Lola at the Coffee House

@vonny,

vonny wrote:

. . . And George - no, I don't care to be part of a squabble - prefer to duck
out if the air turns a trifle hot or blue!

But I already got my popcorn . . .

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@vonny,

You've done nothing awful, vonny, other than reading/responding to a provocative poster.

Learning to walk past the postings is its own learning curve.

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BUMP

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@George,

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@ehBeth,

Thanks, ehBeth - good advice! I should have learned to ignore certain posters by now - ah well, I'll remember next time!

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@vonny,

Spam, to me, is any sort of gloss used for presentational purposes for any reason.

It being obvious is only a category of the whole.

I spam myself on behalf of various commercial enterprises which I approve of. If I was paid to spam for things I don't approve of I would consider myself having sold out.

The best spam recruits and enthuses unpaid junior spammers. California is brilliant at it.

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@ehBeth,

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Learning to walk past the postings is its own learning curve.

And what, dearest Beth, do you walk towards having walked past the provocative posters? Non-provocative posters is the only logical answer. You can't walk towards nothing.

Did George spam on behalf of popcorn and, by extension, the American way of life? I dare speculate that popcorn has been advertised in just the sort of setting he conjures up. Where a bag of popcorn is thought of as the ideal companion when settling down comfortably to enjoy what might be an interesting spectacle and causing untold millions to choose popcorn when finding themselves in similar circumstances and thus to consume unwittingly what the Center for Science in the Public Interest claimed about "Movie Popcorn". The movie theaters surveyed by the CSPI used coconut oil to pop the corn, and then topped it with butter or margarine. "A medium-size buttered popcorn", the report said, "contains more fat than a breakfast of bacon and eggs, a Big Mac and fries, and a steak dinner combined.

So watch out for the Jumbo size.

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@spendius,

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"A medium-size buttered popcorn", the report said, "contains more fat than a breakfast of bacon and eggs, a Big Mac and fries, and a steak dinner combined.

That's why I have taken my own popcorn to the movies with me when I wanted to have popcorn there.

I don't generally want to eat anything while watching a movie. If a movie can't grab and hold my full attention, it's not generally one I even want to be watching.

And the sounds of other people unwrapping, and chewing, and offering others some of their treats, during a movie, drives me nuts.

Am I being provocative in your view?

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@firefly,

Not overmuch ff but it's better than requiring us to witter sweet little nothings at each other which is all there is left when provocative posters are on Ignore.

I would re-phrase your post though. There's something a bit odd about it although I will admit to being often confused by feminine thought processes.

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@firefly,

I so agree about eating at the movies. There have been times when I moved to avoid noisy eaters.

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My brother used to smuggle Colt 45s (the huge ones) into the movies. Then he would get so drunk he would wander outside by the middle of the show. I like a good old Mr Goodbar or the like in the theater.

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@edgarblythe,

When I was a kid going to the Saturday matinees (generally a horse opera) there was this guy (a grown up, physically) who always sat on the very end of the front row, with all the little tykes. And every week he brought the same thing to eat during the pictures; a head of cabbage and a salt shaker in a big brown grocery store bag.

Wackiest thing was, he always talked all the way through the movie. "Look out, there!" "He's behind that rock!" "Git 'im!" "Hang on, he's moved behind that other rock."

He was heck of a lot more fun than any of the movies, constantly being pummeled with popcorn bags and candy wrappers, but so deeply engrossed was he in directing the action, he seemed totally oblivious. Even so, he never failed to take the grocery bag with him when the movie ended.

Our little town had a lot in common with Mayberry.

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For a near gourmet taste treat, order your popcorn, but insist that you get hot popcorn (not sitting there in bags since last Tuesday) get a box of Chocolate Covered Raisinets.

Pour the Raisinets over the popcorn and mix them in well. (You'll need a napkin or two or three.) Sprinkle on some extra salt if you like.

The corn and the chocolate and then the sharp sweetness of the raisins.

Joe(oh heaven..)Nation

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@Joe Nation,

"""""phew""""".
That sounds vile, Im sorry.
I love soft pretzels. A recent (15 years maybe) trend has been begun by some outfit calling themselves "Auntie Anne's Soft Pretzels". These clowns dip their pretzels in a butter-like sauce , then cover them in a sugar cinnamon mic=x and sell em to folks driving cars.
Unless Im eating a full dinner at an Indian stablishment wjere the Poories and Nahn are there to dip , I don't like getting my hands into the food.
(Fried chicken or corn on the cob and hot crabs and a steamed lobster are all exempt from this .)
I don't like messy food in a theater cause I know guys like you have been wiping their hands on the backs of the seats.
I don't wanna know whats on te bottoms of seats.
ALL THEATERS ARE CESSPITS of DROOL AND UNEATEN FOOD

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@vonny,

vonny wrote:

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Isn't that spam vonny?

It isn't meant to be! Just a link to the site from which I found the photo that Ossobuco was interested in. But do tell me, please, if I ought not to post links like that - don't forget, I'm new to computers and to A2K.

Not even remotely spam - A2K events do occur and a proper start is a place and cost. Time and group would be the next task to accomplish.....

Also, never give any cred to anything Spdy blurts......

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@Debacle,

Debacle wrote:

When I was a kid going to the Saturday matinees (generally a horse opera) there was this guy (a grown up, physically) who always sat on the very end of the front row, with all the little tykes. And every week he brought the same thing to eat during the pictures; a head of cabbage and a salt shaker in a big brown grocery store bag.

Wackiest thing was, he always talked all the way through the movie. "Look out, there!" "He's behind that rock!" "Git 'im!" "Hang on, he's moved behind that other rock."

He was heck of a lot more fun than any of the movies, constantly being pummeled with popcorn bags and candy wrappers, but so deeply engrossed was he in directing the action, he seemed totally oblivious. Even so, he never failed to take the grocery bag with him when the movie ended.

Our little town had a lot in common with Mayberry.

I loved the Saturday matinees, with the flattened popcorn boxes flying, the kids making a roar that matched the volume of music like the Stars and Stripes forever, which they played in an effort to stifle the kids and the knowledge we were about to see oaters with the likes of the Durango Kid and Hopalong Cassidy, then Three Stooges and Little Rascals. One time they slipped in King Kong and scared the crap out many of us, myself included. They often slipped in Mickey Rooney's Huckleberry Finn and Young Tom Edison. I got to see it all for nothing, because I served in school as a crossing guard and received a free pass.

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@edgarblythe,

And, in my neck of the woods at least, it was all for one thin dime, ten cents for a double-feature, a couple of cartoons and a Perils-of-Pauline type of serial. Cheapest baby-sitting service any parent could dream of.

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@Lustig Andrei,

I forgot about the serials. First one I ever saw was Pirates on the High Seas.

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@edgarblythe,

I remember Jock Mahoney (I think) in a seral about Wild Bill Hickok, a series about Sir Gallahad in the Court of King Arthur and something called "Superman vs Atomic Man." This was somewhere around 1950, remember, and the very word "atomic" had dreadful connotations it no longer carries in everyone's minds.

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