Going off the grid doesn't even require a trip into the boonies.
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You take a fucking "shuttle" (actually a decommissioned school bus) to the boonies.
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Maybe they're located in the boonies; maybe there's no convenient public transit nearby.
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Being in the boonies means sympathetic local officials and staff who are extremely loyal.
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There are ramshackle cement rectangles squatting under rain clouds in the sheep-strewn boonies.
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Mom lost that riding the bus from her gig in the boonies to the downtown bus depot.
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Way out in the solar boonies, there's Pluto and Charon, its largest moon, which eclipse each other.
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We were in the New England boonies, protesting to no one but ourselves and an overcast sky.
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Tech Tip Q. Some of us in the boonies must rely entirely on cellular Wi-Fi hot spots.
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My best friend is living at home right now, so she has to take the subway back out to the boonies.
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These days, to be way out in the boonies means you're out in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in the sticks.
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Motorcycles can follow a footpath than no jeep or 4x4 could traverse, allowing them to penetrate the most gnarly boonies for almost nothing.
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I went to the Burmese boonies to see how the sweet spirit is made and to down a few rounds with the locals.
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"People assume that our customers must either be super seniors or folks that live in the boonies with no internet access," she says.
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Maybe it was a matter of gas and mileage; maybe they didn't want their kid spending time out in the boonies with someone like me.
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There is an upgrade that mitigates fall damage, but it's locked behind the upgrade tree tied to a particular character who lives way out in the boonies.
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And the internet is a big place, so if you're in the boonies surrounded by white folk (most media is white folk) get online and DM people!
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An East German doctor (Nina Hoss) in 1980 Berlin applies for an exit visa and is banished to the boonies, where she plots her escape to the West with her lover.
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Some astronomers are convinced that there is an undiscovered Neptune-sized "Planet Nine," located way out in the boonies of our solar system, about 20 times farther from the Sun than Neptune.
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Whether you live in a temperate urban environment or a snowbound cottage in the boonies, taking a few simple steps before the temperatures drop can prevent a lot of headaches down the road.
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For them, Vietnam was a war of humping the boonies on a constant search for an enemy that didn't want to be found, sloshing through rice paddies, hacking through jungles or rummaging through hooches.
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"It's so unfortunate that I can't hurt you without getting in trouble right now," he told Alex during their two-on-one date in the boonies, after Alex clued JoJo in to Chad's violent threats.
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KS: No. No, but say you're going into the city for a thing and you don't want to dress and be dressed in the car, and driving up from whenever, from like where you live out in the boonies, for example.
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Up to that point, close encounters, when they were reported, generally took place in isolated locales—a lonely country highway or a deserted farm out in the boonies where there would be very few people to see what was happening.
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When my family came to America, I used to live near an Amish community in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, out in the boonies, and the first time I heard "click, click, click," I turned around and saw a horse and buggy outside.
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I went to my parents' house for Christmas and one of the main draws of heading up to the boonies to see them—apart from, you know, seeing them—is that they have a kickass fireplace and I get to build and stoke fires all through cocktail hour and beyond.
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Later boonies are called "Hat, Sun" or "Hat, Sun, Hot Weather", which is still the designation for this type of cover. They are made in various patterns, in cotton ripstop or nylon blend cloth.
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After successfully resolving the problem Marmaduke will "ballast his double-bottoms with Sandpaper Gin." Marmaduke's knowledge comes from hands-on experience operating steam power plants and all manner of machinery. Later in the series a son, Guy Newcomen Surfaceblow, was introduced. He is a university-trained engineer who also has field experience that gives him credibility when working with hard-boiled characters in the boonies.
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Her mother has recently left the family and her father is taking her to live with her grandparents as he feels he cannot take care of Miyori and work at the same time. Miyori considers herself a modern city girl from Tokyo and so resents being abandoned in the boonies. Although her grandparents are very nice, Miyori is dour and generally standoffish. Almost immediately though, strange things start to happen.
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The term evolved into American slang to refer to the countryside or isolated rural/wilderness area, regardless of topography or vegetation. Similar slang or colloquial words are "the sticks", "the wops", "the backblocks", or "Woop Woop" in Australia, "the wop-wops" in New Zealand, "bundu" in South Africa (etymologically unrelated to "boondocks" or "bundok"), and "out in the tules" in California. The diminutive "boonies" can be heard in films about the Vietnam War such as Brian De Palma's Casualties of War (1989) used by American soldiers to designate rural areas of Vietnam.
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Podunk is used in American English for a hypothetical small town regarded as typically dull or insignificant, a place that you have likely never heard of, though still in the United States. Another example is East Cupcake to refer to a generic small town in the Midwestern United States. Similarly, the boondocks or the boonies are used in American English to refer to very rural areas without many inhabitants. In New Zealand English, Woop Woops (or, alternatively, Wop-wops) is a (generally humorous) name for an out-of-the-way location, usually rural and sparsely populated.
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Paquette is cited to commonly subscribed to Spider-Man (The Amazing Spider-Man and Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider- Man) and also Thor comic books at the "boonies" at a younger age before his time attending film school. Alongside Paquette, the story was written by Ben Arfman and Kelsey Beachum. Comic book and screenwriter Christos Gage co-wrote the script, and comic book writer Dan Slott provided additional story contributions. Insomniac researched different iterations of the character to understand what made a compelling Spider-Man story, after which Paquette said "okay let's forget all that stuff", aiming to not draw too much from any single version.
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The origins of Victoria Bitter (VB) date back to Victoria Brewery founder and head brewer Thomas Aitken, who developed the recipe in 1854. Like most Australian lagers, VB is made using a wortstream brewing process, and uses a portion of cane sugar to thin out the body of the beer. It is available in 750 mL bottles (commonly referred to as a "Longneck", "Seven-Fifty", "Bomber", "King Brown", or a "Tallie"), 500 mL cans ("Lunch greens"), 375 mL bottles ("Stubbies", a "Pint" or "Short-neck"), 375 mL cans ("Tinnies", "Boonies", "Green Cans" or "Gweens"), and 250 mL bottles ("Grenades", "Twisties" or "Throwies"). For a limited time only, VB was available in the Northern Territory in a 1-litre can nicknamed a 'Killer can' (Kilo can). As with all packaged beer sold in Australia it was for many years only available in 750 mL or 26 2/3 fl oz (1/6 imperial gallon) bottles, until the introduction of "stubbies" and smaller cans.
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