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In reply to the discussion: 16-1 in the 6th? My poor Cubbies - UPDATE: final 18-3 [View all]
marble falls
(72,845 posts)25. Peanuts! I used to manage our peojects downtown and would drive in from offices on Riverside. I'd get on the highway ..
... and then exitoff about halfway there and buy a bag of peanuts from a guy at the exit who roasted them on an old 30 gal drum, and packaged them in a bag that was printed up as a generic circus peanut bag. I'd toss the empty sack into the backseat.
Once my wife was driving my car for some reason and the girls sitting in the backseat found a crumpled bag, flattened it and read it.
"Mom! We're mad at DAD!"
"WHY?"
"He went to the circus and didn't take us!!"
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Funny, we were so taken with the shops at Brewer's park, we didn't realize for a while it was a no hitter!
SheltieLover
17 hrs ago
#32
We are speaking of the Cubs here. Many years ago, the Cubs Spring Trained in Mesa. The sportswriter had a ...
marble falls
18 hrs ago
#8
Peanuts! I used to manage our peojects downtown and would drive in from offices on Riverside. I'd get on the highway ..
marble falls
17 hrs ago
#25
Took them with me a couple of times. Don't feel too sorry for them, they were going to Circus School in ...
marble falls
17 hrs ago
#31
One became a teacher and then changed into a hospital IT head. The other is an archeologist. She used to hand ...
marble falls
16 hrs ago
#38
She was a fast softball league catcher, too. My son graduated with an MA from George Washington University ...
marble falls
16 hrs ago
#40
The White Sox always gave a good game, even when they were losing. The crowd was pretty wild, too. ...
marble falls
18 hrs ago
#22
'83. I was back in Akron, watching the Indians have another just plain ugly year.
marble falls
16 hrs ago
#42
Tony LaRussa struck me as one of the few manager that didn't seem a degenrate drunk. I could have ...
marble falls
15 hrs ago
#44
My Giants are terrible but have scored a combined 30 runs in the last two games
chicoescuela
15 hrs ago
#45