On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
>
> 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
I think their father had them clean up what was left and collected the
offered amount from the owner when he showed up later to see if it had
been taken care of. :) Easiest howevermany dollars he'd ever made,
probably.
Julia
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