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[2, DrugSenseBot001]:  Greetings BigBong in Australia ! ;-]
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: BigBong, here is the latest drug news from Australia:
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: Australia: Cannabis Limit 'Weak'
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1240/a05.html 2003-08-17
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: Australia: Ex-Addicts Left High And Dry
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1231/a03.html 2003-08-16
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[3, BigBong]: webgreetings obs
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[2, DrugSenseBot001]: I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member. - Groucho Marx (Attributed)
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: [ 8/19/2003 7:08:39 PM ET ]
[1, bruce_bbl]: ;-)~
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: breaking drug news by Bot! http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/  Get the latest, first. One-click hawking lets you newshawk faster than ever!
[0, observer]: _
[3, BigBong]: 
[0, observer]: hi bb
>> User Ric comes in from 0-2pool115-157.nas4.tukwila2.wa.us.da.qwest.net at line 4.
[2, DrugSenseBot001]:  Greetings Ric in the United States ! ;-]
[3, BigBong]: webgreetings obs
[0, observer]: high Ric 
[3, BigBong]: webgreetings ric
[4, Ric]: g'devenin
[4, Ric]: ;-)
[4, Ric]: "They are here to help us, not to bust us ... DON'T BE STUPID. They have a job to do, we are here to change that job" - Meril Draper, Praising Seattle police for cooperating with Hempfest Aug 2003 
[4, Ric]: whuttup boys?
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: [ 8/19/2003 7:15:39 PM ET ]
[2, DrugSenseBot001]:  Get ready! It is *almost* 4:20 in Harare, Oslo, Paris, Honolulu, Amsterdam, Prague, Johannesburg, Rome, Barcelona, Belgrade, Kiritimati, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Stockholm, Cairo, Cape Town, Madrid, Copenhagen, Vienna, Warsaw, Frankfurt, Geneva, Zagreb, Zurich    (it is 4:15 there now) 
[3, BigBong]: seattle hemp fest 
[3, BigBong]: it is the talking point
[4, Ric]: my horticulture teacher said definition of a weed is any plant that someone decides they don't want growing there
[3, BigBong]: am so happy it went well
[4, Ric]: me 3 bb
[4, Ric]: me 3
[4, Ric]: we hadda snafu with the fire dept re: my stage/Casbah Teahouse tent
[3, BigBong]: to 420 thousand is the target for next year?
[4, Ric]: other than that it went very very well
[4, Ric]: haha .. sounds good to me
[3, BigBong]: it's a gettable number
[4, Ric]: vendors got kinda angry the city made us make everyone charge sales tax
[0, observer]: _
[3, BigBong]: vendors at hempfest are like pharisses in th temple
[3, BigBong]: http://www.pythagorus.org.uk/rusty/
[4, Ric]: but in reality, all they hadda do was back 8.3% outta their totals on top of the flat 10% the city charged on their gross sales on top of Seattle having the nations highest gas prices
[4, Ric]: (i'd be angry too ... lol)
[4, Ric]: 18.3% tax to sell at hempfest .. ugh
[4, Ric]: plus the fire dept dinged us for not having the correct permit for the casbah
[2, DrugSenseBot001]:  It's now 4:20 in Harare, Oslo, Paris, Honolulu, Amsterdam, Prague, Johannesburg, Rome, Barcelona, Belgrade, Kiritimati, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Stockholm, Cairo, Cape Town, Madrid, Copenhagen, Vienna, Warsaw, Frankfurt, Geneva, Zagreb, Zurich
[4, Ric]: as well as made us tear it down mid-day sat - middle of the fest - and figure out how to get it fire retarded
[4, Ric]: lol
[4, Ric]: all in all tho .. if ya take the hour:15 minutes of trauma from the 20 hours of fest - - - WE RAWKED!
[4, Ric]: ready
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: Ric is ready, anyone else?
[3, BigBong]: sounds like mardigrass to me!
