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[chefann]

I like it! You could do a very nice sign over the doorway, too.

 

[AJPratt]

I do, too! Its going to be really nice.

(Sorry about the hijack, KG!)

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Me? Upset about a hijack of one of my threads? Surely, you jest.

 

[chefann]

Don't call us Shirley!

 

[jenniferp417]

I blog. I usually fall into the "nothing much to say but I say it anyway" category, but I used to love to write and I'm trying to find that "writing gear" again.http://jennifer.vox.com/

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Don't call us Shirley!

I wasn't talking to you. Surely, I'd never call you Shirley.

 

[yummybytes]

I don't really do much there anymore -- and really it's nothing earth shattering as it is, but ...

http://kierya.livejournal.com

 

[chefann]

DH had one before blogging was even a word. It was about a coworker of his. It's archived at http://www.dannann.net/eriamjh/sfiles/

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Now that's entertainment.

 

[chefann]

It's funny now, but at the time it was pretty bad.I still can't believe one person was capable of so much stupidity.

 

[janetupnorth]

I would hope so.

Just don't schedule anything on a Sundry in Fall. The entire state of Wisconsin comes to a halt between noon and 3 PM on a Packer Sundry.

Oh my goodness, that is SOOOOOO true!

I "accidently" hit Infusinos in Racine at half time when I was home visiting and wasn't watching the game (it was one of those games where if you didn't have ESPN or something expensive you couldn't get it in on the Milwaukee channels)...anyway, I thought I'd never get a pizza - half the city was there!

No only does the state stand still, no one cooks!

 

[Joelen]

Oh my goodness, that is SOOOOOO true!

I "accidently" hit Infusinos in Racine at half time when I was home visiting and wasn't watching the game (it was one of those games where if you didn't have ESPN or something expensive you couldn't get it in on the Milwaukee channels)...anyway, I thought I'd never get a pizza - half the city was there!

No only does the state stand still, no one cooks!

Oh My... I've suddenly gotten flashbacks of my college years in Kenosha!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

The University of Rambler?

 

[BethCooks4U]

We were trying to sell our house in WI the fall that the Packers won the superbowl. No one NO ONE missed any games that year.

I know! no one misses Packer games even when they are doing poorly! It's part of the culture. The Packers are the main thing we miss about WI (besides our kids/grandkids ). We get a few games here but miss a lot. Internet helps and DH is thinking of getting that radio thing...

Back to subject: I have no clue about blogging. (I know WHAT it is but no clue.)

 

[chefann]

Oh My... I've suddenly gotten flashbacks of my college years in Kenosha!

Do you mean Kenowhere? (that's my sister's nickname for it - one of her college roommates was from there.)

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

No one outside of the immediate area can understand the Packer phenomenon. Of course, every NFL market thinks they have the best fans, and in each market, they do. But there is a certain mystique to Packer fandome that no other team has ever quite reached.Undertand that I have no intention of insulting any other NFL fan here, but I can tell you that Packer fans are all over the world. For a long time, in the pre-graphical Internet days, there was a sports reporter in Green Bay, Jeff Ash, who did a weekly Packer update newsletter. It was distributed via the Internet through e-mail. The distribution list was huge (in the thousands of e-mail addresses, and this was years before most people had a clue of what e-mail was) and subscribers were as far-flung as Australia and even in Moscow.There used to be a dedicated Green Bay Packer bar in Huntsville, Alabama, called, "Grumpy Kaz's." It's gone now. Originally from Hales Corners, I suppose Kaz has moved on to another market. There are Packer bars in almost every state.There is a website called The South End Zone that took over distribution of the newsletter, which has since been discontinued because of the overload of information available on now on the Internet. (The south end zone was were Bart Starr scored the winning touchdown in the infamous 1967 "Ice Bowl.") Almost anything you never wanted to know about the Packers is available on that site, including a database of Packer bars, photos of Packer license plates, historical records, schedules, stats, photos and a webmaster who even starred in a Shopko television spot.Recently, while in Toledo, I was "accosted" (in a friendly way, mind you) by a man who took issue with my name badge hanging on a Green Bay Packer lanyard. He had been a running back with Pittsburgh and Cleveland, so we exchanged some friendly jabs about his career and the NFL in general. He admitted that his wife was a Packer fan. "And you married her anyway?" I asked. He wrinkled up his face and said, "I just don't understand her, but I guess there's no logic in love."

Beth, blogging is so readilly available now that almost anyone can (and almost anyone does) set up a blog. The majority of them are frivolous but there are some very important ones out there.

 

[yummybytes]

We were trying to sell our house in WI the fall that the Packers won the superbowl. No one NO ONE missed any games that year.

I know! no one misses Packer games even when they are doing poorly! It's part of the culture. The Packers are the main thing we miss about WI (besides our kids/grandkids ). We get a few games here but miss a lot. Internet helps and DH is thinking of getting that radio thing...

Back to subject: I have no clue about blogging. (I know WHAT it is but no clue.)

