Text 10081, 77 rader
Skriven 2014-02-19 17:43:08 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 9950 av Dave Drum (1:261/38)
Ärende: Re: Cars was:Tracking Sales
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 15 Feb 14  20:36:50 <=-

 NB>>> I can imagine... isn't bells and whistles part of the definition of
 NB>>> Benz or BMW...?  (our son has a Beemer he got used)   (G)
 DD>> Not so many as on the Jeep Grand Cherokee that they rented at my work
 DD>> while one of the utilitarian Chevy Express vans was in hospital. I had
 DD>> to read the manual to figure out how to start the dratted thing and
 DD>> get it out of "PARK". Sheesh ... talk about counter-intuitive.
 NB>> Isn't that one supposed to be the equivalent of the Hum3...?  "Luxury"
 NB>> trumps drivability...  ;)

 DD> I'd not want to own one. Whilst it's not as big as a Hummer (even a 3)
 DD> it's still plenty overstuffed. And it does too much toward taking the
 DD> actual driving and decision making about driving things out of the
 DD> hands of the operator. If I wanted something like that I'd wait for
 DD> the Google auto-drive cars to become common. 

I wouldn't want either of them either...  :)

 DD> Of course, I'm old enough to remember the old CJ-2 Jeeps that came
 DD> back from WWII and Korea. 

True... My son bought a utilitarian Jeep, which he ended up driving more
than the BMW... he scoffs at the "top-o-the-line" jeeps, says they
aren't really jeeps...  :)

 DD> No really "major" stuff is downtown if you don't count sh!+ kicker
 DD> country concerts, WWE events, Monster Trucks and some rock concerts at
 DD> the Convention Centre. 

Oh, right, I forgot about the convention center and the Veterans
Memorial arena... those get that sort of thing, and the circuses, and
the hockey games....  right downtown...  :)

 NB>> And then we have all sorts of restaurants and clubs right downtown, as
 NB>> well as all around town, and in the close and not so close suburbs.
 NB>> Lots of ethnic restaurants of all types, from the various Asian
 NB>> (Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Indian, Vietmanese, etc), to Ethiopian and
 NB>> other African to almost anything you could think of...  The major
 NB>> chains tend to be more in the outer suburbs... near the malls...  ;)

 DD> I think the downtown area has one decent restaurant. A couple of
 DD> Italian places and a *lot* of snatch & grabbit venues. No Mexican,
 DD> Indian, Chinese, etc. And no Japanese now that Jimmy Oh's Bento Box
 DD> has shuffled off to wherever it is that defunct restaurants go when
 DD> they die. Oh, and a lot of saloons. 

Pretty much what's downtown wouldn't be classified as saloons, here...
most of them are the smaller venues for musical groups of all sorts,
from garage rock to jazz to chamber groups to whatever... and everything
between...  it's a pretty musical city, and not just classical....  ;)  

 DD> Title: Bento Box Twinkie Sushi
 DD> Categories: Desserts, Fruits, Candy
 DD> 4    Pieces green fruit leather; in 1"-wide strips
 DD> 6    Twinkies; in 1" pieces
 DD> Assorted dried fruits; in small pieces
 DD> Assorted chewy fruity candies
 DD> 6    Pieces dried mango; cut in strips
 DD> One at a time, wrap the fruit-leather pieces around the
 DD> Twinkie pieces. Place the wrapped Twinkie pieces upright
 DD> on a serving tray or in a bento box.
 DD> Place the dried fruits and candies into the creme filling.
 DD> Garnish the tray with strips of dried mango to resemble
 DD> pickled ginger. Serve with chopsticks, if you wish.

How bizarre...  probably nasty, too...  ;0

 DD> Source: The Twinkies Cookbook by Hostess

Ah... searching for a new audience are they...?  (G)

ttyl         neb

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