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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)

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My cubicle decoration for Halloween. Our division's theme is "cereal killers." My character is Quaker Oats, aka William Penn, who has gone made and become "Staker Oats," with his goal to stab Count Chocula with a giant novelty pencil (visible at the far left, not on display yet because I have to finish up something else first).
 

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Back in the day, this would be a thread titled "Why Louisiana is going to hell..." Now it could be Louisiana Man telling Florida Man "Here, hold my beer and watch this..."

Maybe he was angry the products didn't work for him.

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This weekend has an extra hour in it*! What are you planning to do with it?

*Unless you live in Hawaii (lucky you!), Arizona, or Puerto Rico

Jim
 
jumbach said:
This weekend has an extra hour in it*! What are you planning to do with it?

*Unless you live in Hawaii (lucky you!), Arizona, or Puerto Rico

Jim
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Laugh at those that lose an hour of their night later in the year and have to deal with all the daylight savings crap.
 
Doohickie said:
When we lived in Detroit, Little Caesars was one of our go-to pizza places. I though the quality of their takeout was pretty good, especially at the price point.

About 10 years ? ago, they moved into Texas. They are really, really bad here. It's like school cafeteria pizza.
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They're round pizza here is pretty terrible but for $7 or $8 or whatever it is now, I think their square, Detroit-style pizza, is actually pretty good.

If the Illitch family, who founded the chain and still owns the company, were to go to a local Little Caesar's today it would probably be the one a couple blocks from my house since they all live right around here. I keep hoping that that would inspire that particular franchise to actually have exceptional quality (well, "exceptional" as far as Little Caesar's is concerned) but I know that's just a pipe dream. At least they keep it clean.
 
^^^It is also important to understand that Georgia's 12 seasons are not equal timeframe. Some last a week while others last months.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
It was always "Little Skeezers" to us.


Also FWIW, back in the early '90s Little Caesar's piloted a sit-down version of their restaurants to compete with places like Pizza Hut. IIRC, there were exactly two that they built out: one in Westland or Garden City, MI (near the site of the first Little Caesar's) and another in Chesterfield, MI. One of my sisters, who worked at seemingly every fast food place in Chesterfield, got a job at the Little Caesar's when it opened and I remember going there a couple of times and the pizza was about 1,000x better than what you got at the carry out places - very similar to what you might get at a traditional Detroit-style pizza place like Buddy's or Louie's or Green Lantern or Cloverleaf. Unfortunately, the place closed town in pretty short order and Little Caesar's never expanded the concept. I think people were probably so accustomed to being able to get two crappy pizzas for cheap and didn't want to spend a few extra bucks for pizza from a place known for the cheap stuff.

Also, I was trying to explain "Pizza! Pizza!" to my kids a couple weeks ago and how Little Caesar's would give you your pizza in a giant paper bag with a cardboard bottom but they just couldn't comprehend that. Anybody else remember these?

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Doohickie said:
When we lived in Detroit, Little Caesars was one of our go-to pizza places. I though the quality of their takeout was pretty good, especially at the price point.

About 10 years ? ago, they moved into Texas. They are really, really bad here. It's like school cafeteria pizza.
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Little Caesar's was better in the 80s. The bread sticks were soft and gooey. Not like that today and I usually don't eat if my wife brings home. Just not the same.
 
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For the price, you can't beat Little Caesars'. I ordered some last weekend :pizza::pizza::pizza::pizza:

Also, I believe today is the busiest day of the year for pizza places.
 
btrage said:
For the price, you can't beat Little Caesars'. I ordered some last weekend :pizza::pizza::pizza::pizza:

Also, I believe today is the busiest day of the year for pizza places.
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I remember reading some report on retail spending a few years back and Halloween is far and away the busiest day of the year for pizza, with Super Bowl Sunday and the Saturday after Thanksgiving 2nd and 3rd. But Halloween was like 2x the $$$ spent compared to either of those other days.

We used to always get Buddy's on Halloween and I learned to put in the order around 3:00 p.m. and to expect it to take about an hour. I think the first year I tried to order around 4:00 and it was going to be a 2+ hour wait.

Now our oldest is walking to a friend's house after school to watch Scream and hang out and youngest is going to an early Halloween party in another neighborhood and then trick-or-treating there. I'm on my own for Halloween this year. Sad times.
 
btrage said:
:pizza:

Also, I believe today is the busiest day of the year for pizza places.
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The “Pizza Holidays” are soon to be upon us. Those would be Halloween, the night before Thanksgiving, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, and of course Super Bowl Sunday.
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https://pizzatoday.com/topics/operations/prepping-for-the-5-busiest-pizza-days/ (Prepping for the 5 Busiest Pizza Days - Pizza Today)
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Slice — Busiest pizza holidays: A guide for independent pizzerias

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JNA said:
https://pizzatoday.com/topics/operations/prepping-for-the-5-busiest-pizza-days/ (Prepping for the 5 Busiest Pizza Days - Pizza Today)
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Slice — Busiest pizza holidays: A guide for independent pizzerias

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Ahhh yes... Thanksgiving eve instead of the Saturday after. I knew one of those days was up there on the list.
 
