On returning alive from England

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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OK, I did say I would return to the boards on the 26th, but I’ve only just now been able to wrestle my parents’ awful Internet connection into some semblence of shape. (Mind you, it has crashed twice during the last thirty minutes, so it looks like my long lurking days are over.)

Thanks again to all those who responded to me about York, PA. Preliminary investigations of the town revealed loads of shopping malls and fast-food restaurants but not much else of interest. It hardly matters now as I’m attempting to finish off a Ph.D dissertation that refuses to die, as soon as I can. Then it’ll be a madcap search for a job and a cheap place to live, so the next two months are going to be interesting to say the least. I’m looking forward to a couple of breaks, which are of course the two Dopefests in Philly and Rockville, MD.

Again, thanks to everyone. Just one question about the US–is TV really this bad now? I swear, every time I see a commercial I think it’s a fake. And wasn’t the TV news so much better five years ago? What the heck’s going on? But I digress. I have donuts again. Hooray.

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Welcome back to the land of doughnuts Duke!

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Good to see ya posting again Dukeyboy. :smiley:

Do you have cable so you can see a bit of decent tv on some Brit. station :wink:

Have a donut for me. That’s one thing you guys can do very well.

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I do hope those donuts are Krispy Kremes! Welcome back, Duke, and good luck on the dissertation.

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I regret to agree with you about American television. However, you still have the Harley-Davidson factory near York. The tours, I’m told, are enthralling, particularly if you get to watch a guy hand-true a spoke wheel at production speeds.

Also, the Mannheim Auto Auction is just a hair north of you. The high-line auction offers ridiculous opportunities for schweeeeeet cars, so cheap they are shipped far across the country to be sold at a profit. I once saw a museum-quality '73 Cadillac Eldorado with the 500 cubic inch engine change hands for well under twenty-five thousand dollars. Another time, we made seven thousand bucks on a Benz diesel back at the showroom. You, um, can usually bribe a dealer to put a bid in for you for a modest finder’s fee.

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I’m just so happy to see you I could puke!

Oooh, and I don’t know why you are so suprized about American tv…haven’t you been watching SKY all this time? <shudder> Am I the only one who’s seen Yankee Pankey? <shudder> No, I will not let anyone say a bad word about American tv, even if it’s been years since I’ve seen any.

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I could just vomit from sheer joy as well!!

The Dukester is back :smiley:

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Don’t you just hate it when someone spoils the ending with the thread title…?

Glad you’re back safely to the land of (urk, sorry, I don’t like them!) donuts!

tater - large bits of Sky are crap, but it occasionally manages to have some good programs…and some of our adverts are funny!

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fierra, you don’t have any idea where I could get a copy of the Coleman’s mustard commercial, do you? The one with the pig singing about all the yummy foods made from pork to the tune of “Staying Alive”. That is the ultimate commercial, that and the ones for Ambrosia.

Sky can be cool, but I have to wonder what their obsession with American Sex is? And the Villa, that show just disturbs me.

No, Duke is better off where he is, in the land of Donuts!

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Hey, Duke, congratulations on making it across the pond. In your last thread you mentioned you’d be dropping in on Canada in the near future - whereabouts?

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Welcome back, Duke! Glad to hear all is well. :slight_smile:

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no, sorry.
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That is the ultimate commercial, that and the ones for Ambrosia.
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not the one with the guy riding on the cow? Surely not?!
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Sky can be cool, but I have to wonder what their obsession with American Sex is? And the Villa, that show just disturbs me.
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Me too…and all those {somewhere hot & sunny} Uncovered shows…urk!

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Sure, you’re alive now, but just you wait until Mad Cow Disease turns your brain into a spongiferous mass.

Don’t mind me, I just feel threatened and inadequate when anyone looks like they might be finishing THEIR albatross of a dissertation. Mine is like a permanent wart.

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fierra, I can’t explain it but something about that commercial just touches me. Haven’t we all wanted to ride a cow down city streets singing “oooh ahhh, it’s am-brose-eeee-ah”?

But those “Ibiza Uncovered” shows make me ill…the household man meat watches them, say’s he’s interested in the way Brits live and vacation. No, it couldn’t be the young things in bikini’s he’s watching, not him, nuh uh, no way.

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I might visit London this year.

Im wondering why they don’t advertise on american tv to come visit London or England?

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tater - if you like, I’ll personally tell him in Amsterdam that that is an unrepresentative sample… :wink:

& I hate the Ambrosia advert so much that I at least mute the sound & frequently change channels…and I will never ever buy Charmin. I hate their adverts…I do not want to see the expression on a cartoon (or otherwise) bear’s face when it wipes its bum on some toilet paper…

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Glad you made it back OK, Duke.

I’ll keep you posted on Aberdeen’s title campaign :wink:

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Welcome home, Duke! Looking forward to meeting you in a few weeks.

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Whoops, sorry I’m so late in responding to everyone. Been watching too many reruns of “Unsolved Mysteries” again :stuck_out_tongue:

Zenster yoji Brynda: There were a dozen donuts in the house yesterday…all mysteriously vanished by this morning (looks like another case for Robert Stack there…) There aren’t any Krispy Kreme shops in the immediate vicinity, but there’s a local chain known as “Maple Donuts”. Their slogan: “Making the Best Donuts for a Community of Donut Lovers.” “A Community of Donut Lovers”–I may have come to the right place after all.

Sofa King–I’m looking for my own car, sure, but $25,000 is a little out of my price range…unless you’re offering something…

tatertot & Coldie–Get a bucket, you two! But tater, with American TV you would probably find, as I did, that being away from it gives you a false sense of how good it was. On the other hand, I watched some German TV a few months ago…I guess not much could be worse than that; American TV would be the height of culture.

jti–I used to live in Toronto, I still have a bunch of friends there. At earliest I’ll be there in March, but I could always claim that I needed to do research in the U of T library and go earlier.

fierra–That Ambrosia advert is funny, but nothing, nothing, ever topped that Tango advert where the fat bloke challenges the Frenchman who complained about Tango to a fight, the one that ended with him jumping up and down in a boxing ring. That one just reached an unbeatable crescendo of bizarreness. It was the most memorable thing I ever saw on UK TV.

handy–I’ve seen commercials for English tourism on American TV before, but they were some time ago. Maybe Tony Blair will have to make one.

Cranky–There’s no guarantee that my dissertation is actually going to be finished this time, just that I’m going to try. We wait in hope.

Globe-trotter–Thank you!

ruadh: We are actually ahead of two sides. This is a monumental achievement, you know. I was about to say how much better AFC had been doing this season but there still seem to be nine sides ahead of us again. I’m sure you’ll be the first to tell me if a miracle happens against Rangers.

Montfort: Hopefully by the 27th you’ll be over the Iggles’ disaster of today…

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at the Medieval Centre? or is that too early for your period?