On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:30:42 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:51:51 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

a card-carrying Conservative...

I survived.

We did fight over the check, but I let him win. After all, according to
Conservatives, there's no such thing as a free lunch.

But mine was.

At least to me.


The most expensive "free lunch" I've ever had was when I picked up my
P.Eng Certificate. After the "free dinner", we had to sit in uncomfortable
chairs for 2 hrs listening to lawyers explaining our liability insurance
options to us.

Lloyd

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On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:30:42 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:51:51 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

a card-carrying Conservative...

I survived.

We did fight over the check, but I let him win. After all, according to
Conservatives, there's no such thing as a free lunch.

But mine was.

At least to me.


The most expensive "free lunch" I've ever had was when I picked up my
P.Eng Certificate. After the "free dinner", we had to sit in uncomfortable
chairs for 2 hrs listening to lawyers explaining our liability insurance
options to us.

Lloyd


They had that scene in a Woody Allen movie. I think it was went he went
to jail in "Take The Money and Run." He was sentenced to spend time in
the hole with his insurance broker. Horrific.

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:56:19 -0800, "Lloyd Sumpter"
wrote:

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:30:42 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:51:51 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

a card-carrying Conservative...

I survived.

We did fight over the check, but I let him win. After all, according to
Conservatives, there's no such thing as a free lunch.

But mine was.

At least to me.


The most expensive "free lunch" I've ever had was when I picked up my
P.Eng Certificate. After the "free dinner", we had to sit in uncomfortable
chairs for 2 hrs listening to lawyers explaining our liability insurance
options to us.

LOL!!!

Tell it like it is brother, tell it like it is. ;)

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
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fishing still recommend it to me."

Henry David Thoreau
"Walden" (1854)

My most expensive 'free breakfast' happened when I took one of the 'time
share' look sees in Orlando, Florida in '93.
The rest of the morning our saleman worked us trying to sell a week in the
development. Sure was glad to get out of there.

Lloyd Sumpter wrote in message
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:30:42 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:51:51 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

a card-carrying Conservative...

I survived.

We did fight over the check, but I let him win. After all, according to
Conservatives, there's no such thing as a free lunch.

But mine was.

At least to me.


The most expensive "free lunch" I've ever had was when I picked up my
P.Eng Certificate. After the "free dinner", we had to sit in uncomfortable
chairs for 2 hrs listening to lawyers explaining our liability insurance
options to us.

Lloyd

Heh....

I *just* did that while on my fall road trip to Fla to pick up some
outboards and rebuild one on the fly.

We had 2 days free to go to Disney. So we did the timeshare thing to get a
couple of cheap two day Parkhoppers. We got the free breakfast too.

At the end of the tour I multiplied the price of one week x 52 and got the
"actual" price they were selling each condo for. It was like 1.5 million
per condo! And since they did their own financing they netted more like 3
million per unit via "total of payments".

Their "closer" didn't stay too long at all with me......... evil grin We
were in Disney by 10am. Kinda hectic doing all 4 parks in 2 days. Did Magic
Kingdom and Epcott on Day one. Day two we did the Animal Kingdom and Disney
MGM studios. We hit all the good stuff though.

-W



"Don White" wrote in message
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My most expensive 'free breakfast' happened when I took one of the 'time
share' look sees in Orlando, Florida in '93.
The rest of the morning our saleman worked us trying to sell a week in the
development. Sure was glad to get out of there.

Heh, Heh...
Back in the '70's when I was 17, I got a personal invitation
in the mail to a time share scheme in Ocean Shores, WA. My
friend and I drove down there from Seattle, enjoyed the free
breakfast and bussed tour. When the salesman sat down to
talk to us, I calmly explained I was only 17, and didn't
have any money. *Boy* was he mad
JR

Clams Canino wrote:

Heh....

I *just* did that while on my fall road trip to Fla to pick up some
outboards and rebuild one on the fly.

We had 2 days free to go to Disney. So we did the timeshare thing to get a
couple of cheap two day Parkhoppers. We got the free breakfast too.

