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#711
October 28th 04, 10:18 PM
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:39:24 GMT, "Yoj"
wrote: "Steve Touchstone" wrote in message .. . As far as I know, in the Army you still get the same overseas pay for being stationed in Alaska as you do stationed in Korea. IIRC, we used to get a whopping $9 when I was in Fairbanks in the late 70's - almost enough to cover the cost for one person to eat at the local Dairy Queen. My first trip off post I stopped in the Dairy Queen and couldn't pay for a shake, cheeseburger and fries with the $10 I had on me - had to settle for Dr Pepper instead of the shake. About half way through my time there McDonalds opened a resturant there (price for a Big Mac 5 cents more than in the lower 48). For awhile, it was the busiest McDonalds in the world, with lines out the door whenever you went there. I can imagine! Everything is a lot higher up there. My mother's town doesn't have a McDonald's, but they do have a Subway. I don't know for how long, though. A lot of businesses are going belly-up. :-( Well, I was there during the boom while they were building the pipeline. I was actually looking for a payphone on that first trip downtown, so I could call home and tell them I had arrived safely. Later I learned that the boom had overwhelmed the phone system, so they had removed all the handsets from the pay phones. The only pay phone I found in the 18 months I was there was in the bowling alley on post. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html 
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#712
October 28th 04, 10:18 PM
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:39:24 GMT, "Yoj"
wrote: "Steve Touchstone" wrote in message .. . As far as I know, in the Army you still get the same overseas pay for being stationed in Alaska as you do stationed in Korea. IIRC, we used to get a whopping $9 when I was in Fairbanks in the late 70's - almost enough to cover the cost for one person to eat at the local Dairy Queen. My first trip off post I stopped in the Dairy Queen and couldn't pay for a shake, cheeseburger and fries with the $10 I had on me - had to settle for Dr Pepper instead of the shake. About half way through my time there McDonalds opened a resturant there (price for a Big Mac 5 cents more than in the lower 48). For awhile, it was the busiest McDonalds in the world, with lines out the door whenever you went there. I can imagine! Everything is a lot higher up there. My mother's town doesn't have a McDonald's, but they do have a Subway. I don't know for how long, though. A lot of businesses are going belly-up. :-( Well, I was there during the boom while they were building the pipeline. I was actually looking for a payphone on that first trip downtown, so I could call home and tell them I had arrived safely. Later I learned that the boom had overwhelmed the phone system, so they had removed all the handsets from the pay phones. The only pay phone I found in the 18 months I was there was in the bowling alley on post. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html
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#713
October 28th 04, 10:35 PM
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"Steve Touchstone" wrote in message
... On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:39:24 GMT, "Yoj" wrote: "Steve Touchstone" wrote in message .. . As far as I know, in the Army you still get the same overseas pay for being stationed in Alaska as you do stationed in Korea. IIRC, we used to get a whopping $9 when I was in Fairbanks in the late 70's - almost enough to cover the cost for one person to eat at the local Dairy Queen. My first trip off post I stopped in the Dairy Queen and couldn't pay for a shake, cheeseburger and fries with the $10 I had on me - had to settle for Dr Pepper instead of the shake. About half way through my time there McDonalds opened a resturant there (price for a Big Mac 5 cents more than in the lower 48). For awhile, it was the busiest McDonalds in the world, with lines out the door whenever you went there. I can imagine! Everything is a lot higher up there. My mother's town doesn't have a McDonald's, but they do have a Subway. I don't know for how long, though. A lot of businesses are going belly-up. :-( Well, I was there during the boom while they were building the pipeline. I was actually looking for a payphone on that first trip downtown, so I could call home and tell them I had arrived safely. Later I learned that the boom had overwhelmed the phone system, so they had removed all the handsets from the pay phones. The only pay phone I found in the 18 months I was there was in the bowling alley on post. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) That must have been very inconvenient! The pipeline is actually the reason businesses are shutting down in Valdez, where my mother lives. Alyeska is shutting down their operations at the end of the pipeline. They're laying off people by the droves, and people are leaving town every day. And the developers are still building new houses! Joy
