Useless Facts/Chit Chat Thread

[Donna]

I hear ya!! I can't even drink mudslides at PI anymore, cause they use that mix, blech!!!

you MUST get a mudslide at Big River Grille. The ones at Trails End are good too, right up there with Big River.

 

[Colson39]

Oh yea, Beth and my mom both LOVE Disney Mudslides, and their favorite is the one at Crockett's Tavern. We don't make a trip without them having one (except when Beth was pregnant), and they don't use a pre-mix at Crockett's, which is great.

I think Beth could drink 3 or 4 of those she loves them so much...lol. Easily her favorite drink anywhere!

 

[PolynesianPixie]

Ami, i'm also having a party this weekend for my cinco de mayo baby only she will be turning 3. I'm tired of birthday parties i had my DD9's party last weekend. I usual do them together but my nine year old wanted a sleepover with only her friends this year. Hope your daughter has a wonderful birthday. She's so beautiful and sweet. Hope you get them to bed at a decent time. I had 7 girls here and got the last one down around 3:00am and they were all up around 7:00am. What fun.

I hope you have a great party, too!!!!!

3am? I sure hope some of you dissers will stay up with me tomorrow night

I'll be in your neck of the woods on Saturday! We have some friends with a house on Claytor Lake and they're having a big ole Cinco de Mayo party. It's kinda going to put poor Lexi's birthday party to shame, I'm afraid.

 

[Us3]

We're going camping this weekend. A VERY local trip...but at least we're out of the house and on the lake!

 

[Us3]

Now I want to have a mudslide! Anyone make them at home??

 

[des1954]

Jim, I gotta hand it to you.... you have a great memory!!

Wasn't there some kind of board game in the 60's that had a kettle in the middle that shrunken heads came out of???

I FOUND THE GAME!!! It took a while to find it, cause I didn't remember the name, but, HERE IT IS!!

Ewwwwwwwwww.....Mystic Skull....scary!!!

A leg bone stuck out of a cauldron, and there was a tree branch with a skull dangling from it. I don't remember much about the game except the cauldron, bone & skull!

 

[RvUsa]

No mudslides here, but I need some sort of alcohol, after the crappy day I have had. No beer, no nutting, found a bottle of wine, guess it will have to do.

Pens are on, go PENS!

 

[des1954]

So.... let's take a walk down memory lane!

What did you do to occupy your time during summer vacations, say, from about age 7 to age 12??

During this time of my life, we lived in a very rural area of WNY, complete with dairy farms, pig farms, horse stables & lot & lots of fields of corn, wheat & cabbage.

Mostly, I hung out at one farm down the road; tormented the cows, helped with baling hay, planting, cutting and bagging cabbage.

We always seemed to have two or three board games of Monopoly going through-out the summer (no one ever won).

My favorite past-time was exploring the woods, making forts & hiding out in them reading!!

Summer time TV was lame, at best. The only shows that stick out in my mind are... Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Flintstones & Video Village.

Oh yeah.... I was the typical bratty little sister that got on my big brother's nerves! (At age 55, I still do! Bwahahaha!!)

 

[des1954]

No mudslides here, but I need some sort of alcohol, after the crappy day I have had. No beer, no nutting, found a bottle of wine, guess it will have to do.

Pens are on, go PENS!

Wine can be your friend too, John!!! Sorry about your day. Perhaps the Pens will keep up their winning streak!

 

[Shannone1]

Now I want to have a mudslide! Anyone make them at home??

I've made them for my friends before. There are several variations. This is how I make them.

For one pitcher:

8-10 ice cubes
1/2 cup Bailey's Irish Cream
1/2 cup Rum
1/2 cup Kalhua
2 cups vanilla ice cream
chocolate syrup

First I add the ice to the blender and lightly crush. Then add the remaining ingredients and blend until creamy.

I like to use hurricane glasses. I drizzle choc syrup in the glass and swirl so it runs down the inside before adding the drink. You can top it off with whip cream and choc sprinkles if you want.

Depending on the size of the glasses....I can usually get 3-4 drinks from one pitcher.

Some people use vodka instead of rum, some add a splash of mint...there are lots of ways to make them.

 

[des1954]

Shannone-

This recipe sounds like a keeper to me!!

YUM!

 

[Rhonda]

So.... let's take a walk down memory lane!

What did you do to occupy your time during summer vacations, say, from about age 7 to age 12??

During this time of my life, we lived in a very rural area of WNY, complete with dairy farms, pig farms, horse stables & lot & lots of fields of corn, wheat & cabbage.

Mostly, I hung out at one farm down the road; tormented the cows, helped with baling hay, planting, cutting and bagging cabbage.