[4, Ric]: twas tanfastic bb
[4, Ric]: ;-D
[3, BigBong]: tho we say, we don't need no permits from governemnt for an act of civil disobediance
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces. - Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), from Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar (1894)
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: [ 8/19/2003 7:22:39 PM ET ]
[4, Ric]: i heard that from the vendors -- they were more eloquent tho
[4, Ric]: they kept sayin 'fuck the MAN!'
[4, Ric]: hehehe
[3, BigBong]: but they are there gouging profit from smokers
[4, Ric]: hmm
[3, BigBong]: not saying don't have vendors
[4, Ric]: gosh no, we need em .. otherwise we'd have to charge admission
[3, BigBong]: just saying the number of hotdogs sold is not what a pot festival is all about
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: [$cannabis] Ravens' McAlister Charged With DUI (US) If
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: McAlister were convicted, it would trigger an
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: evaluation that could place him in the NFL's substance
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: abuse program, which requires players to undergo
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: treatment and regular drug testing. Three years ago,
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: McAlister was arrested on a charge of misdemeanor
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: possession of marijuana.
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/article/sportingnews5271.htm
[4, Ric]: bands bring the audience, vendors pay for the venue, speakers teach
[3, BigBong]: understand
[0, observer]: _
[4, Ric]: i'm really glads i aint in vendor services tho
>> User 0001 comes in from ACA4620C.ipt.aol.com at line 5.
>> [5] 0001 is called JONATHAN now.
[2, DrugSenseBot001]:  Greetings JONATHAN in the United States ! ;-]
[3, BigBong]: is just at end of it all it always seems the illegal dealers and dudes selling food make all the $
[4, Ric]: they did
[4, Ric]: pirate vendors cleaned up
[3, BigBong]: webgreetings JOHNATHON
[3, BigBong]: GOT THE CAPS LOCK KEY STUCK DOWN?
[4, Ric]: no pirate food vendors tho .. heat, crowds, insurance mean we gotta be extra vigilant on food sales
[3, BigBong]: LOL
[3, BigBong]: insurance we also say "we don't need no insurnce for an act of civil disobediance
[4, Ric]: i caught a lil hippy girl selling mushroom chocolates .. chaneled my 4th grade teacher i did ... made her share with the whole class
[3, BigBong]: each year the local authorities try to get us to insure etc
[3, BigBong]: each year we say
[4, Ric]: hehe
[3, BigBong]: we are a harm minimization orgnization that exists to facilitate a pot protest
[3, BigBong]: mardigrass will happen whether we actually plan it or not
[4, Ric]: our harm minimization is Q-Patrol, the GLBT version of Guardian Angels
[3, BigBong]: we have the jungle patrol
[4, Ric]: haha, right on
[3, BigBong]: tho nowadays it's called "the MOP"
[3, BigBong]: mardigrass organizing people
[3, BigBong]: the mop is volunteerrs who arrive at festival
[3, BigBong]: i am a member of the mob]
[5, JONATHAN]: I JUST GOT A GOOD JOB BUT I DID NOT THINK I WILL GET IT AND I SMOKE SOME CRACK A WEEK AGO AFTER I WAS OFF OF IT TWO WEEKS HOW CAN I GET IT OUT OF MY SYSTEM PLEASE HELP ME GOD HAVE GIVE ME THIS JOB
[3, BigBong]: mardigrass organizing bunch
[4, Ric]: g'devenin jonathon ... hows thurston county today?
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: "Working together we can treat Washington's 40 billion dollar a year addiction to the War on Drugs." - Polly Wilmoth Waco, TX
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: [ 8/19/2003 7:29:39 PM ET ]
[4, Ric]: god aint here jon
[3, BigBong]: god ain't anywhere
[1, bruce_bbl]: ;-)~
[4, Ric]: crack isn't going to stay in your system for a week - yer ok
[3, BigBong]: smoking crack like playing russian roulette with 6 bullets
[4, Ric]: agree'd
[3, BigBong]: it's a blast!
