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Post by gary on Sept 16, 2015 13:39:42 GMT -5
I just wonder where Owl gets this information. Its just so messed up. People shouldn't do that to perfectly good food. I consider ketchup on a hot dog exceedingly misguided. Mayonaise ? An unspeakable abomination ! I want to pluck out mine own eyes just for having read of it !!! It's hard to see where you're coming from. You're not strong enough on the ketchup-on-dogs question to be a Chicagoan.
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Post by Gaidin on Sept 16, 2015 13:50:16 GMT -5
Alaska is the Land of the Midnight Sun and the grilling can go deep into the evening. What to put on the grill? Fresh salmon and halibut caught hours before, reindeer sausage (yep, really - and super tasty) and there are always steaks and hamburgers imported from the Lower 48. Deep of winter, put the grill on your back step and keep grilling. The cool winter temperatures and snow bank out the back door makes chilling the beer a breeze. On some nights, check out the Northem Lights waving and shooting high in the sky. No photo does them justice. It is truly The Great Land, and not even remotely Crap Land. Given its greatness, why are there no requests on the transfer list for Anchorage? Need I say more? "Anchorage saw its warmest day on record on June 17, with a high of 83 degrees, breaking the previous all-time record of 82 set in 1969." - www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/07/02/amid-months-of-record-warmth-anchorage-officially-ends-its-least-snowy-year/
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Post by sealaw90 on Sept 16, 2015 14:09:17 GMT -5
I like mustard slaw on my dogs. I double like this post! However, being born and bred in NYC, I do like my dirty water dogs to be kosher, with cooked onions, kraut and mustard. There was NO mayo within blocks of a hot dog cart. Nowadays, with food trucks every where, you can probably get lots of gross things piled onto a hot dog. Gary, if the dog has hair on it, I'm not eating it! Even if you put a flea collar on it.
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Post by agent99 on Sept 16, 2015 23:31:25 GMT -5
Oh Gram Pop, where is your sense of wonder and adventure
Robert Service- Spell of the Yukon (and works for Alaska, too:
It’s the great, big, broad land ’way up yonder, It’s the forests where silence has lease; It’s the beauty that thrills me with wonder, It’s the stillness that fills me with peace.
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Post by agent99 on Sept 16, 2015 23:34:25 GMT -5
Gary's Chicago dog would have neon green relish, tomato and pickles on it, not hair
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Post by Judicially Imployed on Sept 17, 2015 0:16:38 GMT -5
If that's not concrete proof of the existence of global warming, I don't what is. I've been away for a few days but I just want to say, in deference to owl's desire to have a Dan Akroyd / Jane Curtain dialogue ,,, I request that all responses from this point forward begin with the phrase: " Owl, you ignorant very *friendly* person." (O.k. The site autocorrected s l u t into 'very friendly person'. After some contemplation, I have concluded that autocrorrect's version is way funnier).
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Post by Gaidin on Sept 17, 2015 12:27:37 GMT -5
Tucson, AZ
Also home to a mayonaise dog that they gussy up by calling it a Sonora Dog. The people are not deceived.
s a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States,[4] and home to the University of Arizona. The 2010 United States Census put the population at 520,116,[2] while the 2013 estimated population of the entire Tucson metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was 996,544.[5] The Tucson MSA forms part of the larger Tucson-Nogales combined statistical area (CSA), with a total population of 980,263 as of the 2010 Census. Tucson is the second-largest populated city in Arizona behind Phoenix, which both anchor the Arizona Sun Corridor. The city is [4] located 108 miles (174 km) southeast of Phoenix and 60 mi (97 km) north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Tucson is the 33rd largest city and the 59th largest metropolitan area in the United States. Roughly 150 Tucson companies are involved in the design and manufacture of optics and optoelectronics systems, earning Tucson the nickname Optics Valley.
Major incorporated suburbs of Tucson include Oro Valley and Marana northwest of the city, Sahuarita south of the city, and South Tucson in an enclave south of downtown. Communities in the vicinity of Tucson (some within or overlapping the city limits) include Casas Adobes, Catalina Foothills, Flowing Wells, Midvale Park, Tanque Verde, Tortolita, and Vail. Towns outside the Tucson metro area include Benson to the southeast, Catalina and Oracle to the north, and Green Valley to the south.
The Spanish name of the city, Tucsón [tukˈson], derived from the O'odham Cuk Ṣon [tʃʊk ʂɔːn], meaning "(at the) base of the black [hill]", a reference to a basalt-covered hill now known as "A" Mountain.[6] Tucson is sometimes referred to as "The Old Pueblo".
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Post by pumpkin on Sept 17, 2015 18:29:06 GMT -5
Are there any other songs about Tucson besides that terribly depressing ballad by Dan Fogelberg? I'm rather enjoying the magical mystery tour of music through which you enhance the City of the Day posts, G - thanks for your fine efforts!
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Post by luckylady2 on Sept 17, 2015 19:23:44 GMT -5
I agree that I like the music, but what is this fascination with mayonnaise lately?
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Post by Gaidin on Sept 18, 2015 9:25:02 GMT -5
Ft. Smith, Arkansas - The ODAR office is in the mall!!!!
