Mostly For The Iowan's
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Topic: Mostly For The Iowan's
Posted By: Unit3
Subject: Mostly For The Iowan's
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 10:32am
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Just asked my wife an Iowa question. What would you say is the most famous town in Iowa? Clear Lake for the Surf and Buddy Holly? Charles City for Oliver's and the Frank Lloyd Wright Denison for Donna Reed? Des Moines because of the capital and I Cubs? Mason City for the Music Man and John Dillinger Ottumwa for Corporal Radar O'Reilly and tv show M*A*S*H? Winterset for the book and film Bridges Of Madison County and birth place of John Wayne What do you think? ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
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Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 10:49am
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Where's Iowa? Dubuque (Hams) ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 11:03am
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LOL Oh that's cold. LOL ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 11:21am
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Just curious where the state fair is??? We hear about that clear down here in the hills. Knoxville nationals as well. |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 11:50am
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The state fair is in Des Moines. I forgot about the winged sprint cars in Knoxville. I have never gotten down there to watch them. I have seen the Indy cars run at Newton. 180 mph in that tight oval looks fast. Real fast. ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: allisorange
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 12:25pm
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What about John Wayne. He was born in Iowa I think. John Carlson
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Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 12:53pm
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Listed at bottom of Unit3's first post, Winterset Iowa. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 4:00pm
Guys, the past few years Winterset Iowa has been rated the best town in Iowa (around 5000 people) to live and raise a family. Most of the town square along with the courthouse are on the National Historic Register. John Wayne's original home is here, along with the new J Wayne museum. I have been told his wife and kids have donated a lot of stuff used in his movies to the museum. The building where his dad had his pharmacy is still here. There are many completely restored homes here that are on the National Historical Regrestry. We have 5 or 6 of the original Covered Bridges. My partner in the tire business came within about 1/10th of an inch of running over Clint Eastwood. He was filming and stepped out in front of Eddie, my partner. Most of the buildings used in the movie are still here. We have no Walmart, a great dime store, a great local owned lumber yard, no Mc Donalds, some of the greatest pizza in the state, pretty good schools, and very friendly folks. 2 great locally owned restruarants. There might be 1 old geezer who is unfriendly, did I mention I am in the old geezer age range now.  . 1 JD dealership, 1 great car dealership, they have my order for a new pickup, good horsepistol, and the really great thing-- great kids. I moved here in 1986 and will probably never completely move away.
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Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 4:02pm
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What about the American Pickers, Mike and Frank? Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 4:43pm
| The Matt Edel blacksmith shop in Haverhill Iowa is way up on my bucket list. |
Posted By: iowallis
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 7:02pm
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Mason City also has a hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright hotel, the last one standing in the world. The hotel has been restored and you can stay there, it is called The Historic Park Inn. The Stockman house in Mason City was also designed by FLW. Charles City is also known for Salsbury Labs, one of the 1st large scale makers of "chicken medicine" and other drugs for farm animals. What about Dyersville and the "Field of Dreams" and Ertl Manufacturing/Farm toy Museum?
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 7:22pm
| IA has a bunch of dead end roads...makes it hard when being chased by cops! Winterset IA has a lying motel manager, and IA I think is the reason all the trees in NE lean to the east! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 7:23pm
| oh...and didn't IA folks vote for lady Clinton |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 7:26pm
Oh come on now, if the trees in Nebraska lean any way I would think South.