[4, Ric]: lil jack horner, sittin on the corner .. without no shoes and clothes
[4, Ric]: this aint funny cuz he took his money and he sniffed it up his nose
[0, observer]: _
[3, BigBong]: lol
[4, Ric]: (GrandMasterFlash and the Furious Five - White lines)
[4, Ric]: ;-)
[3, BigBong]: know the song
[4, Ric]: wanna be serious a sec jon?
[4, Ric]: why did you go back to crack after having been 'off it'?
[3, BigBong]: <------------- putting on serious hat
[4, Ric]: any ideas?
[3, BigBong]: *~~~<{;O)--~
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: breaking drug news by Bot! http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/  Get the latest, first. One-click hawking lets you newshawk faster than ever!
[4, Ric]: that aint no serious hat .. thats a big hemp stocking bb
[4, Ric]: hahaha
[3, BigBong]: *~~~<{;O)--~ is not a very serious hat 
>> [5] JONATHAN left the chat.
[0, observer]: :-/
[4, Ric]: ah gee
[4, Ric]: i tried
[3, BigBong]: [[[[{ ;O)--~
[0, observer]: lol
[3, BigBong]: can't win em all
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair, "The Jungle"
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: [ 8/19/2003 7:36:39 PM ET ]
[4, Ric]: i approached a coupla african-american teens ... asked em what attracted them to hempfest
[4, Ric]: know what she said?
[3, BigBong]: wot?
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: wot is url
[4, Ric]: 'STEP BACK MAN!'
[3, BigBong]: forget wot
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: BigBong, I have forgotten wot.
[4, Ric]: hahaha
[3, BigBong]: step back?
[4, Ric]: yeah .. she thought i was flirting
[3, BigBong]: go away?
[3, BigBong]: ahh
[3, BigBong]: hoep you told them of your official reasons fer asking
[4, Ric]: lol, i tried to explain then she started hollerin and ran
[0, observer]: _
[4, Ric]: was a kinda thuggish crowd this year - even a vendor (adult male) took a swing at our vendor coordinator (adult female)
[4, Ric]: vendors complained of alotta thefts too
[4, Ric]: again tho, these are 20 second episodes from 20 hours of full-blown magic
[4, Ric]: twuly rawked this year
[4, Ric]: ;-)
[4, Ric]: bruce's stage clogged BOTH pathways!
[4, Ric]: Woot!
[0, observer]: lol
[4, Ric]: many times too
[3, BigBong]: baby has woken up and i have to split
[4, Ric]: ours blocked the main entrance path for 45 minutes with Zaphara and her belly-dancers
[3, BigBong]: am sooooooooo gald hassles minor
[3, BigBong]: atthe hemp fest
[4, Ric]: yes, minor bb
[4, Ric]: ;-)
[4, Ric]: no word of arrests
[3, BigBong]: that is the MOST important aspect
[3, BigBong]: unarrested
[4, Ric]: it was as packed if not moreso than last year, and we had an extra 12-15 acres of space this year
[4, Ric]: prelim counts are 200,000+ .. we'll have finals soon
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: 1938 - " If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with marijuana,he would drop dead of fright."-Anslinger,FBN,Hearst News paper quote
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: [ 8/19/2003 7:43:39 PM ET ]
[3, BigBong]: sure wish i had of been there in the Big Bong Mobile
[4, Ric]: (all for FREE!)
[4, Ric]: come next year
[3, BigBong]: the seattle web show dint work by the way
[4, Ric]: ~L~
[3, BigBong]: i checked heaps of times
[4, Ric]: i know
[4, Ric]: see
[4, Ric]: <-- not an electrician
[3, BigBong]: anyway, gots to, might be back later
[3, BigBong]: till next
[3, BigBong]: peace
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: peace BigBong
[4, Ric]: i had him plug into the coffee-maker circuit that was comped to my budget ... but it was off during day, on at night
[3, BigBong]: lol
[4, Ric]: plus the fire dept fiasco totally screwed his set-up
[4, Ric]: sunday was better, yes?
