The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

JenniferS

JenniferS

When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
This is what the original chip wagon looked like when it was located downtown at the old Market Square.

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I remember being a kid, and rushing like crazy, praying I had enough time to grab a ten cent cone of fries before transferring buses. (You know, back when 9 and 10 year olds rode city buses on their own. :joyfull: )

Didn't seem to hurt Stan much, but the old Market Square was built on an ancient Indian (Native) burial ground and was cursed.
For more than a century, nothing was built there. It was just an empty 100m x 100m block. Eventually a 3-storey mall was built there. It was empty and bankrupt within a decade.

Stan's obit, when he passed away in 2009:
http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2009/01/24/an-extraordinary-guy
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
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Goofyernmost said:
It's those stringy potato things that are the weight gain culprits.
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And that is why I rarely order fries. I eat the ones you stick in the oven to cook at home, and then other than that I usually don't eat them unless we're on vacation. There's one place within walking distance of the other campus where you can get fries, and I don't go there.

This might be the first time I've gotten fries since I've been here. I usually get one of the quesadillas, a taco bowl (that is anothee weight gain culprit; I have to be super hungry to order it) chicken caesar salad, or soup. Sometimes I bring my own. They have preweapped sandwiches if you're in a hurry (with no tomato @JenniferS )
 
JohnD

JohnD

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Goofyernmost said:
You know that I backed you on that one, but, this will just get you in trouble with the owners, and that's not going to help your cause at all.
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Thanks. Didn't realize it would generate such a strong reaction. I thought at the most, it would be, "Okay, I see that you're caught up in April Fools. We'd like to preserve this forum for actual news and rumors. Thanks for understanding." And that would be the end of it.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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JohnD said:
Pardon me for jumping in, but this is the chit chat thread.

Speaking of April Fools. . . So, I decided to begin an April Fools post that was outrageously over the top that you couldn't read it any other way. The moderator was having none of it and moved it immediately (next door to this thread). There was another post and it appeared to be very well played because of its subtlety. I now can't find that one in News and Rumors. I noticed that almost every other WDW forum I could find was participating in April Fools and even Walt Disney World but not here. The moderator(s) and some posters were not amused.
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I honestly refuse to follow Aprils Fools (and my country's version of it) because the majority of the jokes are plain mean.

official ones are good for me (like Amazon rolling back to their 1999's HUD version)
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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Goofyernmost said:
OK, John... todays April 2nd. Time to let it go!;)
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relevant...
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JenniferS

JenniferS

When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
No
Cesar R M said:
I honestly refuse to follow Aprils Fools (and my country's version of it) because the majority of the jokes are plain mean.

official ones are good for me (like Amazon rolling back to their 1999's HUD version)
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Some of it is funny; some of it is just cruel. Like some of the ones where people pretend to break up with their significant other, or one I saw where a girl tricked her bf into thinking she was pregnant. Those were just mean and not particularly funny.

But some are fun and in good humor. We did one my Junior year of high school. It wasn't on April Fools because that fell on a weekend, but it was close to April 1st. My one teacher ran late to her class. We turned our desks around in her absence and moved the podium to the other end of the room. Then a student stood at the podium and acted like he was teaching. Teacher walked in and thought she was in the wrong room for a second. It was all fine; she got a good laugh out of it, and we put everything back and resumed class as normal. No harm done, and we all got a laugh.

Netflix did one this year called "Binge Responsibility". After watching two episodes of a show, it would show you this message. They did a bunch of them. One was, "Do your homework". Another was, "Go to sleep". Another was "Take a shower." There were a bunch. You could watch them by typing in "Binge Responsibility" and they'd come up.

And then there was this genius one from last year...
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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JenniferS said:
For those too young to remember:


(And who knows, it might have only aired in Canada.)
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OK, so you have found the only possible redeeming thing about a Coffee Crisp! That commercial! Otherwise, we are talking about a chunk of flavorless cardboard in a pretty package. And yes, there is no other place that would have a reason to advertise them other then Canada.;)

When my Father in Law would come down to visit he would always bring some of those for the girls. They have fond memories of them. I am an ungrateful wretch and was not excited about it at all. I thought that he just found the cheapest candy he could find to win over his grandchildren. :grumpy:

Eric1955 said:
Here's a BBC News April Fools from 1957
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I saw that on TV when I was 9 years old. I didn't know any better and believed it for quite a few years. Even mentioned to my uncle one time about how spaghetti grew on spaghetti trees only to be greeted with a loud roar of laughter. When I told them that I saw it on TV, they just told me I must have had a dream or something. It was years before it finally came out during a special TV program about how jokes were played on people even years ago that I was finally vindicated.
 

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