8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC Part 12

[Andrew DEREK UK]

I thought the same but didn't want to make a clown out of myself for getting this wrong - I certainly remember that Burger King bought out Wimpy some years ago.

David

As far as I am aware it was started in the UK as a UK franchise, but anything can change.

 

[daipp]

Better than having a leak, eating rather than having a .....well...a

Had two McD's this weekend with the kids, and before you ask I was good I didnt have anything against Docs orders, less 3% fat deli wrap. No fries no coke!!! No leaks.

I usually go to the McDonalds drive-thru at Norwich Airport twice a week on my way home but ONLY for a coffee or hot chocolate. In the summer that changes to a milkshake once a week.

David

 

[daipp]

I usually go to the McDonalds drive-thru at Norwich Airport twice a week on my way home but ONLY for a coffee or hot chocolate. In the summer that changes to a milkshake once a week.

David

I forgot to add that my DD7 Bethan stopped eating the Chicken Nuggets about 18 months ago when McDonalds in the UK started making them healthy !!!

David

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

I usually go to the McDonalds drive-thru at Norwich Airport twice a week on my way home but ONLY for a coffee or hot chocolate. In the summer that changes to a milkshake once a week.

David

I have a Saturday club with the kids, take them once a week, for a happy meal.

 

[daipp]

Here in Norfolk the Heavens have just opened. Noah has just sailed past it's raining so heavily and St Swithin wants to book accomodation for 40 nights !!

David

 

[jonesing]

Good Sunday Morning all!

To you DIS'ers in the Plains, I hope that you and your's are safe.


I hope your Saturday was as nice. I ended up in Cape May, NJ. For those of you who think NJ ends at Newark, Cape May is a Victorian town at the very bottom on the state. It was a beautiful day to be out.

Today is grocery shop, laundry and various other stuff that needs to get done before the AR Finals.

M- love the Pirate top. Think we could get a bulk order discount? Something for us wenches to wear on the sideline of the CC Naked Rugby game.

Funny you say that about Newark! We have a friend who was a life-long resident of Montclair but just bought her first house in West Orange. As far as she's concerned, everything south of EWR (except Princeton) is pumpkin farms!

 

[jonesing]

Even though I'm British I've made a point of wherever I go I ALWAYS sample a meal from McDonalds - don't know why, I just have.

My biggest shock ever was the breakfast in a McDs in USA though - syrup on sausages at breakfast time .

On the subject of burgers, some years ago I managed to con Helen into trying a horse meat burger in France
I can still see her face when I told her what she had just eaten

David

That is the brainchild of a few sick, twisted individuals! I can't abide having syrup running into my bacon or sausage!

 

[jonesing]

Agree, isnt BURGER KING British??????

I thought the same but didn't want to make a clown out of myself for getting this wrong - I certainly remember that Burger King bought out Wimpy some years ago.

David

BK was available and we were a little desperate! I would have liked Jack in the Box (whose corporate mascot IS a clown ) but they weren't down there

 

[daipp]

That is the brainchild of a few sick, twisted individuals! I can't abide having syrup running into my bacon or sausage!

I'm glad you said this because I was apalled to be honest - I think I ate at Dennys for the rest of my holiday - Moons over My'hammy - excellent play on words.

David

 

[allshookup]

History

A Burger King restaurant in Redwood City, CaliforniaBurger King's first restaurant, originally called Insta Burger King, was opened on December 4, 1954 in a suburb of Miami, Florida, USA by James McLamore and David Edgerton, who were both alumni of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. McLamore had visited the hamburger stand belonging to Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California; being able to sense potential in their innovative assembly line-based production system, he decided to create a version of his own.

Coincidentally, the McDonald Brothers's milkshake machine was sold to them by Ray Kroc, who later bought the McDonald's restaurant chain from them and oversaw its worldwide expansion.

In 1967, Burger King was bought by Pillsbury, which was bought by Grand Metropolitan PLC of Britain in 1988.

