J. S. Bach

If you are ever in Chester, SC, I recommend Gene's first (breakfast & lunch, they close at 1400) and The Cyclone second (lunch & dinner, they open at 1100). Another is Italian Garden, we do a Wednesday evening dinner meeting there.

13 hours ago, jjb1970 said:

 ...snip... The bit where you want a huge vacuum is the condenser. Condenser vacuum is critical to performance and efficiency in a ranking cycle steam plant. They have vacuum breaking valves.

Do you mean Rankine? I like to use the Rankine scale when giving the local temperature; as of this moment, it is only 528°R.

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

A short time ago, I looked out my back door and there was an almost full-grown deer there. By the time I decided to get the camera, it had wandered off.

1 hour ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 That allows people to search if they want to , but I didn't make any political statement ,

just reported the facts .     😎

Actually, I was referring to the location and event, not the post itself. Humor sometimes falls flat, unfortunately.

After a bottle of Guinness, I, too, would be ready for bed. Or the porcelain room!

5 hours ago, martin_wynne said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

Uh-oh, an apostrophe catastrophe.

1 hour ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 

 Only in America .

 

Party removed to avoid any talk of politics , just for the laugh .

 

 Voters in Indiana were irate this week after they learned that the woman who they voted for - and the woman who won the XXXXXXXX  primary in which they were voting - had actually been dead for two months. Voters said that no one informed them that the woman had died, and there was nothing on her website that indicated she was no longer alive. They also blamed local media for not actually telling anyone what was happening.

Well, you did say Indiana!

There used to be one like that (no beer, though and a Lionel three-rail O gauge train was used) called HAMBURGER JUNCTION just north of Baltimore. Dad took me there once when I was home on leave from the Navy. Turned out that the burgers were really quite good. I even asked for it to be delivered by train even though the serving window was directly in front of me.

Nice, I just had a Greek gyro for lunch today at Arby's; not perfect but still better than non at all and many many, levels cheaper than going to Greece to get a real one. Please note that when I was stationed on the island of Crete, I had the opportunity to have one; many, many "ones" over a period of a year or so.! As I said, the Arby's version is decent enough.

Gastonia? I think that I may have driven through it once or twice!

On 20/10/2023 at 11:26, MattR said:

Very nice! I do love my scrapple but livermush is a serviceable substitute, and always Neese's. I used to live in your general neck of the woods -- 8 years in Gastonia (2006-2014) and the wife and I had a few anniversary vacations at the old Inn on York Street there in Chester. The Summit had the best barbecue I've had outside eastern N.C. Seems both are closed now.

And I never, ever thought that I would see the long-gone Summit Restaurant mentioned on RMweb. It did close several years ago and the owner opened a new place on the Bypass by the L&C crossing. That closed (bad management, mainly) and now the new owners call it "Buttermilk's".

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

16 minutes ago, AndyID said:

 ...snip... It's a lot of fun

So is my "Zero-turn" mower:

Pssst: It'll do about 10 or so mph, too!

1 hour ago, davknigh said:

If you are in a rush whisky or whiskey both work for methfix transfers. It mostly depends on whether you would consider that to be an act of heresy, blasphemy, or worse. The transfers don’t care…

 

HTH

 

David

Depending on the brand, it might be considered a service to mankind!

😁I can think of a lot better things to waste my money on and that do not come with a load of legal baggage attached; for example:

😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

11 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

I thought you might like a few more snaps ...snip...

I initially read that first line as "I thought I might like a few more schnapps."; Oddly, as actually I do not like the stuff.

11 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

 ...snip... And yet my homemade efforts - though passable - are incredibly crude when compared with what can be produced with a 3D printer. ...snip...

If you really are not satisfied with it, just wrap it up and send it to me; sort of a reverse Marshall Plan?

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

2 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

 ...snip...  and the JATO assisted car headed straight for one of the camera crew, before spinning sideways at the last second - luckily the footage was captured by another camera and wasn't wasted. 

The final scenes in the old moonshining film "THUNDER ROAD" has a car crashing into an electric substation. The script did not call for the crash (or at least not that bad a crash) and when the stuntman driver crashed (he was killed in the crash) the cameras were running and the scene was left in in the driver's memory.

5 hours ago, The Johnster said:

Back in the 70s, and seen on one of those menu boards with removable letters you saw in chippies in those days which were sometimes fun when letters were missing or had fallen off.  The place offered, amongst other delights, 'urkeyburgers', and a can of 'cold grap'.  This was up your Salubrious Passage in Swansea.  I want an urkeyburger and a cold grap, please...

I suppose that really depends on where you want the grap!

Now you are beginning to sound like Australia!

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

3 hours ago, pH said:

West, surely? There’s not many of us about 3,000 miles west of you!

Thank you, duly corrected.

7 hours ago, sb67 said:

The little vixen that has been showing up regularly, brought her cubs at the weekend, they happily ran around the garden for a while then vanished, the cubs haven't been back with her since.

 

 

I recall reading a biography of Rommel, in it was a photo of him holding a pet fox. This was long before WW2 so no relation the the Sahara.

Twice I had a bat get into my house. Scary (due to the possibility of rabies) but managed to get them out.