TODAY'S "RESTAURANT OF THE DAY"

KIMCHEE and LONESTAR: My boyfriend is Robert H. Lee and his dad was named Robert E. Lee. If I hear someone sing that "Waiting for the Robert E Lee" song to him one more time, I just might start screaming and never, ever stop. (Yes, his dad was from the South).

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Originally posted by Lone Star

Kimchee, that's a little kinky don't you think?

It may very well be, Lone Star. Come to think of it...I don't even have a picture of my own husband on my nightstand! Can't really explain my fascination with Gen. Robert E. Lee. Another Confederate general that I'm fond of is J.E.B. Stuart. (I often wonder what he looked like without all that beard!) As for Union generals...I have a "thing" for Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, too. I just haven't found a small portrait of him for my nightstand yet.

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Originally posted by KimChee43

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Originally posted by Lone Star

Kimchee, that's a little kinky don't you think?

It may very well be, Lone Star. Come to think of it...I don't even have a picture of my own husband on my nightstand! Can't really explain my fascination with Gen. Robert E. Lee. Another Confederate general that I'm fond of is J.E.B. Stuart. (I often wonder what he looked like without all that beard!) As for Union generals...I have a "thing" for Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, too. I just haven't found a small portrait of him for my nightstand
yet.

Hey, don't be piggy! Good old Josh is mine........I fell in love with him last year at Gettysburg when "Lincoln" gave his Gettysburg address. Mrs. Dick Cheney was the speaker and she spoke on Chamberlain. I was so fasinated that I immediately went over to the tourist center and bought 2 books to take home and read!

We will go there again this year to hear the speech and I will make sure and find a small picture for you. I believe it is only right that you have a hero from the Union on your nightstand, too!

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Originally posted by chezkatie

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Originally posted by KimChee43

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Originally posted by Lone Star

Kimchee, that's a little kinky don't you think?

It may very well be, Lone Star. Come to think of it...I don't even have a picture of my own husband on my nightstand! Can't really explain my fascination with Gen. Robert E. Lee. Another Confederate general that I'm fond of is J.E.B. Stuart. (I often wonder what he looked like without all that beard!) As for Union generals...I have a "thing" for Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, too. I just haven't found a small portrait of him for my nightstand
yet.

Hey, don't be piggy! Good old Josh is mine........I fell in love with him last year at Gettysburg when "Lincoln" gave his Gettysburg address. Mrs. Dick Cheney was the speaker and she spoke on Chamberlain. I was so fasinated that I immediately went over to the tourist center and bought 2 books to take home and read!

We will go there again this year to hear the speech and I will make sure and find a small picture for you. I believe it is only right that you have a hero from the Union on your nightstand, too!

Thank you, Chez Katie! But I will be sure to place Chamberlain's portrait on north side of the nightstand and Lee's on the south. It'll be interesting to see if my husband "gets" it (the positioning of the portraits, that is!)

The night......they drove old Dixie down.........

(waiting for the sound of screams)

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Originally posted by Pwingsx

The night......they drove old Dixie down.........

(waiting for the sound of screams)

Well, to quote Miss Scarlett:

"After all ... tomorrow is another day."

This topic seems to have gotten out of hand - as usual, so I'll just have to add my two-bits worth.

Someplace around here i have a beautiful poem that was written by Robert Lowell ? for the dedication of the Boston monument to Chamberlain's regiment. I recomment that all of you find it and read it.

We just arrived home from a few days at Chincoteague, Va - the baliwick of "Captain Bob" the flounder cleaner and all round great waterman. For those of you familiar with Chincoteague/Assateague islands I have some information.
First, the dunes on Assateague are gone - flattened by Isabel, and the Atlantic Ocean seems about to turn Assateague into three or four islands. The ponies and wildlife in general seems to have ridden out the hurricane in good style.Chincoteague came through the storm with with no damage at all.

Bill's, our favorite restaurant in Chincoteague has gone slightly upscale - redecorated and a much expanded menu - but, that huge fried flounder filet is no longer available. We had a very tasty crabcake (but not containing any lump or backfin meat) and
some excellent fried softshell crabs, oysters on the halfshell (at what seems a very decent price to us Northeasterners),
Oyster stew; and the "Bumbleberry" pie was delicious. For breakfast at Bill's we had great scrapple and SOS. We did not have any, but Billl's also serves wine and beer now.

