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Posted by charlie hebdo on Monday, June 17, 2019 7:52 AM

You need to consult a better lawyer.  There are mechanisms and it is possible for you to have full management over her estate. 

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Monday, June 17, 2019 11:07 AM

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Umm- where exactly do you work? 

 

I can't say overtly on social media but you should be able to guess based on what I stated already because just about everyone visits us as a school kid on a tour.   So just think back to your child hood when you potentially first saw security guards with machine guns on a tour.

 

  Wow. We went to a dairy and we got Eskimo Pies afterwards

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, June 17, 2019 11:08 AM

charlie hebdo

You need to consult a better lawyer.  There are mechanisms and it is possible for you to have full management over her estate. 

While there may be variations from state to state, I tend to agree.  While my mother was a willing participant, the fact that my sister (who lived near Mom, as opposed to my other sister and myself) had complete access, if not full control, to Mom's affairs made for a much smoother transistion when she did pass.

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Posted by 54light15 on Monday, June 17, 2019 1:31 PM
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Umm- where exactly do you work? 

 

I can't say overtly on social media but you should be able to guess based on what I stated already because just about everyone visits us as a school kid on a tour.   So just think back to your child hood when you potentially first saw security guards with machine guns on a tour.

 

 

 

  Wow. We went to a dairy and we got Eskimo Pies afterwards

We took a class trip to the Pan Am terminal at Idlewild Airport in 1962. I lost my junior pilot's wings, damn it, but I still have the coloring book they gave us. I did a nice job with the Boeing 707 if I do say so myself! No machine guns were present. 

 

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Monday, June 17, 2019 2:08 PM

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54light15
Umm- where exactly do you work? 

 

I can't say overtly on social media but you should be able to guess based on what I stated already because just about everyone visits us as a school kid on a tour.   So just think back to your child hood when you potentially first saw security guards with machine guns on a tour.

 

 

 

  Wow. We went to a dairy and we got Eskimo Pies afterwards

We took a class trip to the Pan Am terminal at Idlewild Airport in 1962. I lost my junior pilot's wings, damn it, but I still have the coloring book they gave us. I did a nice job with the Boeing 707 if I do say so myself! No machine guns were present. 

 The two best field trips I went on in school were when I was in the fifth grade.

We went to the Nabisco works in Fair Lawn NJ, wow did that place smell great!  Came home with a box of chocolate chip cookies.  Yum!

Then there was a field trip to the Morristown National Park, the site of two encampments of Washington's army during the Revolution.

There were  guns there, but they were Brown Bess and Charleville muskets, with a few Hessian Potsdam muskets thrown in.  Cool!  A couple of cannons too!

That Nabisco plant is still there, by the way.  If the wind's right you get a real thrill driving past it on Route 208!

 

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Posted by CMStPnP on Monday, June 17, 2019 2:28 PM

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Nabisco

LMAO. less than a mile from the former Nabisco plant in the major city I work, so your getting warmer.

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Monday, June 17, 2019 2:57 PM

tree68

 

 
charlie hebdo

You need to consult a better lawyer.  There are mechanisms and it is possible for you to have full management over her estate. 

 

While there may be variations from state to state, I tend to agree.  While my mother was a willing participant, the fact that my sister (who lived near Mom, as opposed to my other sister and myself) had complete access, if not full control, to Mom's affairs made for a much smoother transistion when she did pass.

 

Of course there are legal safeguards,  such as a guardian ad litem and examination.  If any other children contest the matter,  all bets are off. 

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Posted by SD70Dude on Monday, June 17, 2019 6:05 PM

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Umm- where exactly do you work? 

 

I can't say overtly on social media but you should be able to guess based on what I stated already because just about everyone visits us as a school kid on a tour.   So just think back to your child hood when you potentially first saw security guards with machine guns on a tour.

 

 

  Wow. We went to a dairy and we got Eskimo Pies afterwards

We took a class trip to the Pan Am terminal at Idlewild Airport in 1962. I lost my junior pilot's wings, damn it, but I still have the coloring book they gave us. I did a nice job with the Boeing 707 if I do say so myself! No machine guns were present. 

 The two best field trips I went on in school were when I was in the fifth grade.

We went to the Nabisco works in Fair Lawn NJ, wow did that place smell great!  Came home with a box of chocolate chip cookies.  Yum!

Then there was a field trip to the Morristown National Park, the site of two encampments of Washington's army during the Revolution.

There were  guns there, but they were Brown Bess and Charleville muskets, with a few Hessian Potsdam muskets thrown in.  Cool!  A couple of cannons too!

That Nabisco plant is still there, by the way.  If the wind's right you get a real thrill driving past it on Route 208!

My childhood field trips included a road safety course (complete with really fun kiddie cars), Edmonton's recycling centre + garbage dump, and many different pizza and ice cream parlours.  Never saw any guns.

A police officer would occasionally visit the school to give presentations (including Operation Lifesaver), and would be in full uniform and gear.  But I never payed any attention to their guns. 

