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Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: May 23 2008,10:02   

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Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ May 23 2008,11:31)
Half of everything is "opposite that Starbucks". The other half is "next to that Starbucks".

True true.

I'm reminded of Lewis Black's epic piece about the fact that he has discovered the end of the universe. I.e. that bit between two Starbucks facing each other on the same street.

Anyway, I'm off to Starbucks....

Louis

What's Starbucks?

LOL Don't be mean just because you live in an apparently civilised country as opposed to an apparently uncivilised one, or one which, for some reason* is trying very hard to emulate an uncivilised one.

Louis

*Love the USA though I do, and I genuinely do love it and its people, I am constantly bemused by the "Special Relationship"**. I can only think it's because we, as a nation, are too lazy to learn French, and that the words "Entente Cordiale" sound to the Little Britainers like some kind of soft drink. We should stop mincing about, join Europe and get on with life. Doesn't mean that the USA can't play too (it needs to be more positively outward looking, by which I mean having a foreign policy beyond "They're foreign, bomb them". Learning from your own mistakes is clever, learning form the mistakes of others is genius. It's time we all shaped up, but can I hope just a little bit that the USA will learn from the imperialist cock ups of Europe?), it just means that we should strong forge links closer to home as well as across the Atlantic. I've always thought that the UK's future lies in Europe, mainly because they have better cafes, cuisine, women and mountains. ;-)

**Which seems to be the same as the relationship between a beaten trailer park wife and her abusive uneducated thug of a husband, as Marcus Brigstocke put so memorably.

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(Permalink) Posted: May 23 2008,10:31   

Quote (Louis @ May 23 2008,05:02)
   
Quote (Alan Fox @ May 23 2008,15:18)
   
Quote (Louis @ May 23 2008,04:16)
     
Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ May 23 2008,11:31)
Half of everything is "opposite that Starbucks". The other half is "next to that Starbucks".

True true.

I'm reminded of Lewis Black's epic piece about the fact that he has discovered the end of the universe. I.e. that bit between two Starbucks facing each other on the same street.

Anyway, I'm off to Starbucks....

Louis

What's Starbucks?

LOL Don't be mean just because you live in an apparently civilised country as opposed to an apparently uncivilised one, or one which, for some reason* is trying very hard to emulate an uncivilised one.

Louis

*Love the USA though I do, and I genuinely do love it and its people, I am constantly bemused by the "Special Relationship"**. I can only think it's because we, as a nation, are too lazy to learn French, and that the words "Entente Cordiale" sound to the Little Britainers like some kind of soft drink. We should stop mincing about, join Europe and get on with life. Doesn't mean that the USA can't play too (it needs to be more positively outward looking, by which I mean having a foreign policy beyond "They're foreign, bomb them". Learning from your own mistakes is clever, learning form the mistakes of others is genius. It's time we all shaped up, but can I hope just a little bit that the USA will learn from the imperialist cock ups of Europe?), it just means that we should strong forge links closer to home as well as across the Atlantic. I've always thought that the UK's future lies in Europe, mainly because they have better cafes, cuisine, women and mountains. ;-)

**Which seems to be the same as the relationship between a beaten trailer park wife and her abusive uneducated thug of a husband, as Marcus Brigstocke put so memorably.

Bloody hell you read a lot into my post. No really, what is Starbucks?

Anyway nobody noticed my other bit of meanness;

Edit to add that I forgot to add that I edited the URL, sorry.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: May 23 2008,10:34   

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Indianapolis, Indiana

Go fast, turn left.

I was confused at first, but then I realized you must be referring to the Major Taylor Velodrome.   ;)

Yep.

I've watched a few races there - but was a roadie, not a trackie when I had my USCF license.

OBTW, like J-Dog, I grew up in Toledo, OH.  Dunno if he's old enough to remember Tiedtke's, however.

My dad helped "organize"  Tiedke's (or maybe got fired when he tried to organize it?) and met my Mom while he was working there before WWII, and he was big into Org Labor all his life.  He was seriously pissed when I bought my first car and it was a Triumph TR3. Imported!  Put Good American Auto Workers out of work!  

I don't remember Tiedke's, so I think it was bought out before my time.

What are the odds we're both here?  Do we need a new thread to find out who grew up closest, rather than farthest away?

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(Permalink) Posted: May 23 2008,11:56   

Quote (Alan Fox @ May 23 2008,11:31)
Bloody hell you read a lot into my post. No really, what is Starbucks?

A coffee house chain that's based in (ahem) Seattle of all places.

