Answer and ask game.

[RGP]

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Why is NY called the Big Apple?

Hmmmm, now we're getting to the core of the problem!

[Eddie6th]

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All too broad 80's style I'm sure.

I've probably seen the mosaic before, though I can't recall specifically. I hate Manhattan and avoid it like the plague.

What do you think of when someone brings up Brooklyn?

Three things(apart from the bridge):

1.Laurel & Hardy. They regularly claimed in their films that they bought the bridge.

2.Chewing Gum. Very famous brand in Italy.

3.Brooklyn 1949. One of my army T-shirts.




Why is NY called the Big Apple?

[RGP]

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What do you think of when someone brings up Brooklyn?

A goofy accent.

[Tuck91]

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Nothing really,

How often do you refill your D Line products, I do it everyday and I hate it.

[Calais]

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Shoot, I've got neckties older than him!

All too broad 80's style I'm sure.

I've probably seen the mosaic before, though I can't recall specifically. I hate Manhattan and avoid it like the plague.

What do you think of when someone brings up Brooklyn?

[RGP]

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Wow....thanks Bob! Sounds like it was an amazing place. Calais i'm sure must know about that mosaic....

Shoot, I've got neckties older than him!

[Eddie6th]

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ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE.
SEE BELOW...



Roman Mosaic Found In Midtown Manhattan

A Glimpse Into The Lost Civilization of A.D. 1957

The mosaic.

(AJ Maxwell)

The Forum of the Twelve Caesars closed in 1975, the victim of an economic downturn. Its mural, however, can again be seen in Rockefeller Center, at AJ Maxwell’s, 57 West Forty-eighth Street.
—Andrew Coe

Wow....thanks Bob! Sounds like it was an amazing place. Calais i'm sure must know about that mosaic....

[Eddie6th]

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M20, M21, and M26 and M66. Thats all I need.

How many Soft Buff pads do you have?

3..not Meg's though. If that's what you meant....0.

[RGP]

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The last. Simple phone call.

Calais,thanks for the tips on hotels,if I get the chance to visit NY. Do you know if there is still a restaurant in NY called 'The Forum of the Twelve Caesars' ? I believe it was very famous. I had a relative worked in it many years ago.



How do you like your Fillets....Rare,medium or well done?

ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE.
SEE BELOW...



Roman Mosaic Found In Midtown Manhattan

A Glimpse Into The Lost Civilization of A.D. 1957

The mosaic.

(AJ Maxwell)

The realities of New York City’s dining world are cruel. The majority of restaurants fail. Luckily for diners, there are always more restaurants ready to take their place. The new owners of the space throw away the furniture and tear out the walls and the old fixtures. It’s a kind of archeology, peeling back the layers until you get to bare concrete and brick. And once in a while a great discovery is made.
When Tom Nolan and his partners leased a space in midtown Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center for their new AJ Maxwell’s steakhouse, all they knew was that a succession of Indian restaurants had occupied the place before. Somebody told them there might be a mural behind one of the walls. Tom Nolan decided to punch a hole through it and find out.
“We opened it up and started to see something blue inside,” he said. “And we realized it was a mosaic. And I said, ‘Can we make the hole any bigger?’”
They tore away at the Sheetrock, and the mosaic just got larger and larger. Finally they realized that it covered an entire wall.
“It was like discovering a dinosaur!” Nolan said.
The mosaic showed four groups of ancient Romans around a fountain, a column bearing the she-wolf that is the symbol of Rome, and a background of archways and Roman buildings. Word of this discovery spread in New York culinary circles, and soon somebody stopped by to identify the mosaic. The Roman scene was a relic of one of the most over-the-top and expensive restaurants the city has ever seen, the Forum of the Twelve Caesars.
The Forum was the creation of Joseph Baum and Jerome Brody, two titans of the New York restaurant world (they would later open the Four Seasons, and Baum would go on to dream up Windows on the World). In the mid-1950s they decided that the city’s executives, flush with an economic boom, needed someplace big and splashy to deplete their expense accounts. They teamed up with William Pahlmann, an interior decorator known for his “eclectic” designs. He found 12 portraits of 12 Roman emperors, and the idea for a restaurant was born.

The mosaic.

(Richard F. Snow Collection)

Up front, right beside the bar, was to be the mosaic. Pahlmann drew the original design, a 1950s stylized version of imperial Rome, and gave it to the Rambusch Decorating Company to execute. One of its artists turned the design into a full-size painted “cartoon,” which was then taken to a Bronx company specializing in mosaics.
The Forum of the Twelve Caesars opened at the end of 1957 and quickly became a magnet for corporate and media leaders. Charles Baum, Joseph’s son, remembers it as the city’s first sophisticated theme restaurant. The waiters wore Roman-style jerkins; the wine buckets were centurion helmets. The menu featured such specialties as “Belgic Paté with Wild Boar, Sauce of Damascus Plums,” goose “Germanicus,” and “Pheasant of the Golden House on a Silver Shield of Gilded Plumage Roasted with an Exquisite Sauce.” Everything was oversized: the menus, the cutlery, the plates, the drinks, and even the food.
“My first time there I was having lunch with my father and James Beard,” said Charles Baum. “I was maybe 10 years old. At some point they determined that I should try my first oyster. These were the only oysters in history that required a knife and fork. [Indeed, they appeared on the menu thus: “The Oysters of Hercules, $1.65, which you with sword shall carve.”] I hoped they’d forget, but they didn’t. They watched as the mammoth thing went into my mouth. The second I lost their attention, the oyster rested comfortably in the napkin on my lap.”
The Forum of the Twelve Caesars closed in 1975, the victim of an economic downturn. Its mural, however, can again be seen in Rockefeller Center, at AJ Maxwell’s, 57 West Forty-eighth Street.
—Andrew Coe

[Eddie6th]

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I've never heard of it, though I could always find out. Do you happen to know what borough it is in?

How many different types of wax do you have?

i'll check google..never thought of that.

About six? at the moment...NXT TW2, Gold Class, DC3, Mer(might be a polish...can't remember.They're stuck at the back somewhere), Autoglym extra gloss , a couple of cheapo's from the supermarket. something like that.


Have you ever bought anything off the TV,like QVC?

[Tuck91]

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M20, M21, and M26 and M66. Thats all I need.

How many Soft Buff pads do you have?

[Calais]

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The last. Simple phone call.

Calais,thanks for the tips on hotels,if I get the chance to visit NY. Do you know if there is still a restaurant in NY called 'The Forum of the Twelve Caesars' ? I believe it was very famous. I had a relative worked in it many years ago.

I've never heard of it, though I could always find out. Do you happen to know what borough it is in?

How many different types of wax do you have?

[RGP]

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I like the Dial foaming hand soap. Who knows why.

Would you rather be really smart or really strong?

PhD. for me.

[CieraSL]

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I like the Dial foaming hand soap. Who knows why.

Would you rather be really smart or really strong?

[HealthyCivic]

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Outgoing

What is your favorite hand soap?