gehringer_2 Posted 11 hours ago Posted 11 hours ago (edited) 20 minutes ago, casimir said: I remember the artificial tree my parents had. It was stored in these humungous heavy/compressed cardboard barrels. These things were humongous to me as a small kid, they were probably similar in size to a 55 gallon barrel. And they seemed like a hassle to haul up and down the basement steps, but maybe they were just awkward rather than heavy. There was the base, the trunk/"spine", and then the limbs. The limbs were all color coded on the thick wire attachment part to set into the same color coded holes in the base. my dad loved gadgets and hated the arguments over picking out Xmass trees so when the first silver aluminum ones came out he had to have one. It had the floodlight with a rotating color wheel that shined on it. They were pretty hilarious in retrospect but seemed pretty cool at the time. The boss and I have evolved in several stages from cutting live down to a 4' fake that goes up in about 5 min. Should have started there years ago. Edited 11 hours ago by gehringer_2 Quote
1984Echoes Posted 10 hours ago Posted 10 hours ago 2 hours ago, casimir said: ... Am I the only one that remembers these teachings from Catholic school? Way too far into the past for me... 50 years or so... Besides... for some reason I guess they didn't actually stick... Oh well! Merry X-Mas, Festivus, Christmas, Hannukah, Solstice... Whatever works for ya'!!! Quote
1984Echoes Posted 10 hours ago Posted 10 hours ago 2 hours ago, casimir said: Sigh.... I'm just trying for a little light hearted and terrible humor... The first one I got ("Oh stuff it!")... The second one I wasn't certain about... I couldn't tell one way or the other... But I am in a wonderful light-hearted mood these days so... Good all around! Quote
1984Echoes Posted 10 hours ago Posted 10 hours ago 27 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said: Did it have the spinning disc with different colors that ... Transition apartment since the divorce many years ago and I haven't purchased a house since... although I am looking for a permanent (house) spot in (or near) Lakeland Florida next year so... One day I may do a live tree again. Once I have a house instead of an apartment. But for the past few years, my small artificial tree (about 4 1/2 feet) works perfectly well. To Cas's consternation with live trees... no mess no fuss. And yes... spinning disc with several colors going through the fiber optic cables to light up the tree. SO... UNCOMPLICATED!!! And my daughter loves it! Quote
Cruzer1 Posted 3 hours ago Posted 3 hours ago 10 hours ago, casimir said: Hello, water into wine. And he took a stale half loaf of bread and some fish sticks and turned it into a Long John Silver's. Am I the only one that remembers these teachings from Catholic school? Jesus Made joke. Quote
romad1 Posted 3 hours ago Posted 3 hours ago 10 hours ago, casimir said: Hello, water into wine. And he took a stale half loaf of bread and some fish sticks and turned it into a Long John Silver's. Am I the only one that remembers these teachings from Catholic school? There is a comedy bit to be had with buying Long John Silver's gift cards for people. Where are they? I haven't seen one of those restaurants in the wild in over a decade. I travel a bit around the country. I see none within the DC Beltway. I looked at the Detroit Metro and of course there are a couple. One on Cherry Hill and one on Telegraph. Quote
IdahoBert Posted 3 hours ago Posted 3 hours ago For several years we would drive up to Silver City from Boise Idaho. Silver City is an abandoned former mining town kind of eerie with a creepy cemetery. The locals would get permits to cut trees in the national forest and they were sold as a fundraising project to keep the parts of the town that were historic monuments from crumbling away. It’s a precious memory and if you got there early enough in the day you didn’t end up with a Charlie Brown tree; you got a great tree for 20 bucks Quote
IdahoBert Posted 3 hours ago Posted 3 hours ago I guess if we’re talking about this kind of stuff there’s not much going on in terms of baseball at least for us. Quote
papalawrence Posted 3 hours ago Posted 3 hours ago 22 minutes ago, romad1 said: There is a comedy bit to be had with buying Long John Silver's gift cards for people. Where are they? I haven't seen one of those restaurants in the wild in over a decade. I travel a bit around the country. I see none within the DC Beltway. I looked at the Detroit Metro and of course there are a couple. One on Cherry Hill and one on Telegraph. There's a LJS in the mall of America 3-4 miles from my house. I've lived here 26 years and have never had their food Quote
romad1 Posted 3 hours ago Posted 3 hours ago 7 minutes ago, papalawrence said: There's a LJS in the mall of America 3-4 miles from my house. I've lived here 26 years and have never had their food I am a fan of fried food in all its forms and do enjoy a Fish and Chip when i see it on a menu. And yet I would not go out of my way for LJS in any scenario. Its fine. If it was in front of me and I was ready for dinner and I didn't have to worry about what my kids wanted. Quote
papalawrence Posted 11 minutes ago Posted 11 minutes ago 2 hours ago, romad1 said: I am a fan of fried food in all its forms and do enjoy a Fish and Chip when i see it on a menu. And yet I would not go out of my way for LJS in any scenario. Its fine. If it was in front of me and I was ready for dinner and I didn't have to worry about what my kids wanted. I love fish and chips and get it often when eating out. Even fast food like Culver's has fish that's 1000 times better than long johns imho Quote
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