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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Clinton Hammond Date: 07 Jun 06 - 05:00 PM Thanks Don.... How's about I buy you a Whopper to celebrate? |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Barry Finn Date: 07 Jun 06 - 05:03 PM Red meat-hamburgers is not junk food but that's what it becomes when it served by the fast food method. Yes-one is unhealthy for you, two is worst, a daily diet will sicken you. A little poison is still a little poison. I can't stand to eat in those places & I do love meat. Barry |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Wolfgang Date: 07 Jun 06 - 05:06 PM For the very few who might understand it: a joke which makes only sense if you understand German: What's the name of the CEO of the McDonald's in Turkey? Izmir Übel. (homophone to German for 'I feel like throwing up') Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: melodeonboy Date: 07 Jun 06 - 06:17 PM The choice of the two named "restaurants" (sic. - or should that be "sick"?) reminds me of the Monty Python "Spot the Braincell" gameshow sketch where Mrs. Ratbag is offered the choice of a blow on the head or a poke in the eye as her prize for getting the correct answer. The only time I'd enter either of them would be as an arsonist! |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Don Firth Date: 07 Jun 06 - 08:20 PM Okay, whatthehell! I mentioned (warned about) this above. I wrote this about ten years ago just for kicks and I haven't sent it off anywhere because I couldn't figure out what kind of magazine or other publication might be interested in it. It's been sitting on one disc or another since then, so I might as well inflict it on you folks. It's kinda long. Runs six typewritten pages, single space (I don't know if it's even "legal" to post anything this long, but, if not, I guess someone will let me know). by Don Firth Recently I motored up to the window of a drive-in hamburger establishment in the Broadway district and -with no special cause to be concerned, but nevertheless mindful of warnings about cholesterol -I purchased one of their smaller hamburgers. I didn't realize how small it was until I unwrapped it and started eating it. After two bites into a not very large bun, I still hadn't encountered meat. I opened it up and examined it. I spied the meat patty cowering pathetically behind a shred of wilted lettuce. To call it a "beef patty" may be too optimistic, but I imagine it contained some traces thereof. It was about a quarter of an inch thick at its thickest, and roughly the diameter of a silver dollar. It was charred around the edges, and I think if I had dropped it, it may very well have shattered. The hamburger has fallen on melancholy times within recent years. It is true that in this hyperkinetic, fast food, gobble-and-go world in which we live, the hamburger is ubiquitous. In any urban or suburban area, you can't drive very many blocks without spotting one or more of the chain establishments where they throw hamburgers out the window at passing cars. But hamburgers sure ain't what they used to be. J. Wellington Wimpy was someone I knew from childhood. He was a recurring character in the comic strip called "Thimble Theater," which featured a one-eyed, spinach eating sailor named "Popeye." J. Wellington Wimpy was a portly gent in a derby hat. He was semi-cultivated, a bit pompous, and not just a little pretentious. He was afflicted with an abiding craving for hamburgers: he could eat a whole platter of hamburgers at one sitting. But he was perpetually strapped for ready cash. Between his craving and his insolvency, Wimpy was the archetypical moocher. Much of the humor, and Wimpy's charm, came from the ingenuity, and the transparency, of his attempts to inveigle an on-the-cuff plate of burgers from his favorite lunch counter, or to promote a long term -very long term -loan from friends and acquaintances. On the radio and in movie cartoons during the Thirties and Forties, the voice and manner of expression of J. Wellington Wimpy was exactly that of W. C. Fields, who may very well have supplied the voice-over. Wimpy became so identified with hamburgers that many restaurants that featured hamburgers called themselves "Wimpy's." Although, alas, I have never been there, I have heard that there is a whole chain of hamburger joints in England that bears his name. These days, hamburgers are regarded by many people as "junk food," but at one time, they were standard, reliable American fare. They may not have been regarded by the elite as particularly glamorous, but if nothing else on the