You Know You're A Member of AW When...

[daveamkrayoguy]

OK, Move Over, Jim Foxworthy, Move Over!!!!

The name FRANKLIN gives you a WARM, FUZZY FEELING!

 

Franklin Appliances, Franklin The Turtle, Franklin on Peanuts/Charley Brown, Franklin Graham (son of Rev. Billy Graham--and continuing Billy's legacy, picking upon his mission; as he's going on '99-Y-O', this year!), and Franklin Locks...!

 

Your idea of being a Thrill Seeker:  Yes, I am washing MY CLOTHES on Heavy Duty! (Fast Agitation/Fast Spin), that normally get washed on Regular (Slow Agaitation/Fast Spin)--which is a pair of jeans, a couple shirts, one of my wife's shirts, and a couple pairs o' mah stank drahwers...!

 

 

-- Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Oooh, check this one out:

You made up your own Gain Detergent jingle:

"Ooooooh! I got the Wang-Dang... Apple-Mango Tango...! I got the Wang-Dang Apple-Mango Tango, Gain Detergent..."--to the tune of THIS SONG:

 

 

-- Dave

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VIqxobNtGo

 

[alr2903]

Apple, Mango, Tango. Does anyone remember some years back when something named sunny lemon or something dishwashing detergent, samples were mailed to people in the U.S.?? I think some of this labeling is dangerous especially if you have small kids running about. Why was there such a flap about "Joe" Camel?

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

OK--that you actually LIKED the Joe Camel Cigarette Ads!

Joe Camel, unfortunately was portrayed as making smoking look glamorous to kids...  He was claimed to have been as familiar to children as Fred Flintstone, and making him anthropomorphic did put him in a class with Tony the Tiger...

 

So the Camel mascot was then reduced back to the original nondescript drawing of the animal even with the promotional marketing projects made for adult markets in publications that wouldn't be visible to our young showing a whole lotta smokin' anthropomorphic camels, including ol' Smokin' Joe--& pullin' a Camel mask off of an unwanted Marlboro man--apparently invading their hangin' out & partying...

 

--And my "challenged on the Heavy Duty Wash-, Spin-Speed combination/Turned-Regular Wash-, Spin-Speed combination load" got dried on the "Regular" not "Heavy" temperature setting on the dryer; 'Med. High' as opposed to 'High', in other words...

 

 

-- Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Neil Diamond Song written w/ 9 others, including Larry Weiss

You feel like telling these "Ten Lonely Guys", acting like TEN LITTLE BOYS , that they gotta "MAN UP!"...

 

(In other words, 'Just get over her!'...)

 

 

-- Dave

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http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB547A3GEF0

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . when it's been years since you've made pancake or waffle batter from a mix because after much experimentation and borrowing here and there from publicly available recipes you've just about perfectly recreated Sambo's pancakes.

Oh, all right:

Heat griddle to 375.

Melt and allow to cool while prepping remaining ingredients:
2 tbsp. butter.

Whisk together in 8-cup mixing bowl:
8 oz. all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
4 tbsp. powdered buttermilk

Beat for 5 min. at high speed in 4-cup measuring cup:
2 eggs
2 tbsp. sugar

Add 1 1/4 cup water, 1 tsp. vanilla extract, beat 1 more minute on high.

Scrape foamy egg mixture into dry ingredients, add cooled melted butter. Blend on low speed 30 seconds max, let rest 10 minutes (a COLD oven is a perfect resting place).

Gently ladle 1/4 to 1/2 cup batter onto hot griddle, bake 2 to 3 minutes on a side.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . when you've successfully converted all of your favorite recipes so they can be prepared in either a slow-cooker or a pressure cooker but haven't got around to making an audition video for "Next Food Network Star" to pitch your proposed series "TIME-WARP KITCHEN: ONE Dish, TWO Speeds".

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

But practice Electrical Safety!

You've survived the jolts from bolts of volts:

 

Electrical shocks from the exposed prongs of cords you accidentally touched while disconnecting a plug from an outlet... And at least remember specifically one out of the couple of so times it had happened when you were unplugging (I was a kid who usually should know better!) and at least one thing that you were unplugging (a lamp) when you got "stunned" from it...

 

 

-- Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Smell both, especially the former long after the stove's

Nothing makes a Good Morning than the smell of Fresh Coffee and Natural Gas!

 

 

-- Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

It may be a pair o' slacks, a sweat shirt & a T, washed on Regular (Slow Agitation, Fast Spin) but I'm Drying It Old School: Use The Highest Temp & The Timer!

