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  1. 2 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

    Their customer base won't stand for her now that she did this, it's the right move for the publishing company.

    Kind of like how she, as a customer, couldn't stand that a Metro employee was eating. Goose, gander, and all that.

    I bet the publishing company is a vanity press, ie, authors pay to have them print their books, and thus the customer base is other unpublished authors with enough mommydaddy money to print up 5,000 copies of their own stuff.

    Only 2,000 copies of which will be printed.

    12 copies will be legit sold. 200 more will be peddled as gifts to friends, family, local libraries.

    After a year, the remaining 1,788 copies will be "discovered" and the author will have the option to pay (again) to get them delivered, or else they will be pulped for recycling.

    Then decades later, the remaining, moldering 1,786 copies will be found lining the author's cat-feces encrusted apartment, and finally be pulped.

    Unless the author successfully becomes mayor of Baltimore, which seems unpromising at the moment.

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  2. 23 hours ago, pops said:

    Assuming you had a chance to go back to your 20 year old self and talk to him for an hour what would you say?

    Well, no matter what I tell him, there's a good chance that if my 20-year-old self changes anything, he (and I) will be dead now.

    So if I'm back in his time, I guess I drive past his house without stopping, and go buy a bunch of Apple stock, collectible widgets, maybe bet on the next Superbowl.

  3. 10 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

    Heading to Alsace this summer., just 4 days with home base in Strasbourg.  I know the obvious things, but if anyone has some random things or places to visit, I’d love to hear it. 

    Rent a bicycle and zip down the canal paths west of town. There will be an elf village every couple of miles where beer and good chow can be had. You won't be deep in the woods but you'll see stuff you'll never catch from a car or train.

    Colmar is a nice canal town a little south of Strasbourg. Selestat is about halfway between the two, and has a small city feel. Right up the mountain from it is the Mountain of Monkeys, if you like monkeys. It's a colony of North African critters than roam free inside an enclosure, and you can go in there and feed them popcorn from your hand. When they get enough popcorn-fed monkeys to reproduce, they send some of them back to reforested parts of North Africa.

    If you like the Smokies you will love the Vosges.

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  4. 3 hours ago, Anastasis said:

    post WWII linguistic suppression, imo. 

    Alsatian was gonna get suppressed no matter what-- it's not standard Hochsdeutsch, and when they were part of Krautland they were treated as Reichs territory, like Namibia or Kameroon.

    They were pretty pro-German though, until Hitler. Hitler made it much more popular to be French.

    People will say there's no Alsatian spoken but they don't know jack. There are people who never speak it, people who always speak it, and a fuzzy middle group who act like they don't speak it if you speak standard German or French to them and they think you'll make fun of them, but if you hit them with a similar Baden dialect, or just show some respect, then yeah they can speak it.

    I was told by one guy that Alsatian was good practice for learning English, another mixed German/French mutt. So maybe we set up some Alsatian language schools in China.

    Lorraine is a similar case. Split between "French" and "German", but neither variety was like anything they spoke in Paris or Heidelberg. Whoever owned it, they were going to reteach the kids.

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  5. 17 hours ago, Anastasis said:

    Flammenkugen, imo. 

     

    I like where your head is at. 

    Yeah, at first I was all Flammekuchen Flammekuchen, but even in towns where they spoke Alsatian they were calling it Tarte Flambee. After a while I was like, "fine, just cook me some o that good shit." Also, don't miss out on Choucroute Garnie, that's sauerkraut with all the meat from the surrounding area on top of it.

    (To speak proper Alsatian, learn both French and German, then drink cough syrup until you've forgotten them both. Dude who ran the hotel in Selestat, next consonant I hear him say will be his first.)

    La Montagne des Singes. Feed the monkeys popcorn.

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  6. [csb]In 1988 in Real Life I pulled guard duty at the same Ft. Knox motor pool where they meet the MPs in the movie.

    I did not meet those MPs.[/csb]

    Oh right, NOBODY cried when they watched Ol' Yeller?

  7. On 3/17/2019 at 9:54 AM, HRSchenker said:

    I don't know what's worse: an HOA or the neighbors who treat the HOA like their private security team. I had a police officer come over to my house because a neighbor complained about a noisy dog. I don't have a dog and he eventually went away but I thought man who would call the police on a loud dog instead of going to the neighbor and talking to them about it?

    Probably nobody complained about anything, but the cop wanted some excuse to peek inside your house.

  8. I suggest the OP not fixate on just one city, but instead take in an entire state. Delaware is 96 miles north to south. Fly into Philly, catch some sort of bus down to the Delaware border in that maze of chemical plants, and start walking. You won't need map or compass, if your feet get wet, you're too far east, if the ground starts to feel Marylandy, you're too far west.

    You can enjoy all sorts of booze by saving on transportation (walking) and lodging (overpasses.)

    By the time you get to the southern border, you can drag your hobo-crazy ass into some roadside crab shack, and wait for them to call the cops on you. Again, more free lodging.

  9. 3 hours ago, tantric superman said:

    Good reason for people to move from the more populated states to the less populated. 

    North Dakota needs every advantage it can get.

    I wonder if California bitched this much about having 2 senators back when they had a whole 92,000 people.

  10. Whut yew gotta git is some good ol Mercury Dimes for when the SHTF, yew kin use them to barter with, cept this one ol boy he come up and say "ALL AH NEED IS BRASS N LEAD", well hell shore everbody got brass n lead, spose yew jes wanna BUY somethin n yew don't wanna shoot th'sumbitch? That's when yew need that silver dime's all ah'm sayin' then this other ol boy sez "Well Ah Just Need Some Taters Then Ah Kin Starve Y'all Out" well shore yew got taters but after a while of tater tater tater yew'll pay for a dash o hot sauce or pepper hell they used to transnavigate the globe for one shaker o pepper yew know they'll want some once the S done HTF and that is jest another case o where a honest 90% silver Mercury Dime when come in handy jest like it, uh, prolly does right now in Somalia or Honduras or Vermont.

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