In 1989, the Burger King brand acquired many locations of its major UK rival Wimpy when its parent company bought the brand from its previous owner United Biscuits and re-branded them as "Burger King", giving it an even greater presence in that country. While other "Wimpy" locations are still trading today (now independent from BK) they no longer have the presence they once did (the market is now dominated by Burger King and the larger McDonald's).

 

[Grandma x3]

The Strand? Are you in SD (Coronado)?

No - Redondo Beach - the strand runs all along the beaches around here. In Santa Monica the path runs right in the middle of the sand. Here it the frontage path - footpath, bikepath, skatepath combo - no cars - with beach homes/businesses - the path - the beach.

 

[jonesing]

M you BETTER order that Girl.....Lord knows you're athletic enough to sport that one proudly my friend......now go, go order it!!!!


Hmmmmm.....I'll be right back......I gotta check and see if Omar has a similar version

Someone stop me from buying this! QUICK!

Clarification: the bikini, not her.



I'm not THAT lonely!

Well it's settled then!!

M, YOU take the suit and I'LL take the girl!

Clarification: DW's been away for a week and the house needs cleaning!

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

History

A Burger King restaurant in Redwood City, CaliforniaBurger King's first restaurant, originally called Insta Burger King, was opened on December 4, 1954 in a suburb of Miami, Florida, USA by James McLamore and David Edgerton, who were both alumni of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. McLamore had visited the hamburger stand belonging to Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California; being able to sense potential in their innovative assembly line-based production system, he decided to create a version of his own.

Coincidentally, the McDonald Brothers's milkshake machine was sold to them by Ray Kroc, who later bought the McDonald's restaurant chain from them and oversaw its worldwide expansion.

In 1967, Burger King was bought by Pillsbury, which was bought by Grand Metropolitan PLC of Britain in 1988.

In 1989, the Burger King brand acquired many locations of its major UK rival Wimpy when its parent company bought the brand from its previous owner United Biscuits and re-branded them as "Burger King", giving it an even greater presence in that country. While other "Wimpy" locations are still trading today (now independent from BK) they no longer have the presence they once did (the market is now dominated by Burger King and the larger McDonald's).

Thanks that explains why we think its British.

 

[Grandma x3]

Happy Birthday Linda / 4theluvofpooh!!!

ing time!! Happy B'day from me also!!!!!

 

[jonesing]

Afternoon Folks.

I took Hazel and Angelina out for brunch this morning at Old Country Buffet before taking Angelina to work. While we were eating we had a family meeting discussing quite a few topics. I also wanted to get Angelina's and Hazel's true feelings about the TOAL. Angelina then said, "Funny, you should bring that topic up dad, because I wanted to talk about that." We talked for quite a while, then put the TOAL up for a vote. I'm sad to say that the TOAL vote was 3-0 in favor to cancel. Yes, even me, who wanted to do this more than Hazel and Angelina combined, voted it down. I don't know what else to say, but that I am sorry we won't have the chance to sail with you, on TOAL.

Oh Andy, you and yours will be sorely missed! The cruise will be a little

without you!

Psssst!

On a side note, did you have a Cat 3 and if so, can I get it?

 

[Verandah Man]

Oh Andy, you and yours will be sorely missed! The cruise will be a little

without you!

Psssst!

On a side note, did you have a Cat 3 and if so, can I get it?

Sorry, it was a cat. 9 gty and I think the cabin has already been taken.

 

[jonesing]

Went to the funeral palor on Saturday and spent most of the day getting that done. On the phone most of today calling the two pension companies and social security, everybody is so busy and getting through the answering machines. Getting a final bill from the nursing home. Gathering clothes for him to wear. Thank God I forced him to buy a headstone, plot and prepaid funeral. Oh well, such is life.

My sister will be allowed out of the hospital for the funeral. Bought flowers on Saturday and the woman who owns the shop looked at me an said you don't know who I am do you? I said no. It turns out she's a 1st cousin. Both sides of my family are very disfunctional. My father had five sisters, who I haven't seen in 50 years, they are all dead but the youngest, Laura who called me last night. It turns out I have 22 1st cousins.

