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    High Plains Luddite George's Avatar
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    Ah hell. Hang in there, Mario.

    I just googled Dengue and didn't like what I saw.

    Just about everything I see, hear, or read about these days sounds like the end times are soon upon us.

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    Seems unpleasant but not out of the ordinary for more tropical climates. Small chance of a high plains luddite contracting it.

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    High Plains Luddite George's Avatar
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    Well, I do prefer the classics - ague, barrel fever, chalkstones, croup, dropsy, lombago...

    (trying to find an Abe Simpson clip similar to this but not finding what I think I remember - the closest I've come so far is the onion in the belt scene)
    Last edited by George; August 28th, 2019 at 12:39 PM.

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    I love the onion in the belt scene. We use that to describe every conversation that my friends father starts (and then fails to complete).

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    Sadly, my favorite Indian restaurant closed down a short while ago. Just learned about it yesterday. It’s somewhat devastating. Been going there for almost 20 years. It’s going to be hard to find a replacement.

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    20 years? That's a great run!

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    Yeah, that's pretty good for a non-chain restaurant. There are quite a few Indian restaurants where I live, but we are losing fast food restaurants. Seems like all the Burger Kings for miles around have closed (except the one inside a Wal-Mart) and a couple Taco Bells have been sitting empty for a while now (a year or two, maybe). There was also a Steak 'n Shake that closed recently in a shopping center where I find myself often on weekends. The drive-through always had a long line, but I guess there's more to being profitable than always having people in cars sitting there wondering why it's taking so long (that place was notoriously slow). I'm not a frequent fast food consumer, but one can't help but notice this.

    What made me think of this is this is I drove by one of the former Burger Kings this weekend and noticed it is now an Indian restaurant.

    I like Indian food. I used to get a lot of it at potluck lunches at my last job, but I don't go to Indian restaurants often enough to remember what things are called. But if it's fragrant and spicy-hot, I like it.

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    When I was in Vienna, I ate at a great restaurant that was in a building constructed in 1697. It was a bakery for almost 300 years until it became a restaurant.

    I just tried to look it up. Apparently, it closed.

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    There's still a little Chinese place open today that I used to go to with my parents, 40 years ago, and I've no clue how long it had been going 40 years ago*

    *sadly when I went back there for nostalgia reasons, I got epic food poisoning that destroyed me for several days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kchrpm View Post
    20 years? That's a great run!
    Yeah man. There’s another Caribbean place I’d been visiting since high school that closed down a few years ago, which broke my heart. But luckily, unbeknownst to me, they had a second location that was still up and running. But that location is too far east to realistically visit on a regular basis. One hour drive. So that’s become a once in a year place, rather than once a month.

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