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Twinkies definitely have a longer shelf life than the Euro.
It'd be nice if Twinkies had a longer shelf life than the Newt.
Yafool gave the Euro a run for the money but he expired this week ;-)
WB7, you can't label the bimetallic EUR coins junk! They are valuable, they have the intrinsic value of two metals! ;-)
There is absolutely zero PM content in that junk!
you know Newt misses the twinkies
You know what I miss? I miss Spy Magazine's great Separated At Birth. Man o' Man. Many were good for some day-long chuckles.
I think WB7 has the talent to give good ol' Spy a run for their money. So much material out there untapped. A veritable tar pit.
http://www.amazon.com/Separated-At-Birth-Spy-Magazine/dp/0385247443
I try to take it one step further. My position is any two faces can be manipulated to look alike ;-)
Is that a two faced position? ; )
True that.
See what I've done here. The result looks like Herman Munster...
Very disturbing but strangely realistic. Do you think they can both take large political contributions from my former Wall street buddies?
I'm sure they do.
It's an obomneyation! :o
Funny, I see a younger Al Sharpton. I guess it's a little subjective.
Sharpton has a rounder face.
Yafool would make a good Sharpton.
I'm going with Lerch from the Adams family on this one
Fred Gwyn, Herman Munster
"What's a Ute? " he played the judge in My Cousin Vinny.
Yes and he was in Car 54.
Ya. It's almost like you have a background in Forensics where someone describes a perp and you draw a composite sketch of what the dude looks like.
Dude, "The Romenymooners" is awesome! It'had me rolling on the floor laughing until I cried...at the notion that either one of these tools could be the GOP candidate for the Presidency.
Too bad they'll both be gone. That theme is ripe for further elaboraton ;-)
I feel surrounded by Two-legged Twinkies. Especially females whose true expiration date keeps getting pushed back thru the wonders of preservative surgery.
Thread-Winnah!
LOL!
Kodak film was perfectly balanced for the great out of doors, an anachronism in the new urban society.
If you are on a real trek, it is still better to take a film camera with you. what do you do without power for extended periods?
take a solar charger, if there's no light you aren't taking pictures anyway
Hm, never thought about that. How long to charge one battery pack ?
check out geeks.com they're pretty helpful about the technicals..
Kodak. A great Amarican brand that couldn't adapt. It's sad to see.
you mean wouldn't.
They sat on their patents and let companies figure out work-arounds, when they could have had it all. They could have been the microsoft but instead they became yesterday.
Sad too, my digital Kodak has better pictures than my two foreign name brands by long shot.
There is some additional wisdom that can be discovered and by extension applied to the rest of our broken system latent in your comment. Thanks for your observation. I wish others could understand how our patent system is more about stifling innovation for profit from ideas instead of protecting the interests of folks that think by using patents to prevent competition they can ride the gravy train forever.
I wish others could understand how our patent system is more about stifling innovation for profit...
One of the more interesting chapters in this regard is Mark Twain's writings on Mary Baker Eddy's copyrighted works when she established scientology. Mary was one of the first to successfully use the law to market her “knowledge” and Twain was there to see it unfold. The US would be hard pressed to choose between her followers or Joe Smith’s as the cruelest scourge to be unleashed on an unsuspecting globe in the last hundred years or so. Imo.
Yeah you are right there. I had friends that worked there and could see it coming when Fuji started eating their lunch when it came to film. It took Kodak forever to bring around a new product line. By the time they did, even though it was a better product, Fuji had captured the market.
I knew a guy who made a fortune on photomat stalls when Central Europe opened.
Kodak: A corporation that got jackbooted by the PTB. Cry me a river.
Tallahassee: There's a box of Twinkies in that grocery store. Not just any box of Twinkies, the last box of Twinkies that anyone will enjoy in the whole universe. Believe it or not, Twinkies have an expiration date. Some day very soon, Life's little Twinkie gauge is gonna go... empty.
...
Tallahassee: [discovers Hostess truck filled with Sno-Balls] Sno-Balls? Sno-Balls? Sno Balls? Where's the fucking Twinkies?
Columbus: I love Sno-Balls.
Tallahassee: I hate coconut. Not the taste, consistency.
Columbus: [eats a Sno Ball] Fresh.
Tallahassee: Oh, this Twinkie thing, it ain't over yet.
...
Tallahassee: [Searching for Twinkies] Where are you, you spongy, yellow, delicious bastards?
...
Tallahassee: Where are the fucking Twinkies?
...
"Da Boom"
Original Air Date: 12/26/99
Peter is paranoid about the end of the world and makes the family cancel all their New Year's Eve '99 plans. For once, he is right about something: On January 1st, 2000, bombs destroy every structure in the world, except for a surprisingly sturdy Twinkie factory. The Griffins set out to find the factory, but along the way Stewie is kidnapped by a band of mutants. The episode ends with Victoria Principal telling Patrick Duffy that she just had a dream in which she saw a crazy episode of Family Guy.
Peter: "I'm the one who knew the world was going to end, I'm the one who found the Twinkie factory and started this town, and I'm the one who gave lessons to Rosie Perez."
Guy: "That's nothing to be proud of." Peter: "Don't be stupid, she speak good and everything."
In the Fall of 2010 I bought a package of Snowballs off of Route 17 near Monroe NY, The expiration date was September 1 2008! I still have them in the original package and they are in pristine condition.
you can set one on the counter and a year later not one ant or cockroach has touched it.
WHY?
they won't touch a coke either.
the rumor is you can sit a mcdonalds hamburger in the open air for years. and i don't doubt it. white castle probably further.
i sent an empty white castle burger box to a friend in helsinki (from nyc) and he could still smell the onions weeks later.
I use them to run my scooter.
My dog loves beer . . .
you familiar with the episode of Futurama where Frye eats an egg salad sandwhich from a vending machine at a truck stop, and develops magic powers? just saying
No GU, However I do recall the Simpson's episode where Homer kept a Twinkie for a about a decade to turn it into liquor!
did you check out the new Rolling Stone Magazine article about Bill Kruetzman? Very cool
At first I was going to suggest putting the Sno-balls on Ebay if you could part with them and wanted to make money. But that would be a short-term profit. Perhaps it would better to save the Sno-balls for 20 years, and then go on the PBS Antiiques Roadshow and get a good appraisal and long-term capital gains.
But then I thought if you are young enough and can wait 50 years you can have the Sno-balls declared Historic Artifacts under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act and have your display case, and the room and house containing the display, declared an Historic Property, and get federal, state, and county tax credits in perpetuity.
Whatever those things are made of, I'll tell you one thing they are a fine example of artistic design.
Cf. Repo Man. There's always Yo-Ho's and Lorna Doones.
When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of education
Hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's
a sunny day
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
If you took all the girls I knew
When I was single
And brought them all together
for one night
I know they'd never match
my sweet imagination
Everything looks worse
in black and white