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With plenty of butter. And, don't be cheap with it, or else.

Speaking of ersters, always provide plenty of butter when serving oyster stew. You don't want to rile up your dinner guests by cheaping out on the moo spread.. From the Brooklyn Standard-Union of September 15, 1877:: ALL ABOUT A STEW--Oysters That Did Not Have Enough Butter With Them What Came of a Request for More Butter-Deadly Sunday Morning Affray in a Saloon Stabbed with a Knife and Bitten by a Dog-Alleged Bad Record of Assailant The oyster saloon of Adam CHRISTMAN, No. 416 Broadway, E.D.. was the scene of a brutal affray at a few minutes after one0'clock yesterday morning. It appears that two employees of SCHULZ' bakery, one of them John GRAHAM, the brother-in-law of the foreman of the bakery, and a resident of 53 Harrison avenue, visited the saloon and ordered stews. CHRISTMAN, the proprietor, was behind the counter, and under his direction the oysters were in a short time placed before the visitors. GRAHAM, thinking that the amount of butter in his stew was insufficient, added to it the piece that the waiter had provided for the crackers, and then called for more. CHRISTMAN, however, OBJECTED TO FURNISHING MORE BUTTER and on GRAHAM expostulating with him positively refusal to accede to the latter's demand. "Well," exclaimed GRAHAM, "if I can't have more butter I won't take the stew," and suiting the action to the words angrily dashed his oyster dish down upon the counter. The dish broke into fragments, and its contents spattered in very direction. The proprietor, CHRISTMAN, is an excitable, quarrelsome German, and it scarcely required the breaking of his crockery to arouse his passionate nature to a dangerous degree. Catching up a long oyster knife he struck GRAHAM two powerful blows on the head with it, at the same time hitting his victim with his left fist, while a black spitz do belonging on the premises fastened its teeth first in the left and then in the right leg of GRAHAM. Then GRAHAM was PERMITTED TO CRAWL OUT of the saloon, and with the assistance of his friend reached his home where Dr. SMITH attended to him. A citizen of No. 468 Broadway, NAMED John GRADY, heard of the affray and carried his information tot he Thirteenth Precinct Stationhouse. Sergeant-in-command BARWICK at once placed Sergeant LEAVEY, Roundsman CORNELL and the reserve force on the case, and CHRISTMAN was found, secreted in a closet in his house, and arrested. He gave his age as fifty. At first it was thought that GRAHAM, who is only twenty-five years of age, was not dangerously injured, but this morning his condition was reported to be so critical that Police Surgeon MURPHY was directed to give him a careful examination. Acting Captain BARWICK says, that while from all accounts GRAHAM is a hard-working and law-abiding man, the prisoner CHRISTMAN, on the other hand, bears a bad reputation. Fifteen years ago, according to BARWICK, CHRISTMAN shot a peddler, but no complaint was ever made and the case was hushed up. The peddler is now dead. CHRISTMAN next served four years for committing mayhem, having bitten a man in the nose, and was subsequently arrested in connection with a clubbing case. The prisoner was this morning committed to jail for examination.

You know how that goes, Harry. They call car hoods bonnets. Put on your old grey car hood with the blue ribbons on itWhile I hitch old Dobbin to the shayThrough those fields of clover you'll ride up to Dover on our golden wedding dayThey got to show off and have a different word for everything, sorta like the French.

The British were too cultured to consider oysters as "fresh fish". After all, they used to eat this for breakfast and at High Tea, ay wot!

That's January Jones. She played Betty Draper on "Mad Men". The photo is part of a shoot she did for some high end beauty care shop called Violet Grey. My wife is always looking and buying BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH like this. The "VG" on the lower left of the photo gave it away. .

