Forum brethern in DC or Charlottesville?

[AW1Steve]

Greetings to everyone from Williamsburg! Grump![:D]

[USS Henrico]

How long will you be in C-ville? Not sure how quickly I can escape the office Thursday night and I'm going away for the weekend fairly early Saturday morning. Highlight of the weekend will be a five year old's great niece's birthday party at a rented movie theater to see "Tangled". [:(]

[AW1Steve]

I'll be arriving in C-ville Thursday night (when I have a dinner engagement). Departing the pattern on Sunday morning. We are mainly going to Charlottesville for relatives and to take our two nephews and their significant others to dinner (old , over-due promises). BTW, anybody eaten at the C&O lately? Is it still good? Or the Aberdeen Red Barn?

[morganbj]

Hey, Moose,

We have a Fuqua street here, too, but we usually use the "alternate" pronunciation. At least when there are no women or preachers around.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: bjmorgan

Hey, Moose,

We have a Fuqua street here, too, but we usually use the "alternate" pronunciation. At least when there are no women or preachers around.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Curious, I go a-wikiing:

"Fuqua is a surname derived from a Franco-Germanic word meaning "guardian folk". The current spelling, and its variants Fuquay and Fewquay, are Anglicisations of the French Fouquet. Several Fouquets are known to have emigrated from France to the United States during the Huguenot period, including Guillame Fouquet, from whom the vast majority of the American Fuquas outside of Louisiana trace their lineage. The most common pronunciations are /few-kway/ or /few-kwa/.[1]

. . .

The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University was named after J. B. Fuqua.[2]

The Fuqua School in Farmville, Virginia was named after J. B. Fuqua after he saved it from financial insolvency."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuqua

[rtrapasso]

Turns out Fuquay-Varina isn't related to Fuqua (well, not directly).

The towns of Fuquay Springs and Varina merged to form Fuquay-Varina.

"Frenchman William Fuquay first settled in the small farming town of Sippihaw, named for the original Native American tribe that inhabited the area." This was in the 1800s. It was later renamed for its founder when it incorporated in 1909.

[rtrapasso]

So, a Yankee guy and his wife are traveling through North Carolina, and get off I-95 and promptly get lost... After driving around for a while, the wife prevails on her husband to ask a local where they are...

He spots a guy walking down the street, so he stops, rolls down the window and asks where he is. The man replies in a thick Southern drawl "You're in Fuquay-Varina". The man, startled at this incomprehensible reply, thanks him and drives off.

He tries again, and gets a similar reply... he has no idea what the guy said.

So, his wife says: "Stop up here at this fast food place and ask them!"

He stops at a hamburger place, goes in and asks the guy at the counter: "Could you tell me, slowly and distinctly: where am I?"

The counterman replies in slow measured, carefully enunciated words:

"Sir...You...Are...In...Burger...King!"

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i told this to someone from Fuquay-Varina, and they laughed and said; "We don't have a Burger King!"

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

So, a Yankee guy and his wife are traveling through North Carolina, and get off I-95 and promptly get lost... After driving around for a while, the wife prevails on her husband to ask a local where they are...

He spots a guy walking down the street, so he stops, rolls down the window and asks where he is. The man replies in a thick Southern drawl "You're in Fuquay-Varina". The man, startled at this incomprehensible reply, thanks him and drives off.

He tries again, and gets a similar reply... he has no idea what the guy said.

So, his wife says: "Stop up here at this fast food place and ask them!"

He stops at a hamburger place, goes in and asks the guy at the counter: "Could you tell me, slowly and distinctly: where am I?"

The counterman replies in slow measured, carefully enunciated words:

"Sir...You...Are...In...Burger...King!"

******************
i told this to someone from Fuquay-Varina, and they laughed and said; "We don't have a Burger King!"

I think I've driven through, or by, that burg in past lives, but I couldn't tell you a thing about it. Now I know. King-less. Sad. [;)]

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

So, a Yankee guy and his wife are traveling through North Carolina, and get off I-95 and promptly get lost... After driving around for a while, the wife prevails on her husband to ask a local where they are...

