8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC Part 8

[Verandah Man]

Ok, actually we got in Feb 13, but I have been busy at work and haven't had time to post. We were a little late to the game, hadn't realized this was coming out (or that it would sell out so quickly) so we started trying Feb 1 and got a place two weeks later, thanks in large part to the efforts of Bob at Dreams Unlimited (thanks for hanging in there for us!) Cruisers will be me, dh, dd (then 12) and ds (then 10). I will never be able to read back through all the prior posts (or keep up with them at the rate they are coming!) but wanted to say we feel very fortunate to have gotten a space onboard and are looking forward to the trip of a lifetime!

Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! ​

 

[Verandah Man]

I think he's got better knees

For his sake, I sure hope so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!

 

[Verandah Man]

Now that has been cleared up, I am compelled to ask:

sub, grinder, hoagie or hero ??

Hoagie here!!!

 

[captaincrash]

Same here, embalming just squicks me out...and after watching CSI and Bones I'm not really thrilled about an autopsy either! I like the cremation idea but not so sure about the new process where they harvest your carbon and turn you into a gemstone www.lifegem.com

Cremation and burial at sea looks kinda interesting but it may be creepy for DS and the rest of the family to do.
www.eternalreefs.com


www.greenburials.org/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-cemetery

www.naturaldeath.org.uk

www.naturalburial.co.uk


"Britain’s cemeteries are full, and cremation wastes energy and releases greenhouse gases. Why not buy a plot in a field and ask your relatives to plant a tree over your grave? If others do the same and you all attach an entail to the land, you’ve created a protected wood. Who wouldn’t prefer feeding English oaks to pushing up daisies?"

Now here is something I've never heard of before that sounds... curious...

LIFEGEM will harvest the carbon from your loved one and convert it into a diamond for $13,000-20,000 for a 1 carate stone. Price varies with color - where blue is the most expensive and yellow the least expensive. OR... for the budget concious they have the "Family plan" where you can get 4 0.10 caret yellow stones made for $1299 each... including ring settings

I don't know about having this done for me or my spouse. It's gonna take some serious reflection on our parts here....

 

[Verandah Man]

My parting gift tonight - a list of cheerier topics for tomorrow...

Your very first experience at Disneyland / WDW

The year was 1983, the month September. We had six people in our group, Hazel, my mom, my grandmother, my grandmother's sister, my brother Pete and myself. We stayed in one of the Fort Wilderness trailers for 8 nights and only paid $95.00 per night for the trailer, those were the days!!!

Hazel and I came home with about 15 t-s***** each!!!

We had a blast and loved every minute of our first trip to WDW!!!

 

[Verandah Man]

Time to get DD up and get her on the move to get ready for school, be back later.................

 

[captaincrash]

sounds like me too... i met dh at 19 at college (in August 1991.) we got engaged the following summer (i was 20) and moved in together. Whoops dd came along a little over 10 months later (May 1993).... We kept putting off getting married. 1st until i graduated college. Then another year until he graduated..then until we both had full time jobs.... So finally in 1996 we got married.

So yes i've been with dh almost half my life.

I have to confess we had a memorable moment when we realized we had supassed half our lives together... it was a nice moment... til she grabbed my ears ... you know a ferangi does not like his ears handled roughly!

 

[captaincrash]

The next door neighbors back home asked me if the reason why I had my father cremated was to be sure he wouldn't come back. (They knew the story as their house was where I went to get away)

My sister always said she wanted to be but in a garbage bag and left by the end of the driveway for the garbage man to pick up. She hates funerals. But she did say she wants yellow roses at her funeral so I guess, I will plant a rose bush by the mailbox.
Not that it will happen any time soon, I hope.

Hey Todd.... here's an idea...

I saw this on tv this morning...

There's a group of entrapeneurs who are building a city of Atlantis off the shores of Miami. (it's actually funded by becoming an underground cemetery for those who are cremated; ie small cement tubes)

They said that visting there (ie snorkling) was free to anyone who wanted to VISIT there.

They said it costs twice that of a regular funeral but sounded neat....

