On 8/21/2017 7:31 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Mon 21 Aug 2017 04:19:25p, jmcquown told us...
>
>> On 8/21/2017 7:07 PM, cshenk wrote:
>>> jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>>
>>>> On 8/21/2017 6:53 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 12:39:49 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> They could have charged upwards of $60 per person and I
>>>>>> guarantee some people would have bought it. Oh well.
>>>>>
>>>>> The workers didn't want to have to come in on their only day
>>>>> off.
>>>>>
>>>>> -sw
>>>>>
>>>> Most of them don't work on Tuesday, either. The Club is only
>>>> open for a couple of hours for lunch.
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>>
>>> Ah well. I agree, the flks there would have liked a little party
>>> that time.
>>>
>> The eclipse was pretty much a non-event anyway. It rained all
>> afternoon. It didn't even get dark here. Just looked like
>> another cloudy day. Of course they still could have turned it
>> into a money-making event with people watching on the flat screens
>> in the Pub.
>> Oh well, too late now.
>>
>> Jill
>>
>
> When I watched it in 1979 I didn't see what all the fuss was about.
> I didn't even bother looking today, as the percentage was about the
> same it was back then. NBFD
>
I didn't actually get to see anything but rain here. I watched a little
bit on television but it really was NBFD! A heck of a lot of build up
to pretty much nothing.

Jill