After Furniture, Donuts and Hair Straightener...

[HeldUp]

Just so we are all prepared...

Need suggestions for *potential* future threads that are totally unrelated to everything else here at the LiveDaily Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Message Boards.

Let your imaginations run wild (and innocent!).

- Heldup

[LJK]

Well, on Ed they just had a conversation about a combination bagel-doughnut, called a donagel. Obviously something that messes with the laws of nature like that should be illegal.

Also on Ed--they have a new theme song, and I miss hearing the Foo Fighters.

Is it going to be a cold or a mild winter? How can you tell?

If you've been over to the new beta board, you know that a post can only have 1000 characters. I've seen a few posters who have that many characters in their signature (mostly on the BSB/Nsync/Britney/Christina boards) which will greatly reduce their ability to complete a sentence. Oh wait, could they do that before?

I like cake and ice cream more than doughnuts, by the way.

[Nicki]

I haven't figured out how to do it, but I believe on the new board we could have a poll & rank donuts, ice cream, bagels, cake, etc. Let's not even consider donagels, though.

[Toots]

Okay...How about we start a couple of debates...

Which are better Tastykakes or Drakes Cakes?

Are Dunkin Donuts better than Krispy Kreme?

Does it really matter?

Over at Greasylake they have debated whether or not Bruce has had Rhinoplasty and did Patti have a Boob Job.

We could go on and on here.

Toots

[Fatman]

BRUCE's EYELIDS can be talked about but thats been covered already ....I'll think of something stupid later

i just spoke to Mr Promise who is too slack to post but he gave me a good annogram for bruce

Bursting Presence ..

any more?

[HeldUp]

What in the he11 is Rhinoplasty?

[LJK]

HeldUp, I thought you lived in Southern California. Aren't you up on your plastic surgery terms? It's a nose job.

[HeldUp]

Well, I know he had his top front teeth capped. I mean, his teeth used to look like mine, with a space so wide you could sell advertising!

I doubt if he had plastic surgery on his nose. If he did, he should get his money back!

Ouch! Sorry Bruce!

:)

[The Music Traveler]

I wanna play!

cold or mild winter?
you have to check on what the squirrels are doing and it's a little too early for that. I always call my brother Chris every fall for his Annual Squirrel Report. I asked just the other day and he told me I'm too early with my question. We have fun with it....he gets it right too. The year he told me it would be a really bad winter he was trying to shovel waist high snow. Oh the silly fun I have with him....

:D

[brucegroupie]

TMT,
what do the squirrels do? Around here, our squirrels have been out for several weeks now, gathering nuts. To me, that means it will possibly be an early winter. Also, the walnuts started dropping off the trees early.

You will have to keep us all posted on what Chris reports to you. :)

[Toots]

Do you think that Bruce does the "Buns of Steel" workout video to get his butt looking that nice?

Toots :D

[CathC]

Toots, now THAT'S something I'd like to see!
;)

[ForYou]

For the cold or mild winter prognosis you have to check wooly worms.

[dari]

toots


didn't we have that "cakes" debate long ago...and didn't patter and i come up with devil dogs? now there's something worth eating....

rhinoplasty? that's patti's domain not bruce's. have the before and after video to prove it. as everyone knows bruce has had teeth work done (still miss that gap-toothed smile and major underbite) but a nose job...i think not.

cold or mild winter? hell that's the one thing we don't worry about here. a bad winter is when it rains for more than 2 days in a row.....

and we've already discussed steve's hair-or-not endlessly...not to mention his fashion sense (or not).

i think i am missing naughty sherry right about now.....


dari

[Hummer]

Toots -- Bruce's butt was the reason someone came up with the idea for "Buns of Steel"

HOO-HA!! (deep and heavy sigh)

Why do I always fall into the gutter?

Don't answer that...

Hummer

[young again]

Definitely Tastykake apple pies, and Yodels, whoever makes those.

A Bruce workout video, yeah, I'd pay good money for that. You could work up a sweat just sitting on the couch eating Tastykakes!

We have lots of acorns this year, don't know what that means regarding the winter. If it gets too cold, we can always just put on the Bruce workout video and warm up real quick.

More nonsensical topics:

What are you buying to help boost the economy? Hey come on folks, work those credit cards in the name of patriotism!

How 'bout Patti's makeup? In photos we've seen lately, she looks nice and healthy (and a bit more boobular than before), but then on the telethon her face looked all skinny again. Do you think it was the lighting or is she trying to look that way on purpose? Still doing that "contouring" thing with 3 different colors of blush, perhaps?

[Edited by young again on October 11th, 2001 at 09:09 AM]

[57channels]

We could always discuss again whether Mary's dress (or other body part) sways/waves...