The coffee's mediocre, the prices are outrageous, and it's the place to see and be seen by the mindless hordes of lemmings that wouldn't know good coffee if it bit them.

Most irritating of all, instead of ordering your coffee in small, medium, or large, it crashes right through the stupid and pretentious barrier by labeling its sizes as "tall, venti, and grande" (or maybe vice versa on the last two, I forget).

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Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: May 23 2008,11:58   

Quote (Alan Fox @ May 23 2008,16:31)
[SNIP]

Bloody hell you read a lot into my post. No really, what is Starbucks?

Anyway nobody noticed my other bit of meanness;

[SNIP]

LOL I noticed your other bit of meanness. I was amused.

As for what is Starbucks.....well, I don't really know. Perhaps it's something to do with the Beatles!

;-)

Louis

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(Permalink) Posted: May 23 2008,12:26   

Quote (Lou FCD @ May 23 2008,06:56)
Quote (Alan Fox @ May 23 2008,11:31)
Bloody hell you read a lot into my post. No really, what is Starbucks?

A coffee house chain that's based in (ahem) Seattle of all places.

The coffee's mediocre, the prices are outrageous, and it's the place to see and be seen by the mindless hordes of lemmings that wouldn't know good coffee if it bit them.

Most irritating of all, instead of ordering your coffee in small, medium, or large, it crashes right through the stupid and pretentious barrier by labeling its sizes as "tall, venti, and grande" (or maybe vice versa on the last two, I forget).

Thanks Lou. Can't seem to get a straight answer out of Louis; He's rambling on about beatles now, God help him.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: May 23 2008,12:45   

Quote (Lou FCD @ May 23 2008,11:56)
       
Quote (Alan Fox @ May 23 2008,11:31)
Bloody hell you read a lot into my post. No really, what is Starbucks?

A coffee house chain that's based in (ahem) Seattle of all places.

The coffee's mediocre, the prices are outrageous, and it's the place to see and be seen by the mindless hordes of lemmings that wouldn't know good coffee if it bit them.

Most irritating of all, instead of ordering your coffee in small, medium, or large, it crashes right through the stupid and pretentious barrier by labeling its sizes as "tall, venti, and grande" (or maybe vice versa on the last two, I forget).

Tall, grande, and venti, in that order. You can actually get small, medium, and large sizes, too. They just don't advertise them. (Americans prefer their coffee supersized, along with everything else.)

Alan, Starbucks is coffee almost as good as the average coffee served throughout Europe and South America. It is head and shoulders better than the thin swill that typically passes for coffee here in the states (what my Dutch friends call "look-through coffee"). Other than that, Starbucks is indeed mediocre and over-priced. But when you can't find anything that meets your standards, lower your standards. Hence I go there often. :) It's really good coffee!!

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(Permalink) Posted: May 23 2008,12:58   

Quote (dogdidit @ May 23 2008,13:45)
Quote (Lou FCD @ May 23 2008,11:56)
         
Quote (Alan Fox @ May 23 2008,11:31)
Bloody hell you read a lot into my post. No really, what is Starbucks?

A coffee house chain that's based in (ahem) Seattle of all places.

The coffee's mediocre, the prices are outrageous, and it's the place to see and be seen by the mindless hordes of lemmings that wouldn't know good coffee if it bit them.

Most irritating of all, instead of ordering your coffee in small, medium, or large, it crashes right through the stupid and pretentious barrier by labeling its sizes as "tall, venti, and grande" (or maybe vice versa on the last two, I forget).

Tall, grande, and venti, in that order. You can actually get small, medium, and large sizes, too. They just don't advertise them. (Americans prefer their coffee supersized, along with everything else.)

Alan, Starbucks is coffee almost as good as the average coffee served throughout Europe and South America. It is head and shoulders better than the thin swill that typically passes for coffee here in the states (what my Dutch friends call "look-through coffee"). Other than that, Starbucks is indeed mediocre and over-priced. But when you can't find anything that meets your standards, lower your standards. Hence I go there often. :) It's really good coffee!!

Don't listen to him, Alan.  It's little more than warm water with a few coffee grounds and a magic prayer waved over it.

My daughter brings me the frozen coffee drinks from time to time, and I like them, but don't tell anyone.  You'll ruin my coffee-curmudgeon reputation.

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(Permalink) Posted: May 23 2008,15:25   

Quote (Louis @ May 23 2008,10:58)
Quote (Alan Fox @ May 23 2008,16:31)
[SNIP]

Bloody hell you read a lot into my post. No really, what is Starbucks?

