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|    Dennis Katsonis to Mike Powell    |
|    Re: Dennys    |
|    16 Apr 25 08:11:00    |
      TZUTC: 1000       MSGID: 3482.fidomemories@3:633/384 2c641d95       REPLY: 26641.memoryln@1:2320/105 2c641afc       PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Win32 Feb 22 2020 MSC 1924       TID: SBBSecho 3.10-Win32 r3.151 Feb 22 2020 MSC 1924       CHRS: ASCII 1       -=> Mike Powell wrote to DENNIS KATSONIS <=-               MP> @MSGID: <67FE89BF.3476.fidomemories@bbs.mozysswamp.org>        MP> @REPLY: <67FD8B6A.3474.fidomemories@bbs.mozysswamp.org>        > I do remember an episode of The Simpsons where Ned Flanders says, in regards               > bad language, "I expect that kind of language at Denny's, but not here!".        MP> 'v        > looked up why that reference would have been put it (after all, they       wouldn't        > have put in that joke if it didn't make sense to others) and found there       were        > some racial discrimination lawsuits in the 90s. I do remember something       else        > being said, ages ago about Denny's, but I was little at the time, and the        MP> nly        > thing I remember was there was some "issue".               MP> Yeah, I remember Ned saying that. :D At the time, I assumed it was        MP> in reference to the crowd that Denny's draws when they are open later        MP> in the evening.               MP> I can remember times when I was in college where the only two places        MP> where the dining rooms were still open real late were Denny's and White        MP> Castle. The folks you'd run into that late were quite a bit        MP> "different" than the daytime "family" crowds. IIRC, there may have        MP> been some Denny's locations there that were open 24 hours back then.               > In retrospect, looking at it now that I'm older, it seems to be a        > nothingburger.               MP> I suspect that you are correct.              Yes, I remember an "all-nighter" with a friend in the city. We would up at       McDonalds in the morning, and we were sitting there eating our breakfast,       guessing whether the patron was "Saturday night" or "Sunday morning". Those       that looked hung over, wasted, obviously remnents of Saturday night. The older       lady with a McMuffin, probably Sunday morning. Somehow breakfast had been       plastered all over the glass windows facing the city street.                      --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52        * Origin: MS & RD BBS bbsweb.mozysswamp.org (3:633/384)       SEEN-BY: 105/81 106/201 128/187 129/305 153/7715 154/110 218/700 226/30       SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/110 114 206 300 317 400 426 428 470 664 700 705       SEEN-BY: 266/512 280/464 291/111 292/854 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 460/58 633/267 280 281 384 418 2744 712/848 770/1 902/26       SEEN-BY: 5075/35       PATH: 633/384 280 229/426           |
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