 

 

-- Dave

 

[thomasortega]

...When you arrive from Brazil and you spend 2 hours at Home (homo) Depot looking the washing machines and wanting to die when you realize there are only impeller top loaders or even worse, some agitators that look like a "male impeller".

I'd love to see some turquise agitators on new maytags or a super surgilator in a Whirlpool or a Frigidaire made by GM...

And the front loads... well, they all look sooooooo boring, except that huge LG with the pedestal washer (almost useless but cute).

Ok, who's going to sell me a Maytag A50? I need one ASAP!

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

You do the Daredevil Delicate Load:

(That's Right: HEAVY DUTY--Fast Agitation, Fast Spin; but at least Short Cycle on the Timer Dial...  Warm Wash/Cold Rinse; they're white garments...)

 

--Playing Squishy Material (Nylon, Polyester--'one particular item' is made from) Survival!

 

 

 

-- Dave

 

 

 

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[daveamkrayoguy]

Well, the stuff came out looking perfect (even the actual Delicate item) and I was nice to the laundry drying it on the next-to-lowest (not lowest) heat setting on the dryer, and think everything was still OK...

 

The load got followed by more of me & my wife's clothes (outer, not under) and switched the heat to highest temp (along with the actual TIMER) to do more good ol', old school BOL dryer drying!

 

But here is what happened when I had my Andy Williams' You've Got A Friend album play  during my sleep:

The Marvin Gaye "What's Going On?"-like version of "It's too Late" trying to endlessly climb to reach something on a high shelf... (It just got higher and higher, no matter how taller the step stool or ladder I used) until "I'll Be There" came on & I got it...

 

There's the used appliance store--or NEW if my dream were to actually take place in the era that this song was recorded: His cover of The Fortunes' "Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again" (a salesman in a suit played the guitar solo, as well)...

(Another time, before that, it also played as I walked with my tray in some fast food joint/cafeteria trying to find a place to sit at, as people gawked at me hoping I wouldn't sit by them... --Must have been taking place back in my high-school days, though we didn't exactly have some sort of "Arnold's" joint we'd hung out at after school, if that was what had been depicted...)

 

Along with a cook-top that had these lights which read "Maybe", "Try Again", "Not Now", etc. as it was a combined stove and executive decision maker's cube, while afterwards, his version of Bread's "If" played...

 

 

-- Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

OK, it was the Barry DeVorzon version of "Theme from SWAT" on Barry's record playing in my sleep, that I dreamt that I was trying to figure out how to escape through my tiny basement window at my parents house when there was a house fire; thank God that was a dream...

 

 

-- Dave

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Ba8rQtwY8

 

[warmsecondrinse]

Ok, I think I'm now officially 'old':

The noise of NYC subways does not bother me in the least but I was able to tolerate that high-pitched whistle in the SWAT theme song for about 3 second!

Jim

P.S. Worse, I was listening to it through the speakers of a ThinkPad x200s!

 

[warmsecondrinse]

There're a few impeller TL's that let you adjust the water level yourself.
There're also a few that allow you to do the same with wash and rinse temps (including rinse)
There're also a few that have a 'water fall' flow during the cycle.

Anyone know if any machine has all three features?

Burning Question of the Day:

Does anyone have any idea how Home Depot got the moniker Homo Depot? You couldn't tell by ANY of the Home Depots I've ever been to. IMO they all should be called Breeder Building Supplies!

Jim

 

[glomain]

jim

LMAO,we don't have one in this county,just one lowes that's it

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I finally, finally, got the nerve to see the hair salon's washer & dryer pair in the back!

 

It's an ESTATE...

 

 

 

-- Dave

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[daveamkrayoguy]

Washin', Dryin' Linens @ Smart Style Salon!

The dryer most-likely was electric, a start button, timer (maybe an auto-dry) and three temperatures--couldn't get close enough--and a start button...

 

Easy to figure the washer there was a three water load, three wash temp all w/ cold rinse & probably one-speed...

 

Are they "colored"? Yes: --White!

 

 

<span style="font-size: 24pt;">-- And --</span>

 

<h1 class="hide_mobile">Kawalek Kawality:</h1>
 

You remember the Kawalek (did I spell that right?) Boiler from the boiler/mechanical room in your elementary school--maybe the more than one you've attended--and saw the same thing in the movie, THE BLUES BROTHERS, when Jake & Elwood were w/ Cab Calloway in the furnace room at the orphanage they were later on their mission to save...

 

 

-- Dave

 

 

[tolivac]

I remember the old Cleaver-Brooks boiler logo of the flame coming out of a burly mans hand!This was on the old boilers at work.Would have liked to take the logo platew off when the boilers were scrapped.The new ones don't have that cool logo.