Re: Nueve de Mayo = Natl. Foamer Day ... 
| May 06, 2015 03:18PM |
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Fuzzy Money Wrote:
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> Are you forgeting the #1 reason?
> Good Business - think of all the
> partying and food/beer consumed.
Right On, Fuzzy -
When I stop to think about it, I am amazed that the toy companies - or at least one of them -
hasn't started doing an all-out promotion of NationalTrain Foamer Day!!
Just imagine Insanity Claus in a top hat, and all the 'Thomas the Tank' train sets they could sell!!
Not to mention 1½"-scale GRAMPS tank cars filled with Chromo Crude Triple Chocolate Stout
for the parents ...
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> Are you forgeting the #1 reason?
> Good Business - think of all the
> partying and food/beer consumed.
Right On, Fuzzy -
When I stop to think about it, I am amazed that the toy companies - or at least one of them -
hasn't started doing an all-out promotion of National
Just imagine Insanity Claus in a top hat, and all the 'Thomas the Tank' train sets they could sell!!
Not to mention 1½"-scale GRAMPS tank cars filled with Chromo Crude Triple Chocolate Stout
for the parents ...
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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