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Skriven 2013-04-17 17:50:14 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: K-Mart
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-> 
-> SR> We had a Zayre too. Long gone of course. I think my bedroom set came
-> SR> from Montgomery-Ward; my dad bought it with one of his first 
paychecks
-> SR> when he got a job after college. My first teddy bear came from a
-> SR> department store called Hudsons. IIRC it was an ancestor of Target.
-> 
-> Hudson's (Headquartered in Detroit) was merged with Dayton Department 
Stores in
-> 1884, becoming Dayton-Hudson. In 2000 the Dayton-Hudson Corporation 
formally
-> took the name of its most successful operation, becoming Target.
-> 
I thought I remembered that.  The bear was bought in the 60s, well before 
Chez Target was around.  The company is in a lot better condition than the 
bear is.

-> In 1998 Controlled Demolition,Inc. brought it all crashing down in 
Detroit. Set
-> a GUINNESS WORLD RECORD for the "Tallest Building To Be Demolished Using
-> Explosives" in their performance of the successful explosives felling of 
the
-> 28-story, 439 foot tall, 2.2 million square foot, structural steel J.L. 
Hudsons
-> Department Store in Detroit, Michigan at 5:47 PM on Saturday, October
24, 
1998.

And a good time was had by all?  I took a look at the video; taking that 
down without taking another building with it was a pretty good trick.
 
-> SR> That's a habanero's evil big brother.  I've never even tried to eat
-> SR> one. It's too bad a guy named Jim Bodle doesn't post here any more
-> SR> and that Dave Sacerdote is incommunicado. One of the two has
probably
-> SR> tried them. Jim has been known to eat fresh red savinas, also a big
-> SR> brother to the habbie. Those things will put the hurt on you.
-> 
-> Cousin is closer. They come from different sides of the world. And the 
bhut
-> jolokia is not the hottest pepper any longer, anyway. That (dubious) 
honour is
-> held by the Trinidad Scorpion Maruga Blend pepper. Also a member of the
-> capsicum chinense clan along with the habanero/Scotch bonnet/Savina and 
Jolokia
-> chilies. The Scorpion is twice as hot as the bhut jolokia at over 2 
million
-> Scoville heat units.

Ack.  You get my share; that sounds like a good topical anesthetic but not 
something to eat.
 
-> And wasn't our own (currently participating) MLoo the guy who sprayed 
defensive
-> pepper spray (MACE) onto a flat surface and licked it off just to see 
what it
-> was like?
-> 
Him and Clean Dave.  I was there, but since I wasn't well-lubricated I 
backed into another room just to be safe.  It wasn't the world's smartest 
move.  
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