[con]

OK...I come home on my lunch hour and I sit here reading all the threads RE: hair,furniture and donuts..And I realize two things
1) Bruce needs to tour
2) I need to go out tonight and have a few drinks :)

[murphy]

You could debate what a TOS violation is?
You could debate how does a thread get towed to a lounge and how long does it stay there??What drinks are available??Does the lounge give 'buybacks'?

[LJK]

I prefer Hostess snowballs--chocolate, creme-filled cake covered with marshmallow and coconut. Guaranteed to start a diabetic coma. Best eaten with chocolate milk.

Okay, here's another one I saw on Later when Bob Costas hosted (when it was good!)--in the dark can you tell what flavor Dot you are eating? Gene Siskel could, but I have tried it in a theatre, and I was wrong about half the time.

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Does the moderator's lounge really have a big screen TV?

What will be the title of the next Bruce cd? Oh, wait, that was Bruce related, I hope that's okay!

[NashCat]

What about Survivor? Will the press conference tonight pre-empt it?

What about the Amazing Race? Is anybody watching that? That "Team Guido" is slaying me!! They are about the most fun on TV since Richard Hatch.

Personally, I think Patti is keeping some Dr. in business. You don't have 3 kids at a later stage in life and look like that. I'm thinking she uses Suave shampoo.

Bruce may title his next album, "I Love My Wife's Hair" featuring "My Wife's Hair in Ruin", "Lucky Hair", "Badhair" and "Wild Billy's Circus Hair". Sounds good, don't it? Looks even better.

Talk, discuss among yourselves.

[young again]

Born to Run to the Hairdresser

The Story of Rapunzel, or, My Hair Will Not Let You Down

Me, with long hair = Junglehair

[69 Chevy]

"Boobular???";)

[LJK]

young again, I could have a whole thread about what I've purchased to help the economy! I bought a new receiver (my old one stopped working about 3 weeks ago), the new Jeffrey Gaines cd, a bookcase, and next week I'm going to buy a computer desk so I can have my kitchen table back. Not that I ever eat at the table, because eating in front of the TV is so much better, but I need the table for my sewing machine and anything else "crafty" I want to do, like try to make a pair of studded jeans.

So what have you gotten? I love to hear about shopping!

[Island Fan]

LJK....the way to tell what color dots are in the theater is to hold them up to the screen during the bright parts. The light shines through all the colors except licorice, which you then lick and stick on the seat in front of you.

Murp...TOS ????
Time of Siesta

[catmandu]

Folks, I need some help . . .
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Well, I can't believe it, but I did it again: I stapled my doggone earlobe to the table. I know, you figure after the 'crazy glue incident' I would have learned my lesson. {Sigh!}

Anyway, both the telephone and the toolbox are still in the throne room after that destructive night following the 'First Annual Mexican-Indian-Thai Food Festival' and I am plumb out of ideas. Any thoughts?

[Island Fan]

Cat....

left most of your good ideas in the throne room did ya..

How wide is the table? If you turn you head sideways can you get through the door or will it turn the table in such a way that exiting the kitchen will be impossible..

[catmandu]

Unfortunately, I.F., we're talking about a pool table, so unless I can summon my spidey-strength . . .

Shoot! There's the doorbell. Wonder who . . . Oh, I see their van, sideways, through the window . . .can just make it out . . . Publisher's Cleaning Horse? Who ever heard of a horse that cleans! No need to worry about missing them!

[young again]

Is it me, or did this thread just stop making the little bit of sense it was making up until now?

LJK, I've been on a binge of online clothes shopping. Mostly stuff to wear to work, but I did treat myself to a pair of black leather jeans. Or should I say treated Mr. YA, he seems to like them a lot!

[ForYou]

Island Fan & LKJ--do you all prefer regular or tropical dots? I 'll take any kind.

I guess this should be on the hair thread or the dumb and dumber thread but yesterday I attempted to wash my hair with a jar of Origins souffle body cream which smells like peppermint instead of the jar of Origins conditioning shampoo which smells like something you would like to eat. I couldn't understand why there was no lather. Had to wash it out but noticed hair was unusually shiny. Maybe this is the answer Fatman.

[LJK]

That reminds me of the time I mixed up my toothpaste with Preparation H.

[Island Fan]

Cat...no so sure I would yell shoot while stapled to a pool table..And about that cleaning horse..I found the only one worth his weight was the talking one.

ForYou..The purple micro was always my favorite dot..

[Incident]

No, Not the Spanish Inquisition but....