RE:  Eskimo Pies, the word "Eskimo" is now considered a offensive slur by some, and there is actually a movement afoot to force the Edmonton Eskimos football team to change their name, similar to what is going on with the D.C. NFL team (that one actually is offensive).

I'm not going to get publicly involved in the gun debate on here.

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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, June 17, 2019 6:22 PM

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Umm- where exactly do you work? 

We took a class trip to the Pan Am terminal at Idlewild Airport in 1962. I lost my junior pilot's wings, damn it, but I still have the coloring book they gave us. I did a nice job with the Boeing 707 if I do say so myself! No machine guns were present. 

 The two best field trips I went on in school were when I was in the fifth grade.

We went to the Nabisco works in Fair Lawn NJ, wow did that place smell great!  Came home with a box of chocolate chip cookies.  Yum!

Then there was a field trip to the Morristown National Park, the site of two encampments of Washington's army during the Revolution.

There were  guns there, but they were Brown Bess and Charleville muskets, with a few Hessian Potsdam muskets thrown in.  Cool!  A couple of cannons too!

That Nabisco plant is still there, by the way.  If the wind's right you get a real thrill driving past it on Route 208!

The field trips that I remember were the tour of Washington, DC, the various government buildings and several hours to view whatever we wanted in The Smithsonian - including the art gallery.  Another trip was to Spring Grove, PA and the Glatfelter Paper Company - talk about SMELL, you didn't want to smell that smell.  Another Pennsylvania trip was to Gettysburg to tour the battlefield areas - to envision that battle in those heavy uniforms after having marched miles and miles to get there in the Mid-Atlantic Summertime......

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Monday, June 17, 2019 6:39 PM

CMStPnP

 

 
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Nabisco

 

LMAO. less than a mile from the former Nabisco plant in the major city I work, so your getting warmer.

 

A former Nabisco plant?  You poor people, no Nabisco cookie smell!

However, your avatar block says "From Dallas TX,"  so I suppose there's some good Texas barbecue smells wafting around!

Hmm, you're in Dallas and work in a place guarded by people with M-4's.  Wild guess time, is it the Comanche Peak Power Plant?  PM me if I'm correct, if I'm not just say so.  

I used to service the copiers at Dominion Va's North Anna Power plant from time to time, the armament of the guards there sounds just like yours.

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Posted by Shadow the Cats owner on Monday, June 17, 2019 9:44 PM

My husband had a few fun field trips in his school days according to his mom who normally drove the bus. They got to go to thru a glass plant then a steel mill then the best one was due to his success in 8th grade on the acedemic team. His coach pulled a couple of strings and along with her husband got the whole team passes to the local nuclear power plant. This was way before 9/11 and security concerns were way less than what they're now. 

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Posted by 54light15 on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 9:05 AM

In 1961 in first grade we took a class trip on the LIRR into Penn Station. It might have been doomed, railroads were in decline but that was a busy place! I asked a guy driving a forklift in the freight room what was in his odd-shaped box- He yelled, "It's a harp!" We were all weighed on the scale and a bunch of 6 year olds weighed a ton! We walked along a platform and there was a streamlined train that was just gleaming- it was leaving for Florida later that day. It was all white inside as I recall. An ACL train? that trip has always stuck with me, obviously. 

Later we walked to the Empire State Building and a group picture of us was taken on the 86th floor. What a day that was! 

Back in class Mrs. Simmons, our teacher had us paint a mural of train tracks and when we painted the green grass, things got a little out of hand- Chip Geraghty had paint all over his clothes and even on his teeth! Somehow that became my fault and I got yelled at. Jeez! 

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Posted by Gramp on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 11:37 AM

I was really fortunate to be part of an exceptional class in 6th grade with our teacher, Mr. Larson. Best teacher I ever had. We took a field trip to Washington, DC. Rode the Capital Limited from Chicago. Sure wish they hadn’t torn down Grand Central. Exceptional place. The Limited had 20 plus cars. Remember being in the bubble top in the evening watching the signals turn red from green as we advanced. Then Mr. Larson having us wake up to see the glowing blast furnaces of Pittsburgh in the middle of the night as we passed them. Watching the front end of the train from our car’s window as it would bend through the curves as we traversed the route through the mountains the next morning. 

As we were about to leave Washington Union on our way back, Mr. Larson and I sneaked off up the platform to see the engines of our train. I remember seeing a GG1 on an adjacent track. And then Mr. Larson asked the engineer and fireman of our train if we could get up into the cab of the E unit. They said yes, and helped us up the ladder. I can still see being in that cab. What an exhilarating experience for a kid like me. Mr. Larson had me promise to not tell my classmates what we did. It was so hard to contain my enthusiasm about it. 

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Posted by CMStPnP on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 12:22 PM

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A former Nabisco plant?

You know when I first saw the large stencil on the building I was like......."National Buscuit Company" what did they used to make there?    Then it clicked "National Buscuit Company" = "Nabisco".   At least I think it said National Buscuit it could have said another Buscuit and I had to Google.   Someday I will look again to refresh my memory BUT definitely a former Nabisco plant.