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shameless dude wrote:Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 7:31pm
| hahaha....I figgered i'd gits someone on that! (poke,poke) |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 8:00pm
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Just teasing the guys from Kansas. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 8:52pm
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I was at an energy conference in Utah several years ago. The rep from Nebraska said the wind energy was so good in Iowa because it sucks. Guy from Kansas said they both blow! Hey, I'm just repeating what I heard... ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 9:09pm
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TOM!!! How do you get anything done with no McDonalds or Wal Mart ? ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 9:22pm
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That's probably why he does get stuff done, no reason to spend in town, may as well stay home and work! ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: Ron Eggen
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 11:41pm
| I vote for Dyersville for Farm Toys Capitol of the World , and Williamsburg for the Kinze manufacturing. |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2018 at 12:09am
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How about: Pella, Iowa: Pella Windows, Vermeer equipment (trenchers, horizontal boring, etc - GroundSaw/DitchWitch) Amana, Iowa: Amana appliances Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Rockwell-Collins Des Moines: Principal Financial Group Spirit Lake, Iowa: Victory Motorcycles (Polaris), Berkely Fishing and Penn Reels Muscatine, Iowa: HON Company (office furnature) and MUSCO Lighting (sports fields) Newton, Iowa: MAYTAG Clinton, Iowa: CLINTON Engines Ottumwa, Iowa: Bob Williams- WW2 US Army Air Corps 332nd Fighter Group/100th Ftr Sqdrn - 2 confirmed enemy aircraft downed Dubuque, Iowa: Robert Martin- WW2 US Army Air Corps 3392nd Fighter Group Van Meter, Iowa: Bob Feller: 'The Heater from Van Meter' Pitcher of the Cleveland Indians for 18 seasons... interrupted by 4yr service USN during WW2 Mason City, Iowa: Meredith Wilson Waterloo, Iowa: The Sullivan Brothers (WW2 casualties) Corning, Iowa: Johnny Carson Bettendorf, Iowa: Pat Angerer (football) Ottumwa, Iowa: Tom Arnold (Actor) Hampton, Iowa: Fleet Admiral William Leahy Clarenda, Iowa: Glenn Miller Winterset, Iowa- Marion Robert Morrison (John Wayne). Wall Lake, Iowa: Andy Williams Pella, Iowa: Morgan and Warren Earp LeClaire, Iowa : William F (Buffalo Bill) Cody Oskaloosa, Iowa: Admiral Bernard A "Chick" Clary, USN Anamosa, Iowa; Grant Wood Sioux City, Iowa: Brig. Gen. George Everett "Bud" Day Dubuque, Iowa: Kate Mulgrew (actress) Sioux City, Iowa: Eppie Lederer... aka "Ann Landers"... Boone, Iowa Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower... wife of Ike... Also... born in Lippe, Germany, but emigrated to Rockford, Iowa when he was six: Fred Duesenberg. Riverside, Iowa: Captain James T Kirk, USS Enterprise... ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2018 at 12:46am
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Musco Lighting is in Oskaloosa not Muscatine. Des Moines is known as the insurance capitol of the U.S. Eldon IA for Grant Wood's American Gothic, Tom and Roseanne's Big Food Diner (closed) and their mansion that was never completed. West Branch home of Herbert Hoover Ashton Kutcher is from the Amana Colonies West Branch home of President Herbert Hoover Brandon Routh, one of the Superman movie actors is from Norwalk. There's another actor whose movie just came out I can't remember his name right off is also from Norwalk. ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2018 at 1:59am
| Dave....you forgots Arlington IA! |
Posted By: iowaman
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2018 at 4:04am
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Better study your history of Musco Lighting. ------------- You only live once. But if you live right once is enough. |
Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2018 at 7:58am
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Not sure what town it's in or near, but, how about The I-80 Truck Stop. Recall something about it being the biggest in the country. ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |
Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2018 at 8:42am
| How about Dows, iowa? Several years ago we blundered into this little town off of I-35 in north central Iowa and went through their museum. Not big but very interesting. They had an old local blacksmith shop with an old electric welder or two and a forge. In the blacksmith shop there were quite a number of Weiss replacement plow points and edges. My father used those same Weiss parts in his shop back before there were the throw away shares. There was also an old country school and a very little house where a couple had raised around 10-12 children, can't remember exactly. Some other interesting stuff too. The folks operating the museum were very friendly and before we knew it we had spent half of the day there. It's a couple of miles off the interstate so I imagine most travelers don't get there. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2018 at 8:57pm
| Weldon Iowa, still has their train depot from the 1900's. There used to be a sign on the town square with the 5 Randol Brothers names on it. They went to Ww2, one as a belly gunner on a bomber, one in a tank with Patton, one in a destroyer that the japs sank, and one as a sharp shooter in Europe. They all came home. The last time they were together was dad and moms 60 the wedding anniversary. They are all gone now. I wish their stories would have been printed. |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2018 at 9:16pm
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And how does Nevada stack up to all this? ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2018 at 5:06am
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Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2018 at 7:53am
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Newton has one of the few remaining 'Drive in theaters'. This thing is insanely popular, you can't believe the lines of cars when there is a good movie! Maytag blue cheese is made here. As much as I like Wisconsin cheese, Maytag blue is hard to beat.
