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- From: sarust@gallua.gallaudet.edu (Scott A. Rust)
- Subject: Re: White Castles (White Castles)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.105007.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu>
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- Organization: Gallaudet University English Department
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:50:07 GMT
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- In article <0fLVL8O00WBOM9J5Q5@andrew.cmu.edu>, Jason Paul Togyer <jt3y+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- > Ahh, but White TOWERS were once quite common on the East Coast, so if
- > President Bill could find one open, he could buy a bagful to munch on
- > during cabinet meetings. White Towers, of course, were similar enough
- > to White Castles that they were successfully sued by the latter chain in
- > the '30s. This is probably what one reader said he saw in Baltimore;
- > there were probably a dozen in the area.
-
- That reminds me: My wife is from Toldeo, Ohio and there are no White
- Castles there either, but there is a place called White Tower. These places
- look scarier than the White Castles in Cincinnati I always ate in.
-
- >
- > ObOldBadJoke:
- >
- > 1st Man: "I took my wife out to eat at the Porcelain Room last night."
- > 2d Man: "Oh, yeah?"
- > 1st Man: "Yeah, the White Tower."
- >
- A friend of mine used to call White Castles : Chateau le Blanc
- Makes it sound good at least, eh?
-
-
- scott
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