The Tall Tales Lost and Found Dept. El Peludo Manager

[Delmonico]

Don't know if I'd trust a barber that calls himself The Hairy Man.

[Forty Rod]

Gotta be careful, Del.  I was in Nebraska once and I seen your hill.  It was behind a gas station.

[Delmonico]

A guy I know wrote a book on small town life in Newbrassky, it's called "It's Not the end of the World, But You Can See it From Here."

One night I was on the hill at our farm, seen a grass fire off to the South-West, looked maybe 4-5 miles away, went to see it, beutiful at night they are, found it 40 miles away.

[Camille Eonich]

*snort*

[El Peludo]

You got hills in Newbrasskey??!!  I ain't never been there; Oklahoma is the closest I ever got to there, but them things they called hills in OK was just rises in my neck of the woods. 

A kid I knew when I was in the Navy was from Minnesodas, and had never been further away from home than Duluth or M-SP, until he joined the Navy.  He checked in at the barracks in San Diego after dark one night, fresh from boot at Great Lakes and asked me where the ocean was, so I took him down to the EM Club on the beach, and walked him over the dunes to the beach.  He sat there for several hours, just looking at it; never seen such a thing before.  I squired him all over California and Arizona, every chance we got to get out and see something.  Took him up through the Owens Valley on the east flank of the Sierras, and he sat on the window sill of the car, hanging on to the inside, and just stared at the mountains.  He said the highest land he'd ever seen was only a couple hundred feet in elevation.  Mount Whitney rises almost straight up out of the desert floor on the east side, so you're looking at a rise of some ten thousand feet, only a few miles from the highway.  If you are inside of a car, you can't see the top of the mountain, because of the roof.  Also took him to Death Valley on that trip, to Badwater, the lowest point in the lower 48.  He was just amazed at everthing he saw, and I found it quite gratifying to be able to show him the sights.

[litl rooster]

Arcey >>Again I have to agree..........don't say it


"EL" if you run across my sanity.please send back..It's the one without any electronic gizmo's attached

[Delmonico]

Most of Newbrassky is hilly, but they are not high, we don't need high ones to see over the Prairie grasses.

Most folks who've "been" to Newbrasky travel I-80 that runs in the Platte River Valley, Nebraska is a Otoe Indian word meaning "River that runs in the flat land."      There is a reason they built I-80, US 30 (Lincoln Highway) the US Railroad, the first tras-contental telly-graph and both the Ore-gun and Morman trails in that valley, it's easier.

[El Peludo]

YOUR SANITY, li'l Roo!?!?  He--, sanity of any sort seems to be in short supply in these parts.  Why, I lost mine yearns ago, and have got so used to bein' odd man out in most environs, that I sort of enjoy it, now.  Sometimes I act wierd, just to watch folks get antsy.   

[Delmonico]

Went out with my wife last night to try a place we ain't ate at before, made her call first to see if they had any real food, well at least they had burgers so we went.  Yep 100% Yuppie called Graniite City, all decorated up with granite, and that ugly grey stuff, not good red stuff like the
Glay-cher drug in from Wissy-consion 10,000 years ago.

Well half the help was guardin' the door say welcome, and such, figgered they was to keep out undesirables, but it didn't work, I was far bigger and meaner lookin' than any of them, so thy let me in, hat, red pokerdot bandanna, mule ear boots and all.

Well I got in there and the first thin' I see behind a fancy glass panel is that they is to cheap to buy bottled beer, but make home brew.  Well I didn't care cause I don't drink beer know more, but I knew if I did, there was no chance of gettin' a bottle of Falstaff.

Well they did have a bunch a that funny foo-foo yuppie food, mostly chichen in dishes that should a used good ole beef, but they did have hamburgers listed using Angus, don't know why they mentioned that cause good beef is good and bad is bad no mater what sort a cow critter it come off of.  "Sides that how could I know they wern't liein' to me once they peeled the hide off it. 

Well the burger wern't bad at all and was really a good one was $6'99 for itwith 1/2 pound of meat, and a big ol' plate a "Waffle Fries." Was a bit disapointed, ya'd a thought such a fancy Yuppie eatin' house would a had stone ground mustard 'stead a the cheap yaller "Ballpark" stuff.

