That's odd!

[lamble]

As I looked at the Head and Shoulder shampoo, I thought to myself, who has shoulders so hairy that they get druff?
Isn't it odd?
Then I recalled some other oddities:
Please add your own.

One I cant find the picture for is a sign that indicates the direction of, 'Six Mile Village' then adds 3 miles.
Some others:

http://lamble.smugmug.com/photos/224639130-M.jpg

http://lamble.smugmug.com/photos/224639161-M.jpg

http://lamble.smugmug.com/photos/224639137-M.jpg

http://lamble.smugmug.com/photos/224639157-Ti.jpg

http://lamble.smugmug.com/photos/224639155-M.jpg

http://lamble.smugmug.com/photos/224639152-M.jpg

[lamble]

A London bus, in Fair Haven Washington...serving fish and chips...how very odd


http://lamble.smugmug.com/photos/226129201-M.jpg

[GeoffMiller]

Can you imagine if somebody actually bought a bridge in London and had it reassembled in the desert?:thumb

[aerialfilm1]

On the ride into Waynesboro Georgia there is a little sign that just says Bird Sanctuary. A mile down the road the local Chamber of Commerce welcome sign lets you know that Waynesboro is the Bird Dog Capital of the world. :scratch

[lamble]

On the ride into Waynesboro Georgia there is a little sign that just says Bird Sanctuary. A mile down the road the local Chamber of Commerce welcome sign lets you know that Waynesboro is the Bird Dog Capital of the world. :scratch

What's a Bird Dog, is it like a barking haggis that will fetch sticks and hump your leg?

[BubbaZanetti]

A London bus, in Fair Haven Washington...serving fish and chips...how very odd

there's one that runs around western mass serving ice cream

http://themagicbus.ws/images/mbpro1.JPG

[lamble]

Can you imagine if somebody actually bought a bridge in London and had it reassembled in the desert?:thumb

Especially if they bought the wrong bridge, how odd would that be?

London Bridge is and was different from Tower Bridge. London Corporation were desperate to get London Bridge replaced as it was no longer viable as a road bridge and had no aesthetic value, unlike the famous Tower Bridge.

[lamble]

there's one that runs around western mass serving ice cream

http://themagicbus.ws/images/mbpro1.JPG

Do bears have to pay full fare, or do they get a discount pass?

[lamble]

http://lamble.smugmug.com/photos/212507638-M.jpg

I knew we'd sold London Bridge, but it looks like we've flogged off our henge too!

http://lamble.smugmug.com/photos/212507631-M.jpg

Overlooking Columbia River

[MTSweger]

...and we have "Foamhenge" here in in Virginia (near Natural Bridge). Apparently, Stonehenge was not only 'flogged off', but also cloned. :laugh

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3/MTSweger/Misc/Foamhenge.jpg

[BubbaZanetti]

...and we have "Foamhenge" here in in Virginia (near Natural Bridge). Apparently, Stonehenge was not only 'flogged off', but also cloned. :laugh

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3/MTSweger/Misc/Foamhenge.jpg

does it blow away in a heavy gale?

[lamble]

...and we have "Foamhenge" here in in Virginia (near Natural Bridge). Apparently, Stonehenge was not only 'flogged off', but also cloned. :laugh

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3/MTSweger/Misc/Foamhenge.jpg

I rode near Natural Bridge, but didn't stop off. If I'd known there was a henge, then I'd probably have hauled up, covered myself in mistletoe and run naked through it at midnight...it's what we Brits do!

[535is]

Don't forget Carhenge!

http://www.ronsaari.com/stockImages/roadsideAttractions/carhenge.jpg

[lamble]

Last night I ordered a shephard's pie.

Here's the oddity...it was beef!

There's a clue in the name..shepard (sheep herd) Mutton/lamb not beef.
The beef version is called cottage pie.

[lamble]

Don't forget Carhenge!

http://www.ronsaari.com/stockImages/roadsideAttractions/carhenge.jpg

Just off the coast of East Anglia and also near Stonehenge, there have been wood henges discovered. But no car henges.

[rocketman]

Last night I ordered a shephard's pie.

Here's the oddity...it was beef!

There's a clue in the name..shepard (sheep herd) Mutton/lamb not beef.
The beef version is called cottage pie.


its no longer legal to hunt shepards in the states, so they had to put something in!:brad

I've got a few I'll have to dig up, some pretty strange names for roads I've seen, and one from down on 441 over the smokes that really had me do a double-take.

RM

ever had "shu-fly pie?' (or is that "shoe-fly"? hmmmm):brad

[lamble]

What'sin Shoe-fly pie?
or is it a play on 'choufleur' (cauliflower, if my French serves me right)?

[rocketman]

and a few more.....