There's no need to fear! Underdog is here!

when criminals in this world appear
and break the laws that they should fear
and frighten all who see or hear
the call goes up both far and near
for Underdog! Underdog! Underdog! Underdog!

speed of lightning, roar of thunder
fighting all who rob or plunder
Underdog. Underdog!

when in this world the headlines read
of those whose hearts are filled with greed
who rob and steal from those who need
to right this wrong with blinding speed
goes Underdog! Underdog! Underdog! Underdog!


Where is Underdog when you need him?

speed of lightning, roar of thunder
fighting all who rob or plunder
Underdog. Underdog!

[catmandu]

Sure, NOW you tell me to watch my mouth, I.F., after I already recieved an 8-ball in the eye socket!

But wait, what's that sound I hear? Singing? Can't someone save me?

<<<POP!>>>

Ah! Free at last! But what a sore ear, and no one to thank. Who WAS that unmasked canine?

http://us.st8.yimg.com/store4.yimg.com/I/wickedcoolstuff_1657_1065988

[Island Fan]

OUCH! I hate when that happens...

One of these days I will get that damm Shoeshine Boy..
And while we are on it..What exactly was that Pill that he kept in his ring that gave him all that strength

[Jungleland Jodie]

You have all officially lost it...what "it" is, I don't know.

Maybe Underdog's strength pill was Island Fan's Purple MicroDot.

I hate DOTS!!! I looove Junior Mints, after they have been in the ice after your soda is gone.

I don't worry about what I use in my hair....no matter what I do, it s ucks anyway!!!


I hate to shop, so I guess I am not doing my part...I am getting work done in my yard....does that count??

Have never had Tastycakes, Drakescakes, or Krispy Kreme, but I do love those snoballs.


A woodchuck could chuck alot of would if he could, but Catmandu, you should probably keep your ear away from the woodchuck that is chucking wood.

[Incident]

Scott, AKA Simon Bar Sinister AKA Riff Raff

That's Humble and Lovable Shoeshine Boy to you

[MEW]

Tip of the day: go into any store that sells Kiehl's products. If you buy anything, they give you lots and lots of free samples. They make a terrific stay-in conditioner.

Tip of the day II. Bluefly.com has some good bargains.

As an ice cream fanatic, I would be much more comfortable discussing the pros and cons of Ben and Jerry's vs. Haagen-dazs.

Underdog was fine, but I liked Speed racer and The Winchell Mahoney Hour.

[dari]

ah mew

you are obviously a woman after my own heart.loved the winchell/mahoney hour i even got a jerry mahoney doll one year for xmas. (that was the year i was going to be a ventriloquist...that phase lasted maybe 2 weeks). i wonder if you remember that their main advertiser was hartz mountain products (bird seed and all that stuff).


but here's the question that i need an answer to:

what ever became of bonomo's turkish taffy ("b-o-n-o-m-o o-o-o, it's bonomo's...can-dee") and what made it "turkish" anyway? used to love the banana flavored one. probably lost more fillings on that stuff than anything else. it made my dentist a rich man.

dari

[69 Chevy]

Yeah sure, but "Boobular?"

[Toots]

Ohhhh Dari...I remember turkish taffy...I used to like the banana too...Does any one remember those taffy lollipops...we used to call them BB bats? they were rectangular shaped on a stick. Talk about pulling your fillings out. Did anyone ever eat those Necco wafer candies? I thought they tasted like chalk. I like Dots and Junior Mints, I especially like the licorice flavored Dots. Now Jujubes would really pull your fillings out....they used to stick to your teeth and it was hard to get them off. How much did it cost to go to the movies when you were a kid? I remember paying .35 cents..and then it went up to .50 cents. I used to get an ice cream cone every week after religious classes at the Guilford Dairy Bar in Lexington North Carolina for .10 cents every Tuesday or Wednesday. My kids can't believe that, and when I tell them those stories I feel like my Dad who used to say how much everything cost when he was a kid. Now we have this great ice cream place here that is called the Cold Stone Creamery, they make homemade ice cream. They have what they call "mix ins" which are candy, cookie dough chunks, strawberries, nuts and all kinds of good things that they mix into your ice cream on this cold piece of marble. And let me tell you it's really, really good. Of course an ice cream there costs $3.00 and up, but it's worth it.

Toots

[Edited by Toots on October 12th, 2001 at 07:42 PM]

[LJK]

I am not fond of Necco wafers, but don't get me started on Turkish Taffy. I liked vanilla. The vanilla Tootsie Rolls are kinda similar in flavor, but I miss the texture.

[Incident]

Bonomo's Turkish Taffy...
B-O... N-O... M-O...
Oh, Oh, Oh... it Bonomo's... Caaaaaaaaaaaandy !

