Pet Peeves
January 19th, 2022 at 12:31:16 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18213 |
Howard Johnson's eventually became a place you stopped because you had to, not because you wanted to. We stopped on the PA Turnpike at one in the 1970s when they had it locked up tollgate to tollgate. My dad was so mad at the service we walked out. The President is a fink. |
January 19th, 2022 at 12:44:43 PM permalink | |
missedhervee Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 96 Posts: 3103 | As a franchise there was certainly variability in the quality of service and product. |
January 19th, 2022 at 12:56:16 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18213 |
They were known for nickel and diming their franchisees to the point they bought product outside the commissary system. The President is a fink. |
January 19th, 2022 at 12:59:14 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18764 | With only memory of them, eventually no one will get the Howard Johnson reference in Blazing Saddles. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
January 20th, 2022 at 7:12:16 AM permalink | |
DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4969 |
The only memory I have of HoJo's was as a kid I would get a free clam strip basket on my birthday. Come to think of it, I don't know if I have even had clam strips in the last 30 years. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
January 20th, 2022 at 9:23:06 AM permalink | |
SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 22 Posts: 4178 |
Waterfront restaurant on Lake Sumter in the Villages has GREAT clam strip basket. Lighthouse Point Bar and Grille. It was on an up stock market day and I thus upgraded to a 'bellies only' version. Still good, but not sure it was worth double the price. |
February 13th, 2022 at 11:44:06 AM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18764 | Man I hate when I randomly misplace a click on my browser and change how it's functioning, but have no idea how to fix it. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
February 13th, 2022 at 12:35:59 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
The Maryland Terrapins consist of 19 men's and women's varsity intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Maryland, College Park in NCAA Division I competition. The English word terrapin is a corruption of a Algonquian word for turtle and is not really a descendant of the Latin word "terra" (although that may have influenced the spelling). The suffix -‐ ed serves to change verbs from present tense to past tense. It is not normally used in "verbing". Steven Pinker, (The Language Instinct. Morrow, 1994) estimates that about a fifth of all English verbs were originally nouns. By turning it into a verb, I assume the implication is that he has become turtle-like in some fashion. |
February 14th, 2022 at 10:57:54 AM permalink | |
JimRockford Member since: Sep 18, 2015 Threads: 2 Posts: 971 |
Interesting that Terapined hasn’t responded to clarify. Apparently y’all haven’t noticed that SOOPOO met him IRL and calls him Ed. The mind hungers for that on which it feeds. |
February 14th, 2022 at 11:26:04 AM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11807 |
No need to respond Paco does an excellent job I'm a huge fan of the Grateful Deads "Terrapin Station" That's all It would be Terrapined but on the old Prodigy network it was taken. Terapined was not. I used to write reviews of Grateful Dead concerts on Prodigy. I Stuck with it ever since on multiple boards. Yes I played golf with Soopoo and my name is Ed. I've met several members personally including the Wizard and Mission I also follow the MD Terrapins in this order, Women's basketball, Men's Basketball, football. The Women are on ESPN 2 tonight. Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |