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I guarandamntee you Papa Hizzy isnt pleased with the wussification of Hizzy's latest posting efforts.

Hizzy III wrote:By the by, I stayed overnight at my grandmother's ranch on my way down to Florida to visit with the parents for Christmas. On the way to granny's (in southwestern Georgia), I stopped and grabbed lunch at a Bojangles in Dothan, Alabama. After years of promoting Popeye's, I have to admit that the chicken I had from Bojangles was superior to anything I've gotten from Popeye's in the last couple of years.

Also, if you have an opportunity, cruise US Hwy 27 from Chiefland, FL to Ocala. Some very nice horse farms along that stretch of road.

I have been a patron of both the last week and have to concur with your assessment.

crashcourse wrote:arizona does a nice job with their highway decor

LIke Texas, Arizona does a nice job of accentuating their roadway designs and decor. They also do a nice job with the color scheme. Here in Houston, there's a serious push to add trees and other flora along highways (pine trees, palms, evergreens, etc), and it's starting to have its visual impact. Of course, Texas, like no other state, has a very large system of service roads (we call them "feeders" here in Houston), where businesses are lined up along them like a regular through-street.

Virginia and Georgia have pretty nice highways as well. The stretch of I-5 from just north of Vancouver, Washington to Olympia is very nice as well.

And, Brook, I don't expect average New Yorkers to really have a true-blue feel for highway travelling. As anyone here at the Pen will tell you, I do a lot of highway driving. Mainly because it's like fishing to me, very relaxing, but also because, like BA Barackus, I'm chickenshit when it comes to air travel. Whenever I do fly, I'm going to have to be the drunkest I've ever been in life, and even then I might be too drunk to allow on the plane, especially since, knowing me, I'm going to insist on being in the cockpit with the pilot, co-pilot and navigator.

When it comes to travel, I'm a control freak.

I like what South Carolina & Northern Georgia have done with their roads. I'd bang a bitch in one of their rest stops.

Here are some shots of a few of Houston's freeways, to give you an example of their size and design. Typically, Houston's freeways are among the largest and most complex in the nation (which may good or bad, depending on your viewpoint)_.




I-45 overpass near downtown, facing west and crossing Buffalo Bayou




The I-10 Katy (West) Freeway. At 21-lanes (including feeders) it's the North America's second largest freeway behind Toronto's McDonald-Cartier Expressway.




Another shot, heading west.




One more shot, heading east, near the Memorial City/City Centre area.



I-45/I-10 Mixmaster near downtown.

Ok then. Moving on....

Cincinnati's #4! Suck it. (Oh yeah, and fuck you Cracked. Your sarcasm is dually noted.)

http://www.cracked.com/article_19617_th ... towns.html

Your sarcasm is dually noted

You noted it twice?

Dewly noted.

we're planning on doing that Subway tour in February when the jew brother-n-law visits us

eCat wrote:we're planning on doing that Subway tour in February when the jew brother-n-law visits us

eCat and his jewish BIL are walking down into the abandoned subway tunnels. The jew turns to eCat and says, "You know what? I'm not too proud to admit it: this place gives me the creeps!" eCat replies, "You're tellin me! I have to walk out of here alone!"

Mook, you embarrass us real Cincinnatians

Scotland forever!

A Scottish Soldier in full dress uniform marches into a chemist shop. Very carefully he opens his sporran and pulls out a neatly folded cotton bandana, unfolds it to reveal a smaller silk square handkerchief, which he also unfolds to reveal a condom.

The condom has a number of patches on it. The chemist holds it up and eyes it critically.

"How much to repair it?" the Scot asks the chemist.

"Six pence," says the chemist.

"How much for a new one?"

"Ten pence" says the chemist.

The Scot painstakingly folds the condom into the silk square handkerchief and the cotton bandana, replaces it carefully in his sporran and marches out of the door, shoulders back and kilt swinging.

A moment or two later the chemist hears a great shout go up outside, followed by an even greater shout. The Scottish soldier marches back into the chemist and addresses the proprietor, this time with a grin on his face.

"The regiment has taken a vote," he says. "We'll have a new one."

TheBigMook wrote:

eCat wrote:we're planning on doing that Subway tour in February when the jew brother-n-law visits us

eCat and his jewish BIL are walking down into the abandoned subway tunnels. The jew turns to eCat and says, "You know what? I'm not too proud to admit it: this place gives me the creeps!" eCat replies, "You're tellin me! I have to walk out of here alone!"

LOL

we'll be there with the sisters and our kids.

I thought you meant Subway like hte sandwich shop so you could see which one has the freshest fixins

Guide to Cincy, in honor of it being listed on the top 10 places to visit in the US in 2012 (this is part I, part II is on the Uncle Buck thread):

http://wayfindersnotebook.blogspot.com/ ... art-1.html

Horrible

zip it grandpa, when I want Scrooge McDucks opinion, I'll give it to you.

Who?

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