The Coffee Shop (a place to chat) Est. 2004

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JCtrain




Does cold coffee apeal to anyone?

My recent drop in income has put a halt to my spending on MRR stuff...I think this is going to be the case for awhile....

Cold coffee, NO NO NO. [xx(]

Iced Coffee, NO NO NO [xx(]

Hot Coffee, Yes, yes, yes. [:)]

What is the deal with your drop in income?

Did you see my "job offer" about working on airplanes? [;)]

Let's make a deal. [:)] [;)] [:D]

[lupo]

no cold coffee overhere!
we got a microwave!
Nukebrew for the crew!

btw;

GOOD MORNING
Y' ALLLLLLLLLLL!!!!

[philnrunt]

After wandering around the forum for a week or so, I finally stopped by here. And I like coffee, and I like tea, I love the java jive, and it loves me!
Just sent a note to lupo over on the backdrop site, saw he was on so I figured I'd better stop in just to get some hot joe.
As for Iced coffee, I could'nt even IMAGINE drinking it! Well, that is until about 3 months ago in Key West at the southernmost Starbucks in the US. Tried it, loved it decided that if it is made with joe it's gonna be tasty!
And for all of you, again I want to say thanks for being decent to us newbies.

[Anonymous]

[:D][:D] Good Morning all,
Just sitting back and sucking a big cup of coffee

[lupo]

[C=:-)][dinner][C=:-)][dinner][(-D][tup][tup][yeah][wow]
the lads brought in some fresh rolls and assorted pastries all stil hot from the bakershop across the square, gonna wa***hat down with FRESH coffee now, and than back to work! seeyall later!

[Anonymous]

Hey Lupo-

It's still the wee hours here in Georgia. Do you have to shout so loud? And locals around here say it like "good morning y'all"

And , no, I'm not having grits this morning. I hate grits. I also hate okra. And pulled pork, pigs feet, greens, chicken livers, and bright red food-colored hotdogs (They're so tasty and good for you, too. Reminds me of what Mrs. Rottencrotch, the high school cook, used to serve us w/ a twisted smile) I'm so sick of chicken too. That's all they seem to eat in the South. They even put chicken on pizza! They'll probably start having chicken meat ball sandwiches next..

What do you guys eat in the Netherlands? Tulips sound too sissy like - bacon lettuce and tulip sandwiches? You guys eat quiche I bet, and wear wooden shoes, too.

Heard you have a lot of dikes over there. Maybe Massachusetts can send you some of theirs. . .I can see the popups now- " Dike Brides From the States " "Get Married In Massachusetts "(w/ a disclaimer that it will not be legally recognized most anywhere else & esp in Texas),

My coffee is cold. My eyes are bloodshot. I'm being incredibly silly and probably offending someone's sister. Good Nite lupo and everyone else. . .

[philnrunt]

Hey Bill, did you ever try the chicken at Lady and Sons in Savannah? It will make you eat mor chikin, for sure! Boy, I sure love that town!
Now, let me show MY ignorance- I always heard that Gouda cheese served in a wooden shoe (sabots??) was breakfast fare in the Netherlands!
Lupo, a very long time ago, I saw a TV show about a supertanker training school in (I think) the Netherlands, do you know anything about this? They had miniature tankers they piloted around a scale Rotterdam or Amsterdam or some dam-ed place, and it was so neat!
I've seen another scale city, on a different show, and I dont know if this is the same place or not. But what I have seen of your country sure is beautiful.
Almost time to go home, so I think I'll have a cup of de-caf too. And one of those donuts. Guess not all stereotypes are false!

[egmurphy]

Okay, going with hot coffee this morning, but only because the a/c is still on.

A tip for making iced coffee, if you decide to try it at home. The wife makes ice cubes from coffee to put in the iced coffee. That way as the cubes melt they don't water down the coffee. And if you make it at home instead of buying it at Starbucks, you can put that money to good use on your layout.

One thing they do have over in the Netherlands, and the rest of Europe for that matter, is TRAINS, lots of TRAINS. They've got tons of passenger trains that are clean, comfortable, fast, on schedule and run frequently enough that you can really use them to get somewhere. I should have taken more photos while I was over there, but it was during a hiatus in my model railroading career.