He spots a guy walking down the street, so he stops, rolls down the window and asks where he is. The man replies in a thick Southern drawl "You're in Fuquay-Varina". The man, startled at this incomprehensible reply, thanks him and drives off.

He tries again, and gets a similar reply... he has no idea what the guy said.

So, his wife says: "Stop up here at this fast food place and ask them!"

He stops at a hamburger place, goes in and asks the guy at the counter: "Could you tell me, slowly and distinctly: where am I?"

The counterman replies in slow measured, carefully enunciated words:

"Sir...You...Are...In...Burger...King!"

******************
i told this to someone from Fuquay-Varina, and they laughed and said; "We don't have a Burger King!"

The town is only about 30 minutes from my home. [:D]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

So, a Yankee guy and his wife are traveling through North Carolina, and get off I-95 and promptly get lost... After driving around for a while, the wife prevails on her husband to ask a local where they are...

He spots a guy walking down the street, so he stops, rolls down the window and asks where he is. The man replies in a thick Southern drawl "You're in Fuquay-Varina". The man, startled at this incomprehensible reply, thanks him and drives off.

He tries again, and gets a similar reply... he has no idea what the guy said.

So, his wife says: "Stop up here at this fast food place and ask them!"

He stops at a hamburger place, goes in and asks the guy at the counter: "Could you tell me, slowly and distinctly: where am I?"

The counterman replies in slow measured, carefully enunciated words:

"Sir...You...Are...In...Burger...King!"

******************
i told this to someone from Fuquay-Varina, and they laughed and said; "We don't have a Burger King!"

I think I've driven through, or by, that burg in past lives, but I couldn't tell you a thing about it. Now I know. King-less. Sad. [;)]

[:D]
Well, i heard that joke sometime ago... maybe they've had a renaissance since then.

[AW1Steve]

Just had a most enjoyable meet with USS Henrico in Charlottesville. Where we compared notes and joined in plotting Chickenboy's destruction! (cue manical laughter). [:D]

[USSAmerica]

Ooooh, do tell!  In an email, of course.  [:D]

[USS Henrico]

Most enjoyable meeting, where we feasted on....chicken wings! [:D]

[Chickenboy]

Sounds like a nice meet up! Do tell! In an email of course. [;)]

[AW1Steve]

Many,many thanks to Blackhorse and USS Henrico for very enjoyable time. I look forward to our next meeting (perhaps a Northern VA Summit?). [:D]

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: USS America

Ooooh, do tell!  In an email, of course.  [:D]

We'll discuss it in our next "Strategy session", either by phone or IM. [:)]

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Sounds like a nice meet up! Do tell! In an email of course. [;)]

Of course. Not! [:D] I'd perfer to show you, vice telling you! [:D]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Sounds like a nice meet up! Do tell! In an email of course. [;)]

Of course. Not! [:D] I'd perfer to show you, vice telling you! [:D]

You'll note that my request for information wasn't referring to you. [:'(] I'm hoping my good buddy AFB USS Henrico will be able to provide me with some insight with which to hamstring your carcass, sir. No offense, of course. [;)]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Many,many thanks to Blackhorse and USS Henrico for very enjoyable time. I look forward to our next meeting (perhaps a Northern VA Summit?). [:D]

So Lou went with you on your VA / DC tour? What did she think of your WiTP / AE contacts and your get togethers? I ask because I'm wondering how relatively tolerant wives (such as my own) get along with AE geeks (such as us).

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Sounds like a nice meet up! Do tell! In an email of course. [;)]

Of course. Not! [:D] I'd perfer to show you, vice telling you! [:D]

You'll note that my request for information wasn't referring to you. [:'(] I'm hoping my good buddy AFB USS Henrico will be able to provide me with some insight with which to hamstring your carcass, sir. No offense, of course. [;)]

I'll tell you how to do that! 1) Catch me. 2) kill me. 3) don't let me kill you. See? Easy![:D]