The changeable message signs along I-80 today say "Leave The Flying to Witches and Bats--Watch Your Speed" and "Hocus Pocus Drive With Focus." Heh.

Jim
 
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WSU MUP Student said:
Now our oldest is walking to a friend's house after school to watch Scream and hang out and youngest is going to an early Halloween party in another neighborhood and then trick-or-treating there. I'm on my own for Halloween this year. Sad times.
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Passed all the kids in their costumes at the school bus stops this morning. So cute.

Jim
 
JNA said:
https://pizzatoday.com/topics/operations/prepping-for-the-5-busiest-pizza-days/ (Prepping for the 5 Busiest Pizza Days - Pizza Today)
slice.com

Slice — Busiest pizza holidays: A guide for independent pizzerias

Boost your independent pizzeria's sales with our guide to the busiest pizza holidays! Discover top tips to prepare for Super Bowl Sunday, Halloween, New Year's Eve, and more. Learn how to maximize your pizzeria's potential with special promotions, efficient staffing, and smart marketing strategies.
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I imagine Election Night (which happens to also be Guy Fawkes Day this year) is a busy one too.

Jim
 
We just came home from the elementary Halloween parade. Lots of Spidermen and Harry Potter people (as usual), there was also roughly an entire class worth of Oompa Loompas with very good costumes, complete with orange face paint - I kept waiting for them to stop in the middle of the parade and break into a song and dance. Sadly, they did not.

This year's new popular costume seemed to be Detroit Lions players or coaches or cheerleaders. There are of course always a few kids dressed in Lions jerseys but now that the Lions are actually really good, the numbers of them were through the roof.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
We just came home from the elementary Halloween parade. Lots of Spidermen and Harry Potter people (as usual), there was also roughly an entire class worth of Oompa Loompas with very good costumes, complete with orange face paint - I kept waiting for them to stop in the middle of the parade and break into a song and dance. Sadly, they did not.

This year's new popular costume seemed to be Detroit Lions players or coaches or cheerleaders. There are of course always a few kids dressed in Lions jerseys but now that the Lions are actually really good, the numbers of them were through the roof.
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A few years ago, there was a drinking game where you had to take a shot every time an Elsa came to your door. I haven't seen any Elsas in quite a while though.

Jim
 
When I was at Spirit Halloween yesterday, I asked the dude at the checkout register where all the Deadpool costumes were and he said it’s sold out, it’s the most popular costume this year.
 
^^ I'll be out eating dinner with my sister, who came in from overseas yesterday!

We have always kept the light off and pretend to not be home.
 
We live in so secluded a location that nobody, especially FedEx, knows we are here. Down a half-mile cul-de-sac where the driveway leads over a hill and down the other side a quarter mile to the crib. Even so, as being inside a City limit, we got fiber-optic installed at no cost about two months ago.
 
We ordered out for a large supreme pizza last night. We'll have the other half tonight.
 
Temps were in the upper 60s but it was very windy last night. We ended with 22 trick-or-treaters, that was down from our record of 35 kids last year, when temps were in the low 30s. Looking at my stats going back to 2009, there has actually been a negative correlation between the temperature and the number of trick-or-treaters we get.
 
We saw a ton of Spider Man and Wizard of Oz costumes last night. It was mid-60s which was nice, but not what I think of as Halloween. We wound up walking the historic district and logged about 12,000 steps. It was fairly decent about every other house was participating, which is an improvement. We've had a fair number of the houses go from older people to young families. I'm also surprised how many people had to have $1,000 plus in their decorations. We do a lot for Christmas usually, but the number of giant skeletons and animatronic figures was wild.
 
We went over to a friend's house for dinner & hand out candy. There were 164* candy robbers that came by with lots of Marvel characters.


*my friend kept count
 
Planit said:
We went over to a friend's house for dinner & hand out candy. There were 164* candy robbers that came by with lots of Marvel characters.


*my friend kept count
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We, also, went to a friend's house a block away. They live on a busier, brighter street. Lots of kids.

Next year, Halloween is not only on a Friday but also a holiday, so it should be even busier.

Jim
 
We got a trick or treater last night. The first in over 20 years! It was a young teen wearing what looked like a Voltron mask. I gave him two Kit Kat bars for his trouble.
 
One week of working in the field and the inside of my car smells like a winter coat. Ugh
 
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