Ed

[lupo]

Hi there Bill, Phil and Ed and all others frequenting the coffeeshop!

sorry Bill for shouting in the night, but if you want to be heard that is the best time to do it!
makes me rmember my youth: we used to wake up a complete neighbourhood once in while a by beating the cities empty 60 ft high 75,000 gallon gas storage tank with a sledgehammer, now that's making noise at night.
what we dutch eat: similar to the US we have Domino's and Pizza Hut, but i prefer our local pizza shop, we have mc Donalds and Burger King but I prefer home cooked burgers.
as I live in a fishing community at the coast (the flood barriers 7 miles from here were featured in a Discovery Channel episode of Extreme Engenering, imagine Bill why not every boy is keen to put his thumb in a ***. . . . . )
I love fresh clamps "mosselen" not to keen on other fish, shrimp, some lobster but they are widely available.
Because of our countries involvement in the far-east (indonesia), there are also a lot of chinese and indonesian restaurant and take-a-ways around.
The pastry I mentionned earlier consist of:
Eal roll : a bun baked with a piece of smoked eal in it,
a "Bolus" = dutch for turd, and that is how it looks, a string of dough dipped in syrup, baked and covered in sugar.
Sausage rolls, french pastry with a sausage baked in it.
we dutch eat lots of bread, especially for breakfast and lunch, the bakery across the square has dozens of types of bread.
getting nausea allready?
real dutch food is cooked with lots of potatoes, and vegetables served with meat and lots of gravy, and a lot of people ma***his together and call that a "prakje "
famous "prakjes" are "Peeën en Juun" =Carrots and Onions, or "Boerenkool with Worst " = green cabbage with smoked sausage, off course mashed and topped off again with gravy
now after all this gourmet-cuisine we get to the tulips, the last time the Dutch ate tulipsbulbs overhere was during the german occupation during WW2 when the people in a lot of our cities were starving because the germans took all food away to feed their army.
Phil: The supertanker driving school still exists, allthough modern computer simulated training ships are now more common use, like the flight simulators, but then a ships bridge instead of a cockpit
Ed : your remarks about our national railroad the NS, Nederlandse Spoorwegen about being on schedule would make the board of directors happy, but dutch travellers think they do not maintain schedule very well, it's only 90% of trains driving on time, but hey as a train is delayed for 30 minutes and the timetable says: one train every 15 minutes what's the problem. ( the pictures I posted earlier came from a website dedicated in NS bashing) and you are right, our railroad network is very busy, freight, passengers and highspeed trains on one network. Modernisation is on its way, they are building a separate TGV tracks and freight-line from worlds #1 port Rotterdam to the 'Ruhrgebiet" germanies main industrial area. In order to keep the people along the track happy, a lot of it is laid in tunnels underneath villages and roads. ( awesome structures, I had the opporunity to visit a Tunnel Boring Machine once as a friend was maintenance engineer on it, travel for 4 kilometers through an ill ventilated tunnel on a wobbly track in a steel coffin behind a 40 ton diesel switcher to get to the machine! )

AND NOW: The Wooden Shoe Story:
in the 21th century the #1 customer of the dutch wooden shoe factories are tourists, most from the US and Japan, some farmers still wear them to keep the dung out from between their toes, and nowadays the factory gives them a fair price for their old worn and smelly clogs, because they sell them to tourists in Amstedam: they just love those Authentic Used Wooden shoes.
when I was a boy my grandfather who had a groceries store and sold wooden shoes gave me a pair, but "accidently" I lost one of them very quick. you have to get used to wearing them, the first weeks are very painfull.

The tourist story goes for the Gouda cheese as well, most of us eat normal cheese, because Gouda cheese is quite expensive.

[Anonymous]

NO SCHOOL!...because theres like no chool so...I DONT HAVE TO GO!....heh
I FEEL life surge within me....power........power.
(Too much coffee?....no way)
anyway I really do need another cup of hot coffee.

