Back in the 60s as a kid, I spent some time in the summers working at my grandmother's little country store in a tiny village. The customers there called them "pell mell." Could be regional; this was Louisiana.
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Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2024 4:53 pm
by Dr. Ken
So I guess AppleTV remade Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits into a tv show....
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Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2024 5:17 pm
by sugar magnolia
Rolodex wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2024 4:13 pm
Back in the 60s as a kid, I spent some time in the summers working at my grandmother's little country store in a tiny village. The customers there called them "pell mell." Could be regional; this was Louisiana.
"Pell Mell" by the customers at my uncle's general store about 25 miles from the LA state line.
Rolodex wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2024 4:13 pm
Back in the 60s as a kid, I spent some time in the summers working at my grandmother's little country store in a tiny village. The customers there called them "pell mell." Could be regional; this was Louisiana.
"Pell Mell" by the customers at my uncle's general store about 25 miles from the LA state line.
And the written lyrics I had say "flatbed" Ford
My grandmother's store was about 10 miles from the MS state line. Right in the corner of the boot (by Amite Co).
Rolodex wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2024 4:13 pm
Back in the 60s as a kid, I spent some time in the summers working at my grandmother's little country store in a tiny village. The customers there called them "pell mell." Could be regional; this was Louisiana.
"Pell Mell" by the customers at my uncle's general store about 25 miles from the LA state line.
And the written lyrics I had say "flatbed" Ford
My grandmother's store was about 10 miles from the MS state line. Right in the corner of the boot (by Amite Co).
My uncle's was all the way down to the coast at Kiln DeLisle. 90% of his stock was 50 lb bags of sugar and corn.
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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2024 1:38 pm
by Rolodex
My grandmother had salt licks, nails, ice cream, cold drinks, canned goods, cigarettes, gas, deli meat we had to cut with a big ol' knife, cookies you could get for 5¢ apiece, dog food, "sweet" milk (as opposed to buttermilk), giant room-sized rolls of linoleum. All kinds of penny candy, which was awesome for a kid.
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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2024 2:52 pm
by Foggy
Wow, that's awesome. My dad was in the Navy, we moved to a different place every other year, I have 4 siblings and we were all born in different cities (myself and 3 others in California, a brother in Rhode Island). We never went to the same store for more than a year or two, and then gone to the next Navy base!
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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2024 3:24 pm
by sugar magnolia
Rolodex wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2024 1:38 pm
My grandmother had salt licks, nails, ice cream, cold drinks, canned goods, cigarettes, gas, deli meat we had to cut with a big ol' knife, cookies you could get for 5¢ apiece, dog food, "sweet" milk (as opposed to buttermilk), giant room-sized rolls of linoleum. All kinds of penny candy, which was awesome for a kid.
Their inventory was about 90% 50 lb bags of sugar and 9% big bags of corn. They sold a lot of mason jars too. My brother was in the store one day when a couple of guys came in to rob the place and shot Cy. I'm not sure they even noticed my brother because he was hiding behind the huge stacks of sugar bags. Cy lived.
Wild pigs would get drunk on the mash and chase people. My mother is terrified of pigs to this good day. The 'shiners would have literal shoot-outs in the street in front of the store arguing over who was going to buy the sugar. Fun times!
Rolodex wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2024 1:38 pm
My grandmother had salt licks, nails, ice cream, cold drinks, canned goods, cigarettes, gas, deli meat we had to cut with a big ol' knife, cookies you could get for 5¢ apiece, dog food, "sweet" milk (as opposed to buttermilk), giant room-sized rolls of linoleum. All kinds of penny candy, which was awesome for a kid.
Their inventory was about 90% 50 lb bags of sugar and 9% big bags of corn. They sold a lot of mason jars too. My brother was in the store one day when a couple of guys came in to rob the place and shot Cy. I'm not sure they even noticed my brother because he was hiding behind the huge stacks of sugar bags. Cy lived.
Wild pigs would get drunk on the mash and chase people. My mother is terrified of pigs to this good day. The 'shiners would have literal shoot-outs in the street in front of the store arguing over who was going to buy the sugar. Fun times!
Pretty remote place...the "suburbs" of Pass Christian and that's saying something! That sugar and corn was getting sold for sure! No pesky law back up in the swamps.
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2024 1:54 am
by bill_g
I'm watching "American Rust" on Prime.
Lots of drahmah. Lots and lots of drahmah. Small town in PA drahmah. Four cops on rotation small town drahmah. The chief of police kanoodling the prime suspect's mother in a small town drahmah. A mother who is not divorced from her high school sweetheart who has matriculated to the small town bad boy drahmah.
Lots more drahmah than criminaling.
Two seasons. I'm through S1E2.
(24hrs later) ETA: Yeah. Lots of drahmah, and lots of kanoodling. Not much criming going on.
I'll give it one more episode ....
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2024 1:52 pm
by MN-Skeptic
Ruthless People and My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
My sister from Seattle was visiting recently and Ruthless People came up in discussion. I looked online to see if I subscribed to a service which included it. No. But I could rent it. But then I realized that my husband and I probably bought it years ago because we loved that movie. So my sister looked through the DVDs upstairs and I looked through the ones in the basement. Success! Of course we had it. While my sister was looking through the DVDs upstairs, she ran across My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Like many of our DVDs, we had bought it but never watched it. My sister watched it with her wife when it first came out and, as her wife was of Greek descent, my SIL had a running commentary during the whole movie. So, of course, we had to watch both movies.
A great movie night!
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2024 6:58 pm
by Mrich
"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is one of my favorite movies (I have the DVD too). It has 2 sequels, and they both are equally funny, using many of the original cast members; if you enjoyed the original you should like the sequels too.