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It's hard for me to keep up with all of these mergers and buy outs. Who knows? Maybe someday every store will be Wal-Mart.

Over here in Beaumont, Joske's was one of the three "anchor" stores of Parkdale Mall when it opened in 1973. Later it became Dillard's, then it changed to Foley's, and now it's Macy's. Did Macy's "buy out" Joske's, Dillard's, and Foley's?

This reminds me of a novelty store in Parkdale Mall back in the 1970s. This was during Watergate. They sold masks of President Nixon called "Tricky Dicky" masks.

I got an e-mail message from my cousin who lives in Indiana. She told me that she went to Sam Rayburn High School in Pasadena, and that she went to Almeda Mall quite a bit. She asked me to try to find out if it is still around. I'm pretty sure someone out there can tell me.

Someone found and posted Monterey House's candy recipe. I'm surprised that someone can't find the recipe for their hot sauce.

All of us have way too much time on our hands. Why else would we all be on this forum?

That was Vertigo58, not me. His photo is similar to the former bear logo of Travelodge. Yes, I'm taking a little snort as I type.

The psychiatrist in Psycho said: "He was never all Norman, but sometimes he was all Mother." "When the mind houses two personalities, there's always a conflict, a battle. In Norman's case, the battle is over, and the dominant personality has won." Now I've always wondered: In real life, would it be possible for a psychiatrist to find out all of those things from a psycho? "Mother! Oh, no! Blood! Blood!"

Didn't ICEE have a cartoon of a polar bear on the cup?

I've come up with a theory. Karr was a substitute teacher. So am I. They don't make much money. So Karr wanted to come back to the U.S. but he didn't have the money. So he implied that he had murdered Jon Benet Ramsey so that he would be arrested and taken to the U.S. He got a free trip back. Wasn't he brilliant?

Yes, two weekends in a row a long program called "Band of Brothers" took up all of Saturday afternoon on the History Channel. It was bad enough when they showed "Shaka Zulu."

Oh, wow! Now I remember when we'd pull into a convenience store my mom would say: "Get me a Golden Age." I also remember Mr. Cola. Do any of you?

Don't you remember "Social Darwinism" in history class? Or that movie where the guy said: "Greed is Good"?

What is "ASH" the acronym for?

This show how far behind the times I am. I remember ICEEs from back in the 1960s. But I thought that the SLURPEE came out within the last 10-15 years. I didn't learn what a SMOOTHIE was until 2004 when I was watching my parent's dish TV and I saw a show on the Discovery Channel called "BIG" where they made a huge blender to make a bunch of them.

I wonder if in due time the telephone "book" will be a thing of the past? Will it someday be only online? YellowBook.Com has theirs both book and online. It seems like operators are now people of the past. When you call 411, naturally, a recording answers. In one TV commercial, David Carridine has a laptop computer entering YellowBook.Com to show to his "student." In the other commercial, he throws the book to him.

Every bowler gets a split every now and then. And you'll be able to see a spare. What about a perfect game? Ah, the air from the vent where the bowler usually lets the air run through his fingers before he picks up his ball.

I would assume that the bowlers would at least wear bowling shoes. I don't know if I could bowl that way, with all of that flopping around and all.

When I was in high school, I knew a girl who was born on December 31, 1959. I wonder which she thought was better: barely being born in the 1950s, the last child of that decade, or, being the first child of the 1960s (if her mother would have held her in for another day)?

I'm not that kind of a guy. I always turn my head whenever I see stuff like that.

Is that the same company in Dallas that purchased the Warwick Hotel in Houston?

Yes, I get messages from Nigeria. I simply delete them.

Oh, so you're a philantropist?

It appears that this is the way that most people define the colors of traffic lights: RED: STOP GREEN: GO YELLOW: DRIVE LIKE HELL 'CAUSE THE LIGHTS' GONNA TURN RED!!!