#151807 - 05/04/09 12:51 PM
Re: Just plain ole aging..
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Paul I
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Great to have you back on this thread. I've enjoyed reading back over parts of it periodically and see quite a few "dashing" posts.
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#151983 - 05/06/09 01:34 PM
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dashingd
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Thanks. Remember S&H green stamps? Seems Pop would get a charcoal grill, golf clubs or something. Big sis and I would be so disapointed. We'd study that catalog and choose some girly thing; pre blow hair dryers our own salon type or dust ruffles and bed spreads for our canopy beds...
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#153387 - 05/27/09 09:40 PM
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rosebud
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I'm back! Hi Paul and other "older" kids. YAHOO! So glad you can finally get maple walnut ice cream out there. Last month, a delicious dish of "maple walnut" cost me $250, when I chomped down on a piece of walnut shell and cracked a tooth. I'm now leary about eating my most favorite flavor. Will celebrate my 66th birthday with fresh strawberry ice cream this year! It's pretty darn good, too. Ooh, I had a dish of dark fudge ice cream with a little rhubarb sauce recently that was out of site! (all homemade)
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#153395 - 05/28/09 11:14 AM
Re: Just plain ole aging..
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Paul I
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Rosebud, sixty six feels like 65 only you wish the numbers were going the other direction. Did it last year. You posted on the minivan thread and I told you to come here and voila', you are way ahead of me!
Dashing, how well I remember S&H stamps. What a pain when you had a ton of them to put in the book all at once. I recall trading them in and watching the guy tear the book apart to get half a book but only remember that what I got seemed pretty lame compared to all the work of licking stamps for ages.
A friend staying with us produced a taste test of Haggen Das,
Blue Belle, and Dryers, all Vanilla Bean. Blue Belle, which used to be strictly Texas, won hands down. You can get a quart of it for the price of a pint of H D.
Had a Blue Belle Black Cow if anyone not from the Midwest knows what that is.
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#153474 - 05/31/09 09:13 PM
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 Hi Paul, Rosebud, Dashing......................so nice to see you guys here. Happy Birthday, Rosebud. Your a young 'un, lady. Now I really feel old, as I have you all beat by a few more.
Allrighty, Paul, what is " Blue Belle Black Cow "? I am thinking it is a very, very chocolate kind of ice cream. I love Vanilla Bean, but the Tillamook brand (Oregon company that makes great dairy products). And as I ate this teeny weeny sized Starbucks the other night with this litte plastic spoon that was more like a scoop, my hubby said that it reminded him of "Dixie Cups". Anyone remember them. They had a little wooden spoon to go with them but all I can recall is vanilla flavor, and I cannnot remember how the spoon was attached to the cup which was a lot larger than Starbucks! 
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#153476 - 05/31/09 09:49 PM
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Paul I
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Roadrunner, a black cow in vanilla ice cream and rootbeer in a
glass with an iced tea spoon.
I remember Dixie Cups. Wasn't the spoon wrapped in paper? I'm thinking they were just sort of "around" with the Dixie Cups.
I remember when the first Dairy Queen came to town. I couldn't believe ice cream came out of a nozzle like that. And that's all they sold. I think they were before McDonalds, the home of the 15 cent hamburger. Now vanilla bean was new to me. THe best vanilla used to be French vanilla.
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#153495 - 06/01/09 01:01 PM
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My Granny owned a DQ in the '50's and early '60's. She was always very careful never to call it ice cream. It was always soft serve.
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#153661 - 06/04/09 02:14 PM
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paradocs
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In the part of the country where I grew up, root beer and vanilla ice cream was a "white cow." A "black cow" was root beer with chocolate ice cream. I had a friend who liked root beer and coffee ice cream but if it had a name I never learned it. That friend now likes root beer and Kalua(sp?).
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#153675 - 06/05/09 12:08 AM
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rosebud
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Hi All - Thanks for the b'day greeting RR. It turned out to be the best and biggest surprise I've had in many moons! Several friends (old and new) somehow got together at the same time and managed to throw me a big surprise party. It was a blast! My friend Gloria (74 yrs. young) had a few glasses of wine and was down on the floor trying to do a headstand (LOL). It sure was a funny sight! Dora (all 5'9'' 200+lbs) entered the room wearing black tights with a hot pink thong over the top, and an authentic looking black gorilla mask, singing "happy birthday". It was a night of laughs and fun.
Now that I have high speed internet service, I plan on hanging in here more often. I've kinda missed my "old" friends here. I've moved from a (way out in the country) town, to a small city with all the amenities, since we all used to gather here. I've come alive - YAHOO!
Paul, brown cows around here are root beer and chocolate ice cream. Yum, yum! Steak and Shake was a great drive-in in Daytona back when I lived there. Loved their strawberry shake with a steak burger and onion rings. (I was in my 20's then) I wouldn't dare it all of them together today. Roger's column was very sweet. I'm happy to see he is still hanging in there and doing what he loves to do.
tbc
Goodnite all!
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#153687 - 06/05/09 01:05 PM
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Paul I
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Roger has had a very tough time with his cancer but is truly a survivor.
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#153690 - 06/05/09 02:18 PM
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paradocs
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At the Sonic here no one wears skates.
The root beer and ice cream made me think of other soft drinks with ice cream. With Coca-Cola it was a "frosted Coke," regardless of the ice cream flavor. With other soft drinks it was a "float" -- 7-UP float, Pepsi float, etc.
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#153743 - 06/07/09 03:45 PM
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rosebud
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WOW! Great skaters..sure looks like fun! That was a horrendous storm that whipped through Oregon, RR.
The weather was perfect here yesterday, so I took my power chair out for its first long journey..zipping along 4mph, up and down the new neighborhood, with the wind blowing through my hair. It was great, I went places not wheelable before, and traveled about 3 miles in no time. The best part was not straining the shoulders and hands! Wahoo!
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Oh, I love it! Root beer and vanilla ice cream was a "brown cow" in my neck of the woods! Paradocs the Kalua sounds great, but with root beer???????????????? Yuk, yuk, yuk, lol. 
