Paradise Found !

[Guest]

While driving down a scenic country back road I found a new place to play. I was taking a nice leisure drive at about 40 mph past what appeared to be a field. Out in the middle of this field I saw street lights (that werer on) but no houses and the grass in this field is about three feet high. This seemed strange, but I knew exactly what it was. A few seconds later I passed the entrance to this field.....a nice blacktop road.

I immeadiatly turned around and pulled in. Yep, nice blacktop roads in the middle of a field, no debris, rocks or dirt. The grass is just hight enough so you can't see the LBC from the main road which is now traveling at a spirited pace around the corners of my new found play pen.

It's not the most challenging course, but it is legal, abandoned and avalible. (no fees either)

Basically it's a rectangle, squred off on one end and "circle track" on the other. Comming out of what would be turn four on the circle track side you have a little straight and then a dog leg then another straight to the squared end.

It's got a nice long straigt out of the squared end down to the other. It would be great for a car with more power as it's a little farther than I care to push the car full throttle in it's present condition.

I'm gonna bring my buddy down who bought my '76 280Zand have a play day. No houses close by and both of our cars are quiet. I don't see where it would be a problem for two cars to spend the day there, even if they might be sliding around a little bit.

I've been looking for a place like this and it has a wonderfull scenic drive there and back.

 

[tony barnhill]

You gonna give us a location - or are you keeping it for yourself?

 

[Guest]

You gonna give us a location - or are you keeping it for yourself?

It's a LONG way off from you Tony.

I'll have to get a GPS as they don't have road signs out here. They assume if you got this far out, you know where you are. Been here seven years and still don't know the names of roads I travel frequently.

They say, "it's out by Gibson's crossroads" but if you don't know Mr.Gibson, or where he lives, you don't know where they are talking about.

I live right on the tri-county line which makes it worse. You can't get one map to figure out where you are. You need THREE!!!

 

[tony barnhill]

If it's in lower MS, it's not that far....N'Awlins is only 5-6 hours from me.

 

[jhorton3]

Area 51-B (B for British).

 

[Guest]

If it's in lower MS, it's not that far....N'Awlins is only 5-6 hours from me.

That's along way to drive to run around in circles. There has to be a ton of places like that b/w here and there (not that I wouldn't want to share the fun). I used to see places like that all the time.

(SIDENOTE: Just a bit of trivia, nobody, and I do mean nobody, from New Orleans says "N'Awlins"... except "Mr" Davis and "Mr." Davis doesn't say it unless he's on the air ( he lived in my old neighborhood, I went to school with his daughter and knew his brother. He hasn't lived in N.O for YEARS either. It's correctly mispronounced "New-wall-lenz" but with just one syllable. Anyone else you hear it from is a poser. There is no such thing as "Lundi Gras" either. The media made that up about 20 years ago. It's just a way to spread Mardi Gras out a little further and just another pseudo-holiday made up for tourist. It's amateur night as locals know you don't do anything "the day before Mardi Gras" cause you'll be wiped out for Tuesday's parades.

I won't go as far as say I'm "offended" by these, it just bugs that crap out of me. I moved to Texas in '88 and back home in '92 only to have "Lundi Gras" meet me. I asked eveyone "whet the H--L is this, when did this happen ?!?!?!" Nobody else knew either.

 

[DrEntropy]

'Nuarlns' is my take... but I'm a 'yahnki'

 

[Guest]

'Nuarlns' is my take... but I'm a 'yahnki'

close, accent is on the "wall", like your climbing it and need a bit of extra effort.

 

[DrEntropy]

Don't tempt me, Billy. I'm a northern born redneck.

...an' a natur'lized Floridian. :wink:

 

[Guest]

Some local seasonal silliness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7rUoX5_VGI

Apparently they made them change the video for "da lowa nintah wawd" as it use to have a stripped out '76 "Camara" on blocks.

