Weird and Unusual things in your state

[beetlejuice]

Here's what our state is currently most famous for? ??? Let's see yours.

[Primrose]

In North Myrtle Beach we are known for a population of 8,000 which swell to 80,000 during the summertime with Tourists.

http://www.myrtlebeachphotos.com/

We have installed a new string of low maintenance swing bridges over the Intracoastal Waterway designed By that famous Architect Big Balls Buck to accomdate the influx.

:P

[berng]

New Jersey is famous for

[Notok]

I don't know how famous it is, but we have the gravity vortex..
http://www.oregonvortex.com/

[dog]

We have the famous Flatiron Building
http://www.toronto.ca/toronto_images/images/ironblg_thumb.jpg
... and the CN Tower if that's unusual
http://www.toronto.ca/toronto_images/images/cntower_night_thumb.jpg
Plus we have the adorable moose running around town :lurking:
http://www.toronto.ca/moose/images/map_canada.jpg
You can see all the others here -> http://www.toronto.ca/moose/moose_moosellaneous.htm

[big ed]

Well.....hell!! I'm here!! What more do we need?

Ensconced in Mighty Mass. ...... Icon ed

[dog]

I thought I'd add a few others :)

Hockey Moose
http://www.toronto.ca/moose/images/moose_31.jpg
Wolfgang Amadeus Moozart
http://www.toronto.ca/moose/images/map_amadeus.jpg
H.R.M. His Royal Moose
http://www.toronto.ca/moose/images/map_hrhroyal_moose.jpg
Police Moose
http://www.toronto.ca/moose/images/map_police.jpg

[bigc73542]

Here in Oklahoma we have some of the weiderest city name imaginable. Here are just four

Pottawatomie

Pushmataha

Ofoskee

Okmulgee

there are wierder ones than these. ;D

[ronjor]

Take your pick. :D http://www.texastwisted.com/attr/

[Cochise]

That's not the Jersey Devil..........thats a picture taken in 2004 of the elusive Queensland Quaffer..........also known as Bigolo Buckskin all dressed up in his Saturday night out on the Town outfit............he's known to be a bit of a Sheckle and Hives.......;D


Cochise,8)Meandering in Mareeba.....

[bigc73542]

We also have the Statue of Liberty in Cement Oklahoma

[Airking]

Some would say, the Sydney Opera House...

http://data.greatbuildings.com/gbc/images/TR004388.jpg

[bigbuck]

I'll see you moose Steve, and raise you a bull....;)

http://www.beefaustralia.com.au/images/484Owq9xzY_put_a_bull_unquenchabull.jpg

[Primrose]

-{ Quote: "I'll see your moose Steve, and raise you a bull....;)
" }-


You need more than bull these days to bluff a Moose.:P


http://eclectech.co.uk/b3ta/moosechair.jpg.html

[bigc73542]

New Jersey doesn't have anything on us (Jersey Devil)

Report Posted To GCBRO Web Site On: January 31, 2005

DATE: 1997

TIME: 8:30 pm

LOCATION: Canadian County, Oklahoma

TERRAIN: Wooded

OBSERVED: A large creature jumping down the road very fast. The creature took two or three jumps before he was at the end of the road. The creature stopped and stared at me and my friends and then began to continue on his way. (very scary)!

Activities of Witness: I was sitting in my car in front of my friends house with a few of my buddies. No drugs of alcohol were being used before or after the strange event.

Description of Creature: A large grayish creature about six to seven foot tall that walked up-right. The creatures head resembled the one of a horse. The creature also had very large yellow eyes.

[AshG]

No cool pictures, but in my state it is legal to eat roadkill. So many deer are killed out of season by drivers that the state senate found it to be better for sanitation to allow people to keep their car-kills than to require them to be left on the roadside.

It is illegal for ice cream to be given away for free by a commercial entity.

Until recently, a house inhabited by seven or more unrelated women was considered a brothel unless the building was owned and operated by an educational or religious institution. Ono now are many sororities starting to build houses on local university campuses.

