Re: Happy Halloween
On Oct 31, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: As the trick-or-treater came by tonight, I found myself tonight remembering going to the Isaly's house on Halloween and getting Klondike bars with pumpkin pie flavored centers... Mmmm. The Isaly's company invented the Klondike bar... and at Christmas, we'd go caroling and they'd give us Klondikes with mint, tree-shaped centers. Nobody in my neighborhood invented nothin'. Joes the Plumbers, mostly Maru Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Happy Halloween
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Dave Land wrote: On Oct 31, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: As the trick-or-treater came by tonight, I found myself tonight remembering going to the Isaly's house on Halloween and getting Klondike bars with pumpkin pie flavored centers... Mmmm. The Isaly's company invented the Klondike bar... and at Christmas, we'd go caroling and they'd give us Klondikes with mint, tree-shaped centers. Nobody in my neighborhood invented nothin'. Joes the Plumbers, mostly Maru The only invention in either of the neighborhoods I grew up in that I was aware of was the man down the street who had invented the machine that stamped Necco onto Necco wafers. (He'd also blown up an abandoned brick structure with his brothers. About a month later, the absentee owner of the land on which said brick structure had stood wrote their father asking him to take it down, and offering payment for him to do so.) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Happy Halloween
On Nov 1, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Dave Land wrote: On Oct 31, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: As the trick-or-treater came by tonight, I found myself tonight remembering going to the Isaly's house on Halloween and getting Klondike bars with pumpkin pie flavored centers... Mmmm. The Isaly's company invented the Klondike bar... and at Christmas, we'd go caroling and they'd give us Klondikes with mint, tree-shaped centers. Nobody in my neighborhood invented nothin'. Joes the Plumbers, mostly Maru The only invention in either of the neighborhoods I grew up in that I was aware of was the man down the street who had invented the machine that stamped Necco onto Necco wafers. (He'd also blown up an abandoned brick structure with his brothers. About a month later, the absentee owner of the land on which said brick structure had stood wrote their father asking him to take it down, and offering payment for him to do so.) Julia Did their father respond with an invoice for services rendered? :D ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Happy Halloween
Given that the first time I heard of Necco wafers was as competition . 22 rifle targets and only much later that they were in fact edible, I've always wondered if more of them have been shot or eaten .. :) On Nov 1, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: The only invention in either of the neighborhoods I grew up in that I was aware of was the man down the street who had invented the machine that stamped Necco onto Necco wafers. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Happy Halloween
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: On Nov 1, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Dave Land wrote: On Oct 31, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: As the trick-or-treater came by tonight, I found myself tonight remembering going to the Isaly's house on Halloween and getting Klondike bars with pumpkin pie flavored centers... Mmmm. The Isaly's company invented the Klondike bar... and at Christmas, we'd go caroling and they'd give us Klondikes with mint, tree-shaped centers. Nobody in my neighborhood invented nothin'. Joes the Plumbers, mostly Maru The only invention in either of the neighborhoods I grew up in that I was aware of was the man down the street who had invented the machine that stamped Necco onto Necco wafers. (He'd also blown up an abandoned brick structure with his brothers. About a month later, the absentee owner of the land on which said brick structure had stood wrote their father asking him to take it down, and offering payment for him to do so.) Julia Did their father respond with an invoice for services rendered? :D I think their father had them clean up what was left and collected the offered amount from the owner when he showed up later to see if it had been taken care of. :) Easiest howevermany dollars he'd ever made, probably. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Happy Halloween
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: Given that the first time I heard of Necco wafers was as competition . 22 rifle targets and only much later that they were in fact edible, I've always wondered if more of them have been shot or eaten .. :) On Nov 1, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: The only invention in either of the neighborhoods I grew up in that I was aware of was the man down the street who had invented the machine that stamped Necco onto Necco wafers. You know, shooting them sounds like a better idea to me. :) I came to the conclusion as a pre-teen that the only decent ones were the chocolate ones, and I'd buy 1 or 2 rolls of those a year. Gave that up about 10 years ago. (They have the advantage of being at least vaguely chocolate, but not melting easily.) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Happy Halloween
On Nov 1, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: Given that the first time I heard of Necco wafers was as competition . 22 rifle targets and only much later that they were in fact edible, I've always wondered if more of them have been shot or eaten .. :) On Nov 1, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: The only invention in either of the neighborhoods I grew up in that I was aware of was the man down the street who had invented the machine that stamped Necco onto Necco wafers. You know, shooting them sounds like a better idea to me. :) I came to the conclusion as a pre-teen that the only decent ones were the chocolate ones, and I'd buy 1 or 2 rolls of those a year. Gave that up about 10 years ago. (They have the advantage of being at least vaguely chocolate, but not melting easily.) Julia I sometimes wonder who first got the idea to use them as targets, although having gone through the typical .22 rifle shooting age myself, I'm guessing there were youthful male adventures involved in the early experiments. :D They do work rather well for reactive targets of a sort, being about as fragile as the clay pigeons used for trap shooting, and back in the days when people used to do exhibition shooting, they'd often use Necco wafers because the audience could see easily when they were hit. I know of one exhibition shooter who set up a stunt shot using Necco wafers and a heavy steel backplate, knowing that as long as he hit the backplate, the fragments would almost certainly shatter both wafers quite nicely. The gag was splitting the bullet on a knife blade, which impressed the audience quite nicely. (Although he later examined the setup and found that he had, in fact, split the bullet cleanly in half on the knife blade, so it wasn't really a gag after all, only amusingly ironic. :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Happy Halloween
As the trick-or-treater came by tonight, I found myself tonight remembering going to the Isaly's house on Halloween and getting Klondike bars with pumpkin pie flavored centers... Mmmm. The Isaly's company invented the Klondike bar... and at Christmas, we'd go caroling and they'd give us Klondikes with mint, tree-shaped centers. Mmmm. Nostalgic Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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