High octane for me always! |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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07-19-2008, 09:43 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Take him fishin Lawrence
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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07-19-2008, 09:53 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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See Karl...here is the thing! I am most considerate of my neighbors! I keep my yard clean, I am quiet, try to help them out when ever I can with anything they may need....I have even snow blowed their driveways out for them before they get home from work so they do not have to park in the street while they clean it themselves! I am just good like that......and I know I have great neighbors and I am thankful for that! The lights were not a HUGE problem....just an irritation that I found amusing and would make a good thread......which it has. I am however, not a neighbor you want on your bad side........I can be the biggest prick on the planet if nudged in that direction! 
By the way....their daughter takes care of our cats when we are away. Just real good people. Just thought it was funny how someone goes to all the trouble of taking down all of their decorations 2 Christmas' in a row......and just leaves the dang lights up there for 2 dang summers? |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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07-19-2008, 10:18 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,178
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I live directly across the street from a delapidated junk yard......adds character to the nieghborhood  |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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07-21-2008, 08:39 PM
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...and in person!
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Scituate MA
Posts: 999
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turns out my kid went crazy with the lights and me being the great dad I am climbed out on the porch roof to add even more! they stayed up till sometime after valentines day. - might have even been march or april |
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07-21-2008, 08:51 PM
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...and in person!
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Scituate MA
Posts: 999
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here they are in all their glory:
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07-22-2008, 11:11 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Burlington
Posts: 2,290
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Karl F
Larry... you have it made... Trust Me.. I know of which I speak...
if he was my nieghbor, I'd cut his grass, clip his hedges.. and throw him a BBQ.. and give him plugs.....
"He is a Nice Guy"....
that is all you need to know... and be gratefull for.....
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Karl - you haven't run that guy out of town yet?? 
MTL are those penguins in the windows??  |
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