NP: Developers and environmentalists

[Robin Landseadel]

The real joke is that all that real estate owned by the Pynchon family  
and by the Stearns family got invested into other stuff, then got  
huge, then [as brokerage houses] they fell hard. Pynchon & Company  
tanking was the leading edge of the 30's depression and the fall of  
Bear/Stearns was the leading edge of our depression.

And yeah, it's that Pynchon family, and the "S" in T.S. Eliot is  
"Stearns."

Wasteland ho!
On Jul 30, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Page wrote:

> Good legal opinion, but I had something else in mind. Perhaps I  
> ought to have noted that it is a joke.
>
> A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the trees. An  
> environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the trees.
>
> Yuk yuk. Or, yuck yuck.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net 
> >
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:30 PM
> Subject: Re: NP: Developers and environmentalists
>
>
>> On Jul 30, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Page wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone know the difference between a developer and an
>>> environmentalist?
>>
>> An developer follows the American Waste Doctrine, an environmentalist
>> follows the British Waste Doctrine:
>>
>> Pynchon V. Stearns
>> 11 Metcalf (Mass.), 304. - 1846.:
>>
>> . . . As to the alleged acts of waste on the other part of the
>> premises, the plaintiff relied upon sundry facts which are not
>> disputed . . .