Sounds a lot like Pittsburgh Good reason the Packers are my SECOND favorite team

 

[angmillar]

I do! www.xanga.com/samillar2002

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Do you mean Kenowhere? (that's my sister's nickname for it - one of her college roommates was from there.)

You missed the hyphenation. Ke-no-where.

Home of Thomas Jeffrey's 1902 Rambler - the car that started it all in Kenosha, later sold to Nash, makers of the Nash Rambler (The Kenosha Kadillac) and Kelvinator refrigerators. Ramblers were popular in the Drive-In culture because the front seats folded flat, level with the back seat.

(Through mergers and such, American Motors aquired Jeep and when American Motors was absorbed by Chrysler, they blew off the entire line except for Jeep. Chrysler was, in turn, absorbed by Daimler-Benz, for reasons no one could ever quite understand. Chrysler is now for sale again, in case you have a few billion dollars laying around and you'd like to get into the automobile manufacturing business.)

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Sounds a lot like Pittsburgh Good reason the Packers are my SECOND favorite team

There were a whole lotta years there where you had to be a dedicated sports fan to be a fan of anything in Pittsburgh. Joe Garagiolla said the Pirates were so bad, they didn't even get their pictures on bubble gum cards.

 

[janetupnorth]

Do you mean Kenowhere? (that's my sister's nickname for it - one of her college roommates was from there.)

Exactly Ann - that's what we called it growing up too!

It has now changed from Kenowhere to the northern suburb of Chicago!

 

[janetupnorth]

You missed the hyphenation. Ke-no-where.

Home of Thomas Jeffrey's 1902 Rambler - the car that started it all in Kenosha, later sold to Nash, makers of the Nash Rambler (The Kenosha Kadillac) and Kelvinator refrigerators. Ramblers were popular in the Drive-In culture because the front seats folded flat, level with the back seat.

(Through mergers and such, American Motors aquired Jeep and when American Motors was absorbed by Chrysler, they blew off the entire line except for Jeep. Chrysler was, in turn, absorbed by Daimler-Benz, for reasons no one could ever quite understand. Chrysler is now for sale again, in case you have a few billion dollars laying around and you'd like to get into the automobile manufacturing business.)

Interesting trivia KG...my uncle worked for AMC and I worked at the Chrysler Kenosha Engine Plant (what was left by AMC) in 1993-1995 as a Maintenance Supervisor. We only made the Jeep Cherokee and Wagoneer engines at the time and were working on tearing out the old V8 line. Those old chip chains were DISGUSTING after not running for a few years. Then we extended the assembly line, I left (to finish my engineering degree) and when I went back to visit a few years later the place had doubled in size again (pre Daimler still). From just my time there I have MANY stories...the he-she ones are quite interesting...ever see a guy walk around Kenosha in a mini-skirt, high heels, and a parasol? He used to work at Chrysler...had 1/2 the operation (top) and didn't get the rest so they had to make a special bathroom for him...guys didn't want him in theirs anymore with a chest and the women didn't want a guy in their bathroom...glad I wasn't HR!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

The original Kaiser plant in Toledo, where they also used to build Jeeps, is just now being torn down.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Oh My... I've suddenly gotten flashbacks of my college years in Kenosha!

Now they want to build a train from Kenowhere to Milwaukee.

Can anyone explain to me why that is, and who would actually ride it?

 

[janetupnorth]

Now they want to build a train from Kenowhere to Milwaukee.

Can anyone explain to me why that is, and who would actually ride it?

It is all the Chicagoians...(almost used a Wisconsin word on them - KG would know it) that moved to Kenosha. When they decide to quit working in Chicago and no longer have the Kenosha to Chicago commute they get jobs in the Milwaukee area and want a train there...

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

With all the development on the far west side, and all the major employers on the west side, why in blazes would anyone drive 20 minutes to park, get out of their car, ride the train to Milwaukee (of all places) to have to get a cab or a bus to get to work from the train...when they can just be in Milwaukee in 20 minutes by driving right from home? The other way...why would anyone fight traffic in downtown Milwaukee to get on a train to ride to Kenowhere to be twenty minutes away from work with no way to get there?

 

[janetupnorth]

Hey, it never is logical...hence why I'm glad to be up north...except when the "tourists" show up.

 

[katie0128]

No one outside of the immediate area can understand the Packer phenomenon. Of course, every NFL market thinks they have the best fans, and in each market, they do. But there is a certain mystique to Packer fandome that no other team has ever quite reached.

Not sure it is at Packer level, but the cult that is UK Wildcat fans is a phenomenon as well.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Many schools have reached that "cult" level that is uniquely collegiate.

 

[soccermama]

Well, ya've moved on from Blogs..... but I'm hikacking the thread back to the original topic anyway! lol

I started my 2nd attempt at a blog in January (my first 1 fell flat when I couldn't remember to update it..... months would go by and NOTHING!!! lol)

So, I created my FOOD BLOG! I talk about menu planning, food, fun, etc.... and I take lots of pics of my food... I always have! And now I have a place to share those pics! lol

http://mymenu.spaces.live.com