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Randaconda posted:I used to listen to these two dudes called Lex and Terry back in the 90s. Haven't thought about them in probably fifteen years or more They're still around, still doing the same schtick. A local station pipes them in in the 6 to 10am slot, and their humor has really become insufferable because it hasn't moved on with the times.
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Naked Man Punch posted:Coincidentally, that call came up on my MP3 player on my commute today. I have it listed as one of Opie and Anthony's bits - but I've never bothered to validate that. Real Networks is still around and kicking. They've pivoted a number of times and right now their big product is a facial recognition suite aimed at schools.
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Len posted:Like how Chase was calling me to do something with my credit card that I don't have? Basically. When the call is coming from a PBX or SIiP trunk, the PSTN just believes whatever you say about the call.
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Geomancing posted:They're still around, still doing the same schtick. A local station pipes them in in the 6 to 10am slot, and their humor has really become insufferable because it hasn't moved on with the times. Jesus, they gotta be sixty now
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I was forced to spend way too much time in high school (late 2000s) listening to Bubba the Love Sponge because I always had the radio playing my favorite classic rock channel when I went to sleep, but they simulcast his show and it always came on right at 6:00 AM. I ended up actually having a sort of fight-or-flight reaction to the "Voodoo Child" intro because that's what introduced his show and also meant I had 5 or 10 minutes left before it was time for school. Having the music I need to fall back asleep interrupted by someone as vile as Bubba the Love Sponge only made it worse. As sad as I was to see 95.6 get shut down and turned into an AM simulcast, at least I never had to listen to that motherfucker again.
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Cartoon Man posted:
Goddamn get a load of that salad bar. Also, I don't recognize that old-timey Pizza Hut font...
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There's still a Pizza Hut like that in Henderson, TN (next to a Piggly Wiggly too) https://www.google.com/maps/@35.433...!7i13312!8i6656
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Vanagoon posted:There's still a Pizza Hut like that in Henderson, TN (next to a Piggly Wiggly too) You must go there and report back as to whether they still have a working tabletop Mrs. Pac-Man. Goon speed!
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Since her surname was Pac-Man when she was still a Ms., does that mean that Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man were related?
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Vanagoon posted:There's still a Pizza Hut like that in Henderson, TN (next to a Piggly Wiggly too) The one in east Athens GA got turned into an adult store.
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Thomamelas posted:Real Networks is still around and kicking. They've pivoted a number of times and right now their big product is a facial recognition suite aimed at schools. And here I thought the worst of their crimes was long ago
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Grassy Knowles posted:And here I thought the worst of their crimes was long ago Like Audio that sounded like it was next to a waterfall all the time. God drat I do not miss early internet video that had constant gurgling noises on it. Speaking of early video. It was popular in my high school nerd circles to get short porn clips in FLV format. Basically gifs but they'd play on a player in Dos. They were a few kb because they'd be grainy and small, but you could see boobs bouncing around. C:> flvplayer.exe -r -p 3girls.flv -r for replay and -p to start playing it it loaded
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Were the clips video-only? Or was there a flag to play them muted so mum wouldn't hear?
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RC and Moon Pie posted:The one in east Athens GA got turned into an adult store. I hope they called it Pizza Slut. Or Pizza Smut.
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The Pizza Hut salad bar reminds me of one of the best deals in the 90s. Wendy's Super Bar was awesome. I could get all the white people tacos, bland spaghetti, chili or an awesome salad I wanted for just $2.99  . It went away because it was pretty much too successful. It was discontinued because employees had a hard time keeping it stocked and clean in addition to their regular duties so sadly they went away in 1998  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gzNhfJek0s I would hit them up at least once a week trying to maximize my minimum wage video store job cash.
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Croatoan posted:The Pizza Hut salad bar reminds me of one of the best deals in the 90s. Wendy's Super Bar was awesome. I could get all the white people tacos, bland spaghetti, chili or an awesome salad I wanted for just $2.99 I definitely remember in the 90's just about everywhere had some sort of bar or buffet, I especially miss the Godfather's Pizza lunch buffets. They may still have them but I also haven't lived near a Godfather's Pizza in like 16 years. I feel like the 90's were really kinda the end of intentionally sitting down to eat at a fast food place. I mean it still happens, but it seems to be 90% old people who've been chowing down at the Golden Arches every day for 40 years. Hell they don't even have play places anymore, I remember about 7 years ago now (I'm getting loving old  ) when I was leaving town I had breakfast in McDonald's with a friend, and they had quietly tore out the old play place and turned it into a "lounge."I'm guessing the fact that Pizza Hut and it's ilk no longer have a dining area is just a portent for fast food in general as it becomes more of a staple for travelers needing cheap hot snacks, or the go to for when you've forgotten your lunch on the counter at home. Even the last few times I've been inside a Taco Bell they don't have someone operating the counter anymore and just have you use the kiosk (much to the confusion of boomers who have no one to boss around).
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Around the mid 2000s Americans also started to become more health conscious and so while fast food places didnt really fail because they were so ubiquitous they did see enough of a drop in numbers that many have tried to rebrand, like how McDonald's now tries to look like a starbucks.