[0, observer]: _
[3, BigBong]: no live stram at at all as far as i know
[4, Ric]: oh no
[3, BigBong]: the link was broken
[4, Ric]: oky, well never fear
[3, BigBong]: unless i was going to wrong website
[4, Ric]: it was all taped
[3, BigBong]: which i doubt
[4, Ric]: it'll be available thru archives soon
[4, Ric]: only forum that dint go was mine
[4, Ric]: ;-/
[3, BigBong]: http://www.zrealm.com/2livevideo.html
[4, Ric]: med mj
[4, Ric]: hmm
[4, Ric]: iu'll go peek
[0, observer]: rolling
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: observer is rolling now.
[3, BigBong]: http://65.198.188.14:8080/ramgen/encoder/zrealm
[3, BigBong]: wa what dint connect
>> User 0001 comes in from ACC421A8.ipt.aol.com at line 5.
>> [5] 0001 is called JONATHAN now.
[2, DrugSenseBot001]:  Greetings JONATHAN in the United States ! ;-]
[4, Ric]: ZREALM OFFICIAL NOTE My generator crapped out. Sorry about the sound issues. We webcast this morning SATURDAY for about 3-4 hours , but due to power failure had to stop. Resolved all issues by 7 pm saturday and will be on SUNDAY with much more stability.I apologize for the technical failures and appreciate your patience
[4, Ric]: nice guy .. twas my generater, not his
[4, Ric]: lol
[3, BigBong]: scroll down and see my comment
[1, bruce_bbl]: ;-)~
[3, BigBong]: below chat room, which also had no one in it everytime i checked
[4, Ric]: webgreetings wwwish I wwwas there in the www.BigBongMobile.com "deomstrating" the www.BigBongBurgerBar.com Cannabis Catering Concept... who knows, maybe next year ;O)--~ peace Max Stone
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: ''For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise...'' -- Isaiah 9:5
[2, DrugSenseBot001]: [ 8/19/2003 7:50:39 PM ET ]
[4, Ric]: lol bb
[3, BigBong]: lol at isiah
[5, JONATHAN]: IAM BACK HOW CAN I MAKE SURE IT OUT OF MY BODY
[4, Ric]: wait'll he gets the hempire strikes back online
[4, Ric]: <--is in it
[3, BigBong]: lol at hempire
[4, Ric]: plus i did a coupla bits and pices trhis year
>> Your new name is chewbudda (Line 3).
[3, chewbudda]: ;O)--~
[4, Ric]: and yes, jack and woody were there
[4, Ric]: woody walked the fest, they put him in a staffshirt and hat and no one knew
[3, chewbudda]: lol
>> Your new name is BigBong (Line 3).
[3, BigBong]: 
[0, observer]: _
[3, BigBong]: i do got to go, me baby is a wake and it's time to play
[3, BigBong]: paris is currently working on
[4, Ric]: oky, kiss the baby
[3, BigBong]: www.nimbinausrtalia.com/cater
[3, BigBong]: which is why me mr momming so much at moment
[3, BigBong]: paris is journeys mother
[4, Ric]: meril is a mr mom too
[3, BigBong]: i love it
[4, Ric]: "They are here to help us, not to bust us ... DON'T BE STUPID. They have a job to do, we are here to change that job" - Meril Draper, Praising Seattle police for cooperating with Hempfest Aug 2003 
[3, BigBong]: got to go, go check out the www.nimbinausrtalia.com/cater
[3, BigBong]: when you get a chance
[4, Ric]: dill wo
[3, BigBong]: till next
[4, Ric]: ;-)
[3, BigBong]: ;O)--~
[4, Ric]: 'ave a good one
[3, BigBong]: bbbbye
>> Goodbye, cu !

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