Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Shipley's, at least this one, is locally owned in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and I am not sure when Dunkin or Krispey were started, but this one was in business in 1963. Not pallid, not a clone. Good donuts. http://www.sonc.com/shipley Sonny - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@infi.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 5:23 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Shipley's Donuts > What the hell is "Shipley's"? Is this some pallid West Coast clone of > Dunkin' Donuts or Krispey Kreme? (Editorial Comment: You guys on the Left > Coast seem to miss EVERYTHING that is worthy of admiration and respect!) > > I did, at one time, know Mr Shipley, the founder of the American Gem > Society and of the Gemological Institute of America, for whom the late and > lamented Eric Welch now works. But he was a rather courtly gent with a > moustache, and I cannot see him consuming something as, well, common as a > donut. > > (Personally, I hit the Country Kitchen in Lexington, Virginia, when I am in > the mood for a REAL Bearclaw but, then, Lexington is also home to the > primordial and quintessential Apple Strudel and Appel Crumbcake und so > weiter. But, back in the Red Dog Saloon era, when I was in the National > Guard or Army Reserve and often found myself driving halfway across reality > at zero-dark-thirty in the AM, I found a box of Dunkin' Donuts and the > Soybean Futures Reports from WOWO in Fort Wayne a good way of remaining > awake (this is back in the days when all there was was a thing called AM > radio and ... well ... argh! As Joe Pesci might say, you folks are a > bunch of "yutes"! Though I have it on good authority that Ted Grant, after > he was booted out of Venice after he tried to rig the 1694 election for > Doge, invented radio. But that MIGHT just be a story: mind you, Ted is > old and acerbic, but, then, maybe he was born that way.) > > Marc > > msmall@infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 > Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html