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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/1/2011 3:16:32 AM   
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The red brick bar that comes to mind is O'Malley's at the Old Mill, but I don't recall them ever having three different types of music in different rooms. I recall them having two rooms, but there could have been a third. This was in an old textile mill building right on the river - had a nice deck for the warmer months (9 months of the year down there - that's something I miss).


That's probably it. Maybe I'm remembering different nights where they changed up the music in just two roms. Given how many bars I've been in I'm amazed I remember the brick, let alone counting rooms.

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/7/2011 1:21:19 PM   
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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/7/2011 11:34:13 PM   
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Steve's great company. I hope you Charlottesvillians roll out the red carpet for him.


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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/8/2011 12:33:51 AM   
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Now now. I'm sure for every 4.0=basket case story you've experienced, there are many more 'non-serious student flunking out of school and life' story that counterbalances it.


Yeah, that Bill Gates is a real luser!!!!

(I went to school with his wife, but before she was the richest woman on the planet. I wish I'd groveled a bit more.)

Where/when did you go to school with her?

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/8/2011 1:21:02 AM   
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Blackhorse was kind enough to invite me to lunch in DC. I'm hopping to have equally good luck at meeting forum brothers in Charlottesville next week.


I'm hoping that one day you might make it up here to the bellybutton of the universe.

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/8/2011 1:37:52 AM   
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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/8/2011 3:41:52 AM   
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Blackhorse was kind enough to invite me to lunch in DC. I'm hopping to have equally good luck at meeting forum brothers in Charlottesville next week.


Yep, still here and willing to meet.

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/8/2011 1:13:04 PM   
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(I went to school with his wife, but before she was the richest woman on the planet. I wish I'd groveled a bit more.)

Where/when did you go to school with her?


Duke, Fuqua School of Business. She was in the class of 1987, I was 1988. We overlapped one year.

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/8/2011 1:34:37 PM   
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(I went to school with his wife, but before she was the richest woman on the planet. I wish I'd groveled a bit more.)

Where/when did you go to school with her?


Duke, Fuqua School of Business. She was in the class of 1987, I was 1988. We overlapped one year.

I assume that was a pick up line of yours. "Hey, want I should show you around Fuqua? I know my way around there pretty well."

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/8/2011 2:09:02 PM   
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I assume that was a pick up line of yours. "Hey, want I should show you around Fuqua? I know my way around there pretty well."


It's pronounced "few-kwah", gutter mind.

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/8/2011 5:50:27 PM   
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I assume that was a pick up line of yours. "Hey, want I should show you around Fuqua? I know my way around there pretty well."


It's pronounced "few-kwah", gutter mind.


Guilty as charged.

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/8/2011 6:22:10 PM   
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It's pronounced "few-kwah", gutter mind.

Guilty as charged.


Reminds me of that old joke about the city in which I spent part of my childhood. Apologies to our UK brethren, but it's pronounced differently over here:

"In Norfolk, the girls neither smoke, nor drink, nor . . . smoke.

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/8/2011 10:19:08 PM   
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(I went to school with his wife, but before she was the richest woman on the planet. I wish I'd groveled a bit more.)

Where/when did you go to school with her?


Duke, Fuqua School of Business. She was in the class of 1987, I was 1988. We overlapped one year.

i can only assume Fuqua School of Business is somehow related in some bizarre manner to (the town of) Fuquay-Varina.

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/9/2011 12:50:26 AM   
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It's pronounced "few-kwah", gutter mind.

Guilty as charged.


Reminds me of that old joke about the city in which I spent part of my childhood. Apologies to our UK brethren, but it's pronounced differently over here:

"In Norfolk, the girls neither smoke, nor drink, nor . . . smoke.


I recall that at pep rallys before playing Norfolk Academy we used to chant: "We're the girls from Norfolk High. We don't smoke. We don't cuss. Norfolk! Norfolk!"

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/9/2011 5:54:39 AM   
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i can only assume Fuqua School of Business is somehow related in some bizarre manner to (the town of) Fuquay-Varina.


Mr. Fuqua, founder and CEO of Fuqua Industries, gave the school something like $15 million in the 1980s. He said he had always loved Duke since it was the only college which, when he was a dirt-poor kid growing up in the Depression, would lend him library books by mail.