East Tennessee is one of the two hardest locations in the world to predict weather for. Because of the combinations of mountains and rivers and the meeting of the Northern Jet Stream and Gulf Jet Stream, weather is often difficult to predict and can vary greatly from one year to another. The only place more difficult to predict weather for is some place in eastern India, but I don't remember the exact location.

[Blackspear]

-{ Quote: "I'll see you moose Steve, and raise you a bull....;)

http://www.beefaustralia.com.au/images/484Owq9xzY_put_a_bull_unquenchabull.jpg" }-I'll raise your side of beef, and throw in a Big Prawn at Ballina (http://www.traveldownunder.com.au/New_South_Wales/Northern_Rivers/Big_Prawn_Restaurant.asp) :o ;) ;D

[big ed]

-{ Quote: "I'll see you moose Steve, and raise you a bull....;)

http://www.beefaustralia.com.au/images/484Owq9xzY_put_a_bull_unquenchabull.jpg" }-


Woo Hoo......I'll bet you can get a lot of freakin corn doggies out of that sucker!!

Toasting my buns in Diggetytown, Weenie ed

[greyfox]

Paul Allen's Experience Music Project in Seattle Washington.

[greyfox]

Genuine statue of Lenin in the Fremont District of Seattle.

[Longboard]

.. every now and then I hold grave fears for my country

http://www.abc.net.au/backyard/features/big_things.htm

and many are the wierd things to be found in Queensland...

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/member.php?u=19109
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/member.php?u=1939

heh, heh ;D

[Peaches4U]

Ogopogo- sea serpent in Lake Okanagan in British Columbia, Canada
It has been conceded that Ogopogo is one to two feet in diameter and is dark green in color but its length varies from fifteen to seventy feet. Ogie has two or more visible humps and moves in an undulating motion through the water, often at very high speeds. The creature's head resembles that of a horse or goat and is bearded. Ogopogo has been mistaken for a log, a sturgeon, andOgopogo even a beaver!

Orchardists, looking down from the sheer slopes along the lake, have regularly claimed to have spotted Ogopogo swimming on the surface. Boaters have recounted being mysteriously capsized by a dark, fast-moving, underwater form. Six times a year, on average, someone reports seeing the creature.

Descriptions vary, but certain characteristics have been repeated through the decades: Ogopogo is greenish in colour, snakelike, and ranges upward to 25 meters in length. Some say the head is horse like; others that it's reptilian. Many have photographed what they claim is Ogopogo, but the pictures -like those of its better-known counterpart, the Loch Ness Monster- have always been inconclusive.

[CarolinaMoonshine]

I have a cement tree!



http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a89/CarolinaMoonshine/Tree_of_Utah.jpg

[big ed]

-{ Quote: ".. every now and then I hold grave fears for my country

http://www.abc.net.au/backyard/features/big_things.htm

and many are the wierd things to be found in Queensland...

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/member.php?u=19109
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/member.php?u=1939

heh, heh ;D" }-

A well thought out and researched post! One never needs to stray from Wilders to locate weirdness!

Living dangerously in Danzig, Big....err...Cochise

[Cochise]

Weirdness is as weirdness does........nothing is weird unless you view it from a weird perspective......perspective weirdness can be extremely weird depending on your view of what is weird or not......a friend of mine used to say I was weird but he was very very weird and so his weird perspective of me would obviously have been clouded by is excessive weirdness......which makes the whole aspect of weirdness very weird........Would you consider that to be weird??......



Cochise,8) Odd in Oklahoma...

[RobZee]

Houston, TX

http://www.agilitynut.com/h/beercanhouse.html


[IJohn Milkovisch was an upholsterer for the Southern Pacific Railroad. When he retired in the late 1960s, he began decorating his patio with pieces of brass, marbles, rocks and buttons. He then paved over his lawn, pressing marbles and other glittery debris into the wet concrete. ("I got sick of cutting the grass.")
Milkovisch loved beer (had a six-pack a day habit) and believed it was a cure-all for everything. He had saved the cans for years and finally come up with a use for them. He sliced off the tops and bottoms and used the sides to cover the exterior of the house. His wife protested, but he kept at it. She just didn’t allow him to touch the interior.

