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On Dec 21, 4:57�pm, Stratum <stratum...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Dec 21, 4:02�pm, Phil Kane <Phil.K...@nov.shmovz.ka.pop> wrote:
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> > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:51:41 +0100 (CET), George Orwell
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> > <nob...@mixmaster.it> wrote:
> > >Anybody else see the Honeybaked Ham commercials? �Hams are selling for what
> > >they cost 7 years ago. �BUT you need to specifically ask for the special
> > >price. �If the special price isn't mentioned, the consumer is charged the
> > >regular price. �This would seem to be in violation of the above law
> > >mentioned.
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> > I don't know when that law went into effect, but about 50 years ago,
> > Norm's Restaurant in L.A. had some overnight spots on KFAC, the
> > classical music station, that advertised a New York Steak dinner for
> > $1.49 at a time when their regular price was over $2 (remember that
> > this was 50 years ago). �The spots ran twice, and you specifically had
> > to ask for the special. �
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> > Being a grad student at UCLA at the time, the offer was too good to
> > pass up. �When I got there, the waiting line was out the door and down
> > the block. �They didn't ask what you wanted - they just brought the
> > steak dinner.
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> > A good time was had by all.
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> Boy, I don't remember having a good time at Norm's ever.
> The food was cheap but the slop they served was
> repulsive. �One time a waitress approaching my table
> to take an order raised her skirt high enough to
> scratch her arse as she walked up and then sniffed
> her finger. �I told her what I wanted anyway and after
> she left, the guy sitting at the next table facing in the
> same direction turned around and asked me if I'd seen
> what he thought he had just seen. �I left abruptly
> and never returned.
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> If anyone isn't too grossed to continue reading, that
> was the location on Pico in West L.A.
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> I remember people speculating that Norm's was
> related to Donald Nixon's restaurant. �I don't
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Was the waitress pretty?  If she was I'd like a sniff.