Thanks Bruce. Its a beautiful long weekend here, the snow has melted. The trees are quite bare now, no colour left with our blink and you missed autumn. The turkey went in at 11:15 be ready at 5:40, can't wait!! Drive carefully.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I'm off to my sister's place later.
Enjoy it while you can.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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Thanks so much Becky, she'll appreciate it!
Wayne
Flintlock76Lady Firestorm
Sorry to hear that. I'll send my prayers her way.
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Alexanders (The mural still exists, it's a Bergen County storage warehouse while they try to figure out what to do with it!) and all the others.
You didn't care for the Bergen Mall? Too bad, it was a fun place, especially that restaurant they had there called "Wolfies." You could watch the chefs grilling steaks (Wow! Look at the flames!) and on a cold day it smelled so good!
For a while they had a neat little antique mall on the lower level, got some stuff there, AND the antique shows they had from time to time were a lot of fun. Lady Firestorm and I had a lot of fun at the shows, and there was a jeweler there where I bought her engagement ring. (With her looking over my shoulder so I didn't foul up! Romantic, huh?) And don't forget, Brentano's Books was there as well.
It's called the "Bergen Town Center" now, but none of us old-timers call it that.
The best attraction anywhere in the area was "The Pretzel Guy" at the Garden State Plaza, remember him at all? Best hot pretzels anywhere! I spent a lot of money at Schiller's Books there as well.
And I definately remember that "Chicken-In-A-Basket" place on Route 4 with that super-cool animated chicken on the roof! Never got to go there though, Mom and Dad weren't interested, and by the time I was driving it was too late, it was gone.
Here's one for you. Remember when gas stations gave away glassware with a fill-up? The joke was...
"Beautiful glassware you have! What gas station do you go to?"
"Those were the good old days, I hope they never come again!" Ah, it wasn't all bad, not by a long shot.
And there is the possibility W.C. Fields was talking about Prohibition!
North Jersey can still be a wonderland if you know your way around.
Korvette's, Alexander's (with the mural), the Masters Store, Best & Co. hell, all the department stores that were 'institutions' in my childhood in New York and New Jersey.
We were Riverside people - and Fashion Center when that opened. No truck with that Bergen Mall! Remember the diner across the way, with the animated chicken sign and the colossal sundaes with green and pink in the whipped cream?
But even if it's all collateral damage from that $37-odd trillion we sent to China so they could, like some demented 6th Avenue el in reverse, build their massive HSR system. I think in an awful lot of ways I'm with W.C.Fields: "Those were the good old days, I hope they never come again."
(Thinking about this, I find I can't remember what it was like not to be able to use a credit-card at a supermarket. Even though I have fond memories of books and books and books of Triple-S Blue Stamps from Grand Union...)
"Two Guys" (From Harrison,) the original name, I remember it well.
However, "Two Guys" was a department store, "Fubar Mfg." was a machine shop, no "relation."
Remember another place called "E.J. Korvette's," the department store? Word had it when I was in school the name came from "Eight Jewish Korea Vets." All us kids believed it, it made so much sense.
"Yeah, eight Jewish army veterans came home from Korea, started a business, and made it a success, and good for them!"
But the thing is, it wasn't true. The name came from the two founding partners, Edward, Joseph, and the "Korvette" came from the anti-submarine ship from WW2. Neither partner was in the Navy, but Ed had heard the name "corvette" and liked the sound of it. Interesting, huh?
I think the urban legend is more fun though!
Flintlock76Two WW2 veterans, fresh out of the service and starting a business with their GI Bill loans... "So what are we gonna call it?" "Hey, I know! How 'bout "Fubar Manufacturing?" Hee, hee, hee...
If I remember correctly, they wound up calling it "Two Guys" and it was world-famous in New Jersey right up until Crazy Eddie Antar cut the market out from under them...
Penny Trains Flintlock76 machine shop in Rochelle Park called "Fubar Manufacturing." Oh THAT"S where they make em!
Flintlock76 machine shop in Rochelle Park called "Fubar Manufacturing."
Oh THAT"S where they make em!
Yes, and I can imagine the backstory...
Two WW2 veterans, fresh out of the service and starting a business with their GI Bill loans...
"So what are we gonna call it?"
"Hey, I know! How 'bout "Fubar Manufacturing?" Hee, hee, hee..."
"Oh, yeaaaaah, they'll remember THAT!"
Right next to the "Dairy Queen." Couldn't miss it. Who knows how many ex-GI's lost it seeing the sign, to the mystification of their families?
