On Nov 1, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: > On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Dave Land wrote: > >> On Oct 31, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: >> >>> As the trick-or-treater came by tonight, I found myself tonight >>> remembering >>> going to the Isaly's house on Halloween and getting Klondike bars >>> with >>> pumpkin pie flavored centers... Mmmm. The Isaly's company invented >>> the >>> Klondike bar... and at Christmas, we'd go caroling and they'd give >>> us >>> Klondikes with mint, tree-shaped centers. >> >> Nobody in my neighborhood invented nothin'. >> >> Joes the Plumbers, mostly Maru > > The only invention in either of the neighborhoods I grew up in that > I was > aware of was the man down the street who had invented the machine that > stamped "Necco" onto Necco wafers. > > (He'd also blown up an abandoned brick structure with his brothers. > About > a month later, the absentee owner of the land on which said brick > structure had stood wrote their father asking him to take it down, and > offering payment for him to do so.) > > Julia
Did their father respond with an invoice for services rendered? :D _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
