Tell It To George is a collection of thoughts from here and away, from people who want to get their two cents worth in, without using their names.

Now making the rounds on the Internet, some funny lines:

"Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!"

"I have a degree in Liberal Arts. Do you want fries with that?"

"The gene pool could use a little chlorine."

"God must love stupid people; he made so many."

"Don't take life too seriously; no one gets out alive."

"My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn't."

Why don't you find out what all those plans for housing at the Maine Yankee site were all about? This was about a year ago or maybe two years ago. One week we were going to have all this workers' housing, and the next week it got scrapped. Nobody ever explained why. The people of Wiscasset never got an explanation from anybody about this. Why are we always the last ones to know? It seems to me these things come and go, and nobody questions anything.

It's great we can watch Wiscasset selectmen's meetings on cable TV now, but the camera should be on the selectmen and the speakers, not just the podium. Somebody fix that sucker!

"Emptiest Village in Maine?"

Speaking of changing ordinances for a gasification plant, let's focus on the ugly cell phone towers that are scattered around the area. Let's get rid of them.

How 'bout an ordinance that prohibits people from knocking on your door or putting propaganda in your mailbox without receiving permission from the town. The same goes for when they walk into your place of business and try to do the same thing.

While we're at it, how 'bout a noise ordinance on motorcycles?

How 'bout fines for littering!

Then there are emissions testing for automobiles to keep them from polluting the atmosphere.

How much prettier "The Prettiest Village in Maine" would be if we all paid more attention to our properties. We could go on and on, so let's not just go for one ordinance change that suits your present need, let's put some in that will benefit all of us.

I hope all the non-Wiscasset residents who are so much opposed to this gasification permit process are certainly on the bandwagon when this bypass issue is at the front of things. Can you visualize all that concrete cutting into our pristine environment, or all the noise made by those vehicles whizzing by Wiscasset instead of stopping in it, at 65-70 miles an hour? It would be

nice if this were a destination and not a pass through.

The state asks us for suggestions on how to cut spending. Here's one - don't waste $79 million on a bypass for something that's an inconvenience two months out of a year. I wonder if those who want to build this have ever lived where traffic is a problem 365 days a year! "Maine, the Way Life Should Be" - what's pristine about a bypass cutting through the countryside?

We're taxed to death and anytime we need more money, we tax something else. Let's pass out "nose meters" to the people when they cross the bridge into Kittery, so that we can tax them for breathing the pristine Maine air. The view is nice but is this what we really had in mind for "The Way Life Should Be?"

There are issues that need to be addressed here in Wiscasset. What we really need is a committee dedicated to try to move this town forward. Is another half empty storage unit facility on Route 1 going to help do that?? I do believe that this town is a nice place to live. I believe that there is a silent majority here that is also tired of all the negative comments and need to speak up. But, if people are just willing to accept things the way they are, then pretty soon this will be "The Emptiest Village in Maine."

I'm sick, sick, sick of it - all this talk about the gasification plant. I don't care which way the vote goes, I'm just sick, sick, sick of hearing about it. I feel like I've been gassed. Can we all just get along now?

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