The candy, which first appeared as a nickel bar after World War II, became a favorite with the economy-minded. Unlike some of its competitors, which melted in your mouth, Turkish Taffy eroded slowly, and it was so chewy that a single bar could last through most of a double feature at the movies.

Mr. Bonomo (pronounced BAHN-uh-moh) was born into the candy business and actually had Turkish roots. His father, Albert J., was a Sephardic Jew who had emigrated from Turkey. In 1897, the year before Victor Bonomo was born, his father started making candy in Coney Island to supply concessions at the amusement park. After World War I, Victor joined his father in running the candy factory on Eighth Street in Coney Island, where saltwater taffy and hard candies were produced.

As World War II ended, sugar rationing gave way and the entire country was eager to indulge its sweet tooth. Bonomo's joined the race to satisfy the surging demand, promoting three candy bars, "Thanks," "Hats Off" and "Call Again," which Tico Bonomo, Victor's son, described as "poor man's Milky Ways."

Then the candy cooks at the Coney Island factory came up with a batter of corn syrup and egg whites that was cooked and then baked.

"It was not really a taffy but what is technically known as a short nougat," explained Tico Bonomo. Nor was it Turkish. "It was not a family recipe and the name we chose, 'Turkish Taffy,' just reflected clever marketing," he said.

It cooled into sheets the size of school desks, which were distributed through Woolworth stores around the country. Clerks at the candy counters used ball-peen hammers to whack the sheets, breaking off shards that were sold by the pound.

Apparently this method of distribution merely whetted appetites for the candy, then available only in vanilla. Mr. Bonomo had the slabs cut into panels the size of 1945 nickel Hershey bars, which were larger that 1999 65-cent Hershey bars. The bars were packaged in wrappers that showed smiling men in fezzes pouring batter into a huge vat. Of course, in Turkey, the fez had been outlawed by Kemal Ataturk in the 1920's, but back in the 50's the design drew no complaints.

The candy grew popular, eventually being distributed far beyond the metropolitan region into much of the rest of the country. Before the widespread use of air-conditioning, Turkish Taffy had some problems penetrating Southern markets, where warm temperatures turned the bars from hard to gooey. The problem was eventually overcome with new wrappers.

In the 1950's, Bonomo's Turkish Taffy advertised on children's television programs, among them "The Magic Clown" and "Wonderama." The ads featured puppets named Bo, No and Mo. It also sponsored joint promotions with the Duncan yo-yo company.



In time, three new flavors appeared: chocolate, strawberry and banana. According to Tico Bonomo, the company sold 80 million to 100 million bars a year in the 50's and 60's and employed as many as 350 workers at the Coney Island plant, where it also produced hard candy.

Victor Bonomo retired in 1970 and moved to Florida with his wife, Zephra, who survives, as do Tico Bonomo and nine grandchildren and great- grandchildren.

Bonomo's Turkish Taffy changed hands a few times, in 1980 becoming part of Tootsie Roll Industries of Chicago, which stopped making the candy in 1989. Ellen Gordon, president of Tootsie Roll Industries, said that the company phased out the product when demand declined as tastes changed.

New York Times July 4, 1999

[dari]

wow incident

thanks! it scared me for a minute,thinking you just had this inherent turkish taffy knowledge. think i have to start a letter writing campaign to the tootsie roll company to bring the stuff back.

also thanks for the wonderama flashback. sonny fox. loved him. pretty great looking guy for what i thought of at the time as an old man. he was probably around 35.

dari

[PattiM]

LOL...I went thru the ventriloquist phase too, I lasted less than two weeks........my poor mother searched all over for that thing...

I had the Mortimer Snerd(sp) guy.

[dari]

hey pattim

you don't want to know what those things are going for on ebay. now if only we had kept it in the box and not opened it, we could defintely pay for a few bruce tickets on the next tour...lol.

dari

[FLO]

Just when the day is dragging along and crazy at work, I can always count on LiveDaily for a pick me up. I laughed my bum off at this thread! Necco wafers...we used to take all the white ones out and have someone play the priest and pretend it was Mass (talk about warped Catholic children!) And 69 chevy...I was wondering about boobular too!

[HeldUp]

ahhh, the good ol' days...

[Gizzy]

Bob McAllister, dari.
Can't agree on his looks,
but how about that toup?

"...everyone here's got a right and left ear,
but has anybody here got an aardvark?"

[HeldUp]

Is that the same Bob McAllister from WONDERAMA???

EXERCISE, EXERCISE...C'MON EVERYBODY GET YOUR EXERCISE...AND FREEZE!

Agggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gizzy...where are you?