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Today's Questions: ~on the move~> Thursday, 02 October 2014 Today's Questions hopped on the bus, Gus. ---> 0Oo.[=.==.=[].]
Today's Moving Questions: What's the furthest you've ridden a bus - where to where?
I've not ridden on many buses but my longest trip would probably be between Vina del Mar, Chile to Santiago (120 miles or so.)
How did you acquire your first car or other transport?
I pumped gas at a full-service Texaco station while in high school for $75/week. The car was a 1953 Chevy for $90.
If you're moving along a street parallel to railroad tracks, do you ever feel like you're racing a train?
(This is nothing to do with crossing tracks while a train is on them! Just driving alongside.)
I have do this just about every time I drive to Albuquerque on US 60/84 West. I never feel like I'm in a race though. The trains are usually moving too fast.
What do you do while sitting in a car and waiting to cross busy railroad tracks?
At the TX/NM border at Farwell/Texaco, I always think, "When are they ever going to build an under/overpass here?"
What funny or weird things have you seen or heard of people doing while waiting there or at stop lights?
How about while driving? Putting on makeup, picking noses, fighting with the kids in the backseat, changing drivers (not on the road though). . .
Bonus Hossie Question: http://s15.rimg.info/8a7a1f12cdd0918...20f9645491.gif Would you rather ride:
-a stagecoach in an old west movie?
-a horse drawn sleigh through snow on a farm?
-a carriage through a rainy park in a big city?
-horseback in a parade?
-on the Budweiser beer wagon pulled by Clydesdales?
-or (please describe) other hossie powered transport?
I'd have to be inside of, or on, some sort of a horse-drawn conveyance. I don't fit well on horse backs. Maybe a stagecoach. I've never been inside one while it was being pulled.
[quote=bjh;36716366]Today's Questions hopped on the bus, Gus. ---> 0Oo.[=.==.=[].]
Today's Moving Questions: What's the furthest you've ridden a bus - where to where?
From Queensland to Surfer's paradise in Australia.
How did you acquire your first car or other transport?
I worked my but off cleaning schools.
If you're moving along a street parallel to railroad tracks, do you ever feel like you're racing a train? Sometimes I am racing a train to cross before it stops me. We live close to the tracks and I have to cross them every day when I go to work.
(This is nothing to do with crossing tracks while a train is on them! Just driving alongside.)
What do you do while sitting in a car and waiting to cross busy railroad tracks?
Listen to music.
What funny or weird things have you seen or heard of people doing while waiting there or at stop lights?
Picking their nose
How about while driving?
Damn cell phones.
Bonus Hossie Question: Would you rather ride:
-a stagecoach in an old west movie?
-a horse drawn sleigh through snow on a farm?<-------This would be fun.
-a carriage through a rainy park in a big city?
-horseback in a parade?<----------This. I did this when I was a teenager.
-on the Budweiser beer wagon pulled by Clydesdales?
-or (please describe) other hossie powered transport?
A hay ride through some spooky fields in October. It was fun
Foodie and Bevvie Questions: If you drink beer or rootbeer, what kinds?
Beer Root beer is a once in a blue moon thing.
What prepackaged or box dinners have you tried?
(ex. Hamburger Helper, but there are others)
Do you eat or make salad sandwiches - like ham, chicken, or egg?
Sometimes. I love a good samich.
What other salad or made-from-a-mix sammiches can you think of?
Today in History: 1879 Birth of poet Wallace Stevens in Reading PA
1889 Last great silver boom of the American Old West in Colorado
1925 Scottish inventor John Logie Baird performed the first test of a working television system
1950 Cartoon strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz first published
1959 TV series "The Twilight Zone" premiered on CBS
1996 US Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments expanded FOIA of 1966. Finland had the first FOIA type laws in 1951.
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Today's Quote:
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
~ Oprah Winfrey
Today’s Definition: busman's holiday
a holiday or vacation in which someone performs the same work they usually do
Today Is: Custodial Workers Day
Fried Scallops Day
Guardian Angels Day
This Week Includes: Great American Beer Festival
Universal Children's Week
Walk Your Dog Week I did that last night.
Today's Nostalgia Picture: Greyhound bus being loaded with baggage in Pittsburgh, PA in 1943.
US government photo, from Office of War Information, in public domain.
Here's hoping your Thursday doesn't come with a lot of baggage.
Thanks bjh. I had such a nice day at work yesterday. It was an 8 hour shift with the last 4 hours as resource. Sweet.
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Today's Moving Questions:
What's the furthest you've ridden a bus - where to where? Anaheim, CA to San Francisco round trip prior to I-5 being built.
How did you acquire your first car or other transport? Step Dad won it in a raffle for $3.00 and I had to pay him back the $3.00.
If you're moving along a street parallel to railroad tracks, do you ever feel like you're racing a train?