menu appealed, you could count on a hamburger to be at least fairly tasty and filling. Although it was a while back and our ideas of nutrition have changed in recent years, a prominent nutritionist of a couple decades ago praised the lowly hamburger, particularly the cheeseburger with all the usual fixings, because it encompassed the four major food groups and thereby constituted a well-balanced meal -at least in terms of ingredients, if not in ideal proportions. And speaking of "fixings," one of the hamburger's attractions is its easy customizability. Starting with the basic beef patty and hamburger bun, one can be highly creative. Cheese, onion, pickles, tomatoes, lettuce, mustard, ketchup, all these things individually and in various combinations are fairly standard options. Our friendly neighborhood heart surgeons may have received an income boost when people started including several strips of bacon in the list of options. Imagination and experimentation produced new varieties: for example, add a slice of pineapple and you have created a "Hawaiiburger." The Hasty Tasty was a twenty-four hour restaurant on upper University Way. A University District landmark of former times, it was often referred to by critics and habitués alike as the "Hasty Tasteless" or the "Nasty Tasty." Indeed, the food was not gourmet, but it was pretty good, and portions were generous. The menu was broad. Breakfast, lunch, or dinner was available any time of the day or night. Centerpiece of the menu was the "Hasty Burger." It was a great "triple by-pass special," or "Kevorkianburger," although we didn't think of it that way back in the Fifties and Sixties, and it could manifest itself in a variety of guises. These days, if a burger features a quarter-pound patty, its purveyor trumpets the fact loudly in television commercials: such generosity is a major selling point. But the core of the Hasty Burger was closer to half a pound of ground beef: not, as is today's practice, a mixture of one part commercial hamburger and one part wet cardboard. This patty of real beef was placed on a standard hamburger bun (now regarded as "oversized"), and the rest depended on your specifications. Your choice (any, all, or none) of mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup, pickle (relish or sliced), lettuce, a generous slice of tomato, and a generous slice of onion, not just a sprinkle of chopped onion, unless that's what you preferred. You could have this alone or with a side of French fries. This was not a small handful served in a little paper envelope: it was a whole potato's worth, piled like cord-wood on a large platter beside the burger. And on each table and every few feet along the counter there was a bottle of ketchup. Other options included my particular favorite: the chiliburger. As far as I have been able to tell recently, the chiliburger is now extinct. But in those glorious days when the chiliburger roamed the earth, it was constructed by placing one of the aforementioned monster beef patties on the bottom half of a hamburger bun set in the center of a large platter. The top of the bun was sliced in half and the two pieces placed at either end of the platter. Then the platter was inundated with an entire bowl of the Hasty Tasty's really good chili con carne. Finally, if you wished, the whole thing could be buried in chopped raw onion, or shreds of cheddar cheese, or both. Bob Murray's Doghouse, located on Seventh Avenue near Denny Park, was a Seattle institution. It opened its doors sometime in the mid-Thirties and closed for good on January 31, 1994. It appeared frequently as a setting in the mystery novels of J. A. Jance. Ms. Jance's protagonist, Seattle Police Detective J. P. Beaumont, often met friends, enemies, and informants there. He also consumed its blatantly non-gourmet food with gusto, sometimes accompanied by dire warnings from his granola and bean sprout eating partner. Indeed, when a new Beaumont novel appeared, the Doghouse would host a book signing party where you could meet the author, buy a book, and have her autograph it for you. The Doghouse featured hamburgers in a variety of incarnations (if I may be so bold as to use that term in this context). During my college days I ate there from time to time, usually with a group of other people after a party or late night outing of some sort. The menu listed, by humorous canine name, ten or a dozen ways of tricking up the basic beef patty and bun with various additions and condiments, for example, a plain hamburger (beef patty and bun only) liberally splashed with ketchup was identified as "The Bloodhound." My favorite menu