Why are we so obsessed with dirt?

[Oeditpus Rex]

We were attacked on U.S. soil.

American troops and journalists are on the ground.

Green Acres is the place to be.

:shrug:




One of these things is not like the other...

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

1. farm living is the life for me

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. MAHNY!

You growin' corn in your terrace garden? :hi:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

4. It does grow great with a penthouse view

:rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Oeditpus Rex........

Good question........and I have no idea as to the answer!

:hi:

[u4ic]

5. Because you can put a fence round it

and call it Murka (or England, or France, or Canada...or 10 Oak Street)

[MrCoffee]

6. This is such a dirty thread

[leetrisck]

7. It's not being made anymore

what you see is what you get.

[skygazer]

8. Yeah, it used to be the sky

"The sky's the limit!"

"He's got his head in the clouds."

"I'm higher than a kite...."

[Arkham House]

9. Why do you hate (the sacred soil of) America?

[Fox Mulder]

10. Because some of us are geologists...

or were/are geology students. :hi:

[pscot]

11. Like so many things today

It got its start back in the fifties, when Hubert H. Humphrey addressed a group of Farmer/Labor party members as "tons of soil", instead of "sons of toil".