(This is nothing to do with crossing tracks while a train is on them! Just driving alongside.) No, but I have raced planes taking off at the McCarren airport in Las Vegas many, many years ago.
What do you do while sitting in a car and waiting to cross busy railroad tracks? Listen to the radio, maybe look for a alternate route.
What funny or weird things have you seen or heard of people doing while waiting there or at stop lights? Nose picking, eating, shaving, reading, singing.
How about while driving? Pretty much the same as above.
Bonus Hossie Question:
Would you rather ride: -a stagecoach in an old west movie?- can I ride shotgun?
-a horse drawn sleigh through snow on a farm?
-a carriage through a rainy park in a big city?
-horseback in a parade? -on the Budweiser beer wagon pulled by Clydesdales?- and this one too.
-or (please describe) other hossie powered transport?
Foodie and Bevvie Questions:
If you drink beer or rootbeer, what kinds? Dads and A and W.
Pacifico, Superior and Negro Modelo.
What prepackaged or box dinners have you tried?
(ex. Hamburger Helper, but there are others) Mac and cheese, tuna helper, various hamburger varieties and black beans and rice.
Do you eat or make salad sandwiches - like ham, chicken, or egg? Chicken, egg and tuna.
What other salad or made-from-a-mix sammiches can you think of? Shredded beef.
What's the furthest you've ridden a bus - where to where? On a 5th grade field trip, from Glen Burnie to Philadelphia.
How did you acquire your first car or other transport? Still drive my first car, got it used at a local used car dealer. It's a 1996 model year, but only had 36K miles on it. Whoever previously owned it must not have driven it more than 3,000 miles a year!
If you're moving along a street parallel to railroad tracks, do you ever feel like you're racing a train?
(This is nothing to do with crossing tracks while a train is on them! Just driving alongside.) I've felt that way before, when we go on vacation to Williamsburg, VA. A track parallels the main route through the area, US 60. A lot of coal trains roll by when we're there. We usually see at least 4 a day.
What do you do while sitting in a car and waiting to cross busy railroad tracks? Just sit there and watch the train roll by. In the above situation, if you had to cross, you would be waiting about 4 minutes.
What funny or weird things have you seen or heard of people doing while waiting there or at stop lights? I've seen plenty of people jammin' out, waving their hand around like they were dancing.
How about while driving? This is a story I'll never forget (although I technically didn't see it)
My world geography professor said that as he was pulling into the parking lot one morning, he saw a woman talking on two cell phones, one in each hand. She was controlling the steering wheel with her elbows!
Bonus Hossie Question:
Would you rather ride: -a stagecoach in an old west movie?
-a horse drawn sleigh through snow on a farm?
-a carriage through a rainy park in a big city?
-horseback in a parade?
-on the Budweiser beer wagon pulled by Clydesdales?
-or (please describe) other hossie powered transport?
Foodie and Bevvie Questions:
If you drink beer or rootbeer, what kinds? Don't drink either.
What prepackaged or box dinners have you tried?
(ex. Hamburger Helper, but there are others) Never had any.
Do you eat or make salad sandwiches - like ham, chicken, or egg? Nope
What other salad or made-from-a-mix sammiches can you think of? Can't think of any
Today's Moving Questions: What's the furthest you've ridden a bus - where to where?
Just down the Vegas strip. It took forever. An Elvis impersonator got on at one point. He was out of costume, but he had the hair and sideburns.
What do you do while sitting in a car and waiting to cross busy railroad tracks?
Make audible sighs and complain.
What funny or weird things have you seen or heard of people doing while waiting there or at stop lights?
There was a woman sitting at a bus stop. She stood up, walked to the middle of the sidewalk, squatted and peed. She was wearing a skirt.
Bonus Hossie Question: Would you rather ride: -a stagecoach in an old west movie? -a horse drawn sleigh through snow on a farm? -a carriage through a rainy park in a big city? <- I guess that. -horseback in a parade? -on the Budweiser beer wagon pulled by Clydesdales? -or (please describe) other hossie powered transport?
Foodie and Bevvie Questions: If you drink beer or rootbeer, what kinds?
Every once in a while a root beer. Whatever kind.
What prepackaged or box dinners have you tried? (ex. Hamburger Helper, but there are others)
I don't know, it was a long time ago.
Do you eat or make salad sandwiches - like ham, chicken, or egg?
I don't like eggs or ham, but I sometimes make a roasted chicken salad recipe that I got from my aunt. It has purple grapes, pecans and dill. It's really good.
Today's Moving Questions: What's the furthest you've ridden a bus - where to where? Probably from Abilene, Texas to Austin, Texas.
How did you acquire your first car or other transport? My father gave me the old family car.