At the end of the tour I multiplied the price of one week x 52 and got the
"actual" price they were selling each condo for. It was like 1.5 million
per condo! And since they did their own financing they netted more like 3
million per unit via "total of payments".

Their "closer" didn't stay too long at all with me......... evil grin We
were in Disney by 10am. Kinda hectic doing all 4 parks in 2 days. Did Magic
Kingdom and Epcott on Day one. Day two we did the Animal Kingdom and Disney
MGM studios. We hit all the good stuff though.

-W

"Don White" wrote in message
...
My most expensive 'free breakfast' happened when I took one of the 'time
share' look sees in Orlando, Florida in '93.
The rest of the morning our saleman worked us trying to sell a week in the
development. Sure was glad to get out of there.


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Heh, Heh...
Back in the '70's when I was 17, I got a personal invitation
in the mail to a time share scheme in Ocean Shores, WA. My
friend and I drove down there from Seattle, enjoyed the free
breakfast and bussed tour. When the salesman sat down to
talk to us, I calmly explained I was only 17, and didn't
have any money. *Boy* was he mad
JR


Gotcha beat....

1981. New York City. 45th and Broadway. Payday weekend off duty from the
U.S. Coast Guard on Governors Island. I waltzed into Beefsteak Charlie's
restaurant and sat down and wanted to have a nice dinner. I ordered a small
house salad, the shrimp buffett, and a nice thick New York style steak. While
I was up at the shrimp buffett, the waiter brought a whole pitcher of Sangria
for me. One thing led to another and I drank the whole pitcher. They brought
another one along with my steak. So, I sat there eating the steak, getting
blitzed on Sangria, and kept on going. They brought a THIRD pitcher of
Sangria! By that time, I had no idea who I was, where I was, what I was
doing... To this day: I have no idea of the rest of the details. I have no
idea if I even paid for my dinner. I just remember getting up and leaving the
restaurant!! I remember walking down to Time's Square to catch the #1 train
down to Battery Park. Along the sidewalk, I overheard a couple of "the
brothers" razzing me because "some dumb-a$$, whitebread, honkey, mo-fo, was on
some good sh**!!!" That's the last I can really remember. Somehow I found the
#1 train, somehow I made it back to Battery Park and the Governors Island ferry
terminal. I think one of the fellow "Coasties" knew me, saw my condition, and
helped get me back safe and sound. Thank God!!!! I wonder how much my bill
was at Beefsteak Charlies after all these years!?!?

Butch Ammon

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:45:15 +0000, Butch Ammon wrote:

I wonder how much
my bill was at Beefsteak Charlies after all these years!?!?

I couldn't tell you specifically, but Beefsteak Charlie's was "all the
beer or sangria" you could drink. I can personally attest that you
weren't the only person to walk out in that condition. ;-)

thunder wrote:

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:45:15 +0000, Butch Ammon wrote:

I wonder how much
my bill was at Beefsteak Charlies after all these years!?!?

I couldn't tell you specifically, but Beefsteak Charlie's was "all the
beer or sangria" you could drink. I can personally attest that you
weren't the only person to walk out in that condition. ;-)

There is a handful of restaurants in the DC area that serve mammoth
portions of beef. I don't know how anyone can eat that much at a sitting.

In my cub reporter days at the KC Star, there were a number of competing
steakhouses that offered a full steak dinner for $2.50 or so. That
included salad, 10-12 ounce steak, baked potato(e) and a side veggie,
and a couple of rolls. Lucky thing, because I was making under $100 a
week in those mostly salad days.

There also was a diner-restaurant that served "steak and eggs" for under
a dollars. Nichols, I think it was called. Steak, eggs, homefries, toast
and coffee, under a buck.

We also used to hang out at a Mexican joint called Los Corrals, which I
believe is still open. The proprietors back then never paid attention to
"closing hours" as they pertained to booze. Good, cheap food.

Bryant's Barbecue is well-known, of course, but I don't know what
happened to the joint after Arthur Bryant died. Slabs of ribs served on
white bread (to absorb the grease). A short hop away from the old ball
park before it moved to suburbia.

Kansas City had a huge number of great restaurants back then, all out of
proportion to its size as a city.


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