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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

The red brick bar that comes to mind is O'Malley's at the Old Mill, but I don't recall them ever having three different types of music in different rooms. I recall them having two rooms, but there could have been a third. This was in an old textile mill building right on the river - had a nice deck for the warmer months (9 months of the year down there - that's something I miss).

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Now now. I'm sure for every 4.0=basket case story you've experienced, there are many more 'non-serious student flunking out of school and life' story that counterbalances it.

Yeah, that Bill Gates is a real luser!!!! [:'(]

(I went to school with his wife, but before she was the richest woman on the planet. I wish I'd groveled a bit more.)

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Blackhorse was kind enough to invite me to lunch in DC. I'm hopping to have equally good luck at meeting forum brothers in Charlottesville next week.[:)]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Blackhorse was kind enough to invite me to lunch in DC. I'm hopping to have equally good luck at meeting forum brothers in Charlottesville next week.[:)]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

(I went to school with his wife, but before she was the richest woman on the planet. I wish I'd groveled a bit more.)

Where/when did you go to school with her?

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

(I went to school with his wife, but before she was the richest woman on the planet. I wish I'd groveled a bit more.)

Where/when did you go to school with her?

Duke, Fuqua School of Business. She was in the class of 1987, I was 1988. We overlapped one year.

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

I assume that was a pick up line of yours. "Hey, want I should show you around Fuqua? I know my way around there pretty well." [;)]

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

I assume that was a pick up line of yours. "Hey, want I should show you around Fuqua? I know my way around there pretty well." [;)]

It's pronounced "few-kwah", gutter mind. [:)]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

It's pronounced "few-kwah", gutter mind. [:)]

Guilty as charged. [:D]

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

(I went to school with his wife, but before she was the richest woman on the planet. I wish I'd groveled a bit more.)

Where/when did you go to school with her?

Duke, Fuqua School of Business. She was in the class of 1987, I was 1988. We overlapped one year.

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

It's pronounced "few-kwah", gutter mind. [:)]

Guilty as charged. [:D]

Reminds me of that old joke about the city in which I spent part of my childhood. Apologies to our UK brethren, but it's pronounced differently over here:

"In Norfolk, the girls neither smoke, nor drink, nor . . . smoke. [:)]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

i can only assume Fuqua School of Business is somehow related in some bizarre manner to (the town of) Fuquay-Varina.

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

I recall that at pep rallys before playing Norfolk Academy we used to chant: "We're the girls from Norfolk High. We don't smoke. We don't cuss. Norfolk! Norfolk!"

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

i can only assume Fuqua School of Business is somehow related in some bizarre manner to (the town of) Fuquay-Varina.

Mr. Fuqua, founder and CEO of Fuqua Industries, gave the school something like $15 million in the 1980s. He said he had always loved Duke since it was the only college which, when he was a dirt-poor kid growing up in the Depression, would lend him library books by mail.

While I was there Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's, donated about $10 million more. I met him after the speech he gave at the ceremony. A really interesting man. He had some fascinating stories about being a HS drop-out (no 4.0 average there!), ex-Army short-order cook who in the 1950s met Col. Harlan Saunders, a bourbon-soaked traveling spice salesman working a route carrying samples in an old suitcase. When Kentucky Fried Chicken got going and had two outlets in Ohio--and one was going bankrupt--Saunders remembered Thomas and offered him a chance to turn it around if he'd move his family across the state and invest every dime he had. Which he did. He made his first fortune selling chicken. He said he never liked chicken, he liked hamburgers, so in 1968 he sold all his chicken holdings, went into an abandoned test kitchen, and developed Wendy's first menu himself. He named the chain after his daugher and made his second fortune. Once he did that he commenced to give most of it away to schools and organizations suipporting adoption, since he himself was adopted.

One MBA student asked him what his 5-year plan was when he started Wendy's? He turned to the dean and asked "Was I supposed to have one of those?" He also said that he knew he wasn't very smart, so he always made sure he hired brains, and he just worried about the food. He was wrong; he was one of the smartest guys I ever met.

With his donation the Fuqua School built the Thomas Center, an addition to the school which about doubled its footprint.

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Blackhorse was kind enough to invite me to lunch in DC. I'm hopping to have equally good luck at meeting forum brothers in Charlottesville next week.[:)]

I'm hoping that one day you might make it up here to the bellybutton of the universe. [:)]

ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

I'd be estatic if someone came to San Diego. [&o]

ORIGINAL: USS Henrico

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Blackhorse was kind enough to invite me to lunch in DC. I'm hopping to have equally good luck at meeting forum brothers in Charlottesville next week.[:)]

Yep, still here and willing to meet. [:)]