If you're moving along a street parallel to railroad tracks, do you ever feel like you're racing a train? (This is nothing to do with crossing tracks while a train is on them! Just driving alongside.)
Only if the train is on the tracks at the time.
What do you do while sitting in a car and waiting to cross busy railroad tracks? Check the cell phone for messages.
What funny or weird things have you seen or heard of people doing while waiting there or at stop lights? People picking their nose, shaving, singing.
How about while driving? Same as above most of the time, however, there was one time that was a bit unusual. A man who was driving alone on the highway was eating what looked like a complete meal while driving (not just a sandwich or hamburger). He had a whole line of food items on his dashboard that he was munching on, forks or spoons in each dish, dipping stuff into sauces, etc. It was just nuts...lol.
Bonus Hossie Question: Would you rather ride: -a stagecoach in an old west movie? -a horse drawn sleigh through snow on a farm? -a carriage through a rainy park in a big city? -horseback in a parade? -on the Budweiser beer wagon pulled by Clydesdales? -or (please describe) other hossie powered transport?
Foodie and Bevvie Questions: If you drink beer or rootbeer, what kinds? A&W root beer most of the time.
What prepackaged or box dinners have you tried? Hamburger Helper, pre-packaged meals from the Deli. (ex. Hamburger Helper, but there are others)
Do you eat or make salad sandwiches - like ham, chicken, or egg? Sometimes.
What other salad or made-from-a-mix sammiches can you think of?
Today's Moving Questions: What's the furthest you've ridden a bus - where to where? That would be a little less than 50 miles, from my elementary school in Gary, IN to Brookfield Zoo, just west of Chicago. Coincidentally, I'm going with a group - via bus - to Brookfield Zoo this Saturday!
How did you acquire your first car or other transport? I paid $100 cash for my first car, in 1976. It was a 1962 Olds 98. I drove it for a couple of years and then sold it for $200.
If you're moving along a street parallel to railroad tracks, do you ever feel like you're racing a train? (This is nothing to do with crossing tracks while a train is on them! Just driving alongside.) Yes, most days when I'm driving to and from work. Several RR tracks run parallel to US 12, which I take to work, and it often feels as though we're racing. I often clock their speed, just out of curiosity.
What do you do while sitting in a car and waiting to cross busy railroad tracks? I count the cars to pass the time. If the train is moving slowly (which they often are on the tracks which are nearest my house), I'll grab my camera and take pictures of the graffiti on the train cars and then post the photos in the C-D Photography forum.
What funny or weird things have you seen or heard of people doing while waiting there or at stop lights? Just nose-picking. Although, I suspect some people do stuff like shaving or putting on nail polish (hopefully, not the same person! ).
How about while driving? See above.
Bonus Hossie Question: Would you rather ride: -a stagecoach in an old west movie? -a horse drawn sleigh through snow on a farm? << Definitely this one. I love snow and cold and the countryside, so this would be right up my alley. -a carriage through a rainy park in a big city? -horseback in a parade? -on the Budweiser beer wagon pulled by Clydesdales? -or (please describe) other hossie powered transport? - a helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon and also one over portions of Hawai'i.
Foodie and Bevvie Questions: If you drink beer or rootbeer, what kinds? Didn't we just have a question about root beer last week in a QOTD? My favorite root beer brands are Stewart's, A&W and Dog N Suds.
What prepackaged or box dinners have you tried? (ex. Hamburger Helper, but there are others) I stopped buying prepackaged dinner mixes more than 10 years ago. But when I was still buying them, my favorites were Rice-A-Roni (chicken flavor), the original Kraft Dinner mac & cheese, and Hamburger Helper stroganoff. I'd just about kill to have a big plate of chicken-flavored Rice-A-Roni for supper tonight!
Do you eat or make salad sandwiches - like ham, chicken, or egg? I don't often remember to make salads for sammies, but I occasionally make chicken salad or egg salad. Haven't made ham salad in eons. I especially love chicken salad on a croissant. Yum!
What other salad or made-from-a-mix sammiches can you think of? I can't think of any at the moment.
Today's Quote: "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." ~ Oprah Winfrey Good one.
Today’s Definition: busman's holiday a holiday or vacation in which someone performs the same work they usually do That would be every vacation my mom ever had. When I was growing up, I was oblivious to the fact that Mom still had to cook and clean every day when we were on vacation. Our family would go in with another family or two and rent a cottage on a lake somewhere. We were all crammed into one cottage, and while dads and kids were out fishing, swimming and playing, the moms were cooking our meals and cleaning up after us. It wasn't until I was grown that I realized that wasn't much a vacation for my mom. I'm sure she enjoyed the change of scenery, but she deserved a lot more than she got when we went on vacations. Sadly, Mom died when I was still in high school and she never had the opportunity to take a nice vacation with dad, sans kids.
