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Missed it by that much....
A little old lady from North Carolina had worked in and around her family’s dairy farm since she was old enough to walk, with hours of hard work and little compensation…
So when canned Carnation Milk became available in grocery stores, she read an advertisement offering $5000 for the best slogan/rhyme beginning with “Carnation milk is best of all ....”
She said to herself “ I know all about milking cows and dairy farms… I can do this!”
She sent in her entry, and about a week later, a black limo drove up in front of her house… A man got out and said, “Carnation LOVED your entry so much, we are here to award you $1000, even though we WILL NOT Be able to use it...
Here is her entry
Carnation Milk
Is best of all,
No toots to pull ,
No hay to haul,
No buckets to wash,
No s**t to pitch ,
Just poke a hole
In the Son-of-a-Bitch
So when canned Carnation Milk became available in grocery stores, she read an advertisement offering $5000 for the best slogan/rhyme beginning with “Carnation milk is best of all ....”
She said to herself “ I know all about milking cows and dairy farms… I can do this!”
She sent in her entry, and about a week later, a black limo drove up in front of her house… A man got out and said, “Carnation LOVED your entry so much, we are here to award you $1000, even though we WILL NOT Be able to use it...
Here is her entry
Carnation Milk
Is best of all,
No toots to pull ,
No hay to haul,
No buckets to wash,
No s**t to pitch ,
Just poke a hole
In the Son-of-a-Bitch
theboss
Power User
and these grocery plastic bags that I was using as garbage bags and poop bags for the dog are not available anymore so I have to buy plastic bags to replace them.... how clever.
Dave91TM
Power User
well yes ,but some of it, is apparently recycleable.
31415926 is the answer. Unfortunately it doesn't specify how many of the "first digits"
Most of the supposedly recyclable plastic materials you put in your recycle bin never gets recycled. Only 2 of the 7 kinds of plastic are recycled, although you can put them all in your bin because if you had to pick out all the types you can't recycle, it would never get done and would end up as garbage anyway. But picking through recyclables does give tens of thousands of people a job. Of what's left, those ketchup and mustard bottles, milk jugs, shampoo bottles, salad trays, etc., only about 9% in Canada (considerably less in many municipalities), ever gets recycled due to contamination issues. Yes Gladys, everything you toss in the bin has to be rinsed clean. Otherwise it is discarded and goes for garbage anyway. And by the way, plastic bags are not supposed to be put in your recycle bin either. You are supposed to take them personally to the recycle depots ( I think some grocery stores also accept them), as they tangle and wrap up and jam the recycle machinery. How many of us do that....
So at the end of the day, recycle is one of the many environmentally friendly words we love to think we're doing our part with, but developed countries tend to do a very poor job of recycling. Thank goodness though that they have a number of poorer developing countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, etc. to ship garbage and plastics to so we have them to blame for dumping it in the ocean anyway. Last year Canada shipped 202 million kg's of plastic to other countries. Most went to the US first and then beyond, where it will all end up on the Vancouver shoreline eventually....
PS. Don't tell the orange felon about the 202 million or he'll put that on the tariff list too.
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