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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] answer to little puzzle<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>>…<span style='color:black'>Thanks, Spike. There must have been some Yankees around when you were in Florida. I never heard of egg cream in Mississippi until a Jewish friend from Rhode Island said he missed them</span>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Heh. Where I grew up was about half yankees and half redneck. But it wasn’t a yankee establishment that sold egg creams. It was a fun redneck sports bar/restaurant called Big Boy’s.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Open-Road-Brands-Classic-Kitchen/dp/B0B2SJYZZN/ref=asc_df_B0B2SJYZZN/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=598351409681&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3373454197572654037&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9032144&hvtargid=pla-1721878312015&psc=1">https://www.amazon.com/Open-Road-Brands-Classic-Kitchen/dp/B0B2SJYZZN/ref=asc_df_B0B2SJYZZN/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=598351409681&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3373454197572654037&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9032144&hvtargid=pla-1721878312015&psc=1</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>But that wasn’t the original sign. That was a later version, perhaps about 1970. But ours predated that sign. We had one of these:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=251 height=347 style='width:2.6145in;height:3.6145in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D8C085.C12488D0"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>It was up on a pedestal on a turntable, atop a pole about 12 ft up. Even up there, some sleazy bastard stole it. Note the figurine is about the size of an actual man. Musta been a determine thief(s.) But a retro-figurine like this is now worth a cool fortune. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>>…<span style='color:black'>I am an obsessive about looking things up, but I never knew what egg cream was until a few minutes ago</span>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>If you want to make one, there are simple recipes online:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><a href="https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/167351/egg-cream/">https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/167351/egg-cream/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>I learned something new as well: I never knew it was a New York thing. The guy down at the Fat Boy’s (that’s what we called Big Boy’s) didn’t talk New York.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>It was at that Fat Boy’s that the What club came to have a slogan. Fun story available on request.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>