Then there was the fellow who tried eating vichyssoise in the rain at a sidewalk cafe...
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
A man who had asked for soup in a restaurant took one look at the soup after the waiter brought it to him and immediatley yelled at the waiter, "THERE'S A FLY IN MY SOUP!"
The waiter's response was, "Please don't yell; everybody else will want a fly."
Johnny
zardoz Deggesty A young man was out driving with his girl friend. She said, sternly, "Use both hands!" He replied, "I can't; I need one to steer." I gotta stop drinking coffee when I read some of these...
Deggesty A young man was out driving with his girl friend. She said, sternly, "Use both hands!" He replied, "I can't; I need one to steer."
A young man was out driving with his girl friend. She said, sternly, "Use both hands!" He replied, "I can't; I need one to steer."
I gotta stop drinking coffee when I read some of these...
Another one: He--"I don't see what keeps you girls warm in the winter". She--"You are not supposed to."
As to milk in glass bottles, for a time we took delivery on such from a small dairy, It was neither pasteurized nor homogenized, and could sit in the sun a while. Then we changed to a much larger dairy which processed the milk "properly"--and we had to bring the milk in early.
In college, we still received milk in bottles, and it was served at breakfast and the evening meal. If I emptied a bottle in the evening, I would hold it over my glass and squeeze it as though I were getting the last drop out--and one evening, the boy sitting next to me reached over and made the motions of stripping a cow (I thanked him for that).
MiningmanIn Hamilton, Ont. , a big industrial city, milk was delivered by horse drawn milk vans.
That reminds me:
When I was a kid in Honduras, before 1952 when we moved here, the milk was delivered by mule cart. The mules had different personalities. One didn't want move--they had to yell and pull and poke him to get him to start. Another one never wanted to stop--they would chase him down the street.
Then there was the one that appreciated music. There was a club with a live band about two blocks around the corner from our house. One day he was standing in front of our house when the band started playing. He immediately took off at a trot toward the club with the crew chasing after him.
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"A stranger's just a friend you ain't met yet." --- Dave Gardner
I had to go back to the last page to figure out how we got to subject of milk.
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Another variation on "fly in the soup":
" Waiter, what's this fly doing in my soup?"
"Looks like the backstroke, sir."
Paul of Covington When I was a kid in Honduras, before 1952 when we moved here, the milk was delivered by mule cart.
And then there's the legendary fire horses whose second career was with a milk wagon, which was OK until they heard an alarm...
As an aside, many of the horses did actually learn the alarms to which they were normally going to respond.
And speaking of firehouses, one of the mascots in a Chicago firehouse had the uncanny ability to foretell an alarm. Or so they thought. At the time, there was a speaker in each firehouse over which the dispatch announced the alarm. Normally the circuit for each station's speaker was off, to be turned on when it came time to send out a company.
Turns out the dog wasn't prescient at all - it heard the "pop" as the speaker was connected and would be running for the trucks before the dispatcher started to announce the alarm.
I had a dog that recognized our pager tones (the scanner is always on). She didn't do anything more than get out of the way. A friend had two pups who knew that when that department's tones came over the radio it was time to head for their kennels.
I was walking down the street and a man said to me that he hadn't had a bite for three days. I said, "So?'
I was walking down the street and a man asked me, "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?" I said, "I dunno."
A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, "why the long face?" The horse says, "Becasue I'm a horse you idiot!"
"I just flew in from Vegas and boy was that airplane comfortable!"
thank you very much.
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A man's spouse did not like the vegetable with her dinner in the diner. He implored a stranger, "Take my wife's...peas."
So Farmer Joe was out in the field with a bucket of white paint and a brush and painting "COW" on the sides of his herd.
"Whatcha doin' that for Joe?" a passing neighbor asked.
"Well ya know huntin' season's comin' up."
"Oh yeah, good idea. But why'd you paint "COW" on that one, that ain't a cow, it's a bull!"
"No point in confusin' them city-slickers!"
Reminds me of a cartoon I saw many years ago. A farmer is painting targets on the sides of his cows. He explains to a passerby, "Them hunters can't hit anything they aim at."
So my wife wanted to go on vacation, she said she wanted to go someplace she'd never been before. So I says to her, "Try the shower."
54light15 So my wife wanted to go on vacation, she said she wanted to go someplace she'd never been before. So I says to her, "Try the shower."
Whoa. Are you sure you didn't mean to say ex-wife?!?
Yep. Glad she's long gone. So long, beeyotch!
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Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
A guy reads an ad in the paper saying, one year old Porsche for sale, $50.00 or best offer. He goes to see the car and it's mint! He asks the lady about the price. She said, "My husband ran off with his secretary a week ago, he called me and asked to sell his car and send him the money. so here it is for $50.00. He bought the car and was very happy with it.
I recall a letter to Ann Landers many years ago and the gist of it was just like the joke. Ann wrote a reply in the paper and said- 'The first time I heard that story the car was a Pierce Arrow."
Here's a VERY funny YouTube video my sister passed on to me:
"Uncle Vinny Learns About Coronavirus"
Had me rolling on the floor!
Just a warning, if you don't like a little gentle ethnic humor, and I'm of the ethnic persuasion in the video, and a little rough language, DON'T click the link.
But if such things don't bother you, have as much fun as I did!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VG5Facpb_g
Miningman In Hamilton, Ont. , a big industrial city, milk was delivered by horse drawn milk vans.
In the very early '50's, my grandmothers milk was still being delivered by a horse pulled van in her area of Philadelphia.
alphas In the very early '50's, my grandmothers milk was still being delivered by a horse pulled van in her area of Philadelphia.
Alas, no horse-drawn milk wagons, but who can forget those Divco milk trucks? As I recall they had a distinctive whine, too.
Any of the Arabbers still left in Baltimore?
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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zugmannAny of the Arabbers still left in Baltimore?
https://www.mic.com/articles/189295/the-black-baltimore-arabber-tradition-is-on-its-last-leg-for-the-citys-sake-it-should-continue
https://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-fe-lewis-arabbers-20190227-story.html
Don't really know if they are still active or not.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
I've never heard of Arabbers not being from Baltimore, but that does look like something that should be kept on.
Old Divco milk trucks are very collectible and there was a dairy in my town that delivered using Divcos where they drove it standing up. I read an article about a milk truck of the 1930s (maybe a Divco) where the driver stood outside of it on a running board and steered it with a tiller. Be great to see one of those.
and here's a Coranvirus song that gets to the point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0G63uzhFP4
54light15Old Divco milk trucks are very collectible and there was a dairy in my town that delivered using Divcos where they drove it standing up. I read an article about a milk truck of the 1930s (maybe a Divco) where the driver stood outside of it on a running board and steered it with a tiller. Be great to see one of those.
https://youtu.be/amrmuJ1PlDE?t=495
If it loads right, it shoudl start you about the 8:15 mark. Just happened to watch this a few days ago.
Yep, that's the exact one. Very cool!
Had me rollin' on the floor 54', ow, my stomach hurts!
Get segment on the Divco Zug!
Thanks to both of you!
Quite a truck!
When we had milk delivered, it came by car; two daughters of the dairy farmer brought it.
Deggesty Quite a truck! When we had milk delivered, it came by car; two daughters of the dairy farmer brought it.
My cousins used to cross the road to their grandfather's farm for a couple of quarts of fresh milk each morning. The cream was often skimmed for making butter. If not, you beat it in with a fork before you poured it on your cereal.
My wife did not like the taste of whole milk, and was unhappy if someone else got to the morning milk and shook it up before she was able to get to her breakfast.
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