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25 February 2008

"Rag and bone!" "Ragaboe!" i want a return of a new rag and bone man, or a vehicle so i can be one. Most probably just a community that would use one.→[More:]
Let me trade you your unwanted shirt for this pretty paper box
Your useless shoes could use a swapping
for this robot, thanks for shopping
Barter your forsaken knives for these colored rocks
Do you want to barter
that apple for a garter?

post by: ethylene at: 23:26 | 7 comments

Take a powder.

posted by ethylene 25 February | 23:28

Cool! Thanks!

(They're in RI! Bonus points!!)

posted by CitrusFreak12 26 February | 00:32

I haven't seen one in decades. When I was a kid there was one left using a horse and cart who would come down our street still doing the old mournful RaaaaaaaaaAAAAG'n'BONE!" call.

He must have been about the last of them.

We must be due for a comeback though: it's convenient and ultra eco-friendly, even using a zero-carbon-emission vehicle.

posted by TheophileEscargot 26 February | 02:24

"a zero-carbon-emission vehicle"? Isn't that most every vehicle on the planet?

And don't we all have an almost zero carbon footprint?

Or wait, maybe you meant Carbon dioxide?

sorry. end of pedantic peeve.

posted by arse_hat 26 February | 03:25

No, I meant carbon monoxide, net carbon dioxide, and unburnt-hydrocarbon particulate emissions considered together.

Don't try to out-pedant a trained physicist turned computer programmer ;-)

posted by TheophileEscargot 26 February | 04:30

Pedants rule, OK! Or more precisely, exhibit certain of the conventional trappings of leadership

posted by plinth 26 February | 11:29

Ragaboe reminds me of this:
≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by plinth 27 February | 08:43

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