No more Grand Slams for FReeper Registered

Muskegon Chronicle-hard copy ^ | 12-10-02 | Lynn Moore

[Registered]

Go on, tell me again how happy you are you left Michigan...

[Alberta's Child]

Screw Denny's. You just need a good, old-fashioned New Jersey diner there in your neighborhood.

And it ain't a real diner unless it's owned by Greeks and is open all night.

[AnAmericanMother]

Man, I am sorry you are losing your Denny's! (Sounds like things got pretty lively around there in the early morning hours though.)

Muskegon, MI, huh? This Georgia girl was in Muskegon years ago, for . . . (drum roll please) the annual convention of Pyrotechnics Guild International, of which my dear husband (then my fiance) is a charter member. We had a wonderful time firing a display for the general public on a small island just off the lake shore on one night. On another night, we had a fireworks contest in a nearby field -- we and another couple had an entry which won fourth place, probably because it was the only electronically fired display (with two Electrical Engineering mavens from the Georgia Institute of Technology, how ELSE would we fire the thing?)

But the thing I remember most of all was the water ski show, featuring a one-legged water skier, a black guy, who did the most incredible acrobatics I have ever seen from any skier even with TWO legs. Was he a local? This was back in the 70s.

[Tunehead54]

Our condolences. Hope this won't affect your output! Any IHOPs around?

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[Registered]

One-legged acrobatic skiers are a dime a dozen 'round here.

[dcwusmc]

Pyrotechnics bump!

[AnAmericanMother]

LOL!

. . . I can think of all sorts of smart comments but they would not be nice and my sainted grandmother would probably rise up out of her grave and slap me . . .

[strela]

Sorry to hear this. My local Denny's is one of the best people-watching venues around. I can nurse a cup of coffee for hours (and outrageously overtip the server) and watch pretty much every stripe of humanity come through the doors.

Waffle House is good for this too, but Denny's was the first.

[AnAmericanMother]

You a Guild member?

[freedox]

Grand Slams are for SISSIES!!! I go for the Super Slam.

[Dog Gone]

My first job was as a dishwasher at Denny's. That's a dang hard job, I might add, which is why I always spit out a piece of gum and stick to the bottom of my Grand Slam. I attach a nickel or dime as a tip just for that guy.

[Registered]

"...and watch pretty much every stripe of humanity come through the doors"

Ain't that the truth..sigh.

[breakem]

What's the deal at Waffle House where the waitress goes to within 7-8 feet of the cook and yells the order at him?

[Willie Green]

Go on, tell me again how happy you are you left Michigan...

OK.

Right now, it's 50°F in Las Vegas.
And we got all the 24 hour eateries you can think of.

Hows that?

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...1950's Founder of the DENNY's Nationwide Restaurant Chain, Mr. HAROLD BUTLER of Garden Grove CA, sold his interest in the company long ago to fellow partner KIRK KIRKORIAN, went on to found the JO JO Restaurants and retired at an early age in Baja California where he recently passed away.

...His son STEVE BUTLER was a damn fine Chess Player.

[PGalt]

Hey Registered...drive a couple hundred miles and you can have breakfast at my place after the cats, dog, kids, grandkids and me & missy eat.

[Registered]

Grand Slams are for SISSIES!!! I go for the Super Slam.

Them's fighting words..and if my Denny's was still open I'd be inviting you to meet me there at 3am and duke it out!

[Billthedrill]

Why don't you hang out in back with the rest of us? Just twist the paper bag around the neck of the bottle and you're good to go. No one needs to know it's cream soda...

[mrustow]

Sorry, Registered. Although I live in NYC, when I was single, I used to work through the night in cafes, until New York cafe culture became unhospitable (it's called turning tables).