Anyway nobody noticed my other bit of meanness;

[SNIP]

LOL I noticed your other bit of meanness. I was amused.

As for what is Starbucks.....well, I don't really know. Perhaps it's something to do with the Beatles!

;-)

Louis

Or, it may have something to do with Battlestar Galactica...

  
EyeNoU



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(Permalink) Posted: May 23 2008,16:51   

Starbucks isn't a very good name for the place. The way your bucks disappear when you step in the door is more reminiscent of a black hole........

  
Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: May 23 2008,16:56   

Quote (Alan Fox @ May 23 2008,18:26)
Quote (Lou FCD @ May 23 2008,06:56)
Quote (Alan Fox @ May 23 2008,11:31)
Bloody hell you read a lot into my post. No really, what is Starbucks?

A coffee house chain that's based in (ahem) Seattle of all places.

The coffee's mediocre, the prices are outrageous, and it's the place to see and be seen by the mindless hordes of lemmings that wouldn't know good coffee if it bit them.

Most irritating of all, instead of ordering your coffee in small, medium, or large, it crashes right through the stupid and pretentious barrier by labeling its sizes as "tall, venti, and grande" (or maybe vice versa on the last two, I forget).

Thanks Lou. Can't seem to get a straight answer out of Louis; He's rambling on about beatles now, God help him.

I'd rather he didn't. I like to help myself.

Waaaait a minute! D'oh foiled again!

Louis

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(Permalink) Posted: May 23 2008,17:03   

Quote (dogdidit @ May 23 2008,18:45)
Quote (Lou FCD @ May 23 2008,11:56)
         
Quote (Alan Fox @ May 23 2008,11:31)
Bloody hell you read a lot into my post. No really, what is Starbucks?

A coffee house chain that's based in (ahem) Seattle of all places.

The coffee's mediocre, the prices are outrageous, and it's the place to see and be seen by the mindless hordes of lemmings that wouldn't know good coffee if it bit them.

Most irritating of all, instead of ordering your coffee in small, medium, or large, it crashes right through the stupid and pretentious barrier by labeling its sizes as "tall, venti, and grande" (or maybe vice versa on the last two, I forget).

Tall, grande, and venti, in that order. You can actually get small, medium, and large sizes, too. They just don't advertise them. (Americans prefer their coffee supersized, along with everything else.)

Alan, Starbucks is coffee almost as good as the average coffee served throughout Europe and South America. It is head and shoulders better than the thin swill that typically passes for coffee here in the states (what my Dutch friends call "look-through coffee"). Other than that, Starbucks is indeed mediocre and over-priced. But when you can't find anything that meets your standards, lower your standards. Hence I go there often. :) It's really good coffee!!

Coffee should be like a body building, midget porn star from Turin with Zambian ancestry:

Short, black, Italian, hint of the exotic, powerful, and {ahem} punches well above it's weight.

Louis

P.S. Ok so that simile didn't exactly work, but I've been drinking. Sue me. Pay day is a wondeful thing. Nipped out of work at 6:30pm (hey, it's P.O.E.T.S. Day*, I can leave early) dropped the car off and popped to the shops to get some food for the weekend. Ended up piss drunk four hours later with a loaf of Polish bread and something suspiciously like some sausages. Luckily made the smart move and took the beloved with me. Thus the couch and I will not be spending the night together! Hoorah! And a merry christmas to one and all. Up your knickers Queenie!

* Piss Off Early Tomorrow's Saturday. Weekly British festival day.

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(Permalink) Posted: May 23 2008,19:30   

Quote (stevestory @ May 22 2008,23:50)
Too bad you aren't around The Triangle area of North Carolina. We could have a contest.

my money would be on that godless commie.
i'm no stranger to over indulgence but he drinks like there is truly no tomorrow.

but it would be interesting to watch.  :)

how often do you get down to charlotte?

  
Art



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(Permalink) Posted: May 23 2008,22:37   

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Indianapolis, Indiana

....

Home of the latest Rape of The Taxpayer NFL stadium.

I thought they built that for DCI Championships.

   
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(Permalink) Posted: May 23 2008,22:40   

What's very wierd is that there is actually a Starbuck, MN.  It's not big (population under 500), and it doesn't have a Starbucks.  Go figure.   :)

  
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(Permalink) Posted: May 24 2008,03:37   

I'm in San Luis Obispo, CA, within walking distance of 3 Starbucks and 4 non-Starbucks coffeshops.