Who the hell thought up these names is beyond me these first two are state roads

http://roadrunes.com/May22-2004_web/images/P1010034.jpg

http://roadrunes.com/images/fried%20meat%20rd%20sign.JPG

and there was this, a private road with a little added interest

http://roadrunes.com/fourwindsweb/images/DSC_0860.jpg

not sure what the person was saying by posting this poor bear on a pole next to a keep out sign, hmmmmm..

http://roadrunes.com/August%207th%202004/images/P1010029.jpg

This is one from a ride over the Smokey Mt. on route 441, when I say it first thing I thought was "what the fu****?" well, turns out the road did in fact go in a full circle, and it was the only way for it to climb the change in elevation. You first went thru a tunnel then came out and looped around and wound up going right over the same outcrop where the tunnel was and climbed around a hundred feet in the process. Pretty cool, actually.

http://roadrunes.com/images/round-we-go.jpg

RM

[lamble]

I just saw this in a press cutting and it fits in here quite nicely:

Why is it noses run, but feet smell?

[Rapid_Roy]

I just saw this in a press cutting and it fits in here quite nicely:

Why is it noses run, but feet smell?
Not to be contrary, but I am just the opposite.
I really just considered posting a picture of myself here.

[rocketman]

What'sin Shoe-fly pie?
or is it a play on 'choufleur' (cauliflower, if my French serves me right)?


I don't have a clue (which may be for the best) but its something I've had up in Pennsylvania Dutch country. Pretty good actually. I'm sure you could find a recipe for it on the net.

Ok, here ya go...

Amish Country News

Your Guide to Pennsylvania's Amish Country





Shoofly Pie

Perhaps no other single dessert is so identified with Amish Country as is the shoofly pie. First-time visitors always want to know what it is.

We might say it is more like a coffee cake, with a gooey molasses bottom. This bottom can be thick or barely visible, hence we refer to pies as wet-bottom or dry-bottom. Some cooks put chocolate icing on top for a chocolate shoofly pie. Some use spices; some don't. There does seem to be agreement that they are best slightly warmed with a major dab of whipped cream on top. There are even recipes for shoofly cake.

Shoofly pies can be tasted in most of the area restaurants, where you can usually buy one to take home as well. Most people find them very sweet, what with all that molasses and brown sugar. If you like sweet desserts, you'll probably love shoofly pie.

But how did these pies get their name? The most logical explanation seems to be that the sweet ingredients attracted flies when the pies were cooling. The cooks had to "shoo" the flies away, hence the name shoofly pie.

Another story claims that this is really a French recipe, and that the crumb topping of the pie resembled the surface of the cauliflower, which is "cheux-fleur" in French. This was eventually pronounced as shoofly. Locals have a little problem with that explanation, and most of us have never seen this pie served up in the fine restaurants of Paris.

No less an authority on things Pennsylvania Dutch than John Joseph Stoudt states clearly that shoofly pies "are soundly Pennsylvanian, made in the earlier days with sorghum, later with molasses, and with brown rather than granulated sugar." Phyllis Pellman Good, in her book Amish Cooking, feels that these pies may have been common because "this hybrid cake within a pie shell" faired better in the old style bake ovens after the bread had been baked. With modern kitchen stoves, temperatures could be controlled and the more standard, lighter pies developed.

Who cares? The important thing is to try some. Here is a "classic" recipe, which uses New Orleans molasses (French after all?). Be sure to use a good, thick molasses….

Mix for crumbs: (reserving ½ cup for topping)
2/3 cup brown sugar
1 Tablespoon solid shortening
1 cup flour

Filling:
1 cup molasses (good and thick)
¾ cup boiling water
1 egg beaten
1 Teaspoon baking soda

Combine soda with boiling water, then add egg and syrup. Add crumb mixture (this will be lumpy). Pour into unbaked pie crust and cover with reserved crumbs. Bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for an additional 35-45 minutes (until firm). When cut into, the bottom may be "wet." This is okay, and is called a "wet bottom shoo fly pie."


RM

[lamble]

I don't have a clue (which may be for the best) but its something I've had up in Pennsylvania Dutch country. Pretty good actually. I'm sure you could find a recipe for it on the net.

Ok, here ya go...

Amish Country News

Your Guide to Pennsylvania's Amish Country





Shoofly Pie

Perhaps no other single dessert is so identified with Amish Country as is the shoofly pie. First-time visitors always want to know what it is.

We might say it is more like a coffee cake, with a gooey molasses bottom. This bottom can be thick or barely visible, hence we refer to pies as wet-bottom or dry-bottom. Some cooks put chocolate icing on top for a chocolate shoofly pie. Some use spices; some don't. There does seem to be agreement that they are best slightly warmed with a major dab of whipped cream on top. There are even recipes for shoofly cake.

Shoofly pies can be tasted in most of the area restaurants, where you can usually buy one to take home as well. Most people find them very sweet, what with all that molasses and brown sugar. If you like sweet desserts, you'll probably love shoofly pie.