Never has a more truer N/.O statement been uttered than "ate by yamamma's"

If you go to your buddy's house and his mamma's there, you're gonna eat, hungry or not.....and if she's N.O Italian, better not have plans for the rest of the day.

To refuse such and invitation is considered an insult. You might as well have called her something as you are assured to have hurt her feelings.

"It'z jus da culcha dAwlin"


"Me and Rosalie" is VERY correct in the song also.

(" 'ey bra, ya herd me?!?!?!?!")

 

[Guest]

Nobody says "the big easy" either. That really bothers me too. It doesn't make sence. An apple can be big, but an "easy" can't. It can be real easy, but not big easy.


" 'ey Boudreaux, how you did makin' dat pirogue?


"Awww Thibideaux, you know dat be big easy!"



Even thought it works in that sentence, even cajuns don't butcher english that bad. If they actually did say it, it wouldn't bother me.

Popeye's was never famous for biscuits, just chicken. One day, about 25 years ago, these biscuits just show up in the box and the box says "Popeye's Famous fried chicken and biscuits."

" 'ey Ma, since when did Popeye's start makin' biscuits?!?!!?!



" I dunno baby, give 'em to the dog."



Beaux (my dog then) really like them. There weren't bad, they just looked like beige hockey pucks and were dry. I never understood eating something dry and crispy, only to be followed with something dry and flakey. They didn't have the red beans out yet IIRC. I just don't get it. Same with chicken and waffles. It might be good, but I'm not eatin' it. Beaux ate really well till he ran away.



( at least that was the story that I got, I DON'T think it went down like that. "saeBeauxbeaux" was a REALLY REALLY good dog !!!!!!)

(pronouned: "say BoBo". Even though I made it up as a kid, I have no idea what it means, it just sounded right and regoinally correct. I reserve the right to name my dog whatever I please. He was MY dog, and THAT was his name!)




More useless trivia: The "X" at the end of Cajuun/French names comes from the early cajuns not being able to read or write. (notice I didn't say "illiterate", as I'm sure I just mispelled it, which only makes this better).



These early peoples would "make theire mark" on documents by an "X". As they learned to write, they incorporated the X into their names, after all, it had always been there and correct. This, I don't have a problem with at all.

I guess I'm a bit of a purist and can't stand to see media or pop culture dillute or add anything to the culture I was raised in and say it's always been there. Some of you folks are that way with cars. I'm sure those of you understand.


I'm not getting into Popeye's red beans and rice, they're good but don't have the proper regonially correct flavor IMO. I do, however; advocate their use with chicken. I like the Cajun rice too, but Cajuns might have a problem with it like I do with the biscuits.


Anyway, thanks for allowing me to clarify. I'll climb down off of my soapbox (for now).


BTW, Tony, I didn't call you a poser, I hope you didn't take it that way.


Oh, one more thing. Gumbo HAS to have okra in it and should be made with seafood and not chicken, turkey or something other than sausage as the main meat ingrediate. It should not be opaque or runny like soup. If you can't stand your spoon up in it or eat it with a fork, IT'S NOT GUMBO !!!!

("gumbo" is the African word for okra so I'm told, but there's a WHOLE LOT of Africa, and I'm sure folks there spoke more than one tribal lauguage. I've never lived in Africa, so I can't comment on it. I have, however; worked in N.O east. I've always believed in okra as a main ingrediant in gumbo simply for the fact yuo really don't see it in anything else and it's ALWAYS been there no matter what else you put in it.


GUMBO DOES NOT COME IN A BOX !!!! ( althought Kelly had some here, and after my initial shock that my wife of cajun decent would bring such an abomination into my house, she fixed it and it wasn't all that bad. She added it to something else and it was good. She doesn't know how to make gumbo correctly, which bugs me only for the fact that she should. She has since been forbiden to bring such things into the house, good or not. She's an excellent cook, I just don't like runny gumbo with foul in it. (I don't care what Chef Paul says !!!!) Chicken and turkey are good, I just don't think they belong there. Yeah, I know, I complain about the Chinese guy...)

