Alert: The Maps Thread

Meh.

I'd recently had occasion to pass through st Louis, and their dialect is not at all akin to the rest of the "Inland North" on that map, even if they are listed as a related, "St Louis corridor."

(Thinking the proclivity to use "errrrbody," for "everybody;" only st louisians use that.)

 

We all ended up with holes burnt in our clothes and a few legit burns that took a while to heal up.

 

Costco is a legit cheat code if you know how to use it right and the membership pays for itself easily.

I get gas from there, I get a lot of nonperishable stuff like paper towels, toilet paper, tissues, and such. I buy frozen veggies which lasts me up to three weeks, then there's the rotisserie chickens for $5. Not to mention clothes.

For a bit of fun, I wrote the date I bought a box of trash bags. Two rolls. I bought them in September of 2023. I'm still on the last roll.

 

I had a film class in high school with Dan Quayle's daughter. That was 95/96, so not long after he was in office. For one assignment, she did the restaurant scene from When Harry Met Sally. So, somewhere in my parents' attic, there is a VHS tape of Quayle's daughter faking an orgasm. Ultimately the audio was dubbed over before it was turned in because we already knew that it was a bit much.

 

Great Lakes region, what up doe?

Related note, learned recently that Detroit is one of the most foul mouthed places. Also learned that Glenn Frey of the Eagles, used to joke, "I'm from Detroit, where mother is only half a word." I'll add that the biggest shock for someone I know who moved here from Utah and isn't Morman was the swearing. And apparently, I swear a lot according to them.

 

And you haven’t obtained it, digitalized it, and posted it on bigsocer because . . . .?

 

I do the same with Walmart because the Costco here doesn't deliver and it's on the opposite side of town from me. Also, $.10 off per gallon from dozens of gas stations here and always at least one wherever I go, instead of having to hunt for a Costco.

 

I gave myself carpal tunnel last time

 

Seeing 35 Northwoods, I flashed on my current re-watching of The Last Kingdom, and imagined all those names fading from Anglo-Saxon into English

 

I still have on my bookshelf a VHS copy of Heavy Metal. I worked A/V in college, and one time we got a 16mm print for a few showings. Damned if I can remember the details but the f1 generation was robust.

Do not have a VCR, but just as spacecraft carried CDs, this must travel to eternity.

 

I played lacrosse in college - probably at a much lower level than you - but it was the source of many of the events that make me glad that I grew up in the pre-smartphone era. Although to be clear, none of them involved sexual harassment/assault. Nobody on my team was like that, and no women wanted to hang with us anyway.

 

I also don’t have a VCR, but won’t let go of my VHS copies of the original Star Wars trilogy before Lucas tampered with them.

 

Gotcha. I’m with you on the space but I make it work. Made it work with a studio apartment at one point.

If there's few things I think one should buy from Costco, it's toilet paper, soap, and the rotisserie chicken.

 

I have such a copy of Star Wars itself on laserdisk and a working laserdisk player.

 

I saw that Costco had my favorite coffee. Also saw that it was going to be off the shelves soon (They keep an asterisk on the price tag). Did I buy two bags of coffee beans? Yes. Worth it? Yes.

 

With a family of 4 and 3800sqft, I visit Costco weekly. We don’t go through the produce quickly enough to justify those purchases, but we probably drop $1k/month there, and a few hundred at the local grocery stores.

We rarely eat out.

Also, it started carrying our favorite local coffee brand (cafe ibis) a year ago. It is almost half price, even if I buy it directly from their production facility.

 

I've got 5 Costcos within striking distance....wherever I go, there I am!

 

Not a Costco member but do have a membership to Sam's Club. Bi-monthly trips for mostly spices, some frozen goods but the prices on vitamins, antacids, deodorants are as much a reason to go as the paper products and trash bags.

 

The soy milk is back!

 

Are you Nelly? Do you know every time it hits over 80 degrees Fahrenheit in San Francisco they play your song?