The fries were pretty goood also but I hope the get their 'tator chopper fixed cause it don't cut cut the slices to straight and they should get one a 'doos folks at the door doin' nuthin' a parin' knife and put them to work peelin' the 'tators.

Glad I didn't get the mashed ones like they guy one table over did, they didn't get them peeled to good either and they sure looked lumpy.  My wife says that's the latest thin', lumpy mashed 'tators with peelin' in them, but my granny would a whopped me with a skillet fer that and rightly so.

All in all, my wife liked her steak and I'll go back their again if she wants, but sadly like most eatin' places this day, they don't understand proper manners, no hat hooks and ya either got to wear yer beaver or ya got to set it on the seat next to ya.

There sure were some strange lookin' folks in there though.

[Trinity]

My question is:  Who doesn't make their burgers with Angus?  Heck, even the fast food places are bragging about using Angus beef.  When I first saw that I didn't say "Oooooh!", but instead I said "Oh".  I guess it's nothing special any more.


Ever since the Japanese got a hold of the "title" for best beef (Kobe beef) in the world things aren't lookin' good for us. 

[Delmonico]

The best hamburger I ever et was at some friends house when they used to run a dairy, it was Holstein.  Just and old over age cow that was down on production, they had the whole cow ground.  Sadly I can't remember her name, but was tolt that at the time I was eatin' some.  As I remember she was the one with two pink teats in front and two black ones in back.

[Silver Creek Slim]

What I wanna know is: Where do they ship all the herefords since everyone in the US is selling or serving Angus? 

Slim

[Delmonico]

A can of black paint works well.   We have a store chain out here that don't sell Angus, they sell Herford.

Skeeter Barnes just sells Newbrassky grown beef that is just plain good.

[Forty Rod]

Nebraska beef is great, but I gotta tell you folks a story.

1966 I was stationed at Fort Lee, VA going to a school there.  About six of us young officers lived together in a little trailer park off base with our wives.  One fella was from Randolph, NE and his daddy was some kinda big cattle mogul.

Well, now, he an' his wife an' another couple an' us Taylors took off for New Yawk City for four days over some holiday. 

Hotter'n the hubs of hell.

Jim's momma, knowin' we had a long holiday comin' up, had shipped a dozen fine Nebraska steaks to arrive the day we left...but she didn't tell anybody they were comin'.  She wrapped 'em all up nice in wax paper, and wrapped that up in butcher paper, and wrapped that up in some of the first plastic wrap I'd ever seen, an' shipped 'em off Railway Express in a sturdy cardboard box..

Not refrigerated and no dry ice packin', nothin'.

We got back an' Jim found a notice on his door that there was a package for him at the train depot.  Me an' him went to pick it up in his almost new  '65 GTO.

Express agent pointed to the end of the platform an' told us the box was down there...'bout 130 feet away.  I bailed out before we got halfway there, but Jim had to see what his momma had sent.  Got the box open an' puked all over it.

Express man said we had to get it off his platform.  NOW!!!  I didn't have any clue who this "we" was an' I called my wife to come an' get me, 'cause Jim was determined to take that mess home.

I finally talked him into draggin' it across the rail yard and shovin' it into a ravine.  We paid the agent for a rope and the use of a low baggage cart .  Jim got the box on the cart and tied the rope to the handle and we got 'er done.

Agent made Jim scrub his buggy down before he'd let him leave.  While that was goin' on I was talkin' to the guy.  He said that after the second day the rats stopped comin' by and the next day he saw a 'possum bypass it.

I drove Jim's car home because he decided he didn't want the smell, which was all over him, inside.  He rode on the right fender an' held on to the side mirror.  I drove really slow.

It was along time before I trusted anyone from Nebraska again.  Thought they was all mentally defective.

Don't know where any of those folks are any more, but I'll bet if any of 'em know Jim, they still razz the hell out of him because, bein' a good civic minded citizen, I TOLD EVERYBODY AT FORT LEE WHAT HAPPENED!!!  Everydamnbody!

[Trinity]

Nebraska beef is great, but I gotta tell you folks a story.

1966 I was stationed at Fort Lee, VA going to a school there.  About six of us young officers lived together in a little trailer park off base with our wives.  One fella was from Randolph, NE and his daddy was some kinda big cattle mogul.

Well, now, he an' his wife an' another couple an' us Taylors took off for New Yawk City for four days over some holiday. 

