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it's not easy wanking green, taking shit too seriously, won't someone think of the vowels

Boing?
I don't think I've ever seen BoingBoing wank here - is there a reason for that or just that nobody thinks to look there? The place explodes at least once a fortnight, and an experienced wanka can pick where the good stuff is gonna hit. The lastest 'splodey on the forum follows one of Cory Doctorow's posts - Hot day fun for kids - paint the house with water!

You can probably see where this is going: the "Don't you know there's a drought on?" folks are slugging it out with the "let the kids have their fun" folks, so there's fun for all.

Just a tip - for those who don't regularly frequent BoingBoing, it's a moderated forum - if someone has pissed a mod off you'll see their post come up "disemvowelled" - you can usually make out what is being said if you want to hard enough.

I couldn't find any tags that said "conservation" or "environmentalism", so I've left them off - sorry!

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	out_bottle 2008-07-02 03:37 pm UTC (link)
	I was in Portland in May! You guys have FOUR-HEADED Drinking Fountains! They were like the Hydras of Fountains! I kept taking pics with my cell phone. I'm from a drought state... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

platedlizard
2008-07-02 08:46 pm UTC (link)

Those are known as the Benson Bubblers. Back in Ye Olde Days Mr. Benson was tired of loggers going straight to the saloons after work and drinking their paycheck away because they were thirsty, so he paid to have 20 of those put in. The city thought it was a good idea, so it put in another 40 or so.

They've been modified so that when we do actually have a drought (hey, anything's possible!) the city can stop the constant flow and put a drinking fountain faucet on one of the bubblers. There's also a timer on them so they don't run at night, and a few other modifications that reduce the amount of water running through them. More information here.

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