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Posted by Overmod on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 12:26 PM

"Buscuit"?  Is that like a really, really large cookie?  Or something served by a Pickwick steward?

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Posted by Deggesty on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 1:23 PM

Biscuits? Shredded wheat biscuits--you know, the large biscuits that made a breakfast meal.. As I recall, that is what they were called.

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Posted by Overmod on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 1:47 PM

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Biscuits? Shredded wheat biscuits--you know, the large biscuits that made a breakfast meal.. As I recall, that is what they were called.

I think the NAtional BIScuit COmpany was named using the older (and still British) definition of biscuit as in 'tea biscuit', aka what a Social Tea, one of my favorite childhood cookies, was).

Never heard of Nabisco Shredded Wheat as called anything but that (it was, in fact, the basis of the secret occult password of at least one college society, backward; takes practice to say it correctly so it 'plays forward' right:  Taehw Dedderhs Ocsiban.

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Posted by 54light15 on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 2:10 PM

The Skipper asked Gilligan what he thought of the grass skirt that the Skipper was wearing. Gilligan said, "You look like a bowl of soggy shredded wheat." 

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 2:21 PM

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Never heard of Nabisco Shredded Wheat as called anything but that

   I think it may have been on the box itself, but somewhere I remember seeing the individual units of Shredded Wheat referred to as biscuits.

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Posted by York1 on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 2:43 PM

When I was growing up, the individual items of shredded wheat were called biscuits:

 

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 2:58 PM

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When I was growing up, the individual items of shredded wheat were called biscuits:

Seems like we called them that, too.  I always crushed mine before adding milk.

My maternal grandfather liked to mix shredded wheat with All Bran.  It was actually quite tasty.

On a slightly different tack - anyone remember "Krumbles?"

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 3:27 PM

Ever hear of "ghost signs," those old advertisements painted on the sides of buildings that re-materialise, for lack of a better term, when an adjacent building's torn down?

There's a Nabisco, actually National Biscuit Company, sign on an old building in Richmond advertising a new product called "Oreos."  That means the sign was painted in 1912,  the year of the "Titanic."  

The sign's in a lot better shape than the ship is. 

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Posted by Deggesty on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 3:32 PM

I do think that NaBisCo was named after tea biscuits--and when they began making the shredded wheat they decided "biscuit" was the best description. 

Perhaps mixing All Bran with shredded wheat makes the All Bran palatable. To me the pure stuff was like hay.

When I was in college, there  was an NBC in Roanoke, Virginia--National Business College. Their basketball team was not the best, whether they played us in Roanoke or Bristol.

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 3:42 PM

York1

When I was growing up, the individual items of shredded wheat were called biscuits:

 

 

As it says, right on the box pictured above. My sister liked them crumbled with (brown) sugar and milk.   I did not.

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 3:51 PM

A TV commercial, probably early 1950s.

https://youtu.be/0EcLIPiLtrs

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Posted by 54light15 on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 8:24 PM

Who was in the western comic book? Gene? Roy? Hopalong? Maybe Lash Larue, surely not Tom Mix? 

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Wednesday, June 19, 2019 6:50 AM

Deggesty

When I was in college, there  was an NBC in Roanoke, Virginia--National Business College. Their basketball team was not the best, whether they played us in Roanoke or Bristol.

 
That sounds like the sort of mistake that Blondie made in one of his tweets, referring to abc.net (Australian Broadcasting Co.) instead of ABC.net (American Broadcasting Co.).
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Posted by Miningman on Wednesday, June 19, 2019 8:28 AM

Who was in the western comic book? Gene? Roy? Hopalong? Maybe Lash Larue, surely not Tom Mix? 

 A. None of the above ...Here is your answer
 
 
 
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Posted by rrnut282 on Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:28 AM

tree68

 .....During one of the seminars I attended today at the NYS Fire Chief's Expo, the speaker spoke of new fire recruits who have never heard the word "no."  They don't know how to react - "no" is a totally foreign concept to them.

 

I think Tree is onto something.  Now that we're in the era of 'everyone gets a trophy' and 'we can't name a valedictorian and make others disappointed' we have too many people who don't know how to handle life's simple disappointments without losing their minds.  Feel-good parenting results in feel-bad children.  If children don't learn there are consequences to their actions and that life isn't fair, Cryo Trains will need to paint more boxcars. 

I haven't noticed those cars yet, but now that I know they exist, I can start looking for them.   

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Posted by Deggesty on Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:51 AM

Miningman

Who was in the western comic book? Gene? Roy? Hopalong? Maybe Lash Larue, surely not Tom Mix? 

 A. None of the above ...Here is your answer
 
 
 
Also a spiffy ad with a steam locomotive theme
 

Miningman

Who was in the western comic book? Gene? Roy? Hopalong? Maybe Lash Larue, surely not Tom Mix? 

 A. None of the above ...Here is your answer
 
 
 
Also a spiffy ad with a steam locomotive theme
 

I had never thought about why the picture of Niagara Falls was on the NaBisCo box--did the Natural Food Company become NaBisCo? 

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