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Pizza Butt *thinks really hard for a moment* I'll have the stuffed...butts. The pizza hut near me turned into a generic family restaurant but retains it's iconic hut shape. I still get mildly excited, then disappointed every time I drive by.
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I like that there's a scene in The Bad News Bears ('76), that takes place in a Pizza Hut and there's an actual alcohol bar serving beer in it.
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twistedmentat posted:Like Audio that sounded like it was next to a waterfall all the time. God drat I do not miss early internet video that had constant gurgling noises on it. FLC/FLI not FLV.
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Iron Crowned posted:I definitely remember in the 90's just about everywhere had some sort of bar or buffet, I especially miss the Godfather's Pizza lunch buffets. They may still have them but I also haven't lived near a Godfather's Pizza in like 16 years. I think the other thing about salad bars going away is now that healthy options are desirable and these places know it, they can now sell salads that are $6 or $7. The only local good salad bars I know of are at Golden Corral but fuuuck going there and Stevi B's which is a gimmick pizza buffet place that's in Georgia. They sell stuff like a baked potato pizza or a taco pizza. My kids love it (It's meh).
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Last year I took my girlfriend to a Sizzler when we were in Puerto Rico and she loved it because the salad bar was really good.
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I think there's a Ruby Tuesdays around here that has an OK salad bar.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Around the mid 2000s Americans also started to become more health conscious and so while fast food places didnt really fail because they were so ubiquitous they did see enough of a drop in numbers that many have tried to rebrand, like how McDonald's now tries to look like a starbucks. I think part of it was that people also became better educated on what GOOD food actually looked like out of a proper cafe or restaurant for a decent price. Not even to be food-snobby, even just basic things like better-quality burgers that aren't merely reheated.
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Vanagoon posted:There's still a Pizza Hut like that in Henderson, TN (next to a Piggly Wiggly too) I imagine most have been documented, but you can totally tell what used to be a pizza hut.
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Croatoan posted:IThe only local good salad bars I know of are at Golden Corral but fuuuck going there One of my cow orkers is a big fat guy. Fat enough that he eventually had gastric reduction surgery(*). One time on work travel, we’re in Huntsville. Now, we’re in flight test, so we have flight suits that we need to wear if we’re going to be flying. I wear mine maybe a few times a year. He wears his *constantly*. He loves wearing his flight suit. He’s got it covered in patches from all the programs he works; nobody else does this. Anyway, he insists on going to Golden Corral for lunch. Ugh. We’re at GC in Huntsville, guy’s cramming food down his gullet. This old crinkly couple notices him while they’re at the register. Old guy has a walker. He and his wife start very slowly hobbling over to our table. They get there and the man says “Excuse me,” looking at my cow orker and his 350 Nomex-wrapped pounds, “Are you an astronaut?” I really like to think the old man went through all that effort just to gently caress with him. (*) - subsequent to the bypass surgery we witnessed this guy eat two baskets of rolls at a steakhouse before they even brought us our drinks.
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Phanatic posted:I really like to think the old man went through all that effort just to gently caress with him. Ancient motherfucker in Huntsville? He might have been an astronaut, lol.
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ookiimarukochan posted:FLC/FLI not FLV. Oh you're right.
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Wacky Delly posted:I imagine most have been documented, but you can totally tell what used to be a pizza hut. That's a great twitter. The one here is pretty  
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Thermos posted:That's a great twitter.  https://twitter.com/tape/status/1183778361824501761
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We still have 1 still in operation sit down(but mostly delivery and pick up) Pizza Hut down where I live. There was another one about 2 miles away that became a church. Stupid hut roof and everything. It was hilarious. They eventually remodeled aka removed the "HUT" roof and it was much less hilarious.
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i think that tops the time i saw a taco bell converted to a payday loan/check cashing place
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The_Franz posted:i think that tops the time i saw a taco bell converted to a payday loan/check cashing place I have seen one of those as well
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:We still have 1 still in operation sit down(but mostly delivery and pick up) Pizza Hut down where I live. There was another one about 2 miles away that became a church. Stupid hut roof and everything. It was hilarious. They eventually remodeled aka removed the "HUT" roof and it was much less hilarious. Was it the Church of Cheesus Crust by any chance?
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Had a Checker's here that turn into the first drive-thru only sushi place I've ever seen. It closed less than a month later.
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Thermos posted:That's a great twitter. I actually work across the street from a functioning pizza hut in that style. I'd take a picture but
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There's a Pizza Hut across the street from my work that still has the (mostly) old look and it does lunch buffets from like 11:00 - 1:00. I went there once because I was curious and apparently hate my own body. I went there once.
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Randaconda posted:Had a Checker's here that turn into the first drive-thru only sushi place I've ever seen. A local Taco Bell was taken over by a sushi restaurant. They didn't reopen the drive-thru, but they also did nothing to remove the shape of it so there's just a section of the exterior wall with a set of closed doors painted the color of the stucco halfway up the wall.
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