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BWE



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(Permalink) Posted: May 24 2008,05:32   

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I'm orginally from Minnesota too.

I recently moved to *redacted* not far from *redacted* still in good ole MN. ;) I've been to Germany, Austria, France, Jamaica, Ecuador/Galapagos, and Canada. I loved Paris. I COULD LOVE LONDON! (I want to go there in a major way, being that I was an English major and all.)



which, despite the film Fargo (some of it filmed near my former house, and including someone I know as an extra, neither of which have anything to do with Fargo), I had never heard of until moving to Minneapolis. I will never eat it again. I'd sooner eat haggis. You think I'm kidding but I'm not. :)

I like cheese, but not Wisconsin cheese (what's up with them?) except for fresh cheese curds and the sharp cheddar.

I am not Scandinavian. No, no, no. :)

Every Christmas and Thanksgiving until my grandmother couldn't cook any more. Maybe she did it so we wouldn't feel so bad... er.. y'know...

Haven't touched it since. Good god, it was her came over from the old country, not me.

I live in Portland on the west coast of the USA.
You could almost see my house in this picture but the bldg on the right is blocking it.


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BWE



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(Permalink) Posted: May 24 2008,05:51   

Quote (digitus impudicus @ May 21 2008,23:30)
Sighs heavily...and delurks...

OK, I am probably about the only one here who could possibly tie Erasmus for small towndom.  I was raised in Byhalia MS, currently live in the big metropolis of Memphis, TN (well, just a tech outside of it).  

I am a scary thing, an intelligent redneck.  I do at least have a Bachelors degree in Econ/Finance.  That, in theory, should at least qualify me as mildly evil.  
:D

link

I grew up somewhere close to what's now 162nd. The road was gravel and maybe 10 neighbors within 3 miles. It was all Weyerhauser land around us and the closest town was Machias about 5 miles away. School, 3 miles. We were at the top of one hill and school at the top of another. I really did walk uphill in the snow both ways to school. There are paved roads there now by the look of this map. I haven't had a reason to go back and try to find the farmhouse. I can't tell where it would be from this map anyway.

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(Permalink) Posted: May 24 2008,05:56   

Anyone from here?

(p.s. Sorry if this came up before and I missed it.)

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(Permalink) Posted: May 24 2008,09:41   

Quote (BWE @ May 24 2008,03:51)
 
Quote (digitus impudicus @ May 21 2008,23:30)
Sighs heavily...and delurks...

OK, I am probably about the only one here who could possibly tie Erasmus for small towndom.  I was raised in Byhalia MS, currently live in the big metropolis of Memphis, TN (well, just a tech outside of it).  

I am a scary thing, an intelligent redneck.  I do at least have a Bachelors degree in Econ/Finance.  That, in theory, should at least qualify me as mildly evil.  
:D

link

I grew up somewhere close to what's now 162nd. The road was gravel and maybe 10 neighbors within 3 miles. It was all Weyerhauser land around us and the closest town was Machias about 5 miles away. School, 3 miles. We were at the top of one hill and school at the top of another. I really did walk uphill in the snow both ways to school.

Did you live in a shoebox in the middle of the road?

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(Permalink) Posted: June 11 2008,12:35   

I'm planning to do a road trip to get to the Society for the Study of Evolution conference that starts on the morning of the 20th. That routes me through Michigan, then Illinois through Chicago, then through Wisconsin. I could see getting to somewhere in the Chicago area by evening of the 18th, then getting to within an hour or two drive of the conference site on the 19th. Coming back, the conference ends on the 24th, so I'd either have an evening near Minneapolis or head back to somewhere near Chicago again, which would open up the evening of the 24th or 25th for social activities near Chicago. So if there are any folks who are in the right vicinities and times who would like to socialize a bit and let me set up my air mattress on the floor, I'm open to suggestions.

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(Permalink) Posted: June 11 2008,12:37   

Quote (dheddle @ May 24 2008,06:56)
Anyone from here?

(p.s. Sorry if this came up before and I missed it.)

I think that's where the Uncommonly Dense servers are located.

   
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(Permalink) Posted: June 11 2008,13:04   

Right, let's give this thread some class and get another Londoner into it.

Cheers!

//raises vodka glass.

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(Permalink) Posted: June 11 2008,14:44   

Quote (Wonderpants @ June 11 2008,13:04)
Right, let's give this thread some class and get another Londoner into it.

Cheers!

//raises vodka glass.

... I think our London mates will only do that if they can lure you into a fast-paced Mornington Crescent Death Match.

Caveat Emperor!