We always seemed to have two or three board games of Monopoly going through-out the summer (no one ever won).

My favorite past-time was exploring the woods, making forts & hiding out in them reading!!

Summer time TV was lame, at best. The only shows that stick out in my mind are... Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Flintstones & Video Village.

Oh yeah.... I was the typical bratty little sister that got on my big brother's nerves! (At age 55, I still do! Bwahahaha!!)

We would spend all day outside playing -- hide & seek, tag, riding bikes, building forts in the nearby woods.

We'd walk to the candy store with 50 cents and walk away with a little bagful of candy -- pixie stix, wax things with colored sugar water in them, styrofoam-tasting things with tiny hard candy balls in them.

One month out of every summer I would spend with my grandparents and nearby friends in the country. Riding horses, helping with hay baling, picking apples.

TV was Flintstones and Jetsons, Gentle Ben, Hogan's Heroes, Brady Bunch, Partridge Family.

 

[BigDaddyRog]

My summers were filled with Huffy bicycles, rollerskates with the metal wheels, clothespinning baseball cards to hit the spokes on the bikes. There was always a daily foorball or baseball game in the street or an empty lot. We rarely wore shoes and I dont remember my feet burning the way they do now when I step onto hot concrete. Skateboards were starting to gain some popularity. But my favorite alltime memory was a small amusement park on the lake in New Orleans called Pontchartrain Beach. Man, THAT was our Disney World, we'd only go once a summer, and that was usually just after my dad would get his tax refund. It closed in 1984, I believe, because of the Worlds Fair's opening....but that was the coolest place in my memory.

 

[RvUsa]

I am not a wine connoisseur, what do you do if there is some sediment in the bottle?

 

[seabee]

I grew up in central Maine(where I am again). We lived on a dead end street in a farely large neighborhood, our house was in the middle so all the neighborhood kids would meet at our house and we would play "Kick The Can". Once the street light came on we would go ask if we could stay out and get flashlights, then we'd play flashlight tag. It was the best time. We would have about 15 kids playing on any given day. Good times. I wish times were that innocent again.

 

[des1954]

I am not a wine connoisseur, what do you do if there is some sediment in the bottle?

Ignore it & drink away!!!

 

[BigDaddyRog]

oh yeah...I wanted to be The Fonz!!

 

[RvUsa]

My summers were filled with Huffy bicycles, rollerskates with the metal wheels, clothespinning baseball cards to hit the spokes on the bikes. There was always a daily foorball or baseball game in the street or an empty lot. We rarely wore shoes and I dont remember my feet burning the way they do now when I step onto hot concrete. Skateboards were starting to gain some popularity. But my favorite alltime memory was a small amusement park on the lake in New Orleans called Pontchartrain Beach. Man, THAT was our Disney World, we'd only go once a summer, and that was usually just after my dad would get his tax refund. It closed in 1984, I believe, because of the Worlds Fair's opening....but that was the coolest place in my memory.

I had a huffy, I broke the sissy bar jumping it one day, so my dad made one in the steel mill, It was awesome, but made of solid steel, and weighed about 50 lbs, I literally had to lean forward so I could keep the front wheel on the ground.

 

[Shannone1]

So.... let's take a walk down memory lane!

What did you do to occupy your time during summer vacations, say, from about age 7 to age 12??

I rode my bike, climbed trees, collected tadpoles, snakes and salamanders and had jars, coolers and aquariums all over the garage for most of the summer. I was SUCH a tomboy. I never checked in or reported where I was going.

We didn't do many "family" activities. One thing I do remember doing was going to the drive in. We never saw family movies though....I grew up watching "R" rated movies because my mom wanted to see them. She also used to let us ride in the back of my stepdad's pick up truck.

I also remember her sending me up to the corner store with a note to buy a pack of cigarettes for her. She would send me with $1.00 and I would have enough change left to buy some candy from the little jars on the counter.

Those sure were different times. I had some wonderful summers as a kid. But it's amazing I survived them, lol !!

 

[des1954]

I grew up in central Maine(where I am again). We lived on a dead end street, our house was in the middle so all the neighborhood kids would meet at our house and we would play "Kick The Can". Once the street light came on we would go ask if we could stay out and get flashlights, then we'd play flashlight tag. It was the best time. We would have about 15 kids playing on any given day. Good times. I wish times were that innocent again.

I forgot all about kick the can!! Who needed expensive toys?? A bike with coaster brakes is all I ever needed!

Oh yeah... dad set up some tents in the backyard a couple of summers. My brothers & their friends mostly used them - cause I was a "girl" and too little!