Once he was done with the house, he started using the pull tabs and tops and bottoms of the cans to make curtains, mobiles, fences, sculptures, windmills and wind chimes. ("I hate to throw anything away.") Beer can garlands dangle from the eaves and form a canopy over the driveway. He believed the pull tab curtains helped reduce air conditioning costs. When a hurricane damaged the fence, he simply used the cans to repair it.

After covering the house, he moved onto the fence, trees and rest of the yard. Marbles are embedded in the sidewalk and backyard fence and spell out “CCXXII Malone” (222 Malone is the house’s street address) in a driveway sign. The backyard has statuary and his wife’s tiny tree covered with plastic lemons from the grocery. He built "The Ladder to Success" – a ladder crowned with moon and starts with one rung painted black to show that some people don’t make it. A small medallion in the middle of his back yard commemorates the year his project began (1968). A wheelbarrow filled with his final load of concrete sits in front yard with a sign that reads "Culprit." However, despite the hip Houston community’s interest, he scoffed at the notion that his place was art.

Milkovisch died in 1988, after 18 years of building and 39,000 beer cans later. His wife continued living in the house and she and the sons maintained it. They even did a TV commercial in support of recycling. His son Ronnie carried on the tradition and built a solid beer can fence and gate in front of the house. In 2001, John's wife passed away and the house was bought by the Orange Show Foundation. They are restoring the house and converting the interior into a mini-museum about the place.

[Capp]

-{ Quote: "Take your pick. :D http://www.texastwisted.com/attr/" }-

I think Ron covered Texas well enough.

No additional comments needed.


Unless you consider the Texas Weather to be weird. Nowhere else have I ever been can it be snowing and below freezing at 6am and above 70 degrees after lunch.

[Blackspear]

-{ Quote: "and many are the wierd things to be found in Queensland...

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/member.php?u=19109
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/member.php?u=1939" }-Oiii!!! I resemble one of those remarks, lumping me in with BB, I tell ya, some people just have no class...

Hmmm, did you say that you were lonely (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=61177), I'm sure I could fix that (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=76692) in fact I'm certain (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=77744) ;) ;D 8) :lurking:

;D ;D ;D

[Blackspear]

-{ Quote: "Nowhere else have I ever been can it be snowing and below freezing at 6am and above 70 degrees after lunch." }-Oh I'm not so certain about that, we had snow in Brisbane, (http://msmvps.com/blogs/anguslogan/archive/2005/05/20/47973.aspx) quite a few people had to pay up on bets that day :o ;) ;D

[RobZee]

-{ Quote: "I think Ron covered Texas well enough." }-

My apologies to Ron - I didn't notice that the first item cited in his post was my favorite beerhouse

-{ Quote: "No additional comments needed." }-

Then why proceed to post a stale comment (hardly unique to Texas)about the weather?


-{ Quote: "Unless you consider the Texas Weather to be weird. Nowhere else have I ever been can it be snowing and below freezing at 6am and above 70 degrees after lunch." }-

[Capp]

-{ Quote: "
Then why proceed to post a stale comment (hardly unique to Texas)about the weather?" }-

I don't think it is stale personally and I don't really appreciate it being called so. Texas weather is famous for being highly unpredictable. I am not saying we are the only state with weird weather so I am not looking for a comparison of states weather. I was just stating a fact. If you don't agree, sorry to hear that.

[ErikAlbert]

Weird Construction in Brussels : Atomium.
http://users.skynet.be/rentfarm/expo58/atomium/

[RobZee]

-{ Quote: "Then why proceed to post a stale comment (hardly unique to Texas)about the weather?" }-

Sorry. My choice of adjective was not the best. I actually meant something closer to "often-repeated." As a native Texan of more than a few decades, I am quite familiar with my proud state's volatile weather conditions.