My fathers family is Italian so when someone dies it's a huge thing - three day wake (with viewing) & catered lunch after the funeral. Just like baptisms and weddings.

blah tossed at sea blah funerals blah..

When the evening folks sign on they are going to wonder how we got to talk about funerals and being tossed at sea..

Yes Doreen....

... us genteel and decent folk on the late shift ARE wonderin' whats' up with all DIS talk about funerals, being creamated or otherwise buried at sea...

My mother wants me to cremete her so she will always be warm. I didn't tell her that there is a place where it's warm all the time .

 

[disneypilots]

Good Morning everyone...........off to work to make money for Mickey again !!!

Mark

 

[yargrnhoj]

My mom's husband was admitted to the hospital Monday for some prostate problems. They did surgery on him today and my mom just called to say that he is currently on a ventilator. They have called in a pulmonary specialist and she is waiting for some news. Please say a few prayers for them.

Best wishes and pixie dust for a speedy recovery.

 

[yargrnhoj]

What's wrong with her? I saw Lisa Reno say this was one of her beauty tips too. LOL! Must be a big business out in Hollywood.

I am not sure any part of her face is really hers anymore.

 

[disneypilots]

My mom's husband was admitted to the hospital Monday for some prostate problems. They did surgery on him today and my mom just called to say that he is currently on a ventilator. They have called in a pulmonary specialist and she is waiting for some news. Please say a few prayers for them.

Paula...They will be in our prayers........ May the recovery be Fast !!!

Mark

 

[LITTLEKID58]

GM

Prsently 65 going up to 83 here in Rainy Central Florida.

to everyone who is going to need it today.

to the newbies

Have a great Thursday

Liz

 

[pyramid2000]

My first car was a '92 Quasar Blue Chevy Cavalier. I hated giving that car up but drove it for 11yrs!


Chrissie

I had a black VW Superbeetle. I think it was a 78. I taught so many people how to drive in that thing. Had to push start it quite often too.

 

[pyramid2000]

Now that is not what I had in mind when I asked for someone to eat a LONG JOHN.. but hmm hmmm that pic sure did look good.. I changed my order.. I will have a dozen of him instead...

 

[pyramid2000]

The beloved jimmy could be lost
A sprinkling of history for a name that's melting away.
By Michael Vitez
Inquirer Columnist

Which came first, the jimmy or the sprinkle?

Evidence suggests the jimmy.

A far more important question for local readers is: Which will endure?

Sadly, the sprinkle.

The jimmy - at least as a piece of slang, an expression of local flavor - is doomed.

"If it's not a dead term, it's a dying term," said Peter Georgas, vice president of Can-Pan Candy, the Toronto-based company that sells a million pounds of sprinkles every month.

"I will rarely, rarely get on the phone with somebody who asks me for a jimmy," he said. "And if someone does ask me for a jimmy, he's an older man."

The fact is that jimmies and sprinkles are the same thing, which is almost nothing, a wisp of sugar, oil, emulsifier (don't ask!) and coloring.
But by any name, the world consumes about 50 million pounds a year, according to an industry expert - about 1.3 trillion sprinkles or jimmies, give or take a few hundred million.

Mostly, they're sprinkled on ice cream. But if laid end to end, they would stretch 2.3 million miles, enough to circle the Earth nearly 100 times.
This region - from Philadelphia to the Jersey Shore - historically has been jimmies territory.

Jimmies - not sprinkles - have been on the menu for 53 years at the Custard Stand on Ridge Avenue in Philadelphia.

"I don't bother people who call them sprinkles," said Vince Joyce, 21, a jimmies loyalist and employee for seven years. "But if you call them shots or dots or ants or black beads, I say something: 'You mean jimmies, right?' "

Right across Ridge Avenue, at rival Dairyland, jimmies have been on the menu since the establishment opened 30 years ago.

The present owner, Michael Kiedaish, 32, grew up with jimmies and says he will never change: "When someone tells you that something's a jimmy, it's a jimmy."

