Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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