-{ Quote: "I think Ron covered Texas well enough.

No additional comments needed.." }-

Actually, I was irritated by that comment when you proceeded to then add another yourself.

In the interests of civility and keeping in mind that our great state's motto is "Friendship", I would like to bury the hatchet, as it were.

[Capp]

-{ Quote: "
In the interests of civility and keeping in mind that our great state's motto is "Friendship", I would like to bury the hatchet, as it were." }-

Sounds good to me! I meant no hard feelings. ;D;):P

[Cochise]

OK!.....Robzee and Capp........Handbags at 50 paces......WEATHER....you like it or not....;D ;D ;D



Cochise,8) Texassing weather in Talahassie....

[ronjor]

It must be a Dallas/Houston thing. ;D

[RobZee]

-{ Quote: "OK!.....Robzee and Capp........Handbags at 50 paces......WEATHER....you like it or not....;D ;D ;D " }-

That's a good one....;D ;D

Rob

[big ed]

-{ Quote: "OK!.....Robzee and Capp........Handbags at 50 paces......WEATHER....you like it or not....;D ;D ;D



Cochise,8) Texassing weather in Talahassie...." }-

Right on Cocheese,

We may not be Texans but ours is bigger than theirs!!

An growin by the minute in Manitoba, Huge ed

[Longboard]

LOL

Blackspear..nnnnnnoooooo.......mercy :o

If the 'moon is soon, when do we see the wedding 'phots?

Toes on the nose downunder.

Longboard.

[Primrose]

-{ Quote: "OK!.....Robzee and Capp........Handbags at 50 paces......WEATHER....you like it or not....;D ;D ;D



Cochise,8) Texassing weather in Talahassie...." }-

Lest we forget the Land Of Robin... :lurking: Mostly uneventful these days..except when Big Ed drove his Winnebago into a house on the road to Thoresby trying to reach all the pubs after bingo before nightfall . The road was closed for days.
:'(

http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/humber/4706157.stm

The Granby Inn was just his first stop...

New Inn, Station Road, (0.52 Miles)
Livesey Arms, Livesey Road, (1.83 Miles)
The Jug & Bottle, Louth Road, (2.23 Miles)
Plough Inn, Market Place, (2.27 Miles)
Etherington Arms, Pinfold Lane, (2.60 Miles)
The Cross Keys Inn & Restaurant, Main Street, (2.65 Miles)
The Cross Keys, Main Street, (2.65 Miles)
The Royal Oak Inn, Louth Road, (2.68 Miles)
Tilted Barrel, Kirkgate, (3.78 Miles)
Plough Inn, Main Road, (3.80 Miles)



North Thoresby is eight miles from Grimsby. The village hosts an annual show by the North Thoresby Horticultural Society each May Day and was the winner of the 1998 Best Kept Village Competition in the medium-sized village class. Visitors will find a number of clubs and activities taking place both weekly and monthly, from indoor bowls in the winter months to whist drives and bingo evenings. There are also village football and cricket teams and when warmer weather arrives, the bowling club moves outdoors. North Thoresby has two village pubs, the Granby Inn and the New Inn, both of which are reputed to sell fine food and ales. The village church, the old school and the village chapel and surrounding countryside are worth visiting.

According to the Humble Vicar..

http://www.lgmethodistdistrict.org.uk/gci_circuit/churches/nth_thoresby.asp

Chochise and Big ED are planning on a joint venture for the largest Roller Coaster in the area..

8) It will compete with the Sky Vault .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/4534538.stm

News at 11

http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/

New Thoresby Coaster

[big ed]

-{ Quote: "Lest we forget the Land Of Robin... :lurking: Mostly uneventful these days..except when Big Ed drove his Winnebago into a house on the road to Thoresby trying to reach all the pubs after bingo before nightfall . The road was closed for days.
:'(

http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/humber/4706157.stm

The Granby Inn was just his first stop...