While I was there Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's, donated about $10 million more. I met him after the speech he gave at the ceremony. A really interesting man. He had some fascinating stories about being a HS drop-out (no 4.0 average there!), ex-Army short-order cook who in the 1950s met Col. Harlan Saunders, a bourbon-soaked traveling spice salesman working a route carrying samples in an old suitcase. When Kentucky Fried Chicken got going and had two outlets in Ohio--and one was going bankrupt--Saunders remembered Thomas and offered him a chance to turn it around if he'd move his family across the state and invest every dime he had. Which he did. He made his first fortune selling chicken. He said he never liked chicken, he liked hamburgers, so in 1968 he sold all his chicken holdings, went into an abandoned test kitchen, and developed Wendy's first menu himself. He named the chain after his daugher and made his second fortune. Once he did that he commenced to give most of it away to schools and organizations suipporting adoption, since he himself was adopted.

One MBA student asked him what his 5-year plan was when he started Wendy's? He turned to the dean and asked "Was I supposed to have one of those?" He also said that he knew he wasn't very smart, so he always made sure he hired brains, and he just worried about the food. He was wrong; he was one of the smartest guys I ever met.

With his donation the Fuqua School built the Thomas Center, an addition to the school which about doubled its footprint.

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/9/2011 5:56:18 AM   
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I recall that at pep rallys before playing Norfolk Academy we used to chant: "We're the girls from Norfolk High. We don't smoke. We don't cuss. Norfolk! Norfolk!"


Variations on that joke go back at least to saliors there during WWII, and probably guys shipping out to go Over There in the first one.

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/9/2011 7:18:47 AM   
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i can only assume Fuqua School of Business is somehow related in some bizarre manner to (the town of) Fuquay-Varina.


Mr. Fuqua, founder and CEO of Fuqua Industries, gave the school something like $15 million in the 1980s. He said he had always loved Duke since it was the only college which, when he was a dirt-poor kid growing up in the Depression, would lend him library books by mail.

While I was there Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's, donated about $10 million more. I met him after the speech he gave at the ceremony. A really interesting man. He had some fascinating stories about being a HS drop-out (no 4.0 average there!), ex-Army short-order cook who in the 1950s met Col. Harlan Saunders, a bourbon-soaked traveling spice salesman working a route carrying samples in an old suitcase. When Kentucky Fried Chicken got going and had two outlets in Ohio--and one was going bankrupt--Saunders remembered Thomas and offered him a chance to turn it around if he'd move his family across the state and invest every dime he had. Which he did. He made his first fortune selling chicken. He said he never liked chicken, he liked hamburgers, so in 1968 he sold all his chicken holdings, went into an abandoned test kitchen, and developed Wendy's first menu himself. He named the chain after his daugher and made his second fortune. Once he did that he commenced to give most of it away to schools and organizations suipporting adoption, since he himself was adopted.

One MBA student asked him what his 5-year plan was when he started Wendy's? He turned to the dean and asked "Was I supposed to have one of those?" He also said that he knew he wasn't very smart, so he always made sure he hired brains, and he just worried about the food. He was wrong; he was one of the smartest guys I ever met.

With his donation the Fuqua School built the Thomas Center, an addition to the school which about doubled its footprint.



That is such an awesome story.

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/11/2011 2:52:57 AM   
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Blackhorse was kind enough to invite me to lunch in DC. I'm hopping to have equally good luck at meeting forum brothers in Charlottesville next week.


I'm hoping that one day you might make it up here to the bellybutton of the universe.



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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/11/2011 2:53:28 AM   
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I'd be estatic if someone came to San Diego.


Sorry, that was last year!

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/11/2011 2:54:27 AM   
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Blackhorse was kind enough to invite me to lunch in DC. I'm hopping to have equally good luck at meeting forum brothers in Charlottesville next week.


Yep, still here and willing to meet.


I'll be there Thursday. Took a side trip, currently in Williamsburg.

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/12/2011 3:40:41 AM   
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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/12/2011 4:01:21 AM   
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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/12/2011 3:38:18 PM   
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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/13/2011 2:02:35 PM   
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We have a Fuqua street here, too, but we usually use the "alternate" pronunciation. At least when there are no women or preachers around.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/13/2011 2:18:39 PM   
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Hey, Moose,

We have a Fuqua street here, too, but we usually use the "alternate" pronunciation. At least when there are no women or preachers around.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.


Curious, I go a-wikiing:

"Fuqua is a surname derived from a Franco-Germanic word meaning "guardian folk". The current spelling, and its variants Fuquay and Fewquay, are Anglicisations of the French Fouquet. Several Fouquets are known to have emigrated from France to the United States during the Huguenot period, including Guillame Fouquet, from whom the vast majority of the American Fuquas outside of Louisiana trace their lineage. The most common pronunciations are /few-kway/ or /few-kwa/.[1]

. . .