 

[DrEntropy]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:] If you go to your buddy's house and his mamma's there, you're gonna eat, hungry or not.....and if she's N.O Italian, better not have plans for the rest of the day. [/QUOTE]

I grew up Italian. House hopping was always a treat. "Mangia, mangia!!" Italian grandmothers, gotta love 'em! Couldn't go hungry in our family ~or~ neighborhood. I was skinny as a post so they were always tryin' to fatten me up. :wink:

And I really miss my uncle Francis' wine... :frown:

 

[Guest]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:] If you go to your buddy's house and his mamma's there, you're gonna eat, hungry or not.....and if she's N.O Italian, better not have plans for the rest of the day.

I grew up Italian. House hopping was always a treat. "Mangia, mangia!!" Italian grandmothers, gotta love 'em! Couldn't go hungry in our family ~or~ neighborhood. I was skinny as a post so they were always tryin' to fatten me up. :wink:

And I really miss my uncle Francis' wine... :frown:[/QUOTE]

My best friend was itailan on his mother's side and I could write for days about his mother and grandmother overstuffing us.

Above post has been re-edited so make sure you don't miss that. Just the last paragraph.

I was a skinny kid too so I hear ya.

Don't even get me started on my GM on Mom's side. You REALLY would have LOVED her !!! (everyone did, even the nurses in the hospital, she was that kinda person. Nov 5 she's been gone 12 years. :frown:

I'd tell the story, but I aways have a really hard time with it, even now after all this time. Maybe one day.

 

[DrEntropy]

I love food, period. Especially what th' gourmet crowd consider peasant food. Not too particular about th' culture it comes from, either. Dear Horsemits is of eastern European descent and her mum FEEDS me. German, Ukranian, all wonderful. Borsht to peroghies, stuff'd cabbage, whatever... and I spent time in S.E. Asia, learn'd to cook rice properly and enjoyed Thai home cooking. Learned how to make a lot of it myself, too.


gawd, now th' keyboard has drool all over it. :shocked:

 

[Guest]

I love food, period.

stuff'd cabbage,

AMEN !!

stuff't cabage was one of my Grandmother's specialties. She was Lebanese and knew how to do it proper !!! ( I never ate anytihg she made that wasn't good.)

 

[DrEntropy]

Well, I will say my dear Italian mamma couldn't prep rice. She always overcooked it, I hated rice as a kid. Once I got out into the world and ate REAL rice I was enlighten'd. Now 'smits has found the way to do it ~perfectly~ in a microwave oven.

And last week she made a killer apple strudel.

We gotta stop this food stuff! I'll be gnawin' th' monitor soon.

 

[Guest]

Kelly's cajun grandfather ALWAYS had to have rice on the table for every meal, no matter what they were having.

I really can't see rice with apple strudel, but ole boy wouldn't have been scared.

I wish I could eat fruit, but I have a mental block w/ the texture. Smoothies is all I can do. I'll eat anything, as long as the texture is right and it tastes good.

Gotta go, tweo gunshows today and I'll only be able to make one.

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Oh, one more thing. Gumbo HAS to have okra in it and should be made with seafood and not chicken, turkey or something other than sausage as the main meat ingrediate. It should not be opaque or runny like soup. If you can't stand your spoon up in it or eat it with a fork, IT'S NOT GUMBO !!!!

ABSOLUTELY!!!

Shrimp and okra, or it ain't gumbo! (We add crab claws for a little lagniappe!)

Mickey

 

[DrEntropy]

I'm havin' a jones fer some mud bugs!!! :shocked:

 

[JPSmit]

Nobody says "the big easy" either. That really bothers me too. It doesn't make sence. An apple can be big, but an "easy" can't. It can be real easy, but not big easy.

Kellysguy I think it is safe to say you have waaay to much time on your hands when you are thinking this manner of "deep" thoughts.

So, I'd suggest you immediately start planning an extensive trip to points north and east and west to help the rest of us get our cars repaired, restored and road worthy.