AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 19255 posts, RR: 63 Reply 3, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 762 times:
LOL, two minutes after this site came back up, my power went out for about 20 minutes. When it rains, it pours!
Worked . . . 5 more hours and I have a couple weeks off. . . will be on the way to ANC at 1000 tomorrow and at 2100, be back at ANC for ANC-DEN-DSM on UA. .
I should be having lunch with my daughter in Iowa on Friday.
Wukka From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 1013 posts, RR: 17 Reply 5, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 740 times:
Quoting AeroWesty (Reply 3): LOL, two minutes after this site came back up, my power went out for about 20 minutes. When it rains, it pours!
Why did I instantly think Morton salt? Did the Morton company create the saying, or did they just pick up a phrase and use it as a tagline? Everytime I hear that phrase, it's like UA and "Rhapsody in Blue"... it's almost as they've become interchangable.
Quoting ANCFlyer (Reply 4): I should be having lunch with my daughter in Iowa on Friday.
DSM was a surprisingly cool city. One of the last places that I ever thought that I'd visit, but ended up going out there to see an old girlfriend from college. It's was a few-day trip that I'm really glad that I didn't pass up on. That little strip of bars and restaurants that they have downtown was a really good time.
I hope you enjoy your time there with your daughter!
AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 19255 posts, RR: 63 Reply 6, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 733 times:
Quoting Wukka (Reply 5): Did the Morton company create the saying, or did they just pick up a phrase and use it as a tagline?
Oh I think they did. Morton added a chemical to their salt so it wouldn't absorb moisture/humidity. I recall my grandmother and great aunt putting rice in the salt shakers out of habit, from the days before Morton's made it humidity-proof.
ANCFlyer From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 732 times:
Quoting Wukka (Reply 5): DSM was a surprisingly cool city. One of the last places that I ever thought that I'd visit, but ended up going out there to see an old girlfriend from college. It's was a few-day trip that I'm really glad that I didn't pass up on. That little strip of bars and restaurants that they have downtown was a really good time.
If I may digress a moment on DSM . . . I usually stay at the Marriott downtown. A fwe years back I was there, with a half dozen others. Downtown is connected via skywalks to virtually every building downtown - keeps people out of the winter weather. The group and I (hereinafter called us/we) had several libations at the Marriott Bar and proceeded out on the town via the Skywalks. Needless to say, at about 0200 when everything was closed and no more refreshments were available, we meandered back to the hotel . . . well - apparently they lock those skywalk doors to the hotel about midnight . . . and about every other door to the skywalks as well . . . so we're pounding on every door we come to . . . and none of them open . . . and we walked quite a distance. THe last door we pounded on, and then yanked (I was the yankee not the poundee) happened to be the . . . . Police Department. Two cops look up! We said, just about collectively and in concert "Hi, is this the Marriott?"
The cops burst out laughing and one of them was so kind as to walk us the six blocks back to the hotel . . . .
Quoting Wukka (Reply 5): I hope you enjoy your time there with your daughter!
It'll be a hoot . . . she's a great kid . . . thanks
Wukka From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 1013 posts, RR: 17 Reply 13, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 696 times:
Quoting AeroWesty (Reply 6): Oh I think they did. Morton added a chemical to their salt so it wouldn't absorb moisture/humidity. I recall my grandmother and great aunt putting rice in the salt shakers out of habit, from the days before Morton's made it humidity-proof.
That rice thing still gets used quite frequently, especially by the elderly generation... I see it most often in little granny-family owned restaurants (what the hell are those maggot babies doing in the salt shaker!?!?) but now that you mention it, it makes perfect sense that the phrase comes from Morton's, even though it's now almost standard lexicon for when things are shitty, they just get shittier.
Probably not what their marketing folks had in mind at the time, but equally applicable, as well as memorable.
Good call, Westy! I need to spend more time in non-av for the abundance of trivia here!
AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 19255 posts, RR: 63 Reply 16, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 682 times:
Doing a little googling, it appears that the common usage phrase was originally "it never rains but it pours", which has been supplanted by the Morton slogan. (But never believe anything you read on the internet 100%, even though it makes perfect sense.)
Wukka From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 1013 posts, RR: 17 Reply 17, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 668 times:
Quoting AeroWesty (Reply 16): Doing a little googling, it appears that the common usage phrase was originally "it never rains but it pours", which has been supplanted by the Morton slogan. (But never believe anything you read on the internet 100%, even though it makes perfect sense.)
I started with the google thing, but then after 58,392 hits or something of that nature, I decided that it'd be better to keep drinking my beer since I just came off of a 16.5 hour maintenance window that kicked my ass.
Wukka From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 1013 posts, RR: 17 Reply 18, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 2 days ago) and read 655 times:
Quoting ANCFlyer (Reply 7): Downtown is connected via skywalks to virtually every building downtown - keeps people out of the winter weather.
Isn't that skywalk system neat? Cincy tried to do something like that back in the late 70's, and it was awesome... no crosswalks, bad weather, restaurants and shopping on the way... it almost turned half of downtown into a huge mall. They used to have "SkyWalk" maps of the city.
Then our genius city council, that serves no purpose whatsoever other than to fuck this place up (pardon my language, but I feel they deserve it), decided that it wasn't worth any upkeep. 90% of it has been torn down now.
Now they're trying to think of great reasons to re-attract business to the downtown district... possibly by connecting businesses together! What a great idea!!!!!!!!!!!!
Idiots.
Remember... some of our most prosperous years were when we had Jerry F'in Springer as a mayor.
I have a love-hate relationship with my hometown, if you haven't noticed.
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