New Inn, Station Road, (0.52 Miles)
Livesey Arms, Livesey Road, (1.83 Miles)
The Jug & Bottle, Louth Road, (2.23 Miles)
Plough Inn, Market Place, (2.27 Miles)
Etherington Arms, Pinfold Lane, (2.60 Miles)
The Cross Keys Inn & Restaurant, Main Street, (2.65 Miles)
The Cross Keys, Main Street, (2.65 Miles)
The Royal Oak Inn, Louth Road, (2.68 Miles)
Tilted Barrel, Kirkgate, (3.78 Miles)
Plough Inn, Main Road, (3.80 Miles)



North Thoresby is eight miles from Grimsby. The village hosts an annual show by the North Thoresby Horticultural Society each May Day and was the winner of the 1998 Best Kept Village Competition in the medium-sized village class. Visitors will find a number of clubs and activities taking place both weekly and monthly, from indoor bowls in the winter months to whist drives and bingo evenings. There are also village football and cricket teams and when warmer weather arrives, the bowling club moves outdoors. North Thoresby has two village pubs, the Granby Inn and the New Inn, both of which are reputed to sell fine food and ales. The village church, the old school and the village chapel and surrounding countryside are worth visiting.

According to the Humble Vicar..

http://www.lgmethodistdistrict.org.uk/gci_circuit/churches/nth_thoresby.asp

Chochise and Big ED are planning on a joint venture for the largest Roller Coaster in the area..

8) It will compete with the Sky Vault .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/4534538.stm

News at 11

http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/

New Thoresby Coaster" }-


You...you...what the he.. is this....Fox News??

For your information I was minding my own bidness when 3 houses rolled into my path. I think it was the one on the left that hit me! Bingo was sound asleep in his dog crate so he is in the clear!

The shtops made at the Pubs were only for hishtorical purposes!

N Thoresby is only 8 mi from Grimsby? Holy Britannia!! I needed 3 fillups to get there! It was worth the effort though because the N Thoresby Horticulural Society grows some of the biggest Horts imaginable.

Yeah....Chise and I are really excited about our joint venture in Coastering. 'Edchise' (pronounced Gorg-on Zola) is billed as the safest ride in the world. After much yelling and hair pulling (like there was a lot of the latter!) we decided to flip a coin to see who goes on the first test ride! I won the toss.....so Chise has to go!

Theres trouble in the Glen, Faithful ed

[Primrose]

-{ Quote: "It must be a Dallas/Houston thing. ;D" }-
The long and short of it..
I have been blessed with driving many of the roads in Texas..always amazed me I could travel all day on Interstate 10 or U.S. 83 and still be in the same State. Never met anyone I could not call a friend. ;)




The shortest highway is Loop 168 in downtown Tenaha in Shelby County. The road is 0.074 miles long, or about 391 feet.
The longest highway is U.S. 83, which extends from the Oklahoma state line near Perryton in the Panhandle to the Mexico border at Brownsville, a distance of approximately 899 miles.



Interstate 10 is a study of contrasts through Texas. Covering 881 miles, the longest interstate in Texas travels from the scrubby deserts of El Paso to the bayous of Orange. The drive is quite memorable, if nothing else for the sheer length of time it takes to drive.

http://www.lonestarroads.com/i-010a_tx.html


Interstate 10 is often viewed as the "loneliest interstate highway in America," since it passes through some of the most desolate regions in the nation.


Mile marker 880 (and the corresponding exit number) near Orange, Texas are the highest numbered mile marker and exit on the interstate highway system, or for that matter, on any freeway in North America.

[ronjor]

-{ Quote: "Billy Ray Powers may be a jolly, happy soul, but if his snowman ever comes to life, this city is doomed. It's taller than his house. It's got to weigh as much as Godzilla." }-

http://www.adn.com/photo/2005/12/19/1675595-400-x-253.jpg

adn.com (http://www.adn.com/life/story/7298889p-7210633c.html)

[Cochise]

Makes you wonder what awaits us when we get there eh?.......


Cochise,;D Lodging in Laos...