Hotter'n the hubs of hell.

Jim's momma, knowin' we had a long holiday comin' up, had shipped a dozen fine Nebraska steaks to arrive the day we left...but she didn't tell anybody they were comin'.  She wrapped 'em all up nice in wax paper, and wrapped that up in butcher paper, and wrapped that up in some of the first plastic wrap I'd ever seen, an' shipped 'em off Railway Express in a sturdy cardboard box..

Not refrigerated and no dry ice packin', nothin'.

We got back an' Jim found a notice on his door that there was a package for him at the train depot.  Me an' him went to pick it up in his almost new  '65 GTO.

Express agent pointed to the end of the platform an' told us the box was down there...'bout 130 feet away.  I bailed out before we got halfway there, but Jim had to see what his momma had sent.  Got the box open an' puked all over it.

Express man said we had to get it off his platform.  NOW!!!  I didn't have any clue who this "we" was an' I called my wife to come an' get me, 'cause Jim was determined to take that mess home.

I finally talked him into draggin' it across the rail yard and shovin' it into a ravine.  We paid the agent for a rope and the use of a low baggage cart .  Jim got the box on the cart and tied the rope to the handle and we got 'er done.

Agent made Jim scrub his buggy down before he'd let him leave.  While that was goin' on I was talkin' to the guy.  He said that after the second day the rats stopped comin' by and the next day he saw a 'possum bypass it.

I drove Jim's car home because he decided he didn't want the smell, which was all over him, inside.  He rode on the right fender an' held on to the side mirror.  I drove really slow.

It was along time before I trusted anyone from Nebraska again.  Thought they was all mentally defective.

Don't know where any of those folks are any more, but I'll bet if any of 'em know Jim, they still razz the hell out of him because, bein' a good civic minded citizen, I TOLD EVERYBODY AT FORT LEE WHAT HAPPENED!!!  Everydamnbody!

[Trinity]

What I wanna know is: Where do they ship all the herefords since everyone in the US is selling or serving Angus? 

Slim

  Yep, zackly!!

[litl rooster]

What I wanna know is: Where do they ship all the herefords since everyone in the US is selling or serving Angus? 

Slim

Don't fall for the Angus check off propaganda.....Yes they have angus genetic's in the meat and others.  I have sorted many white face [baldy's] to the "cartell"

[litl rooster]

My question is:  Who doesn't make their burgers with Angus?  Heck, even the fast food places are bragging about using Angus beef.  When I first saw that I didn't say "Oooooh!", but instead I said "Oh".  I guess it's nothing special any more.


Ever since the Japanese got a hold of the "title" for best beef (Kobe beef) in the world things aren't lookin' good for us. 

another myth..........I won't spell it right...but on the most part dem cattle is Whygu's <pronounced....a breed also thrown in the big Angus secret

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Uh, oh, the secrets out!
Morning all, been up since almost 6. Thunder storm came throughand our scaredy cat dogs got up. Made'em go out and then gave them their calm stuff. Can you say knock out? I'm currently pounding the clothes on a rock.
Checked on parts prices for the vehicles as well, guess I've been sorta busy here.......Buck
  OT, we use a product called DIPIT for auto coffee makers to clean ours. It's a liquid, use half a bottle to 5 cups water. Does a better job than white vinegar.........

[El Peludo]

What I wanna know is: Where do they ship all the herefords since everyone in the US is selling or serving Angus?     

Slim

I always thought they shipped 'em to Japan.    To be downright honest, I never gave too much thought to what kind, or where it came from, as long as it was good to eat.  And, a good soakin' in a marinade - big fancy word there - and some smoke and slow heat solves quite a few things.

'Morning, all, too !

Decided to drop by and see if anybody'd lost or found anything, or, just perchance, somebody needed trimmin', or such.  Catchin' up, read Forty Rod's bit about the package at the depot - -    AAACK!  Smelled too much of stuff like that, myse'f.  Oooooghh!  But, laughin' at other folks reaction, if the situation ain't real serious, is always good for a story or three, and watchin' some folks turn green around the gills when ya' tell 'em. 

I ain't seen DipIt in a store in a long time, Buck.  We used it when we used a percolator, many yarns ago, but took to using vinegar in the auto-drips; don't really know just why.  Maybe it was because we couldn't find the DipIt, anymore??