item there was, of course, the chiliburger. The poochie moniker it bore may have been something like "The Chihuahua," but I think it was more grandiose than that. For the life of me, I can't remember. I just ate them. They were excellent, running a close second to those at the Hasty Tasty. Although I had not eaten there for decades, when the word came down that Bob Murray's Doghouse was due to close for good, I was assailed by a great hunger for one of their chiliburgers. Fortunately, an auspicious occasion presented itself. J. A. Jance's new Beaumont novel, Without Due Process, had just been release, and as one of its last acts, The Doghouse was hosting a book signing session. A friend, Juni Nelson, and I share an addiction to mystery novels, especially ones with a local setting such as Jance's Beaumont novels, so she and I went to The Doghouse on the appointed evening, bought the novel and had it autographed by the author. Then we ate there. Chiliburgers. It was the first chiliburger I had eaten in years. It was good! Scrumptious! But, Lord, how it had shrunk! This was not the shrinkage that occurs when nostalgic exaggeration is suddenly confronted by the reality that was. This was measurable diminution. I didn't actually sit there at the table and measure or weigh the portions except by eye, but I am certain that the figures would bear me out. During the middle Fifties I made a sojourn to a clinic in Denver to undergo physical therapy. It wasn't long before I became jaded by institutional food and went foraging outside the hospital. One Sunday afternoon while returning to the hospital from seeing a movie, I realized that I would be late for dinner. When Hatch's Drugstore hove into view, I got off the bus. Hatch's Drugstore was an early example of the kind of "drugstore" where prescription drugs are dispensed from a corner area only a little larger than a phone booth. In the rest of the place, which covered most of a city block, you could buy lawn furniture, hardware, clothing, you name it. It had a large magazine and book stand, which was one of the attractions of the place for me. They also had a lunch counter, complete with tables and booths, that was bigger than some restaurants. I had never eaten there. I was hungry, but not famished. I figured a hamburger would do nicely, and I might follow it with a piece of pie. The hamburger was served open-faced on a large plate. The beef patty must have been a good eight ounces, and the bun was even larger than what is called "oversized" these days. Also on the plate, arranged in a visually pleasing manner, were slices of cheese, tomato, onion, several leaves of lettuce, a whole dill pickle -and a side of French fries. As I gazed at this in awe, the waitress presented me with a relish tray: a couple kinds of mustard, ketchup, pickle relish, chopped onion, and a couple things I don't recall. The idea was, build it yourself to your own specifications. It was yummy! The next surprise was the price: thirty-five cents! In Seattle, that layout would have been available only in up-scale restaurants, and it would have run about a dollar and a half. Now, a dollar and a half may be a bargain these days, but in the Fifties, unless you were going to Canlis' or Von's or someplace like that, a dollar and a half could buy you a full meal, complete with salad, coffee, dessert, and a tip for the waitress. Dick's 19 cent hamburger drive-ins -actually "walk-ups" -began opening around Seattle in the early Fifties. Dick's nineteen cent burger was pretty basic: small patty, small bun, and the supplied condiments consisted of little more than a few molecules of mustard and a shard of pickle relish. But people used to say, "Gee, how can they do that for just nineteen cents?" One of the store managers used to answer, "Well, we loose money on each individual sale, but we make up for it in volume." In a world in which most people find that answer acceptable, many strange things are possible. We didn't realize it at the time, but it heralded the descent that was to come. But in Denver . . . on an outing with some friends at the hospital, we stopped at a nineteen cent hamburger drive-in before heading off to wherever we were bound. When the hamburgers arrived, I was astonished. They were not as big as Hasty Burgers, but close: two or three times the size of Dick's nineteen-centers, and they came adorned with lettuce, tomato, mayo, and mustard. Denver was a great place for the hamburger connoisseur. When I commented glowingly, the natives responded, "Well, yeah, I guess maybe so. We are pretty close to beef country, after all." There was one glitch, however. After