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#714
October 28th 04, 10:35 PM
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"Steve Touchstone" wrote in message
... On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:39:24 GMT, "Yoj" wrote: "Steve Touchstone" wrote in message .. . As far as I know, in the Army you still get the same overseas pay for being stationed in Alaska as you do stationed in Korea. IIRC, we used to get a whopping $9 when I was in Fairbanks in the late 70's - almost enough to cover the cost for one person to eat at the local Dairy Queen. My first trip off post I stopped in the Dairy Queen and couldn't pay for a shake, cheeseburger and fries with the $10 I had on me - had to settle for Dr Pepper instead of the shake. About half way through my time there McDonalds opened a resturant there (price for a Big Mac 5 cents more than in the lower 48). For awhile, it was the busiest McDonalds in the world, with lines out the door whenever you went there. I can imagine! Everything is a lot higher up there. My mother's town doesn't have a McDonald's, but they do have a Subway. I don't know for how long, though. A lot of businesses are going belly-up. :-( Well, I was there during the boom while they were building the pipeline. I was actually looking for a payphone on that first trip downtown, so I could call home and tell them I had arrived safely. Later I learned that the boom had overwhelmed the phone system, so they had removed all the handsets from the pay phones. The only pay phone I found in the 18 months I was there was in the bowling alley on post. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) That must have been very inconvenient! The pipeline is actually the reason businesses are shutting down in Valdez, where my mother lives. Alyeska is shutting down their operations at the end of the pipeline. They're laying off people by the droves, and people are leaving town every day. And the developers are still building new houses! Joy
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#715
October 28th 04, 10:35 PM
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"Steve Touchstone" wrote in message
... On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:39:24 GMT, "Yoj" wrote: "Steve Touchstone" wrote in message .. . As far as I know, in the Army you still get the same overseas pay for being stationed in Alaska as you do stationed in Korea. IIRC, we used to get a whopping $9 when I was in Fairbanks in the late 70's - almost enough to cover the cost for one person to eat at the local Dairy Queen. My first trip off post I stopped in the Dairy Queen and couldn't pay for a shake, cheeseburger and fries with the $10 I had on me - had to settle for Dr Pepper instead of the shake. About half way through my time there McDonalds opened a resturant there (price for a Big Mac 5 cents more than in the lower 48). For awhile, it was the busiest McDonalds in the world, with lines out the door whenever you went there. I can imagine! Everything is a lot higher up there. My mother's town doesn't have a McDonald's, but they do have a Subway. I don't know for how long, though. A lot of businesses are going belly-up. :-( Well, I was there during the boom while they were building the pipeline. I was actually looking for a payphone on that first trip downtown, so I could call home and tell them I had arrived safely. Later I learned that the boom had overwhelmed the phone system, so they had removed all the handsets from the pay phones. The only pay phone I found in the 18 months I was there was in the bowling alley on post. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) That must have been very inconvenient! The pipeline is actually the reason businesses are shutting down in Valdez, where my mother lives. Alyeska is shutting down their operations at the end of the pipeline. They're laying off people by the droves, and people are leaving town every day. And the developers are still building new houses! Joy
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#716
October 31st 04, 01:55 AM
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Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:59:27 -0400, Singh wrote: I saw that in one of the "Uncle John's Bathroom Readers," a series of indispensible compendia of completely useless information to, um, make the going smoother. It sounds like some George Carlin thing anyway; my mother lived many years in the South, and she too knew to ask for Pepsi if that was what she wanted! Blessed be, Baha LOL wrote: Singh wrote in message ... I understand that in the South, "Coke" is used for any type of carbonated drink, including but not limited to Caca-Cola. Blessed be, Baha I've heard comedians say this, but in 37 years in Georgia, I've never heard anyone actually do this. When we say "Coke" that's what we want. If we want something else, we'll say "Pepsi" or "Dr. Pepper" or whatever. I have lived in the South all of my life (47 years), in Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and haven't encountered the use of "Coke" as a generic term for all soft drinks, except for books claiming that such was the common practice. If it ever was true, it was probably in a limited geographical area and/or for a limited period of time. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBQYRFWzMYPge5L34aEQIxEwCgtHfPANSEjH2jzYBzjYi9db Nyo8gAoKRr gLZRv7HTvxGg999ggKbl1ZF7 =h59M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria
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#717
October 31st 04, 01:55 AM
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:59:27 -0400, Singh wrote: I saw that in one of the "Uncle John's Bathroom Readers," a series of indispensible compendia of completely useless information to, um, make the going smoother. It sounds like some George Carlin thing anyway; my mother lived many years in the South, and she too knew to ask for Pepsi if that was what she wanted! Blessed be, Baha LOL wrote: Singh wrote in message ... I understand that in the South, "Coke" is used for any type of carbonated drink, including but not limited to Caca-Cola. Blessed be, Baha I've heard comedians say this, but in 37 years in Georgia, I've never heard anyone actually do this. When we say "Coke" that's what we want. If we want something else, we'll say "Pepsi" or "Dr. Pepper" or whatever. I have lived in the South all of my life (47 years), in Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and haven't encountered the use of "Coke" as a generic term for all soft drinks, except for books claiming that such was the common practice. If it ever was true, it was probably in a limited geographical area and/or for a limited period of time. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBQYRFWzMYPge5L34aEQIxEwCgtHfPANSEjH2jzYBzjYi9db Nyo8gAoKRr gLZRv7HTvxGg999ggKbl1ZF7 =h59M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria
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#718
October 31st 04, 01:55 AM
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:59:27 -0400, Singh wrote: I saw that in one of the "Uncle John's Bathroom Readers," a series of indispensible compendia of completely useless information to, um, make the going smoother. It sounds like some George Carlin thing anyway; my mother lived many years in the South, and she too knew to ask for Pepsi if that was what she wanted! Blessed be, Baha LOL wrote: Singh wrote in message ... I understand that in the South, "Coke" is used for any type of carbonated drink, including but not limited to Caca-Cola. Blessed be, Baha I've heard comedians say this, but in 37 years in Georgia, I've never heard anyone actually do this. When we say "Coke" that's what we want. If we want something else, we'll say "Pepsi" or "Dr. Pepper" or whatever. I have lived in the South all of my life (47 years), in Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and haven't encountered the use of "Coke" as a generic term for all soft drinks, except for books claiming that such was the common practice. If it ever was true, it was probably in a limited geographical area and/or for a limited period of time. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBQYRFWzMYPge5L34aEQIxEwCgtHfPANSEjH2jzYBzjYi9db Nyo8gAoKRr gLZRv7HTvxGg999ggKbl1ZF7 =h59M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria
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#720
October 31st 04, 03:34 AM
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in article , John F. Eldredge at
wrote on 10/30/04 8:55 PM: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:59:27 -0400, Singh wrote: I saw that in one of the "Uncle John's Bathroom Readers," a series of indispensible compendia of completely useless information to, um, make the going smoother. It sounds like some George Carlin thing anyway; my mother lived many years in the South, and she too knew to ask for Pepsi if that was what she wanted! Blessed be, Baha LOL wrote: Singh wrote in message ... I understand that in the South, "Coke" is used for any type of carbonated drink, including but not limited to Caca-Cola. Blessed be, Baha I've heard comedians say this, but in 37 years in Georgia, I've never heard anyone actually do this. When we say "Coke" that's what we want. If we want something else, we'll say "Pepsi" or "Dr. Pepper" or whatever. I have lived in the South all of my life (47 years), in Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and haven't encountered the use of "Coke" as a generic term for all soft drinks, except for books claiming that such was the common practice. If it ever was true, it was probably in a limited geographical area and/or for a limited period of time. I worked with a gal from Texas and it was a "Pepsi Coke" or Orange Coke, or the like. Dr. Pepper was not paired with coke, but many were. Maybe it is a small region that use it.
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