[big ed]

-{ Quote: "The long and short of it..
I have been blessed with driving many of the roads in Texas..always amazed me I could travel all day on Interstate 10 or U.S. 83 and still be in the same State. Never met anyone I could not call a friend. ;)




The shortest highway is Loop 168 in downtown Tenaha in Shelby County. The road is 0.074 miles long, or about 391 feet.
The longest highway is U.S. 83, which extends from the Oklahoma state line near Perryton in the Panhandle to the Mexico border at Brownsville, a distance of approximately 899 miles.



Interstate 10 is a study of contrasts through Texas. Covering 881 miles, the longest interstate in Texas travels from the scrubby deserts of El Paso to the bayous of Orange. The drive is quite memorable, if nothing else for the sheer length of time it takes to drive.

http://www.lonestarroads.com/i-010a_tx.html


Interstate 10 is often viewed as the "loneliest interstate highway in America," since it passes through some of the most desolate regions in the nation.


Mile marker 880 (and the corresponding exit number) near Orange, Texas are the highest numbered mile marker and exit on the interstate highway system, or for that matter, on any freeway in North America." }-


Waal....here goes,

Daughter left Hollywood, Fla on Mon. 10 AM w/loaded UHaul truck towing her car on a 4wheel trailer. Got cell call couple hrs later telling me truck was acting funny (not!) and gas gauge occillating. Lotsa calls during the day to monitor progress. Was sitting here at puter trying to gouge Ronjor in '4 word sentences' around 12:30 AM when I got the call.....Stopped at Fla/Ala border to check trailer....locked keys and wallet in truck. I, after quite a hassel, got ahold of AAA and after a couple of hrs. got her squared away. She stayed there @ the welcome ctr and napped til morn. Went another 50 or so miles and stopped for fuel...truck would not start!! Called U-Haul..they came out...did not have correct battery or proper new cables...returned w/new stuff. Told her gas gauge not fixable. Continued on US rt 10 got call yesterday (about 7 PM) that RPM gauge going nuts!! Truck quit about 60 mi short of El Passo (in boonies w/no road shoulder). U-Haul arrived after couple of hrs. and declared the fuelpump kaput. Musta jury rigged it so she could make it to El Passo w/the U-Haul guy following. As of this moment she is not yet back on the road. Now...everytime we talk....I always inquire "How is the trip from Hell going". This is the 4th time she has made these kind of trips but this is one for the books! She's hoping to make it to San Diego before the end of the year!

Can I sue anybody for loss of sleep??

Oh....and Happy Holidays!!

I need to find somebody to choke, Grrrrr ed

[Primrose]

What a bummer Ed. >:( Interstate 10 is a bone yard of UHaul trucks. Most of them they send out are not even fit for a local one way..much less cross country. I feel for ya and your daughter on this Odyssey..keep us informed.

This site might give you some answer..and at least some ammunition.

http://www.clanboyd.info/uhaul/uhaul3/

If she gets no satisfaction..it is time to call penske in el paso

https://www.pensketruckrental.com/personal_rental/location_finder/locationSearchResult.html



Tire Connection
6100 Dew Drive
El Paso TX, 79912

Furniture Country
4801 Fred Wilson
El Paso TX, 79906



Montwood Self Storage
1951 Joe Battle Blvd.
El Paso TX, 79938

Empire Warehouse Company
9201 Empire Avenue
El Paso TX, 79925



Penske El Paso
11451 Chito Samaniego
El Paso TX, 79936-7422

Adams American Car Care
2001 South Valley Drive
Las Cruces NM, 88005

[big ed]

Grrrrrr!!

She was back on the road at 4PM EST (2PM Texas variety) and last I heard, 7PM, all was AOK. Cell reception is spotty so I'm gonna try to call again soon.

It ain't over til it's over!

Anxious in Paternalville, Dad ed

[ronjor]

Those West Texas roads can be boring.

http://www.opt.uh.edu/research/aroorda/BigBendpics/road.jpg

[big ed]

-{ Quote: "Those West Texas roads can be boring.

http://www.opt.uh.edu/research/aroorda/BigBendpics/road.jpg" }-

Day 5!!