Good time as any to tell those who don't know. Lady Firestorm lost her brother to lymphoma last night, very sad, he was a nice guy and a true gentleman. At least his suffering is over, that's a blessing if nothing else. I'll be heading up north for the services Friday morning, so I'll be "off the air" for a few days.
Terry and Dean moved there after the events of the movie....
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
Flintlock76machine shop in Rochelle Park called "Fubar Manufacturing."
Reminds me of a small factory in East Paterson, now Elmwood Park, NJ.
Place was called "Precision Screw."
To say nothing of a machine shop in Rochelle Park called "Fubar Manufacturing."
Flintlock76And what's that other thing ol' Red says? Oh, yeah... "If women don't find you handsome, at least they should find you handy!"
Or at least thoroughly equipped.
Reminds me of the old joke about the Reading conductor who got visibly riled every time he went past a factory located near West Trenton, with a prominent roof sign with its name displayed: "MURPHY'S TOOL WORKS".
A brakeman asked him one time why he found this so irritating. His reply was "Mine does, too, but I don't see the need to advertise."
SD70Dude And if the chainsaw breaks down you fix it with duct tape!
And if the chainsaw breaks down you fix it with duct tape!
And what's that other thing ol' Red says? Oh, yeah...
"If women don't find you handsome, at least they should find you handy!"
Worked in my case...
Snow tonight starting at midnight and continuing into the am. High tomorrow low 30'sF, 20's nighttime and continuing on like that for the next 7 days... so that's it, it's all over. Yeesh. Happy Thanksgiving indeed!
SD70DudeMost of us go into hibernation after Halloween, which makes it difficult to hold celebrations in late November.
As the immortal Red Green once said...
"I'd rather listen to a chainsaw for a week than an axe for six months!"
Bacon, smoked salmon, I can't live without them! I will definitely do something special on Canada's Thanksgiving day.
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selector ... the latest science says that eating processed and red meats isn't likely to adversely affect our lives as once thought.
My wife has gotten me -- not that it took much 'persuading' -- to embrace the principles of the AIP diet. Gotta love that autoimmune-safe lectin-free red raw MEAT!!
To paraphrase Herbert W. Armstrong -- Let's give thanks this Thanksgiving day ... and every day!
To add some guilt-free spice, the latest science says that eating processed and red meats isn't likely to adversely affect our lives as once thought.
Now, where'd my wife hide that bacon......
Flintlock76Man, who cares WHERE it comes from? It looks fantastic!
You're lookin' at about $108$84 (they sliced it themselves for the picture) worth of it in that picture ... and worth every penny.
Follow the link and order some of your own. I know I will. Just have to get my meat slicer out of storage...
... which started me thinking. They make corned beef for hash, but not to slice, and they don't have pastrami at all. Perhaps I need to schmooze a little to get 'em to think about redressing this.
Overmod Flintlock76 Oh wow, that Canadian bacon looks so goooooooood!!! Wayne, it's Canadian style bacon when it comes from Wisconsin. (They call it 'Canadian bacon' but they should really Know Better... )
Flintlock76 Oh wow, that Canadian bacon looks so goooooooood!!!
Wayne, it's Canadian style bacon when it comes from Wisconsin.
(They call it 'Canadian bacon' but they should really Know Better... )
Man, who cares WHERE it comes from? It looks fantastic!
Of course, there's some things Canadian you just can't get down here, for example cod tongues. You've gotta go to Newfoundland for those.
Don't knock 'em 'till you've tried 'em!
Flintlock76Oh wow, that Canadian bacon looks so goooooooood!!!
Overmod How did they get that date? Average all the historical events modulo 365/12 statistically, applying the Arrow Impossibility Theorem with vigor?
How did they get that date? Average all the historical events modulo 365/12 statistically, applying the Arrow Impossibility Theorem with vigor?
Most of us go into hibernation after Halloween, which makes it difficult to hold celebrations in late November.
Railroaders don't get to hibernate, which is why we are always so grumpy.
Penny Trains Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Oh wow, that Canadian bacon looks so goooooooood!!!
I suspect because of the following reasons: 1) It's the finale of the harvest season.. as supported by numerous Fall Fairs 2) A National Holiday was needed in the month of October in the same way Family Day was assigned to February. 3) For the majority of the geographic country ( but not the population majority) its the last of the good weather before all heck breaks loose. It's a big travel day so much safer. It's nice here today and tomorrow but by Halloween it will be -15 with a foot of snow on the ground and very icy.
Put that all together and you arrive at the second Monday in October as the magic date. Actually it is a great time to celebrate Thanksgiving with all the colours and crisp air. To celebrate on the same day as the USA would be a very horrible time of the year for travel and the harvest is long gone. We are too far North.
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