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Old 04-18-2014, 06:30 PM
 
Location: Way South of the Volvo Line
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I don't think in all my many trips to Maine and all the time I have spent there I have never seen a concrete lawn jockey, a confederate flag, Klansmen, used needles or chore boy in the street, things I have seen many times in Ohio.

This is what goes on where I live now, and it was a national headline.

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Let's see...I've seen a few lawn jockeys, daintily painted in color, a few confederate flags on pickups, and I have come across spent needles in out-of-the -way highway rest rooms. From what I understand the method of choice for Maine addicts is prescription opiates and street heroin for smoking.
Maine is less corrupted by these ills, but they nonetheless still exist here and demand attention for the the health of our community.

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Old 04-19-2014, 03:22 AM
 
Location: Maine's garden spot
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Let's see...I've seen a few lawn jockeys, daintily painted in color, a few confederate flags on pickups, and I have come across spent needles in out-of-the -way highway rest rooms. From what I understand the method of choice for Maine addicts is prescription opiates and street heroin for smoking.
Maine is less corrupted by these ills, but they nonetheless still exist here and demand attention for the the health of our community.

Gov. LePage to support Narcan family access



I've got a badly painted white lawn jockey that some one gave me. I sat it near one of my shed doors and the wind blew the door open and broke off part of his arm. Now he's an amputee.
 
Old 04-19-2014, 04:08 AM
 
Location: Northern Maine
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What's a chore boy?
 
Old 04-19-2014, 05:40 AM
 
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What's a chore boy?
i think its a supersized sos pad

im not sure what a lawn jockey is...
 
Old 04-19-2014, 05:42 AM
 
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Why is no one talking about heroin here, yet Vermont is making national headlines for heroin? Is it bad? Are locals involved?

What is there to talk about? Illegal drugs of all kinds are in every area of every state in the USA and those who want them will find them and those who don't want them don't usually think about them.
 
Old 04-19-2014, 09:11 AM
 
Location: Lebanon, OH
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What's a chore boy?
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i think its a supersized sos pad

im not sure what a lawn jockey is...
Yep, chore boy is a pad that is used in small pieces in glass crack pipes in the same way that screens are used in pot pipes.

Lawn jockeys are little statues people put in their front yard to let the world know how classless they are, they used to be a lot more common than they are now but what are you saying by putting something like this in your front yard?

 
Old 04-19-2014, 10:19 AM
 
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ive never seen one of those... (lawn jockeys)
the pink flamingo, old tire planters and globes are much classier than that thing...
 
Old 04-19-2014, 02:13 PM
 
Location: Way South of the Volvo Line
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the lawn jockeys popularity is right up there with the Confederate flag.
 
Old 04-19-2014, 02:19 PM
 
Location: Central Maine
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Gee, haven't seen a lawn jockey in years. What I do see in Maine (though, thankfully not as much as I used to), are the wooden painted lawn ornaments pretending to be a rather... rotund woman bending over in a skirt. Like this one: Oops, sorry, link didn't work, but if you really want to see one they are out there.
 
Old 04-19-2014, 04:56 PM
 
Location: Lebanon, OH
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the lawn jockeys popularity is right up there with the Confederate flag.
The people who have them refer to the 5th grade as their "senior year."
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