Fort Smith is the second-largest city in Arkansas and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County.[3] As of the 2010 Census, the population was 86,209.[4] With an estimated population of 87,443[5] in 2012, it is the principal city of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 298,592 residents that encompasses the Arkansas counties of Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian and the Oklahoma counties Le Flore and Sequoyah.
@judgeratty is there.
I couldn't find a musical act from Ft. Smith that I thought was both interesting and appropriate. So I decided to look at Arkansas generally. Al Green was born in Arkansas.
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Post by christina on Sept 18, 2015 11:56:17 GMT -5
i missed Tucson discussion yesterday. AWESOME city. if you are willing to live in the desert, check it out. home of U Arizona so it is busy lively city. Also has some of the spring training for baseball facilities. don;t know which teams though. i know people who live there and it is a great place to live!
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Post by owl on Sept 18, 2015 13:04:18 GMT -5
Oops, I'm falling behind once again! Two reasons to shun Tucson from your expanded GAL and leave it to me:
1. The postapocalyptic comedy The Last Man on Earth (season 2 premieres Sept. 27, only on FOX!) is set in Tucson. I like this show and think it's actually pretty funny, but I digress. The point is, the producers apparently felt Tucson is a good representation of what it would look like if the world ended. Maybe they saw zombies while there on a location scout...
2. I have it on good authority (by which I mean no authority whatsoever) that the Tucson HO is surrounded by jumping cholla cacti.
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Post by 71stretch on Sept 18, 2015 13:35:55 GMT -5
i missed Tucson discussion yesterday. AWESOME city. if you are willing to live in the desert, check it out. home of U Arizona so it is busy lively city. Also has some of the spring training for baseball facilities. don;t know which teams though. i know people who live there and it is a great place to live! No more spring training in Tucson , sorry. The teams that were there moved out a few years ago.
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Post by owl on Sept 18, 2015 13:42:36 GMT -5
Fort Smith (an obviously fake name, right? What could it be hiding???) is haunted by ghosts of the scores of men executed there by the original Hanging Judge, Isaac C. Parker. JudgeRatty, have you felt any sudden chills or heard any strange noises since being posted to Fort Smith? I'll bet you have.
One of Judge Parker's marshals was apparently the inspiration for the character Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. (Loved the Coen brothers' remake of this movie!)
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Post by wingnut on Sept 18, 2015 13:48:58 GMT -5
I was listening to some music today and heard this little gem:
There are a lot of rich people in Birmingham A lot of ghosts in a lot of houses Look over there!...A dry ice factory A good place to get some thinking done
Cities (David Byrne)
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Post by sealaw90 on Sept 18, 2015 16:27:46 GMT -5
I was listening to some music today and heard this little gem: There are a lot of rich people in Birmingham A lot of ghosts in a lot of houses Look over there!...A dry ice factory A good place to get some thinking done Cities (David Byrne) You'll always get a double like for mentioning David Byrne. Listening to him and /or the Talking Heads will get you another thumbs up from me!
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Post by JudgeRatty on Sept 18, 2015 18:23:39 GMT -5
Fort Smith (an obviously fake name, right? What could it be hiding???) is haunted by ghosts of the scores of men executed there by the original Hanging Judge, Isaac C. Parker. JudgeRatty, have you felt any sudden chills or heard any strange noises since being posted to Fort Smith? I'll bet you have.
One of Judge Parker's marshals was apparently the inspiration for the character Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. (Loved the Coen brothers' remake of this movie!) I can report that in the mall (my office location), there are sounds of giggling children that appear out of nowhere as you walk into the building's main entrance. After many times of entering the building at 6 am when no children were anywhere near, I would hear these sounds and think to myself that I had finally lost it and perhaps I should stop watching scary movies or that I should began a strong medication regimen. After several encounters with these sounds, I finally figured out that it was not the creepy scary movie sounds of the children of the corn. Instead, the sounds emanate from a motion sensor on the children's ride near the entrance. If I had not finally figured this out, I would have responded that indeed.... the mall in Fort Smith is haunted. I was quite relieved to know that I was not having auditory hallucinations.
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Post by christina on Sept 18, 2015 19:09:51 GMT -5
always best to not have auditory hallucinations!!!
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Post by phoenixrakkasan on Sept 18, 2015 20:09:44 GMT -5
Say what?
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Post by gary on Sept 18, 2015 20:59:20 GMT -5
Fort Smith (an obviously fake name, right? What could it be hiding???) is haunted by ghosts of the scores of men executed there by the original Hanging Judge, Isaac C. Parker. JudgeRatty, have you felt any sudden chills or heard any strange noises since being posted to Fort Smith? I'll bet you have.
One of Judge Parker's marshals was apparently the inspiration for the character Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. (Loved the Coen brothers' remake of this movie!) I can report that in the mall (my office location), there are sounds of giggling children that appear out of nowhere as you walk into the building's main entrance. After many times of entering the building at 6 am when no children were anywhere near, I would hear these sounds and think to myself that I had finally lost it and perhaps I should stop watching scary movies or that I should began a strong medication regimen. After several encounters with these sounds, I finally figured out that it was not the creepy scary movie sounds of the children of the corn. Instead, the sounds emanate from a motion sensor on the children's ride near the entrance. If I had not finally figured this out, I would have responded that indeed.... the mall in Fort Smith is haunted. I was quite relieved to know that I was not having auditory hallucinations. There are movies with plots like this. They don't usually turn out as well for the hearers.
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