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Meander Where You May
« on: July 30, 2018, 12:15:38 PM »

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Cornelius II

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Re: Meander Where You May
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2018, 10:49:43 AM »

Thanks, Admin, for bringing it back!
Much appreciated.
Sincerely
Cornelius II
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Re: Meander Where You May
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2018, 08:03:24 PM »


Well my goodness, what a shiny new site.  Haven't dropped by in years.  Redecorating? 

I will go and explore various corridors.  Good to see this place still exists. 
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Re: Meander Where You May
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2018, 03:37:55 PM »

 I saw a poll asking about reducing the number of threads/forums here on Escape From Elba.    If the number is reduced, here's hoping that Meander Where You May stays intact.  It's early days after the big reboot, and I'm hoping some of the old NYTs, along with newbies, will start to repopulate this forum.   I'm missing meandering. 
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Re: Meander Where You May
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2018, 04:03:00 PM »

Why DID they shut down the old NYTs forums, anyway?
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Re: Meander Where You May
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2018, 04:34:02 PM »

latte?
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Re: Meander Where You May
« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2018, 04:55:33 PM »

Why DID they shut down the old NYTs forums, anyway?
Trump. Its primary his fault.

NYT went to a article based comment format. May have also been a pay feature. Memory is not as good as it.was.in times past.
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Re: Meander Where You May
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2018, 05:25:09 PM »

Ah, well.   Good to see at least one familiar name here.   It's been years since the Olden Days,  before the mass migration.

I invited someone to meet me here for coffee, hence the photo.
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Re: Meander Where You May
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2018, 03:39:29 PM »

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/aug/31/the-village-voice-ceases-publication-after-63-years

RIP.   My uncle (the Bohemian artist one) used to subscribe, and in my youth I would read it sometimes when visiting.   It being Kansas,  that was a pretty good reach for a neighborhood newspaper.   
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Re: Meander Where You May
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2018, 08:12:26 AM »

Meander is like the New York football Giants these days
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Re: Meander Where You May
« Reply #10 on: January 02, 2019, 01:01:20 AM »

Mille Bornes is a great game...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mille_Bornes

It is great like Yahtzee and Monopoly.

Salute,

Tony V.
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Re: Meander Where You May
« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2019, 07:58:59 PM »

One time when I was attending the AADA, it was raining, and I did not have an umbrella, and all of the stores were sold out of umbrellas, so everyone told me about an umbrella man who walked the streets with a cart selling umbrellas. I went driving around looking for the umbrella man, and I finally found him, and I was running late so I was in a hurry, and I hit the brakes and spun around to where he was with his cart, and for some reason I scared him, and he left his cart there and he took off running. I had to chase him down and tell him that he was safe, and that I just wanted to buy an umbrella. He might have been frightened by my old pickup, I had a 1960 Ford F-250, with a Chevy 350 engine in it, with a 400 turbo trans with a shift kit, it jumped when it shifted gears, and I had big tires on the back, with chrome wheels, and it was black with lots of chrome. It was a cool truck. Anyhow, finally I convinced him that he was safe, and I bought an umbrella, it turned out to be a nice umbrella and it was only five dollars.

Just a little story about a rainy day in the past.

Salute,

Tony V.
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Re: Meander Where You May
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2019, 10:40:51 PM »

One great thing about stories, is that sometimes you wish people were there with you to experience something, and with a story you can share the experience with people, and it is sort of like they really were there.

Salute,

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Re: Meander Where You May
« Reply #14 on: April 13, 2019, 03:39:16 PM »

From the Wikipedia article on Deutsches Worterbuch, which was begun by the Grimm brothers....

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More volumes and updates were planned, but in their lifetime the brothers could only fully complete portions: Wilhelm Grimm wrote the articles to the letter D and died in 1859; Jacob, who was able to fully complete the letters A, B, C and E, died in 1863 while working on the entry for "Frucht" (fruit).   

Not sure why I find this detail so amusing. 
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