In a message dated 98-02-12 07:12:08 EST, [log in to unmask] writes:

> > I suppose it could either have to do with Native American earth mounds,
> or
>  > possibly the need of earth movers. I can't imagine it is a reference to
> early
>  > architectural styles in our rural/agrarian sandpile - a complex colony
> built
>  > on the dirt in our woods. Urban development for us used to mean throwing
> rocks
>  > at the dirt-mound houses on the other side until they were obliterated.
>  > Sometimes we hit each other and that usually resulted in the houses being
>  > saved (historic preservation by default) as we were too then busy beating
> each
>  > other up, or running for help, to worry about the stiff-plastic citizens.
>  >
>  > ][<en
>
>  ----
>
>  Ken
>
>  I'm real dumb, explain this to me.

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