But how did these pies get their name? The most logical explanation seems to be that the sweet ingredients attracted flies when the pies were cooling. The cooks had to "shoo" the flies away, hence the name shoofly pie.

Another story claims that this is really a French recipe, and that the crumb topping of the pie resembled the surface of the cauliflower, which is "cheux-fleur" in French. This was eventually pronounced as shoofly. Locals have a little problem with that explanation, and most of us have never seen this pie served up in the fine restaurants of Paris.

No less an authority on things Pennsylvania Dutch than John Joseph Stoudt states clearly that shoofly pies "are soundly Pennsylvanian, made in the earlier days with sorghum, later with molasses, and with brown rather than granulated sugar." Phyllis Pellman Good, in her book Amish Cooking, feels that these pies may have been common because "this hybrid cake within a pie shell" faired better in the old style bake ovens after the bread had been baked. With modern kitchen stoves, temperatures could be controlled and the more standard, lighter pies developed.

Who cares? The important thing is to try some. Here is a "classic" recipe, which uses New Orleans molasses (French after all?). Be sure to use a good, thick molasses….

Mix for crumbs: (reserving ½ cup for topping)
2/3 cup brown sugar
1 Tablespoon solid shortening
1 cup flour

Filling:
1 cup molasses (good and thick)
¾ cup boiling water
1 egg beaten
1 Teaspoon baking soda

Combine soda with boiling water, then add egg and syrup. Add crumb mixture (this will be lumpy). Pour into unbaked pie crust and cover with reserved crumbs. Bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for an additional 35-45 minutes (until firm). When cut into, the bottom may be "wet." This is okay, and is called a "wet bottom shoo fly pie."


RM

It was so promising, right up to the idea that we should eat something, anything, with a wet bottom.

Can't say I'll get round to make one, but I'll look out for it on my travels, so thanks. Now go dry that bottom, otherwise you'll get a chill.

[rocketman]

It was so promising, right up to the idea that we should eat something, anything, with a wet bottom.

Can't say I'll get round to make one, but I'll look out for it on my travels, so thanks. Now go dry that bottom, otherwise you'll get a chill.

:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

RM

(I think they were refering to the PIE ???)

[PAULBACH]

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g264/PaulBach/2007%20BMW%20National%20Rally/IMG_5505.jpg
Why do Canadian night crawlers cost more? Picture taken in UP on way to National Rally.

[DarrylRi]

My wife is Pennsylvania Dutch from both sides, and has always made shoofly pies. I love them. Her best efforts mix half and half blackstrap molasses (not really that sweet) with regular molasses.

Also, I take issue with that recipe. The way Heather makes them, she puts the molasses and water together with a small amount of vinegar, then adds the baking soda. Anyone who ever made a "volcano" project for school knows what happens then, and this provides the leavening for the otherwise very heavy and sticky molasses. She then puts some of the liquid in the pie shell, covers it with some of the dry crumbs, and continues alternating until the shell is nearly full.

A good shoofly pie comes out with dry, crumbly spots and gooey, wet spots, so you get different textures and tastes as you work your way through it.

And, as the Pennsylvania Dutch are of German extraction (think "Dutch" from Deutsch, German), they wouldn't have had much to do with french cheux-fleur, especially as the Germans have their own word for that veggie, Blummenkohl.

[flgoff]

There's a "Fridge Henge" outside Santa Fe, NM. I have no pictures, however . . . seems my camera thought it was in such bad taste that it refused to record the image.

[SheRidesABeemer]

I took this picture during our tour of the Camplex Complex in Gillette, WY I though it rather funny...;)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2262/1520110532_9532107fb8.jpg

[Rapid_Roy]

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g264/PaulBach/2007%20BMW%20National%20Rally/IMG_5505.jpg
Why do Canadian night crawlers cost more? Picture taken in UP on way to National Rally.
I am assuming it's because American ones have guns?
:hide

[lamble]

I took this picture during our tour of the Camplex Complex in Gillette, WY I though it rather funny...;)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2262/1520110532_9532107fb8.jpg

Love the idea of a horse standing there reading this, giving a snort and moving away.

[lamble]

My wife is Pennsylvania Dutch from both sides, and has always made shoofly pies. I love them. Her best efforts mix half and half blackstrap molasses (not really that sweet) with regular molasses.

Also, I take issue with that recipe. The way Heather makes them, she puts the molasses and water together with a small amount of vinegar, then adds the baking soda. Anyone who ever made a "volcano" project for school knows what happens then, and this provides the leavening for the otherwise very heavy and sticky molasses. She then puts some of the liquid in the pie shell, covers it with some of the dry crumbs, and continues alternating until the shell is nearly full.

A good shoofly pie comes out with dry, crumbly spots and gooey, wet spots, so you get different textures and tastes as you work your way through it.

