[Rhodes22-list] Lucky Spuds

[Bill Effros]

No, no, I MEANT "Lucky Studs" -- just make the check payable to me.  
That's a year round business.  Next time in NYC I'll see to it that you 
have a great time!

B.

Brad Haslett wrote:
> Bill,
>
> Great idea, I was about to write the check when I realized my ADD was
> compromising my judgement.  You said "Lucky Spuds". I wanted to invest in
> "Lucky Studs".  Catch me on the second wave of financing.
>
> Brad
>
> On 3/2/07, Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
>>
>> Brad,
>>
>> My favorite Irish bar is gone.  A friend and I used to go there once a
>> week every week for lunch.  They basically gave away the food to get
>> people inside.  I think the main course ran around $1.98.
>>
>> But that's not what I'm writing about.  Another friend and I threaten
>> every year to make a killing on St. Patrick's Day in New York City by
>> selling "Lucky Spuds" to all the bars.  Those would be potatoes dyed
>> green, with a fortune inside.
>>
>> You are welcome to join the syndicate for next year.
>>
>> Bill Effros
>>
>> Brad Haslett wrote:
>> > Bob,
>> >
>> > Had to do a search but found it - Patrick Conway's.  It is right
>> > around the
>> > corner from the Grand Hyatt where we used to stay inbound from Europe.
>> > There is another place called The Patriot, not Irish, near Church and
>> > Chelsea as I recall, that had $2 longnecks and  both kinds of music on
>> > the
>> > jukebox, country and western. You gotta love NYC! My favorite city for
>> > St.
>> > Paddy's day is San Diego.  SD must have the highest concentration of
>> > Irish
>> > bars of any city in America.  I spent a St. Paddy's there on a Sunday
>> > a few
>> > years back and was surprised how many people from LA drove down to
>> > celebrate
>> > in SD.  Some day I'll make the celebration in Savannah.  I hear it's
>> > great.
>> >
>> >
>> > Brad
>> >
>> > On 3/1/07, bobmellor <rhmello at aol.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> o'neils?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Slim,
>> >> >
>> >> > I wish I could remember the name of the bar a half-block from Grand
>> >> > Central
>> >> > Station ( Bill might know), but there's a great Irish pub where all
>> >> the
>> >> > bartenders are all "fresh off the boat".  This is one of my 
>> favorites
>> >> that
>> >> > I
>> >> > first heard there:
>> >> >
>> >> > A young Irishman sat at a pub in the New World drinking beer and
>> >> > conversin'
>> >> >
>> >> > with the barkeep. Another comes in and sits besides him. He says
>> >> how you
>> >> > do
>> >> >
>> >> > and hears the lilt and says you be Irish? Yes I am. The first man
>> >> yells
>> >> > barkeep give us another round and one for my friend here he's from
>> the
>> >> > mother
>> >> > country as well. The second man asks-so where in the old country ye
>> >> from.
>> >> > Dublin responds the first. Dublin you say - so am I and the second
>> man
>> >> > hollers barkeep bring us another round and a shot of your best 
>> Irish
>> >> > Whiskey
>> >> > for me and my friend here. Afterwards the first man asks from where
>> in
>> >> > Dublin
>> >> > and the second man responds with the street and the first man says
>> >> well
>> >> > I'll
>> >> > be - so am I and yells barkeep another pair of beers and Irish
>> Whiskey
>> >> for
>> >> > the pair of us.
>> >> >
>> >> > The phone behind the bar rings and the barkeep answers it. The
>> >> owner of
>> >> > the
>> >> >
>> >> > pub asks - how is business. The barkeep responds - not too bad - 
>> The
>> >> > O'Malley
>> >> > twins are here getting drunk again.
>> >> >
>> >> > Brad
>> >> >
>> >> > On 3/1/07, Slim <stevenalm at comcast.net> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Cannibals captured an Irishman and put him in the pot.  As he was
>> >> cooking
>> >> >> the cook kept bopping him on the head with his spoon.  His friend
>> >> asked
>> >> >> the
>> >> >> cook why he kept bopping the Irishman on the head to which the 
>> cook
>> >> >> replied,
>> >> >> "He's eating all the potatoes."
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Your friend Slim, the Mac snob
>> >> >>
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