Spoke to Daughter about an hour ago. She should have bored thru the Az/Ca border by now and has 3 or 4 hrs to go. Seeing that she is a day or so late I hope she can get help in unloading the 'Hellish' truck.

Doting Daddie in Denial, Deranged ed

[Blackspear]

-{ Quote: "Those West Texas roads can be boring." }-We have The Nullabor, when I was on it I took a photo that captured both the road in front and the road behind (through the rear view mirror), both came to a point on the horizon :o ;D

Cheers ;D

[big ed]

-{ Quote: "We have The Nullabor, when I was on it I took a photo that captured both the road in front and the road behind (through the rear view mirror), both came to a point on the horizon :o ;D

Cheers ;D" }-


Oooooh!! I need one of them things.....it would be invaluable as to give me warning when "Baked Bean Man" was a sneaking up in either direction!!

Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie in Grabsville, Needy ed

[big ed]

Houston....the eaglet has landed!!

Daughter reached Coronado Island about an hr. ago (2PM PST). AS she was crossing over the bridge from San Diego she rolled her window down. Her Greyhound woofer went nuts. She originally rescued the dog in San Diego about 3 yrs. ago. Of course, her two cats couldn't care less!!

On the boat for a couple hrs. of zzz's. Soon she will have to deal w/the U-Haul people. I may have to alert the Hoorah Brigade, muster the Troopettes, and maybe even locate the few remnants of the Valdez Clan to bring those miscreants to their knees.

All hands on deck...mount the parapets...an ready the Squat Team!!

Firing the first salvo, Salivating ed

Ps....could be lotsa medals, pizza, and margharitas in the offing!

[Blackspear]

-{ Quote: "Houston....the eaglet has landed!!

Daughter reached Coronado Island about an hr. ago (2PM PST)... ...All hands on deck...mount the parapets...an ready the Squat Team!!

Firing the first salvo, Salivating ed

Ps....could be lotsa medals, pizza, and margharitas in the offing!" }-Excellent Mate, really happy for you ;D ;D ;D

Have a great time with her.

Cheers ;D

[Cochise]

-{ Quote: "Lest we forget the Land Of Robin... :lurking: Mostly uneventful these days..except when Big Ed drove his Winnebago into a house on the road to Thoresby trying to reach all the pubs after bingo before nightfall . The road was closed for days.
:'(

http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/humber/4706157.stm

The Granby Inn was just his first stop...

New Inn, Station Road, (0.52 Miles)
Livesey Arms, Livesey Road, (1.83 Miles)
The Jug & Bottle, Louth Road, (2.23 Miles)
Plough Inn, Market Place, (2.27 Miles)
Etherington Arms, Pinfold Lane, (2.60 Miles)
The Cross Keys Inn & Restaurant, Main Street, (2.65 Miles)
The Cross Keys, Main Street, (2.65 Miles)
The Royal Oak Inn, Louth Road, (2.68 Miles)
Tilted Barrel, Kirkgate, (3.78 Miles)
Plough Inn, Main Road, (3.80 Miles)



North Thoresby is eight miles from Grimsby. The village hosts an annual show by the North Thoresby Horticultural Society each May Day and was the winner of the 1998 Best Kept Village Competition in the medium-sized village class. Visitors will find a number of clubs and activities taking place both weekly and monthly, from indoor bowls in the winter months to whist drives and bingo evenings. There are also village football and cricket teams and when warmer weather arrives, the bowling club moves outdoors. North Thoresby has two village pubs, the Granby Inn and the New Inn, both of which are reputed to sell fine food and ales. The village church, the old school and the village chapel and surrounding countryside are worth visiting.

According to the Humble Vicar..

http://www.lgmethodistdistrict.org.uk/gci_circuit/churches/nth_thoresby.asp

Chochise and Big ED are planning on a joint venture for the largest Roller Coaster in the area..