AJ's, our second favorite restaurant in town, was a disappointment this year. The one goood thing, and it was super, was oysters with horseradish and caviar. The crab cakes were OK, but no better than a lot of other places that sell them for half the price. Crab Imperial was very good, but also pricey. The service was awful - inept, forgetful, indifferent, and amateurish.
We did not order their great clams casino this time around, so can't report on that. The wine list was short and way overpriced - we settled on a carafe of Pinot Grigio for about $20 that was merely drinkable.

BTW: Gasoline was $1.45 on the island - a bargain for us, although we found gas along rt 113 in Maryland for $1.39 - as compared with about $1.75 at home.

E T
Just so he doesn't start referring to you as his TRAVELER, and head you towards Gettysburg next summer?

Unleaded Regular at Several of the truck stops on I-65 in Southern Kentucky (around Bowling Green, were at 1.24 last weekend.

Dearfolk,
My biggest worry about flounder is this: where do they find sunglasses? I mean, I've looked EVERYWHERE for that kind with both the lenses on one side of the nose piece, but nobody around here carries them. Those poor flounder: if they go too close to the surface now, the sun'll hurt their little eyes... unless they keep their eye side pointed down toward the bottom.
Just A Shade Wackily, Ort. Carlton, Waist Deep in a Quiet Athens, Georgia Early Fall Evening.
P. S. You're right about the fish photo, but the food probably tasted far better than it looked, or they wouldn't be recommending it. Besides, I wasn't planning to print a copy of the picture and eat that to save myself a trip to Charleston.

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Originally posted by Ort. Carlton.

... Those poor flounder: if they go too close to the surface now, the sun'll hurt their little eyes... unless they keep their eye side pointed down toward the bottom.

But then their lily white bellies would get sunburned!

That OCDreamr: looking at life through psychedelic lenses, here in the "Land of Pleasant Livin"

The poem about Chamberlain is, "For the Union Dead", Robert Lowel (1964). It was not written at the dedication of the monument (1884?) to Chamberlain's regiment in Boston, but after Robert Lowell saw and contemplated on the monument.
Some relevant verses from the poem:

Their monument sticks like a fishbone
in the city's throat.
It's Colonel is as lean
as a compass-needle.

He has an angry wrenlike vigilence,
a greyhound's gentle tautness;
he seems to wince at pleasure,
and suffocate for privacy.

I guess now I will have to put a picture of Walt Whitman on my nightstand. Sheesh. I can never keep up.

Critize Roadfood.....jest you be banned from this site for Life and a day! Whats next?, Water and the Air That We Breathe..........

Lookie, the scary, tire-tracked sweet potato thing has reared its ugly, um... well, not head, again. Yikes!
(--Kristi S., jarred out of her seat by such a freaky sight)

Yes, a repeat, but in reviewing again I've found that both my waggish and insightful comments really have stood the test of time.

It's baaaaa-aaaaack!

mmmm.....a mutent lutefisk

Just when we thought it was out ..... we pull it back in !!!!

GF tres no less !!! I'm a big fan ... seen'em all many times !!!!

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Originally posted by clothier

Nothing better than a Godfather reset.

Should we start a cannoli thread?

You know, I noticed the orange thing myself. I ws not sure what it was until I read. It must be the spice that turned it pumpkin orange.

Green ketchup, purple ketchup, pumpkin fish, Go figure.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Hey, Whatever..

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Originally posted by Ashley Wilkes

Well, if they don't clean it like Captain Bob does, I'm not planning on eating it.

And this link shows pictures on how Captain Bob cleans:

http://www.captbobsmarina.com/FlounderTutorial.htm

And I love flounder.

Just in time for the spring run, this URL changed to:

http://www.captbobs-marina.com/FlounderTutorial.htm

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Originally posted by Al-The Mayor-Bowen

E T
Just so he doesn't start referring to you as his TRAVELER, and head you towards Gettysburg next summer?

Unleaded Regular at Several of the truck stops on I-65 in Southern Kentucky (around Bowling Green, were at 1.24 last weekend.

Boy, those were the good old days! Gas $1.24. Fond Memmories. Chow Jim