[egmurphy]

Lupo

If we can make the (possibly incorrect) assumption that southern Nederlands cuisine is similar to northern Belgian cuisine, then you need to add 'stoofvlees' to the list. As I recall it's kind of a stew of beef chunks in a rich gravy, commonly served over french fries. Yum. Speaking of french fries (fritjes ??) they seemed to be the snack food of choice in that area. Street vendors everywhere with their deep fryers. You'd walk out and order a paper cone of fries. The locals liked them with mayonaise, although the vendors had about 15 different sauces. I used to ask for them with vinegar and would get some really strange looks.

And, since this is the coffee club, isn't it in your area where restaurants have those prepackaged individual serving coffee filters that fit over your cup, with the waiter pouring in boiling water and the coffee filtering down into your cup?? Good coffee, but no free refills with that system, unfortunately.

Lived in a suburb northeast of Antwerp only a couple of km from the border, but we didn't have nearly enough time to do much visiting up your way.

Ed

[cwclark]

yipee!..it's friday!!!!...time to go home and play with the trains!...ya'll have a good weekend!...see ya monday!

[Anonymous]

paper cones of french fries?
how about hot dogs to go with that?
Or Dutch sausages?

[egmurphy]

Actually, while french fries (they don't call them "french" fries there either, but they also don't refer to them as "freedom fries") are the most popular item, most sidewalk vendors that I recall seeing had an assortment of stuff, including sausages, some batter dipped like a corn dog, and some stuff that I didn't really recognize. Most of it got deep fried.

It's dinner time, talk of food is making me hungry. Wish I had some of those great mosselen that Lupo referred to. Ate a ton of them over there. But I'll take a pass on the "paling en t'groen" (or as close as I can remember it).

Today I tried making some handrails/grabirons for a small saddletank switcher I'm trying to detail. I'm not sure why I'm even attempting this. I have to use the head magnifier on high to work on them. I'm not sure I can even see them on the engine after it's all painted black.

That's about it for now..........waiting for my iced coffee...........................

Hasta luego

Ed

[Anonymous]

HI guys! Can you help me with the computer (again)? Ever since I got the Sasser Worm Norton Anti Virus stopped working in every way. I can't even get on the Symantec site to load! Any idea's about what to do?

[Anonymous]

Hi troops, man do I need some java, sitten here at my computer this evening I'm getten a littel droopy eyed. A Lupo, did you make the coffee this evening, taste mighty good. See what a good ole Southern edumacation, can get cha. You get to make some great coffee.

[Anonymous]

Dougal, since you can't access the site, why don't you call Symantec and see if their tech support can connect with your computer thru XP( I assume you're running XP) and they may be able to overide your problem, you know, the back door. Once in, they can run a cleanup program and fix your trbls. The only other way that I know of is to reload XP and hope that the damaged files can be fixed or quaranteened.

[Anonymous]

Jim (that's me) has lots of Southern roots. I do eat chicken but also love catfish which is another Southern food. Fried Okra is pretty good and here is one many of you probally have never heard of--Wilted Lettuce. I will let you all do some guessing on that one before I reveal how to make it. I like my Grandma's pickled beets but NOONE even comes close to making them like she did. She has been gone over 20 some years but she made the best sweet tea and pickled beets you have ever had. One of my favorite breakfast foods is biscuits and sausage gravy, no jelly on this southerner's biscuits, give me sausage gravy. [:D]

I broke down and turned on the air conditioning today. [:(] [:(!] I work 2nd shift but the house would get too hot for the dog with it. It was suspose to be 87 here today and the humidity was 84% at one time. I still will drink my coffee HOT. Iced coffee is unAmerican in my book. I will drink my coffee just the way God intended us to drink coffee--HOT, and for me no cream and no sugar. [:p] [;)]

My favorite fast food restaurants are:

Arby's
Captain D's
Taco Bell
Wendy's
Papa Johns (pizza of course [:D] )
Shotgun Dan's (yeah, more pizza and it is the BEST)

I like Red Lobster but it is way too expensive.