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(Permalink) Posted: June 11 2008,15:03   

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ June 11 2008,12:35)
I'm planning to do a road trip to get to the Society for the Study of Evolution conference that starts on the morning of the 20th. That routes me through Michigan, then Illinois through Chicago, then through Wisconsin. I could see getting to somewhere in the Chicago area by evening of the 18th, then getting to within an hour or two drive of the conference site on the 19th. Coming back, the conference ends on the 24th, so I'd either have an evening near Minneapolis or head back to somewhere near Chicago again, which would open up the evening of the 24th or 25th for social activities near Chicago. So if there are any folks who are in the right vicinities and times who would like to socialize a bit and let me set up my air mattress on the floor, I'm open to suggestions.

Wes  - I just PM'd you about this - but if you can manage it, I think we have to meet up with Rich - I still owe him for drinks and dinner. Oh, and trashing his favorite establishment.

However, I want you to know that it was Prof Steve-Steve that is actually responsible.

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(Permalink) Posted: June 11 2008,15:14   

That rascal. I've heard, though, that PSS may be coming to SSE, too.

Minneapolis, watch out...

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(Permalink) Posted: June 11 2008,15:25   

You teasers. I'll stand us a nice dinner in Chicago - Wes deserves it for his kitzmiller work. We can then be entertained a J dog destroys the crockery.

Let me know, folks.

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(Permalink) Posted: June 11 2008,16:06   

So is it to be Mpls or Chicagger?

I do believe I promised PSS a Darwin shirt in his size. D'oh! I forgot. :)



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(Permalink) Posted: June 11 2008,22:52   

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Quote (digitus impudicus @ May 21 2008,23:30)
Sighs heavily...and delurks...

OK, I am probably about the only one here who could possibly tie Erasmus for small towndom.  I was raised in Byhalia MS, currently live in the big metropolis of Memphis, TN (well, just a tech outside of it).  

I am a scary thing, an intelligent redneck.  I do at least have a Bachelors degree in Econ/Finance.  That, in theory, should at least qualify me as mildly evil.  
:D

link

I grew up somewhere close to what's now 162nd. The road was gravel and maybe 10 neighbors within 3 miles. It was all Weyerhauser land around us and the closest town was Machias about 5 miles away. School, 3 miles. We were at the top of one hill and school at the top of another. I really did walk uphill in the snow both ways to school. There are paved roads there now by the look of this map. I haven't had a reason to go back and try to find the farmhouse. I can't tell where it would be from this map anyway.

:D[/quote]
link

I grew up somewhere close to what's now 162nd. The road was gravel and maybe 10 neighbors within 3 miles. It was all Weyerhauser land around us and the closest town was Machias about 5 miles away. School, 3 miles. We were at the top of one hill and school at the top of another. I really did walk uphill in the snow both ways to school. There are paved roads there now by the look of this map. I haven't had a reason to go back and try to find the farmhouse. I can't tell where it would be from this map anyway.


Google earth doesn't have good detail, but the 2003 data from the gub'mint says Byhalia's population is 717 or so.  Look for Route 309 heading north from Byhalia.  Somewhere before you get to Goodman Rd, and before the river, on the lleft of 309 you will see a big house with a pond in the back of it, a little house to the south, and what looks like a bigger house (actually a barn).  My grandfather built all of those, but I only remember that the smaller house used to be a barn (and remember him turning it into a house), and I remember him and my uncle Ted making a toothpick model of what would be the big barn later.  I used to fish out of the pond in back, and of course the bass and bream would be our dinner.  There were lots of woods around, and before it became as populated as you see on the mapquest picture, I commonly roamed through a lot of those woods armed (pistol, rifle, or shotgun, it depended on the mood, we had lots of feral dogs in that area).  It is still pretty rural, my grandfathers family lived in Moscow TN.  He had to hunt for squirrels to help feed the family when he was a "yun'un".

  
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(Permalink) Posted: June 12 2008,06:49   

Chicago area, either evening of the 18th or the 25th, or both, depending on how folks feel about an an excuse to socialize on Hump Day, and availability of a patch of floor someplace for me to crash.

Given it's a four-hour drive from home, and a seven hour drive from Minneapolis, I could probably be on hand for something on the afternoon of the 18th in Chicago, and what the schedule for the 25th would be depends on what I can arrange nearer Minneapolis for the evening of the 24th. If nothing, I'd be on the road the evening of the 24th and near Chicago near noon.

Edited by Wesley R. Elsberry on June 12 2008,06:53

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