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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | you've got the graveyard shift tonight companero. i'm taking a night off to catch up on z's. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Russ
I prefer to call it the "late night shift", at my age the word "graveyard" has a chilling effect.
Get some sleep and be ready to get it on soon.
Bailey :D |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I guess you could call it the third and final shift? |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | W-2
THAT IS EVEN WORSE!!!! |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | i used to work some crazy shifts when i was going to college (and senior year in highschool). i had a hard time figuring out if i wanted a burger and a brew or pancakes and coffee when i got off. the auto factory night shifts in detroit made for a really good late (early?) bar and restaurant trade. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Once upon a time I worked at a magazine, and the old timers, called the late nite shift, "the lobster shift" in honor of the time of day the fish are brought into the city at the fish market. |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | ummmmm. if could have fresh lobster i wouldn't have a hard time deciding what to eat after work. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I would do bad things for lobster right now, and would have done worse things for lobster when I worked those night shifts in San Diego in the 70's. I also had to decide between a brew and bar band and pancakes and coffee, never could afford lobster although it was really cheap in Baja at the time if you knew where to go. The other problem was that the places to go for lobster in Tijuana and Ensenada would disappear from time to time and leave you driving or walking up and down where you thought it should be , dazed and confused, unable to make yourself clear to the neighborhood cops.
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Location: south east Michigan | My Bro-inlaw in the Boston area tells me that at one time eating lobster was an indication of poverty. |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | i have heard more than once that it was so plentiful that it was used to feed slaves.
there is a really big difference in maine lobster and spiny rock lobster. maine lobster wins the flavor test imho. but one winter in the carribean near the belize border i was sure i was wrong. lobsters were huge and plentiful. somewhere i have a photo of me holding a couple of "biguns" by the antennae at belt level with their tails touching the ground. |
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If I had a couple of lobsters like that in my hands in a tropical climate, I would be heading for a beach where I could build a bonfire, round up a washtub, a bunch of butter, two or three of my favorite friendly couples, some Ovation acoustic beach guitars (preferably deep bowl) and maybe some Jimmy Buffett lyrics, and one of them TV chefs to make it all come together. Might even try to catch some abalone and albacore to keep the party going for a week or so as we smoked the albacore, and, of course, kegs of Bohemia and liters of New Mexico Vintage whites and reds. Would need a bass player with an acoustic bass, and of course a mandolin player. MANDOLIN PLAYER?? here I am, where's the beach, where's the party??
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Location: Yucaipa, California | we smoked the albacore :confused:
How do you keep them lit? Don't they get the zig-zags wet??? Or do you you use a pipe?? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I guess a person from a town called Yucaipa wouldn't know anything about smoked albacore and giant BONGS. :cool: :D |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | I guess a person from a town called Yucaipa wouldn't know anything about smoked albacore and giant BONGS
...uh, check out my "before" picture in the gallery..... ;)
Before (but After the Bong)
..I was just wondering how you kept 'em lit :rolleyes: :D |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | We were wondering the same thing, and we were there!! |
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