several months in Denver, I had yet to encounter a chiliburger. When I mentioned this to a Denver native, he looked at me dubiously. Chili? On top of an open-face hamburger? Sounded pretty weird to him. Then one evening while wandering around downtown Denver after seeing a movie, I spotted a restaurant that claimed to be the greatest hamburger emporium in the world. "Surely here," I thought, and went in. I scanned the menu. It didn't leap out at me, but this was another of those places where they feel compelled to give all their menu items cutesy names. A more careful reading produced results. There, halfway down the page, I found it: "flame broiled to a succulent blah blah blah, served open-faced and smothered in our long simmered special blattety blattety chili con carne and garnished with generous portions of grated cheese and chopped onions." Aha! and furthermore, Eureka! No wonder I hadn't found it right away. They had given it a very flashy and elaborate name, something like "The Our Lady of Guadeloupe Chili con Toro Muerte Platter." Oy vey! I ordered one and ate it. It wasn't bad. In fact, it was pretty good. Not outstanding by Seattle standards, but pretty good. I belched discreetly and wiped my lips with a paper napkin as the waitress handed me my check. "I really enjoyed that," I said. "I haven't had a chiliburger in over a year." "A . . . what?" she asked. "A chiliburger. That's what we call them in Seattle." Her eyes turned hard and her pleasant smile was replaced by a frosty veil. "Well, that's not very likely," she said stiffly. "Our chef invented that dish. It's one of our specialty items. This is the only place in the world that has them." "But I've been eating them for years in Seattle," I protested. "A chiliburger is a pretty standard menu item." Had I walked into a mosque with a pot-bellied pig on a leash, I couldn't have drawn a more withering stare. "That's impossible!" she said, and stalked off. I left her a generous tip. After all, I had questioned her faith and possibly sewn the seeds of doubt. No one can be that adamant unless they feel that their basic beliefs have been challenged. Back in Seattle again, I soon headed for the Hasty Tasty. But that was many chiliburgers and many years ago. These days I am practically a vegetarian. But not totally. When I am not being a vegetarian, I am especially fond of seafood. Salmon, well prepared, will make my eyes light up. I also like halibut, sole, cod, clams, crab, prawns, oysters -just about anything that swims or clings to a rock. The wily tuna salad sandwich is a special favorite. A nice pork tenderloin, yes: and ham, and various kinds of fowl. I like beef. Yet, within recent years the flavor seems to have changed. It tastes "gray." That's the only way I can describe it. And no, this is not my aging taste buds. Once in a while I encounter a steak or piece of roast beef that tastes like steak and roast beef used to, so I know it isn't me. There is controversy in some circles over the way beef cattle are raised, what they are fed, and what they are injected with. This may very well explain the loss of flavor. I still really enjoy a good hamburger. When I can find one. And chiliburgers? They may still be out there, but I haven't seen one on a menu since Juni Nelson and I went to the Doghouse in 1992. And it's really doubtful that I will ever find them being served by one of the chain burger joints. A chiliburger is not real easy to throw out a window at a passing car. By the way: the site if the Hasty Tasty is now occupied by the "Silence-Heart-Nest," a New Age, vegetarian restaurant. (Sigh). I may just tidy this thing up and try submitting it somewhere. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: M.Ted Date: 07 Jun 06 - 08:53 PM Sorry, about the beard remark, Clinton, you're such a bagful of delight that I keep getting you confused with Santa Claus-- |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 07 Jun 06 - 09:18 PM Loved it Don! Get it published! Why not try an Aussie newspaper/magazine? |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Don Firth Date: 07 Jun 06 - 10:05 PM Thanks, Robin. Now I can say with at least some measure of honesty that my writing is "internationally recognized." Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 07 Jun 06 - 10:09 PM I could send you a dollar, then you could say... :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: GUEST,Russ Date: 07 Jun 06 - 10:39 PM Everybody knows that Mickey Dee's hamburgers have earthworms in them and they form the pattys in their armpits. That's the reason for the hair in them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: number 6 Date: 07 Jun 06 - 10:41 PM Jeeeezuz!! God, never gonna eat another one of those aberrations disguised as a hamburger. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 07 Jun 06 - 10:41 PM Welcome Back Marty! |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: GUEST,Russ Date: 07 Jun 06 - 11:09 PM Up in Canada they put whale blubber and moose meat in them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: number 6 Date: 07 Jun 06 - 11:15 PM Yeah, you gotta try it deep fried .... damned good it is! sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: GUEST,Russ Date: 07 Jun 06 - 11:27 PM My wife and I went up to Canada once and on the way back from Dawson, we stopped and bought some moose antlers from indians at a honest to god indian trading post in Pelly crossing in the Yukon. I tied them up on top of the camper and we proceeded to Whitehorse to get an export permit for them. We stopped at the MacDonalds in Whitehorse and asked them for some of those Moose Mcnuggets like we got at the last MacDonalds. They said there was no such thing. I said hell yes there is look at what we found in the dumpster there and pointed to the antlers on top of the camper. Had them going for a while. |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Becca72 Date: 08 Jun 06 - 01:03 PM Just as a note, Joe, most McDonald's in Maine have lobster rolls in the summer months. But no self respecting Mainer would EVER get one from there. and I also don't bother with either McD's or Burger Yuck (as my friend's son calls it) because both make me feel sick afterward and what's the point in that? |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: catspaw49 Date: 08 Jun 06 - 01:04 PM Well if you're a masochist Becca, it could be fun! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Don Firth Date: 09 Jun 06 - 01:49 PM When it comes to hamburbers in general, let me put it this way: to those who understand, no explanation is necessary. To those who don't, no explanation is possible. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Clinton Hammond Date: 09 Jun 06 - 01:54 PM Ya... and if you think you can get good food at Burger King/McDonalds/Wendy's/Arbys etc. then you obviously don't understand..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Don Firth Date: 09 Jun 06 - 02:10 PM Man, you're quick, Clinton! Were you waiting in ambush!?? Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Clinton Hammond Date: 09 Jun 06 - 04:57 PM Just happened to be ghosting by |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Anonny Mouse Date: 09 Jun 06 - 05:29 PM Quite a treatise Don. Wow. I will confine my remarks to the original choices. I prefer BK, and their products over McD's. A Whopper is better by FAR than a Big Mac! Also, the "flame broiling" or whatever beats fried on a greasy grill. When walking in the region of our local BK, it literally smells like someone is having a cook-out. I only eat Verrrrrry rarely from any of these types of places. Like, less than once a month. Once in awhile more...but not often. Usually when the wife's out of town, and I'm by myself. Cooking for one is way more work than it's worth. In an "emergency" (on a long trip, hungry, and no BK nearby, wanting it fast) I'll eat PLAIN cheeseburgers at McD's. |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Clinton Hammond Date: 09 Jun 06 - 05:39 PM You don't honestly think that any of the meat served at ANY Burger King ever comes anywhere close to a real flame do you???? |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 09 Jun 06 - 07:39 PM We have Hungry Jack's in Australia - supposedly owned by Burger King - I prefer their 'Aussie Burger' - lots of vege stuff thereon - and the burger grills are ususally where you can see them. Their onion rings are to die for. |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Wilfried Schaum Date: 10 Jun 06 - 11:33 AM None of both, no never no more. Give me a pork rib, with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes, accompanied by some glasses of applewine (the German, but really stronger, equivalent of cider). |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Ron Davies Date: 10 Jun 06 - 12:32 PM Wolfgang--Ausgezeichnet! That gives the lie (yet again) to the old canard that Germans have no sense of humor. When I was in Germany I found they had a great sense of humor--especially in satire, and telling stories. I remember a song called "Der Jazz kommt aus Hamburg"-- by Udo Juergens, I think-- which, tongue-in-cheek, claimed that jazz had originated in Hamburg, and gave (unlikely) examples. If this be thread creep, make the most of it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: catspaw49 Date: 10 Jun 06 - 01:01 PM If you find farts funny, Germans must be hilarious!!! I mean that meal that Wilfred is having will bring on more than a few blasts from the past. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: number 6 Date: 10 Jun 06 - 01:50 PM A nation that invented the cuckoo clock and the Glockenspiel can't lack from a sense of humour. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Joe Offer Date: 11 Jun 06 - 10:12 AM test message --- help me a goat is eating my genitals |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: JennyO Date: 11 Jun 06 - 02:01 PM A good goat'll do that! Well, someone had to say it... |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Jun 06 - 02:15 PM Joe seems to have been doing too much Adam Sandler or something..................... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Don Firth Date: 11 Jun 06 - 04:28 PM I probably eat about five or six burgers a year, usually from Burger King or Jack-in-the-Box. Not as a steady diet. I find them quite tasty, but granted, not as good as hamburgers used to be. I don't seriously think they'll do me much harm. I'll be 75 on my next birthday, which is a week from this coming Monday. My weight is right where it should be (actually, I'm a bit slender for my height, but that's fine with me). My pulse is a pretty steady 72 a minute (depending on strenuousness of activity, of course) and the last time my blood pressure was taken (a few months ago), it was 128 over 72. There is the story of actor Charles Laughton, who used to get together with friends on Sunday afternoons to have a few beers and play cards. Some hardnosed bluestocking neighbor complained to the police, invoking some local blue-law about drinking and gambling on The Lord's Day. Laughton and his friends were convicted and fined (no big deal—about like a parking ticket). Before he levied the fine, the judge, a prissy little twit, felt it incumbent upon himself to give Laughton a moral lecture. He ranted on for about fifteen minutes, saying that Laughton, as a public figure and prominent member of the community, ought to set a better example. As Laughton stood before the bench listening to the judge pontificate, he looked a bit like a schoolboy being reprimanded by the headmaster. But when the judge finally ran out of steam, Laughton, in his best Shakespearean voice, intoned like Falstaff : "Because Mary is pure, must I be denied my cakes and ale?" If you don't like 'em, don't eat 'em. By the way, Clinton, how many cigarettes do you smoke a day? Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: number 6 Date: 11 Jun 06 - 04:39 PM "help me a goat is eating my genitals" Joe ... i thought all you 'male' clones were eunuchs? sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Jun 06 - 04:56 PM Well sIx, Joe is NOT a clone, he's the original and hence can have genitals......Or at least he did before the goat started eating them. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: number 6 Date: 11 Jun 06 - 08:32 PM Is that how they castrate the clones ?!?! does that mean Joe has been demoted?!?!?! sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Little Hawk Date: 11 Jun 06 - 08:38 PM What Clinton said: "I don't eat any of that shit." |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Bill D Date: 11 Jun 06 - 09:21 PM where to get good burgers I found that page doing a search on "Jack's North High Carryout" in Wichita ,Kansas. The place was in business when I moved near there in 1953, and is still in business. They used to pay extra for their meat and, at one time, would not allow Ketchup in the place. "pickle, mustard & onion" was it. You could get chili or cheese on it, but that was a small % of business. (no seating...room for maybe 8-10 people to stand). Small graveled parking lot.....while I was there, a McDonalds open right across the street from Jack's, but "Jack" (about Jack #5, I think) said it didn't affect him at all. The McDonald's is now gone. |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: JennyO Date: 12 Jun 06 - 08:13 AM This test post is not as interesting as Joe's, but - poker |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: JennyO Date: 12 Jun 06 - 08:14 AM Good grief, it worked! That wasn't supposed to happen. Nevermind.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Clinton Hammond Date: 12 Jun 06 - 12:19 PM When even L Hawk and I agree on something..