But hints of extinction are everywhere, even in his own store.
"The college people... they're all sprinkles," said Laurie Taylor, 23, who has worked the counter at Dairyland for eight years. "And the yogurt people are sprinkles. And kids all say rainbow sprinkles because it sounds more fun.

"I grew up saying jimmies," she confessed, "but from working here so long, I've started calling them sprinkles."

Sprinkles are encroaching everywhere. Old reliables like Kohr Brothers on the boardwalk in Ocean City are holding firm with jimmies, but upstarts like Ben & Jerry's on Rittenhouse Square? Sprinkles.

At Daddy-O's Dairy Barn in Mount Laurel, owner Rob Cotton grew up in Northeast Philadelphia calling them jimmies, but on his menu he lists them as... sprinkles!

"The distributors all call them sprinkles, so that's what I put on the menu board," he said.

"This is the No. 1 question: Is there a difference? And where does the name come from? I must hear that three or four times a week."

Here is some history:

Back in the 1930s, the Just Born candy company of Bethlehem produced a topping called chocolate grains. The man who ran the machine that made these chocolate grains was named Jimmy Bartholomew.

"Thus, his product became known as jimmies," said Ross Born, the chief executive officer. He was told this story by his grandfather and company founder, Sam Born. Just Born registered jimmies as its trademark, and continued producing jimmies until the mid-1960s - which is why the name was so popular here.

The trademark expired and soon after, Just Born stopped making jimmies.
This account, however, has been disputed.

The Boston Globe investigated the origin of jimmies last winter after a reader inquired about a rumor that the term originally was racist - the idea being that some people refer only to chocolate ones as jimmies, and rainbow ones as sprinkles. Perhaps, the reader surmised, the word descended from Jim Crow.

The Globe found no evidence of this, but did cite a commentary in 1986 on National Public Radio by the late Boston poet John Ciardi, who claimed: "From the time I was able to run to the local ice cream store clutching my first nickel, which must have been around 1922, no ice cream cone was worth having unless it was liberally sprinkled with jimmies."

Ciardi, the Globe said, "dismissed Just Born as claim-jumpers looking to trademark someone else's sweet inspiration." His jimmies had come first.
The truth may never be known.

But what is undeniable, according to industry experts, is that jimmies gradually gave way to sprinkles, a more vivid and appealing name.
For example, a world leader in sprinkles is QA Products outside Chicago. It started making sprinkles 10 years ago - under the brand name Sprinkle King.

When Vince Joyce of the Custard Stand on Ridge Avenue gives his customers jimmies, he gets them from a Sprinkle King box.
For the record, a chocolate sprinkle includes cocoa and offers a faint chocolate taste. But all rainbow colors taste exactly the same, which is to say, have virtually no taste.

This was confirmed by Kasey Dougherty and Kathleen DeMichele of the Dairy Queen in Ocean City. On a rainy day last summer, they conducted a taste test - blindfolded.

Neither could tell pink from yellow from green.

"Nobody gets rainbow sprinkles for the flavor," Dougherty said. "They get them for the colors, and the crunch."

How sad...

 

[pyramid2000]

Hi, I am Vanetta and am trying to get on this cruise. We are DVC members and hoping that space will come available before this ship sets sail in Aug. 2008. I am friends with Cinderella Mom and family.

WELCOME!!

 

[pyramid2000]

My mom's husband was admitted to the hospital Monday for some prostate problems. They did surgery on him today and my mom just called to say that he is currently on a ventilator. They have called in a pulmonary specialist and she is waiting for some news. Please say a few prayers for them.

 

[pyramid2000]

ok here is another PIRATE joke.. I started telling it to my son,, but had to stop.. so i had to tell you guys...

This pirate walks into a bar with a big ship's wheel down his pants. The bartender says, "Excuse me, sir, but do you know you have a ship's wheel down the front of your pants?"
And the pirate says...
Aaargh, it's driving me nuts!!

 

[pyramid2000]

On the subject of Jimmies (Sprinkles)...


Why are the ones on DCL so hard? I'm used to the ones that are a little softer, to the point that I could squish one with my fingertip. The ones on DCL are rock hard. WHY?

Because they are sprinkles.