Subj : Re: Eating In The 50's
To   : George Pope
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Jun 29 2021 16:51:00

Hi, George,

 > "Boy!! You're a pervert and a cheap date!! You want to go right to the
 > wedding and honeymoon, but you're not my type!!"...and he and his wife
 > were laughing raucously. My response?? "I am so red!!" :P

 GP> Nice one!

  I was not expecting that...talk about walking into it!!

 >   Did he get the prize for a song??

 GP> Give or take. . .

  Must've been take. Seriously, I've had 3 consecutive Samsung Galaxy phones
(A10, A11, and A12) all go "tits up" on me (and it has been the same for a
lot of other folks, as well).

 GP> The old truism: no matter how old or tough you are, if a 2-year-old
 GP> hands you a toy telephone, you 'answer' it!

  You better believe it!!

 GP> Not any more, with $400+ fines -- just having a phone in your reach'll
 GP> get you fined.

  Yeah, talking or texting tends to anger the constabulary. If I get a call,
I'll pull off the road, and put the car in park (preferably in a parking
lot). Then, I can finish the conversation at my leisure).

 GP> An old guy had a mobile in his car, in a cubby in his dash, with no
 GP> signal -- he only had it on for music.  Judge upheld the ticket
 GP> (they're in on it, too)

  I only listen to 3 radio stations locally...

1) News and Talk at the top of the hour for national news
2) Classical (Brahams, Mozart, Tchaikowsky, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, etc.).
3) Classic Country (George Jones, Conway Twitty, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline,
Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, etc.).

  I've got a DVD player in the car, and have some DVD's of classical
music my late Mom listened to. But, I keep the volume low, to listen
for emergency vehicle sirens, etc.

 >   For his birthday one year, my brother got a gallon jar of Maraschino
 > Cherries...he got burned out on them, and never ate them again.

 GP> Too much of anything ruins it.

  This is true. I still have a deal of cornbread dressing in the freezer,
that I can microwave, but it's too much to eat for one person (it's real
rich).

 >   We should support the Metric System every inch of the way.

 GP> Yes, indeed! Give some people 2.54cm & they'll take 1.6 kilometres!

  That's it!!

 GP> Q: Why does the metric system make so many friends with women?
 GP> A: It always wants to meter.

  What's wild is that in both amateur radio and weather, the stuff is done
in metric...but you won't get common folk to give up the Imperial stuff.

 GP> Americans don't like the metric system because most of them have a foot
 GP> fetish.

  There is a town near Conway, Arkansas (about 30 miles northwest of Little
Rock, which is in central Arkansas), that is also located along the Arkansas
River (as Little Rock is). Well, years ago, the towboat operators of the
barges would stop at this town, and go into the taverns for refreshment.
According to the locals, "they'd suck on the bottles of booze, until they
swelled up like toads"...so the town got the name "Toad Suck". They have
a big 3 day festival in downtown Conway each spring, called Toad Suck Daze,
with rides, shows, etc. -- like a county fair...and many of the downtown
Conway streets are closed for it. It was canceled last year because of 
COVID-19.

  At a singles square dance one year, these girls thought I said "Toe Suck".
I had to EXPLAIN the legend to them...and what it actually was. I told them
to "look it up" on the internet. When the weather is good, the economic
benefit to the city of Conway is HUGE. 

  The one "Safety Issue" is that the VERY BUSY Union Pacific Railroad Van 
Buren Subdivision between Van Buren, Arkansas (just east of Fort Smith) 
and North Little Rock, Arkansas (where Union Pacific has a big maintenance 
shop and classification yard), runs right through downtown Conway. So,
many volunteers from Operation Lifesaver, man the grade crossings (which
all have lights, bells, and gates) to be sure people don't try to beat
the trains across, like the cars usually do. Even though the trains likely
have "a slow order" to get through town during the event, some folks are
just "too impatient".

Daryl

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