And, as the Pennsylvania Dutch are of German extraction (think "Dutch" from Deutsch, German), they wouldn't have had much to do with french cheux-fleur, especially as the Germans have their own word for that veggie, Blummenkohl.

So much in one pie...science, history, geography, now if we can associate it with a religious festival we can get it moved to the doghouse.

[henzilla]

Don't forget Carhenge!

http://www.ronsaari.com/stockImages/roadsideAttractions/carhenge.jpg

Texas ripped it off the original also near San Antonio, a ride destination for folks.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/TXHUNhenge.html

[BradfordBenn]

You ever been to Intercourse, PA?

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Intercourse,+PA,+United+States+of+America&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title

Not to mention Bird in Hand, PA
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Bird+in+Hand,+PA,+United+States+of+America&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title

Kum & Go mini mart
http://bradfordbenn.smugmug.com/photos/206587212-M.jpg

How about towel creatures at a hotel?
http://www.bradfordbenn.com/images/blog/AustinHotelTowel01.jpg
http://www.bradfordbenn.com/images/blog/ScaryTowel.jpg

[DarrylRi]

You ever been to Intercourse, PA?
Yes, I've been through Intercourse. Had a really bad piece of shoofly pie there (to loop back in this thread). Also, Blue Ball.

[lamble]

Yes, I've been through Intercourse. Had a really bad piece of shoofly pie there (to loop back in this thread). Also, Blue Ball.

When I was in Transylvania - Georgia or N. Carolina, there were signs for a local blood drive. I went to the local Italian and had as much garlic bread and alioli as possible that night.

[lamble]

"I call this inaugral council meeting to order. First on the agenda, deciding on an officila name for this town.
We've had several suggestions, one from our Mayor, Fred Uckit, who says we could use his name.
Another from the Womens Institute's Abstinance secretary Miss Shaggin, who came up with idea of naming it after the local Tavern, The Old Cock Inn, but we think these might be misinterpreted, so let's go for Intercourse."

Genius, I bet the folk of the Scandinavian town of Blauyob are miffed.

[amiles]

Here is another head shaker

[lamble]

Off the leash?

http://lamble.smugmug.com/photos/228670339-M.jpg

Long way to go for nuts

http://lamble.smugmug.com/photos/228670359-M.jpg

Saltwort???
http://lamble.smugmug.com/photos/228675390-M.jpg

atgatt

http://lamble.smugmug.com/photos/228670351-M.jpg

[lamble]

http://lamble.smugmug.com/photos/228701294-M.jpg

Found it!

Distance is relative.

[rocketman]

You ever been to Intercourse, PA?

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Intercourse,+PA,+United+States+of+America&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title

Not to mention Bird in Hand, PA
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Bird+in+Hand,+PA,+United+States+of+America&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title

Kum & Go mini mart
http://bradfordbenn.smugmug.com/photos/206587212-M.jpg

How about towel creatures at a hotel?
http://www.bradfordbenn.com/images/blog/AustinHotelTowel01.jpg
http://www.bradfordbenn.com/images/blog/ScaryTowel.jpg


Been to both and one day I rode to Paris and Moscow, in a single afternoon, without crossing the ocean.

They also do towel creatures on board some of the cruise ships I've been on.

RM

[535is]

Off the leash?

http://lamble.smugmug.com/photos/228670339-M.jpg

Beware of buffalo diarrhea ... :uhoh

[Rollifahrer]

Faded sign inside a joint on US 50 in West Virginia: Celebrating 50 Years in Business


On a sign outside: Established in 1929

Saw it in 2005.

Did I mention the sign inside looked old?

[lamble]

Faded sign inside a joint on US 50 in West Virginia: Celebrating 50 Years in Business


On a sign outside: Established in 1929

Saw it in 2005.

Did I mention the sign inside looked old?

Talking of old...there was a pub just on the mainland side of the island I lived on, called the Peldon Rose. Imagine the quinissential Brit pub, oak beams ragging log fire, quarry tile floor and roof. This was it.

We'd sit beside one of the old doorways, askew with age...the doorway not us, and have a sweep stake on injuries, because there were two signs.
First, mind the step...an uneven worn slick due to age step
The second, Mind your head, as the beam at the top of the door was well off horizontal.

The amount of trips and bumped heads was incredible, but that's what comes from a 15th century pub.

http://www.thepeldonrose.co.uk/images/exterior-summer.jpg

The Peldon Rose is a 15th Century Coaching Inn of immense character and ambience, famous locally as an old smugglers inn.

Old-world charm abounds in the ancient bar, replete with standing timbers, original beams, antique mahogany tables, huge log fires and leaded-light windows. The adjacent dining area also boasts wonky timbered walls, a tiled floor and upholstered chairs.


Really good food too.