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Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2019 at 2:50am
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History wise, Musco is out of Osky, but the name comes from where it was originally... -- "In 1976, Joe and Myron purchased the Muscatine Lighting and Manufacturing Company in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscatine,_Iowa" rel="nofollow - Muscatine, Iowa , which marked the start of Musco Lighting." Nevada, Iowa has a manufacture of really substantial food
refrigeration/quick freezing systems. I don't recall OTH if they
started there, but I believe they're owned outside... They also are
home to a very large high-tech Ethanol manufacturing facilty that was
built at a very, very high cost... and never put into operation... very
big white elephant. LeMars, Iowa is the home of Wells Blue Bunny... GREAT ice-cream and dairy products. Davenport, Iowa has a several-million-dollar superelevated bridge that goes from a hotel, across River Drive, to... absolutely nowhere... Conned into it by a casino organization, now they're stuck with it. They SHOULD take it down, cut it into three pieces, and use it to put pedestrian walkways across Kimberly Road... where they'd actually do some good... (sigh). But there's lots of cool places. Sutliff Bridge, in Solon... innertubing on the Upper Iowa river around Waukon... bicycle paths on old railroad trails all over (Dubuque to Dyersville)... going to the Old Thresher's Reunion in Mount Pleasant, or the Heritage Park in Forest City... anything on Lake Okoboji... catching a sandwich at Pete's Kitchen in Mason City... or boating the Mississippi from Dubuque to Harper's Ferry... Balloon Classic in Indianola... all great things going on. Now... I'll Hijack this wonderful thread... someone pick another state, and tell me what I should see next time I pass through. Don't tell me the OBVIOUS places... tell me about the places you wouldn't find advertised. Off the beaten path... in YOUR state!!! ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2019 at 9:09am
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I heard the Iowa Hawkeyes cheerleaders graze on the field at halftime.... ------------- '49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2 |
Posted By: trace
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2019 at 10:56am
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Spencer, Iowa home of the world's largest county fair. Drive In theater in Superior, Ia. ------------- 1955 WD-45 WIDE FRONT W/ TRIP LOADER |
Posted By: allis g
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2019 at 11:13pm
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New Hampton - Birthplace of McGrath Implements now known as Ag-land. St. Lucas - Birthplace of my mother Nashua- Birthplace of my father
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Posted By: allis g
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2019 at 11:14pm
| Templeton - for some darn good whiskey |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2019 at 7:47am
| Mo Valley for loose gals...oooops... |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2019 at 8:22am
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Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2019 at 8:27am
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Now being Minnesotan I just gotta .................... Why does all the corn in Minnesota lean to the south? Because Iowa sucks.  ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: Les Royer
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2019 at 1:27pm
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Boys youi guys all missed the boat. Council Bluffs Home of the black squirrel Lewis and Clark camped the winter here along with the mormons on the mornon trails. Birth place of the Union Pacific railroad leading to all points west. General Grenville Dodge, civil war greneral to oversee construction of the railroad lived here. It's also the Eastern Terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad that was completed wiuth the driving of the dolden spike May 10, 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah------------- I still gots my A/C but it's clear out in the barn now. |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2019 at 3:27pm
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Shameless, MO Valley has gals that are poopin all the time?? Ames Iowa, where there is a BIG parkin lot where me an a gal got into the back seat of my old,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,aw never mind, you don't need to know that. Brownsville where you can (used to get) the BEST catfish cheeks in the world! Right Phil (wf32)!? ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: Kenny L.