I don't drink Alcohol, unless you consider cough syrup Alcohol. [:0]

[lupo]

Morning y'all !
hey Ed, you are right, in my "essay" about dutch cuisine I quite forgot "The Snacbar" or like they call it in belgium "Friet Kot "
in a snackbar you buy french fries and lots of meat snacks like burgers, frikandellen, kroketten, trio's ( all made of meat byproducts, most people don't want to know wich ) all deep fryed with all kinds of sauce; mayonaise, ketchup, curry, peanutbuttersauce chopped raw onions, and combinations of that: like
"frietje oorlog" french fries with mayonaise and peanutbuttersauce,
the "frikandel special", sort of sausage served with a mix of ketchup, mayonaise and chopped onions and ofcourse the "frietje stoofvlees"

JC: the ever present paper cone where the fries were served in and was very handy, you could walk and eat at the same time,it is now replaced with plastic trays.

btw: Ed I live at the isles just northwest of Antwerp, it's a 45 minute drive from here.

[lupo]

Dougal, did you try http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ to exterminate the worm and all c[censored]p that it leaves behind? The fact you cannot get to the symantec site can be caused by the worm, in an effort to protect itself. hmm, starting to sound a bit eerie, like there is vermin living in you puter. and what Budliner suggestes also may help, delete or deinstall the anti-virus software and than try to reinstall it again.
good luck!

[philnrunt]

Good mornin' all, good to be back here at the shop. A cupper is just what I need now. Working graveyards means that you still are up at all wee hours, no matter how hard you try to normalize your schedule.
EG- The nearest Starbucks is about 60 miles away, I go there about once a year, and the one in Key West was on a vaca paid for by my tax return, so they dont get too much of my train cash.
Lupo- I watched that Extreme Engineering episode, so I feel like I've been to your house and shared some of your fine cuisine! ( With my tax returns, the Netherlands are a bit out of my range, so I take my small victories when and where I get them!)
I'll try the ice cubes made of joe, sounds like a good deal.
I think I hear the rumble of far off thunder, so I'd better get busy and check the other topics. Hate to gulp and run, but there's no rest for the wicked!
I

[Roadtrp]

Dougal,

I recently did battle with the Sasser Worm, and it is a nasty SOB. It creates a file and starts a process called avserv2.exe . If you go into your task manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del brings it up) and highlight avserv2.exe and select "End Process" that should free your computer for a bit. Then go into your C:\Windows directory and delete the file avserv2.exe. This will buy you enough time to connect to www.symantec.com and download the latest anti-virus software.

The Sasser worm will come back and try to get you, but if you have downloaded the latest anti-virus software it will quarantine the file and you will be OK.

The worm is very nasty -- I know a couple of people who have totally given up on their computers and bought a new one because of it. You DON'T need to do that. If you follow the instructions I've listed you should be able to get your computer running normally again.

Good luck.

[fec153]

good mornin' all. 2nd cup a joe still not working. I've been lucky,only worms around here
are fish bait.
Phil

[Anonymous]

The worm's gone but Norton is still messed up.

[Noah Hofrichter]

Only eight more days of school till sumer vacation. Only eight more days of school till summer vacation..8...8...8...8...8...8...8...8..8..8...8...8...[insert mechanical/mad scientist laugh here] [(-D][(-D]

Noah

[lupo]

wow Noah only 8 days?
how long is your summervacation?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by lupo

wow Noah only 8 days?
how long is your summervacation?

9 days!!!!!!!!![(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]

[lupo]

[wow] 9 whole days! now that are the perks of modern society!
that's longer than mine!![bow][bow][bow]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Noah Hofrichter

Only eight more days of school till sumer vacation. Only eight more days of school till summer vacation..8...8...8...8...8...8...8...8..8..8...8...8...[insert mechanical/mad scientist laugh here] [(-D][(-D]

Noah

Lupo makes Noah laugh. [:)]

Noah just made Jim laugh. [:D] [:D] [:D]

[Anonymous]

8 days, 9 days, I WANT THE WHOLE D@%& YEAR OFF[8D][8D][8D][(-D][(-D][tup][tup][wow][wow][yeah][yeah][yeah][yeah]