Today Is: Custodial Workers Day Hooray for building custodians! Fried Scallops Day Yum! I love scallops. Lots of melted butter, please. Guardian Angels Day I know I have one.
This Week Includes: Great American Beer Festival I celebrated a bit early, by attending the Valparaiso (IN) BrewFest last Saturday. Universal Children's Week Hooray for kiddies! Walk Your Dog Week If I had a dog, I'd walk him.
Happy, happy Thursday, everybody.
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Today's Moving Questions: What's the furthest you've ridden a bus - where to where? When I was a teenager from San Antonio to Houston.
How did you acquire your first car or other transport?
My brother helped me buy the first one. Don't think I don't appreciate that and I did repay him though it took me a long time.
If you're moving along a street parallel to railroad tracks, do you ever feel like you're racing a train? I can imagine getting that sense. (This is nothing to do with crossing tracks while a train is on them! Just driving alongside.) Yes, sir!
What do you do while sitting in a car and waiting to cross busy railroad tracks?
Count the cars or watch them until it looks like we're moving and the train is still.
What funny or weird things have you seen or heard of people doing while waiting there or at stop lights?
I once saw a couple get in a fist fight in their car while waiting at a red light. lol
How about while driving? Trying to read a map with it in the way of the driver's view.
Bonus Hossie Question: Would you rather ride: -a stagecoach in an old west movie? -a horse drawn sleigh through snow on a farm? Good choices. I like this one best. -a carriage through a rainy park in a big city? -horseback in a parade? -on the Budweiser beer wagon pulled by Clydesdales? -or (please describe) other hossie powered transport?
Foodie and Bevvie Questions: If you drink beer or rootbeer, what kinds? I don't care for alcoholic beers. Occasionally, any root beer will do.
What prepackaged or box dinners have you tried? Chef Boyardee pizza kits, Velveeta shells, frozen dinners. (ex. Hamburger Helper, but there are others)
Do you eat or make salad sandwiches - like ham, chicken, or egg? Not my favorites, but an occasional egg salad is okay.
What other salad or made-from-a-mix sammiches can you think of? I like a good pimiento and cheese on toast.
Today's Questions hopped on the bus, Gus.
Slip out the back Jack
What prepackaged or box dinners have you tried? (ex. Hamburger Helper, but there are others) None. I don't think we have hamburger helper here. How much help does a hamburger need?
How much help does a hamburger need?
You just made me really laugh! Not for a hamburger sandwich, but for a package of hamburger meat. Or maybe you were kidding.
Today's Moving Questions: What's the furthest you've ridden a bus - where to where? DFW to NW Arkansas and back.
How did you acquire your first car or other transport? Bought it after leaving the Navy and had a few bucks set aside. Very few.
If you're moving along a street parallel to railroad tracks, do you ever feel like you're racing a train? Yes, or I wouldn't have asked the question.
What do you do while sitting in a car and waiting to cross busy railroad tracks? I try to read the information on the sides of the cars. As some of you said, I also can't help counting them sometimes. Longest ones I've seen had 80 or more cars. Maybe the further west you go in this country the longer the trains.
What funny or weird things have you seen or heard of people doing while waiting there or at stop lights? Lots of cleaned noses out there. Great answers.
How about while driving?
I knew someone who said every day on his way to work he observed the same woman applying make up while looking in her rearview mirror.
Bonus Hossie Question: Would you rather ride:
-a stagecoach in an old west movie?
-a horse drawn sleigh through snow on a farm?
-a carriage through a rainy park in a big city?
-horseback in a parade?
-on the Budweiser beer wagon pulled by Clydesdales?
-or (please describe) other hossie powered transport?
Budweiser hossies sure are popular. I got to see them up close once, getting hitched up for an event. But no ride.
Here's a nifty site about a rescue farm for draft horses, no pun intended. It got me to thinking how many of our ancestors relied so much on horses and had a strong symbiotic connection with them. Like dogs and cats humans uesd to have horses as an integral part of life. Anyway it's interesting and they do good work and respect all that horses have done for humans.
Foodie and Bevvie Questions: If you drink beer or rootbeer, what kinds? Mug rootbeer, because there's no caffeine.
What prepackaged or box dinners have you tried? Lots of good answers. Digiornos does a decent a pre-cooked pasta you heat and add sauce. Now I want that or some Velveeta shells.
Do you eat or make salad sandwiches - like ham, chicken, or egg? I don't usually like these types of salads, if there's mayo involved.
What other salad or made-from-a-mix sammiches can you think of? Some good ones listed.
Thanks everyone.
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Root beer is a once in a blue moon thing.
It got me to thinking how many of our ancestors relied so much on horses and had a strong symbiotic connection with them. Like dogs and cats humans uesd to have horses as an integral part of life. Anyway it's interesting and they do good work and respect all that horses have done for humans.
