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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:31 PM
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Why are there no milkmen anymore?
Was one too many housewife seduced or what?
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:36 PM
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1. Um . . .
I don't want to get into details here, but . . .

. . . Nice to meet you, BROTHER!!!!
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:37 PM
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2. We have them here!
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:39 PM
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4. Hey, I was out in St. Peter and New Ulm and I couldn't find buttermilk!
What the fuck!?! You guys live next to WI and the only butermilk is powdered shit in a can. How is one to make Soda Bread with that crap?! Tell your milkman that this needs to be rectified.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:41 PM
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5. You're kidding me
We get buttermilk here all the time.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:42 PM
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9. It's probably you pigs from the city hogging it all then
;-)

Seriously though, couldn't find the stuff. Had to use the canned stuff, which works but lacks a little of the creamy goodness.
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:42 PM
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8. When I had a paper route back in the 60's . . .
. . . I stole chocolate milk off of people's porches at 6:30 a.m..

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Major Hogwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:39 PM
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3. No milkmaids, silly.
That was easy.

By the way, we're not supposed to refer to them as "milkmaids" anymore.

The PC term is "lactose providers".
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yewberry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:41 PM
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6. Dutch milkman disease epidemic.
It was awful...their caps turned all yellow and fell off before their once-burly wrists shriveled.

:shudder:
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:41 PM
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7. Paternity tests take all the fun out of the job.
:hide:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:44 PM
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10. But do you have a Schwan's guy!
Love the Schwan's guy!
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:45 PM
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11. I've seen him around. When I was younger the schwanns guy was...
selling tainted stuff
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:46 PM
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12. after that salmonella thing they had to seriously clean up their act
they are great now!
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:51 PM
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13. Other way around




But look what she does with 'em. :scared:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:52 PM
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14. She is a collector!
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:54 PM
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15. She forgot that you're supposed to leave out your empties
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 11:03 PM
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17. You realize that was what led to
the Funniest Joke in the World?

Before he wrote "Wenn ist das Nunstrück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!" Ernest Scribbler wrote "The room is full of milkmen. Some of them are very old."

He threw that one away. :o
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momophile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:55 PM
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16. The Dead Milkmen?
I miss them too. I don't know what this has to do with housewives, though...
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-24-06 04:53 AM
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23. Looks like we're on the same wavelength.
:hi:
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-24-06 12:24 AM
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18. In Denver you can have a Milkman
http://www.royalcrestdairy.com/
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mwooldri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-24-06 01:36 AM
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19. Milk delivery still available across most of the UK.
My grandmother still has milk delivery. My parents gave it up some time ago and now have those plastic 1/2 gallon bottles instead.

I think there would be a place for a perishable food delivery person. IF it was set up in the right way.

Mark.
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-24-06 04:16 AM
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21. Food delivery is actually taking off in a big way here.
Order from the supermarkets on-line, then they deliver at a pre-arranged time in refrigerated vans.

Not the same thing as a delivery man making a round - but some have postulated that it's a 21st century reinvention of it.
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-24-06 01:44 AM
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20. We have them here
Little white boxes that sit out on the front porch, and he comes once or twice a week.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-24-06 04:52 AM
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22. They're dead.
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