That's one of the reasons I take my family on vacations every year, I want to make sure that have a great sense of family. Carrying grudges from childhood is such a waste of time.

DW's dad died 3 days after Christmas. My parents were visiting us at the time and mom had mentioned wanting to go meet him (they had never met). We were actually planning on doing so that day but the nursing/respite home he was staying in called early that morning to say he was gone. Luckily DF/SIL was visiting at the time and she got to see him...in fact, he had stated he wanted to see Mary and that he was going to "make it through the holidays." Alas, Jerry didn't mean New Year's

Anyway, DMom doesn't handle crisis AT ALL. Nor does she handle death or pretty much anything unpleasant. With DW's mom having died in a house fire, she (we) had to deal with all sorts of things that was alien: funeral homes, insurance investigators, coroner, death certificates, the veteran's cemetary etc. But, having been through that we already knew much of what was to come.

We had already been in touch with a funeral home a few weeks prior because he had suffered some sort of coronary event and the home called 911. Well Jerry was just NOT HAPPY about the big fuss they made over him! He was a real unassuming kinda guy and here they have EMTs, sirens, the ER staff....the whole nine yards going to work on him. He was as grumpy as ever when we came to see him! Perhaps the fact that the nurse kept coming in every 30 minutes to take a rectal temp had something to do with that!

Anyway, we called the same mortuary. They collected Jerry and we went down that same day--my parents were with us. The mortuary was really good about explaining that unless something was required by state law (such as embalming if transporting across state lines) then we were free to choose (or not) any of their services. So if we had a casket already we could use it. Jerry was US Army and even served in the same unit as Elvis when he was in Germany. As such, I thought about getting this for him: http://www.funeraldepot.com/Military/Army.html. Problem is if we wanted to bury him in his spot at the Veteran's Cemetary in Delaware then that meant embalming, air transport (Delta has a web site devoted to that), a funeral home on the other end, ground transport and internment. We're talking big bucks not to mention we couldn't have traveled right then and there anyway. Instead, we opted for cremation because the Catholic Church now allows it and we took him back home in the summer for internment.

DFIL also has a somewhat dysfunctional family because when he died the "Black Widow" aka his sister came sniffing around for her cut of his estate! She and others were so insistent that he had cast sums of money lying about to which DW told them "Yeah, he HAD money, but if you want to split this $20,000 nursing home bill then by all means, let's!" Black Widow only comes around when a relative dies but she wasn't prepared for the fact that his medical and nursing home expenses came to ~$5,000/month!

 

[DindelsPA]

That is the brainchild of a few sick, twisted individuals! I can't abide having syrup running into my bacon or sausage!

Have you tried a McDs in the south? GRITS are on their menu. Born and raised as a yankee, I was in serious shock on my first trip "south of the border".

 

[jonesing]

how cool is this girls......?

a male version of the pirate swimsuit...

Gee, would that suit make my add look fat?

Of course, I'd have to do 3 or 4 (thousand) more sit-ups to get abs like that And some laser hair removal...

 

[bellelinus]

Afternoon Folks.

I took Hazel and Angelina out for brunch this morning at Old Country Buffet before taking Angelina to work. While we were eating we had a family meeting discussing quite a few topics. I also wanted to get Angelina's and Hazel's true feelings about the TOAL. Angelina then said, "Funny, you should bring that topic up dad, because I wanted to talk about that." We talked for quite a while, then put the TOAL up for a vote. I'm sad to say that the TOAL vote was 3-0 in favor to cancel. Yes, even me, who wanted to do this more than Hazel and Angelina combined, voted it down. I don't know what else to say, but that I am sorry we won't have the chance to sail with you, on TOAL.

I'm very sorry to hear this, Andy -- I hope 2008 brings something else that you will enjoy . . . my best to you and I'm sorry I won't be meeting you!