8) It will compete with the Sky Vault .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/4534538.stm

News at 11

http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/

New Thoresby Coaster" }-

Trying to catch up here........your all too damned quick for me....Right!...If Bland End travelled from the 'Granby' to the 'New Inn', in his new-fangled Windybagel, then he went right past ma' land without dropping by and stepping into one of my man-traps or getting a butt full of buck-shot......(it's an old-fashioned welcome we have for City folks)..........NEXT.......As for the Thoresby Roller Coaster......actually there isn't much roll and there isn't much coasting.....this particular fun-ride I acquired when they closed the 'Deep' mines down in Yorkshire......this ride goes straight down 3 miles in 7.2 seconds......it's a kind of down-hill Dragster only quicker.....most thrill seekers that have tried it are now 16 inches shorter......

Which reminds me of the Irishman who fell 900 feet down a dissused mine-shaft on the Yorkshire Moors.....his mate shouted down to ask him if he had broken anything and he replied "No, theres nothing down here.".....


Cochise,8) Mining in Minnesota...

[Cochise]

-{ Quote: "Those West Texas roads can be boring.

http://www.opt.uh.edu/research/aroorda/BigBendpics/road.jpg" }-

West Texas??.......Looks a lot like part of my Driveway upto the house actually Ron.....


Cochise,8) Bull s'ing in Bolivia...

[Cochise]

WoooooooooHoooo!......Glad to hear your 'Little Baby' made it safely with the 'Yuk-Haul' trash..........Alls well that 'Eds' well eh?.........Whats she going to attempt next...crossing the Gobi desert on a three-wheeled trike......maybe the Atlantic in a Pedallo.........sounds to me like the girl has the grit to do it.......she obviously comes from good Pioneering stock.....


Cochise,8) Relieved in Rio...

[big ed]

Uh Cheezie,

I reely hope that when you relieved yourself in Rio you wuz downstream.

Quenching my thirst .... upstream, Guzzle ed

[Cochise]

The relieving was done from a 747 at 38000 feet of up (thats a lot of up)....and so the relief may not have quite hit you yet.........Like Mully and Sculder said "Look to the Skies".......or not....if you have any sense me old Matey......Like old Will the Shakes said "Murphy and relief falleth from the skies like Rain"...........so you could be hit by either an Irishman or something less comical......;D ;D


Cochise,8) U-Haulin' in Utah..

[big ed]

-{ Quote: "The relieving was done from a 747 at 38000 feet of up (thats a lot of up)....and so the relief may not have quite hit you yet.........Like Mully and Sculder said "Look to the Skies".......or not....if you have any sense me old Matey......Like old Will the Shakes said "Murphy and relief falleth from the skies like Rain"...........so you could be hit by either an Irishman or something less comical......;D ;D


Cochise,8) U-Haulin' in Utah.." }-

Ah yes....my weird and unusual feathered friend. Look to the skies! As that famous Brit philosopher, Maggie Thatcher, once declared "If you throw 20 quid in the air you're gonna get pounded"!

Lumpy headed in Testa, Bumps ed

[divedog]

Here is one of my favorite places to get a burger in Washington.

http://www.outwestnewspaper.com/burgers.html

[Cochise]

Errrrrrrr!.........Don't try to be serious here...divedog.......it's not funny.....stick to drivel and dross so we understand.......;D ;D ;D


Cochise,8) Burgered in Bulgaria.....

[beetlejuice]

-{ Quote: "Errrrrrrr!.........Don't try to be serious here...divedog.......it's not funny.....stick to drivel and dross so we understand.......;D ;D ;D


Cochise,8) Burgered in Bulgaria....." }-

Well with that burger, the burger juice would certainly dribble, yes that's dribble, not drivel down your face. ;D

[divedog]

A friend of mine once ate 2 Fat Smitty burgers, with fries and shakes, and said he could eat a third while we were walking out the door. I need to be very hungry just to get one down.

[Tassie_Devils]

My State Trip. ::) ::) ::)

TAS :-X :-X :-X