Bill Swisher wrote to Dave Drum <=-

I never did "get" that. Nor the refusal to send to APO/FPO addresses.

I used to sort of forgive them. I'm pretty sure it was an insurance thing. Fed/UP vs. USPS. Now days USPS is just as insured and almost
if not as fast. Two stories about that:

Certainly Amazon uses the snot out of USPS delivery

1. Long, long ago I ordered some tax software for Connie. The ad
said Fed/UP ground, total price was $9.99. I called their 800 number
and asked how much the shipping would be since there was no such thing
as "ground" to Alaska at the time, everything either came overnight
air or 2 week barge. They insisted they'd ship ground, so I ordered
it. It arrived with a $3.00 ground sticker on it, that'd been x'ed
out and a new price of $12 penned in. So they got $10 for the product
and paid $12 for shipping.

Now days most of the tax software I see is either downloadable or online.

Unless it's on a display rack at the Staples/Office Max/etc. Or Best Buy.

2. I bought a new kingpin for the 5th wheel. This was a replacement
for the original, which generated a lot of jerking (driving down the
road listening to the keys bouncing off of the dash, gotta love
driving I-5 from San Diego to he Oregon border, several times). The
ad said specifically free shipping anywhere in the US, I read it about
4 times before I started the order process. At the last possible
instant the $350 price jumped to $690 when they tacked on the shipping
to Alaska. I cancelled the order and fired off a nasty gram telling
them why I'd done so. I also informed them that their ad was very misleading, practically illegal actually, since it didn't say
"Continental US" and it should be fixed. I got a nice reply asking
for my address, where I wanted it shipped, and they would honor the
price stated in the ad. Good company.

Good company. Did they fix their advertising?

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Title: Old Portland Post Office Cafe Spinach Salad
Categories: Salads, Greens, Pork, Mushrooms, Vegetables
Yield: 3 Servings

2 bn Spinach
3 lg Hard-cooked eggs
1/4 lb Fresh mushrooms; thin sliced
3 sl Bacon
1/3 c Sweet onion; fine chopped

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1 ts Fine herbs
1/2 ts Granulated garlic
1/2 ts Salt
1/2 ts Black pepper
3/4 ts Paprika
2 tb Molasses
2 ds Lea & Perrins
1 c Salad oil
1/2 c Red wine vinegar

Directions for salad: Wash, dry, and tear spinach
into a large salad bowl.

Peel and slice hard-cooked eggs.

Fry bacon until crisp. Drain, and break into bits.

Top spinach leaves with eggs and mushroom slices,
crumbled bacon and onion.

Serve with Cafe house dressing.

Directions for Cafe house dressing:

Mix all dry ingredients.

Add molasses and Lea & Perrins. Mix.

Add oil and wine vinegar; mix well.

Recipe by: Old Portland Post Office Cafe

Source: Dining In Portland, A Collection of Gourmet
Recipes for Complete Meals from Portland's Finest
Restaurants by Muriel Bevilacqua Logan and Emily
Crumpacker, 1979.

Typos by Brenda Adams

From: http://www.bigoven.com

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Dave Drum wrote to Bill Swisher <=-

Now days most of the tax software I see is either downloadable or
online.

Pre internet. Funny thing that...I worked for an outfit, C4I group
out on the local AFB. Since I was a sysadmin kinda guy I had the
password to login to the dialup terminal server we had on the
unclassified side, my stuff was all on the classified side. Connie
about had a heart attack when I fired off a Mosaic browser and
said "Now this place is in Switzerland", all she could think of
was the longdistance phone bill.

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Bill Swisher wrote to Dave Drum <=-

Now days most of the tax software I see is either downloadable or
online.

Pre internet. Funny thing that...I worked for an outfit, C4I group
out on the local AFB. Since I was a sysadmin kinda guy I had the
password to login to the dialup terminal server we had on the
unclassified side, my stuff was all on the classified side. Connie
about had a heart attack when I fired off a Mosaic browser and
said "Now this place is in Switzerland", all she could think of
was the longdistance phone bill.

Back in the day we had a multi-user/line BBS on a Burroughs B-20 using
home brewed software - which could serve as a gateway to the very early
inter web. It was named "Minnie" in honour of being on the B-20 mini
frame computer.

Many of the users were high school age with Commodore or TRS-80
computers .... just discovering news groups like alt.sex.pictures
and complaining that the 80 column porn didn't display right on their
40 column screens. Bv)=

We had parties called "Minnie Fests" every few months where the users
would meet & greet in an informal setting.

And we still meet 2nd Wednesday of each month for pizza and beverages -
even though Minnie is but a distant memory and the SysOp is retired from
his IT position at State Farm Insurance.

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Title: Minnie Pearl's County Breakfast
Categories: Pork, Potatoes, Vegetables, Cheese
Yield: 6 Servings

6 sl Bacon
4 c Cubed, cooked potatoes
1/2 c Chopped green pepper
2 tb Chopped onion
6 lg Eggs *
1 c Grated sharp Cheddar cheese

Cook bacon in skillet until crisp. Remove from skillet and
crumble. Add potatoes, green pepper and onion to the dripping.
Cook until lightly browned. Season to taste.

Break eggs over potato mixture. Cover and cook until eggs
are done. Sprinkle with cheese and crisp bacon. Cover and
heat until cheese melts.

Makes 6 servings.

* Minnie Pearl didn't specify whether the eggs should be
broken and scrambled. For your best shot at evenly cooked
eggs, Mr Breakfast recommends beating the eggs with 3 or 4
tablespoons of milk before adding them to the potatoes and
creating a delicious scramble.

Mr Breakfast would like to thank Mr Breakfast for this recipe.

Submitted 02/03/2009.

From: http://www.mrbreakfast.com

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Hello Dave,

02 Jun 22 06:36, you wrote to Bill Swisher:

And we still meet 2nd Wednesday of each month for pizza and beverages
- even though Minnie is but a distant memory and the SysOp is retired
from his IT position at State Farm Insurance.

I really miss user gatherings. Those were one of the best parts of the BBS scene.

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Title: Gather Round Pound Cake
Categories: Cakes, Bundt
Yield: 1 Servings

1 pk Butterscotch morsels (6 oz.)
2 tb Instant coffee
1/4 c Water
1 c Butter
3 c Flour
1/2 ts Soda
1/4 ts Salt
3/4 c Buttermilk
4 Eggs

Melt together in double boiler butterscotch morsels, coffee, and
water. Cream together butter and sugar and add to butterscotch
mixture. Combine flour, soda, salt and add to creamed mixture
alternately with buttermilk. Add eggs one at a time. Beat at medium
speed. Bake in greased 12-cup, 10- inch Bundt pan at 350 degrees for
55-60 minutes. Cool 10 minutes before removing. Source: Unusual Old
World and American Recipes from Nordic Ware. Formatted by Karen Adler
FNGP13B.

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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