If you're talking about Maine, which has the lowest murder rate, there ain't anything up there but hermits and moose
I'll drink to that, I live in a part of the country that doesn't think taking another person's life is an everyday occurrence. Other than a few suicides I've never known anyone who was murdered or anyone who committed murder in my 67 years
The manager gave me a buy 5, get 5 free cheeseburgers yesterday. There were 3 left a half hour ago, now there are 2. Ten little cheeseburgers for 6+ dollars, not bad
Mennonites don't have as strict religious rules about cars, electricity or phones or their usage but they still don't drive. Long ago one of the religious arguments was whether it was sinful and vanity to wear both a belt and suspenders at the same time. Each religion has it's own rules. One of my customers was Jewish and had never eaten a cheeseburger until he developed dementia and his wife said let him try it! Whenever I went to do work at their home I'd show up with a couple of McDonald's double cheeseburgers and fries. After his first bite he said" where has this been all of my life!" Mixing meat and milk products together is forbidden
We don't have many Amish in our county, but the next one over has many including some stores. The largest settlement is about 30 families near Vevay. In my county we mainly see Mennonites with the traditional clothes and beards with the men. A lot of them are carpenters/builders who hire people with vans to transport them and materials to job sites. I run into them at Lowe's quite often. They put a new roof on 2 of my cousins houses a few years back
I wasn't born until 1956 but I heard many stories from my parents and grandparents. My dad was 10 when Pearl Harbor happened and lived on a farm in Indiana. There was widespread rationing on everything from gas tires sugar meat and coffee. By 13 in 1944 he was driving a tomato truck 13 miles over hilly gravel roads to market for a nearby farmer. His dad was unable to fight due to a serious injury after being kicked by a mule, but my other grandpa was a Seabee in the Pacific. They weren't as affected by rationing as being on a working farm they only needed salt and flour; they had cows and chickens for meat and grew large gardens. I worked for a guy who was on a LST waiting in the Pacific for the invasion of Japan when they surrendered. He said the captain told the cook to bring out all of the homemade booze and they all got drunk because they had thought they would probably die if they set sail with tanks to invade. His wife passed in 2012 and he's still alive and either 100 or 101. He was still climbing ladders and getting on his roof in his early 90's until his daughter and I convinced him it was time to stay on the ground.
Before kids we had adult costume parties with lots of food. When we had kids one of us roamed the neighborhood with them for treats while the other handed out candy at home. Now that we are home alone we pass out candy and see the kids of kids my wife had in school. Biggest year we have had was around 500 kids stopping by
Woah, I get buy one get one free for 2.99 on the app. Also buy one get one free Big Mac or Quarter Pounder
Did you see yesterday's post in TIL that the A&W 1/3 pound cheeseburger failed because a lot of people thought it was smaller than the 1/4 McDonald's quarter pounder. You know, 3 is smaller than 4. Some people don't understand fractions. These are the people in Europe who believe these things
I was going to choose this one too, but I thought I would scroll through to see if someone else had already picked it. Just the Way You Are by Billy Joel would be my second choice. Also born in 56
You have a 1 in 39 chance of being the victim of a violent or property crime in Hamilton Ohio. They have a crime rate higher than 90% of all of the rest of Ohio towns or cities. Rough place to live
Definitely r/holdmybeer material
It's all fine and exciting until YouTube pulls the plug on you and won't even explain why they demonetized your account. I've followed a guy for 7 years who had many videos with 7 to 10 million views(worth about 3000 dollars per 1 million views) who was screwed over by YouTube. He has only put up 3 videos in the last 8 months for less than 100,000 views each as he seems to have given up and his sponsors have all abandoned ship.
I'm curious, what will you be doing?
Depends on what you like. There are professional sports teams like Bengals football and Reds baseball and many museums. Downtown has breweries and food. There are over 50 different municipalities that make up Cincinnati with their own attractions restaurants and traditions. Mt. Lookout has the Cincinnati Observatory and Ault Park with trails and gardens(5000 + residents). There are 51 more such small communities that make up Cincinnati; the west side is heavily populated with German ancestry
That's an invention of Greek immigrants who created a new dish with American ingredients to old world recipes (Empress Chili). Then more Greeks threw their hat in the ring and made a new recipe (Skyline Chili). Not to be outdone some Jordanian immigrants invented their recipe(Gold Star Chili). There are probably over 20 independent restaurants that have their own recipe and just one location.
My coin collection that started in the early 60's. Most of my best stuff is in a safety deposit box that I revisit from time to time. Sometimes just finding something as simple as an Indian Head penny in circulation restarts my passion(1859 to 1909).
I can only speak for myself. Age 23 to 31 worked 2 jobs from 7am until 11pm with Friday night off and part of Sunday (bought a house at 25). Quit both at 32 and sold the house; my wife and 2 children toured America for over 2 years from Disney World to Wisconsin to The Grand Canyon before settling down and getting jobs again. Went into construction and learned many trades and went into business building homes and remodeling. It was a lot of work, both physically and mentally, but the freedom was worth it. As an example, in 2006 at the end of July we closed in an addition to a house and took our 4 laborers(all 18 year old boys) out west for 5 weeks to camp in Yosemite and The Grand Canyon etc. Being your own boss is at times terrorizing and the freest you can be. Nothing like answering your cell phone on a 500 acre lake (while fishing)from a doctor's office wondering when you could come look at some renovations they would like to make and telling them as soon as this fishing trip ends in 2 or 3 weeks(free cabin from my wife's family friend)
Nice try FBI. I'm taking the 5th
When I start through the Eisenhower tunnel on I-70 in the Rockies I know for sure I'm leaving one side of the country for the other
Yes, on our honeymoon on Namakan Lake on the Minnesota/Canadian border long ago in 1977. It was a 45 minute boat trip to a small cabin on a bay with a small waterfall next to us. It looked like a sheet of green was rippling across the sky, still one of the most amazing things I've seen in my life
Haven't been there, didn't know that. Thanks
It's now a local bank down near the levy on the Ohio River
What happened to the physical location of the former downtown Sears in your hometown?
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