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2019 at 3:38pm
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Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2019 at 8:10pm
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From Algona, the Algona Brownie's and J.L. Wilkinson who started up the negro baseball league. He signed Jackie Robinson and later lost him to the Dodgers. He also held the first lighted night game 5 years before the MLB. Snap-on Toolbox MFG. We have the largest K-mart you are likely to find. But ,,, we don't have a Pizza Hut anymore, and that really hurts. ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2019 at 8:15pm
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Kanawha has a little bar on their main street called Town Tap. And they have a 100+ year old 5' x 10' Brunswick snooker table. Very Cool. ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2019 at 8:51pm
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Dubuque: That was THE city when I was young in SE WI. Also because my aunt and her family lived there and ran Hendricks Seed and Feed. Farley: Always thought that two steeple church was cool. Also because my aunt and her family lived there and owned and operated the Greenwood bowling alley. DeWitt: My brother and his family live there. Also because if you drive thru town, it appears to be one of the cleanest towns you will ever see. Oh, and there's a bar on the outskirts of town where I had my first pizza with sauerkraut on it. Darn good pizza!!! ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:31pm
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While going through Dubuque, we had to stop and eat at Rings restaurant. ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2019 at 10:52pm
Algona has a wonderful little museum dedicated to the history of a substantial Prisoner Of War camp that existed at the current site of the municipal airport. A very fascinating tidbit of history, and interestingly enough, many of the POWs who were repatriated to Germany after the war, found that there was nothing left for them there, emigrated back to America, and many moved to northern Iowa, to return to the communities they worked in as WW2 prisoners. ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2019 at 9:03pm
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Algona was given a gift from a handful of POW's in the from of a nativity scene. How about that, Germans building a shrine to a Jew here while they are doing nasty things to them back home. It really doesn't mater how far you have to drive, it is well wreath it. I have heard some great stories of life after the war. A man from Mason City was in the US army in Germany in the 1950's. He told that he and some buddies went into a gas house (bar). Once inside all talking quit because these strangers were in US military dress. He said a man came over to take their order. He asked them where they were from in the states. Our man said Mason City. The German shouted Mason City? Why I know Mason City. I was a POW in Algona. I went on work detail in Mason City. There are many rich stories like this. ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2019 at 10:09pm
2 lb. Wheel – $37 ONLY TWO Lbs.... I LOVE blue cheese dressing and I have one of the worlds best recipes (don't ask) but ....... Crumbles 2 – 8 oz. Cups – $24 That's a little steep... ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2019 at 9:00am
It's good. You can get it in much smaller wedges, I buy the 2 lb. wheels. Takes quite a while to eat one. Now if the 2 year cheddar from Mullin's and some beer from New Glarus were a little closer it would be nice!
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Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2019 at 9:27am
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Ted if we had and shared Mikes money, we could throw ours away. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2019 at 8:04pm
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Wouldn't take much throwin from my end Elliott.... I LOVE blue cheese, but I guess I don't love it THAT MUCH... ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2019 at 10:39pm
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Posted By: trace
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2019 at 7:15am
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My Danish grandpa would eye rye bread with a big hunk of blue cheese on it with a cold beer out of the well. I like blue cheese also but mostly just on salads. ------------- 1955 WD-45 WIDE FRONT W/ TRIP LOADER |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2019 at 7:45am
| as picky of an eater as my old lady....oooops...I mean my loving wife is (don't like anything that might be good for her) she don't like blue cheeze, but does like purple goat cheeze. go figger! |