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Clinton Hammond Date: 12 Jun 06 - 12:21 PM "Clinton, how many cigarettes do you smoke a day?" What FN business is it of yours, or to this thread, gramps? |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Don Firth Date: 12 Jun 06 - 02:20 PM "Gramps," Clinton!??" Did you learn that from Martin Gibson? YOU should be in my shape when you're my age! You criticize my eating habits, citing health issues. I figure pointing out your habit of ingesting nicotine, tar, and miscellaneous carcinogens is within the same discussiom parameters. Fair is fair, n'est-ce pas? Thanks for posting the link, Bill D. I checked out Washington State and noted the citation of Dick's Drive-In as a good place for burgers. There's a Dick's Drive-In (actually, it's a "walk-up") just a few blocks from where I live, and I've consumed a fair number of their burgers. I concur. They are good. In terms of ingredients, they're top rate. BUT--they often let the burgers sit in a warming oven for too long, and sometimes their burgers lack the flavor that the fresher burgers dispensed at Burger King a few blocks down the street (now closed, unfortunately), albeit they MAY be made of ingredients which might not be as good as those in Dick's. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Clinton Hammond Date: 12 Jun 06 - 02:37 PM " You criticize my eating habits" Not in the least I'm not.... I'm saying your perception of the food you get at Burger King is erroneous.... I couldn't care any less what you put in your wrinkled carcass.... "is within the same discussiom parameters" I have never claimed that the few smokes I have a week are good, fresh or healthful, have I??? You've simply been unable to defend your error and so think you can deflect it by trying to make an attack on me..... Bullshit.... it doesn't work like that.... No attack on me is gonna change the fact that you're flat out wrong. "Did you learn that from Martin Gibson?" Like that.... Whisky Tango Foxtrot does Martin Gibson have to do with ANYTHING we're discussing here? Abso-FKNG-lootly nothing! Except as a lame attempt at an ad hominem attack.... Maybe you should get yourself a copy of that Nintendo DS program for old people that helps them exercise their minds.... Brain Age |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Don Firth Date: 12 Jun 06 - 03:01 PM "Error" in your judgment. Clinton, your even sweeter than I thought. Over and out. End of discussion. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Don Firth Date: 12 Jun 06 - 03:05 PM One more point and then I'm out of this thread. The ad hominem attack began with your use of the epithet "gramps." That's what evoked memories of Martin Gibson. I knew you were a cranky bugger, but I didn't think you'd resort to his tactics. Maybe a re-evaluation is in order? Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Clinton Hammond Date: 12 Jun 06 - 03:09 PM Don't go away mad, Don.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Don Firth Date: 12 Jun 06 - 03:36 PM Not mad, Clinton, it's just that the hassle isn't worth it. I don't want to fight with you, especially over something as stupid as our disparate taste in hamburgers. I believe the expression is "one man's meat is another man's poison." Let's just let it lay there, okay? Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Clinton Hammond Date: 12 Jun 06 - 03:44 PM "it's just that the hassle isn't worth it" You've been saying that for about a page-and-a-half of posts, and yet here you remain.... Is there something here you need? You keep saying you're going to leave the thread.... so leave already...... "one man's meat is another man's poison" Crap is crap.... You decide if you want to eat it or not.... I chose not..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Don Firth Date: 12 Jun 06 - 03:51 PM Jeezuz! You are a cranky bugger! I may go, I may stay, whatever suits my fancy. And no, I don't need anything. thanks. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King From: Clinton Hammond Date: 12 Jun 06 - 04:23 PM "Jeezuz! You are a cranky bugger!" If that means I'm not gonna roll over for you, you're right.... I am.... "I don't need anything" You must need something.... or you'da left when you said you were leaving the first 4 times..... I suspect that MGs theory about some Catters and their apparent pathological need for conflict has some substance after all..... So, well, you want us to take you at your word that Burger King provides good food? Back it up with some facts.... cause all the facts out here so far say that it's exactly the same fast food crap as Wendys/McDonalds/Arbys/Pizza Hut/Subway/Taco Bell..... All your attempts at deflection haven't changed that one iota. |