The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University was named after J. B. Fuqua.[2]

The Fuqua School in Farmville, Virginia was named after J. B. Fuqua after he saved it from financial insolvency."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuqua





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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/13/2011 10:19:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Turns out Fuquay-Varina isn't related to Fuqua (well, not directly).

The towns of Fuquay Springs and Varina merged to form Fuquay-Varina.

"Frenchman William Fuquay first settled in the small farming town of Sippihaw, named for the original Native American tribe that inhabited the area." This was in the 1800s. It was later renamed for its founder when it incorporated in 1909.

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/13/2011 10:28:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		So, a Yankee guy and his wife are traveling through North Carolina, and get off I-95 and promptly get lost... After driving around for a while, the wife prevails on her husband to ask a local where they are...

He spots a guy walking down the street, so he stops, rolls down the window and asks where he is. The man replies in a thick Southern drawl "You're in Fuquay-Varina". The man, startled at this incomprehensible reply, thanks him and drives off.

He tries again, and gets a similar reply... he has no idea what the guy said.

So, his wife says: "Stop up here at this fast food place and ask them!"

He stops at a hamburger place, goes in and asks the guy at the counter: "Could you tell me, slowly and distinctly: where am I?"

The counterman replies in slow measured, carefully enunciated words:

"Sir...You...Are...In...Burger...King!"

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i told this to someone from Fuquay-Varina, and they laughed and said; "We don't have a Burger King!"

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/13/2011 10:43:02 PM   
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So, a Yankee guy and his wife are traveling through North Carolina, and get off I-95 and promptly get lost... After driving around for a while, the wife prevails on her husband to ask a local where they are...

He spots a guy walking down the street, so he stops, rolls down the window and asks where he is. The man replies in a thick Southern drawl "You're in Fuquay-Varina". The man, startled at this incomprehensible reply, thanks him and drives off.

He tries again, and gets a similar reply... he has no idea what the guy said.

So, his wife says: "Stop up here at this fast food place and ask them!"

He stops at a hamburger place, goes in and asks the guy at the counter: "Could you tell me, slowly and distinctly: where am I?"

The counterman replies in slow measured, carefully enunciated words:

"Sir...You...Are...In...Burger...King!"

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i told this to someone from Fuquay-Varina, and they laughed and said; "We don't have a Burger King!"


I think I've driven through, or by, that burg in past lives, but I couldn't tell you a thing about it. Now I know. King-less. Sad.

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/13/2011 10:48:38 PM   
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So, a Yankee guy and his wife are traveling through North Carolina, and get off I-95 and promptly get lost... After driving around for a while, the wife prevails on her husband to ask a local where they are...

He spots a guy walking down the street, so he stops, rolls down the window and asks where he is. The man replies in a thick Southern drawl "You're in Fuquay-Varina". The man, startled at this incomprehensible reply, thanks him and drives off.

He tries again, and gets a similar reply... he has no idea what the guy said.

So, his wife says: "Stop up here at this fast food place and ask them!"

He stops at a hamburger place, goes in and asks the guy at the counter: "Could you tell me, slowly and distinctly: where am I?"

The counterman replies in slow measured, carefully enunciated words:

"Sir...You...Are...In...Burger...King!"

******************
i told this to someone from Fuquay-Varina, and they laughed and said; "We don't have a Burger King!"


The town is only about 30 minutes from my home.

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RE: Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville? - 4/14/2011 12:32:20 AM   
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So, a Yankee guy and his wife are traveling through North Carolina, and get off I-95 and promptly get lost... After driving around for a while, the wife prevails on her husband to ask a local where they are...

He spots a guy walking down the street, so he stops, rolls down the window and asks where he is. The man replies in a thick Southern drawl "You're in Fuquay-Varina". The man, startled at this incomprehensible reply, thanks him and drives off.

He tries again, and gets a similar reply... he has no idea what the guy said.

So, his wife says: "Stop up here at this fast food place and ask them!"

He stops at a hamburger place, goes in and asks the guy at the counter: "Could you tell me, slowly and distinctly: where am I?"

The counterman replies in slow measured, carefully enunciated words:

"Sir...You...Are...In...Burger...King!"

******************
i told this to someone from Fuquay-Varina, and they laughed and said; "We don't have a Burger King!"


I think I've driven through, or by, that burg in past lives, but I couldn't tell you a thing about it. Now I know. King-less. Sad.


Well, i heard that joke sometime ago... maybe they've had a renaissance since then.

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