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    Quote Originally Posted by stovens View Post
    Downtown off Beale Street is the best barbeque I've ever had........
    If Memphis BBQ is the best you've ever had, you've led a sheltered life You need to spend a few days in the metro KC area, and experience the wide variety offered all around the city & suburbs in different meats, but even more in different styles of rubs & sauces. To die for!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
    If Memphis BBQ is the best you've ever had, you've led a sheltered life You need to spend a few days in the metro KC area, and experience the wide variety offered all around the city & suburbs in different meats, but even more in different styles of rubs & sauces. To die for!!
    I'm a little partial to Arthur Bryant's, but then again I can't handle the real spicy stuff anymore.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
    If Memphis BBQ is the best you've ever had, you've led a sheltered life You need to spend a few days in the metro KC area, and experience the wide variety offered all around the city & suburbs in different meats, but even more in different styles of rubs & sauces. To die for!!
    Amen, Roger. I found one good BBQ restaurant in Omaha, but when we moved to KC, I was in hog heaven (to coin a phrase ) I loved Arthur Bryant's - and that lady at the counter shouting "CAN I HEP YOU?" from 30 feet away. Fiorella's, B.B.'s Lawnside, Jack Stack. Amazing variety and taste to die for.
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    Sunday 30th August.

    Another late start at around 9:00…not entirely my lot’s problem this time.
    There was a vet in a unit three of four down from us, driving an AMC Eagle, which he’d managed to set afire. He’d got it out before the car was terminal, but was stuck here waiting for parts.
    And I got to hear all about it…he was as hard to get rid of as dog-shit on your shoe.
    Okay mate, so you’ve got problems, but they’re yours, not mine; I’m thousands of miles from home…can’t even offer to give you the loan of an imperial crescent spanner or a left-handed screw-driver.

    Away at last…first stop was a memorial to Loretta Lynn, I think the village itself was called Dickson, and I thoroughly enjoyed it, even though it was a tourist get-‘em-in-and-gut-‘em trap…and yep; I spent more than I intended.
    But it was all on stuff that will give me pleasure in the years to come.

    Carry on to Nashville and the Musicians’ Hall of Fame and Museum, 401 Gay St.
    And it’s closed on Sundays.
    Never mind; I know one place that’s not: the Lane Motor Museum 702 Murfreesboro Pike…and it wasn’t.
    Well worth the entry fee…we spent nearly three hours there…a lot of the cars on display are ‘unusual/different’, f’rinstace a Vespa (of scooter fame,) car…I knew they’d made one in the early fifties, but had never seen even a photo of one…several examples of the Czechoslovakian Tatra, cars I’ve only ever seen in books.
    Even a replica 1933 Dymaxion.
    Loved it.
    Highly recommended.
    And we didn’t get to see it all! The man told me that there was another tour of the garage…which holds another 300 or so cars! Nah…I’m about carred out for today.

    We ate before we went there, at a place called Piccadilly Cafeteria, where I saw a new (to me,) slant on buffet dining. You moved down the serving line with your tray, chose what you wanted to eat, it was then served to you in a separate plate in prepoportioned portions…if you wanted more it was served in another plate…and you paid more for it at the end of the line.
    Which stopped the greedy buggers from piling their plates high.
    If you want to get greedy; you pay.

    We’re now overnighting here for two nights, (the children are complaining about the pace,) in a Super 8 at 709 Spence Lane.


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    Johnboy, you have a bloody good way with words.. Only criticisms I have is, youre still off a day! Crimeny, get with it man. Lol!
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    Staying over two nights? You'll be able to do the Grand Ol' Opry!! Tickets here - http://www.box-officetickets.com/TN/...wJ4aAi858P8HAQ
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    Quote Originally Posted by 36 sedan View Post
    Johnboy, you have a bloody good way with words.. Only criticisms I have is, youre still off a day! Crimeny, get with it man. Lol!
    Doh?
    I look at the bottom of my screen...it tells me it's 31/08/2015.
    And I know it's Sunday.
    So what's the day/date where you live?

    And thanks for the kind words.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
    Staying over two nights? You'll be able to do the Grand Ol' Opry!! Tickets here - http://www.box-officetickets.com/TN/...wJ4aAi858P8HAQ
    We'll see...
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    Quote Originally Posted by johnboy View Post
    Doh?
    I look at the bottom of my screen...it tells me it's 31/08/2015.
    And I know it's Sunday.
    So what's the day/date where you live?

    And thanks for the kind words.
    jb,
    You're computer is still set for your NZ time zone, where it's already tomorrow. Here in the USA it's 8/30/15, currently 7:39pm.
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    Oops!

    Some people have stupid children...I blame my parents...
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    Quote Originally Posted by johnboy View Post
    We'll see...
    We'll SEE?? We'll SEE? jb, this is the GRAND OL' OPRY! There's only one, the stage where Patsy Cline, Little Jimmy Dickens, George Jones, Minnie Pearl, Loretta Lynn, and myriad others sang the twang! How can you go back to GodZone and say that you sat in the Super 8 instead of going to the show? Don't be a bloody Dongo! It'll be a Crash Hot night that won't be forgotten! Not going? Get OFF THE GRASS! It's a guaranteed Humdinger! Don't try to claim you're stuffed or stonkered! Rattle Ya Dags. Man and get the tickets! Give it a Burl! You'll not regret it and you'll be Away Laughing! C'mon, Bob's Your Uncle!!

    Yes, I still have the shirt!!
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    Actually there are two, the original Ryman Auditorium is downtown while Opryland is NE of Nashville. They rarely perform at Ryman anymore.
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    I'm with Roger on this one Johnboy..... A darn long way to travel and still not go to the best show in town, The Grand Ol' Opry. I hope to get there one day myself and to some of the bars where the singers and bands play while waiting for their big break. It would be like going to New Orleans and not taking in any of the Blues...
    I maybe a little crazy but it stops me going insane.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NTFDAY View Post
    Actually there are two, the original Ryman Auditorium is downtown while Opryland is NE of Nashville. They rarely perform at Ryman anymore.
    Yes, and the show was at War Memorial Auditorium before that, and The Dixie Tabernacle before that, and Hillsboro Theater before that, after starting in the National Life & Accident Insurance Building My point was to try to shame jb into taking Rosie out for a great show of some of the top country music stars of today, not to give him the excuse, "Oh, if it's not in the original place......" Not intending to criticize, just saying that IMO it would still be a good show to attend, even if it's not in the old building, and especially since the old building is not an option.
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    Had I have known earlier I might have been able to score a couple of tickets.
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