Mechanical refrigeration and air conditioning were in existence even back in the early 20th century. Willis Haviland Carrier of New York, invented the first air conditioner in 1902 in Brooklyn . Titanic had a very complex refrigeration/freezing system: Refrigeration and Insulation

Note that there were 1,000 oyster forks listed; yet, no oysters. They forgot the friggin' oysters! What good are oyster forks if you don't have oysters??!? They're right there on the menu dammit, right below the horse d'ovaries! That would have been reason enough to turn around and cancel the voyage. Is it too late to ask for a refund?

You coulda bought one of these for less. They also like to swill beer.

Try that today and you'd have a battalion of shysters pouncing on you like a pack of hyenas on a zebra carcass.

Turkish Taffy Joyva Chocolate Marshmallow Twists and Chocolate Raspberry Jelly Rings all washed down with an ice cold

Captain Company was the merchandising division of Warren Publishing, Inc., which published Famous Monsters of Filmland, Eerie, Creepy, Vampirella and other titles. Warren originally started in Philadelphia, moving to 145 E. 32nd St., NYC in 1965. That was great for me. I used to beg and get my mother to take me to the offices once in a while so I could buy (actually so she could. She had the mazuma ) all that neat junk in the magazines and get back issues. I never could get FMOF #1 because, even in the mid '60s, it cost $100 through the magazine. Captain company is still in business. It's owned by the putz who purchased the publishing rights to Famous Monsters: Captain Company

Who are her "friends"?

Ditto at the new Michaels near me.

Ain't it funny....the same bunch of stronzos who made sure we couldn't get alcohol for thirteen years because it wasn't good for you are now extolling its virtues. You want that i check yer earl, pally?

Joe, I was pondering your question further. Google "Greenpoint oil spill". My neighborhood in Brooklyn sits on a 30,000,000 gallon oil spill, THREE times the size of the Exxon Valdez spill, thanks to Standard Oil/Mobil/ExxonMobil, Amoco/BP and Paragon Oil/ChevronTexaco. Check out some of the oil spill-related hijinks and stories: Site of the Great Greenpoint Sewer Explosion The Most Terrifying Fire in Greenpoint History The Ooze New York's Dirty Secret: The effort to clean up America's largest oil spill With that amount of petroleum underground, we could apply for membership in OPEC. So, in rethinking my answer, I'd say either would be preferable compared to what we have.

The key word is "was", I got rid of the car in 1993. I hit a large pothole near the 59th St. Bridge and the rear struts went right through the top of the strut towers. it wasn't worth the cost of repairing the resulting damage. I like borscht with some sour cream.

I live in an apartment building so I won't encounter either. My point is that ethanol blend fuels are a scam. The emission control equipment found in vehicles is supposed to, as I mentioned earlier, reduce toxic emissions to negligible levels. It's bad enough that they restrict exhaust flow, thereby affecting performance. The use of ethanol blends, in combination with the catalytic converters, lower performance more. I had an almost 10% increase in horsepower in my old '86 Taurus with a junkyard SHO 3.0 L V6 after the pellets inside the catalytic converter "mysteriously" disappeared. City driving takes a toll on mileage, especially with the traffic here, and ethanol blends make it even worse. Sorry, but ethanol production for use as a gas additive is nothing more than a subsidy for corn farmers to maintain a high price for that particular crop. Grow beets.

Get less for more.

Nice shot glass.

Not here in NYC, man. When the pumps are switched over to the ethanol blend for the winter, the price goes up about 25-40 cents per gallon. Besides, catalytic converters are supposed to reduce emissions to almost negligible levels; so, what's up with that scam? That ain't gas fumes I smell. That's the stench of quid pro quo and repayment in kind for the bakshish from the corn growers association to the politicians. Why doesn't PITA get involved?!? They're letting my filet mignon starve fer chrissakes!!! Say "NO!" to E85! Say "YES!' to cheap beef!

Don't you mean "punch"? I knew hardcore alkies who would distill Sterno in order to get buzzed.

Nothing wrong with that. Everybody understands drunk. Hic!

Yup. E85 doesn't mix well with orange juice. If I had a choice, I'd go with Aqua Velva.

Everclear tastes better.