The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[Candy_Kane54]

Pop Quiz!
What was Thomas Jefferson's middle name?

Alva
Actually, that's a trick question. He had no middle name.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Watching a special on the Indian Pacific - a train that runs from Perth to Sydney... I would LOVE that trip!
I'm amtraking from DamnNearCanada to Florida later this year, can't wait for that trip

You might be interested in the Winnipeg - Churchill train. Twice a week, it’s a 48 hour trip. Lots of whistle stops and, at the right times of the year, a chance to see the Northern Lights and polar bears.

 

[Duleigh]

Alva
Actually, that's a trick question. He had no middle name.

You win
The first US president with a middle name was John Quincy Adams. Most people didn't give their kids middle names until the late 18th century because people thought it was for the elite and 'snobbish'

 

[MrPixel]

Actually, that's a trick question. He had no middle name.

A funny between my wife and I, and always a joke when asked, "Oh, she lost her middle name in a divorce!", like the ex absconded with it.

When the lawyer submitted the paperwork to restore her full given name, he left out her middle name, and the mistake is now her current legal name. It's always entertaining when she receives junk mail with her middle initial, 'cause we know it's junk based on some seriously old mailing list - the divorce was 40 years ago.

 

[Duleigh]

I have a friend who has no middle name, he has a middle letter. R How that seemed like a good idea to those filling out his birth certificate is beyond me. He told his kids that it was a leftover from his pirating days... Arrrrr!

 

[MillieDynamite]

Mum has no middle name. My father had an uncle who had no name; OC was what he was called. He had ten siblings, but they hadn't run out of names as he was the second one born.

I have a friend who has no middle name, he has a middle letter. R How that seemed like a good idea to those filling out his birth certificate is beyond me. He told his kids that it was a leftover from his pirating days... Arrrrr!

 

[Duleigh]

You might be interested in the Winnipeg - Churchill train. Twice a week, it’s a 48 hour trip. Lots of whistle stops and, at the right times of the year, a chance to see the Northern Lights and polar bears.

I have always wanted to take the train to Churchill. I'm stopping a bit short in September on my rail journey - in Minot ND

 

[Kumquatqueen]

A funny between my wife and I, and always a joke when asked, "Oh, she lost her middle name in a divorce!", like the ex absconded with it.

When the lawyer submitted the paperwork to restore her full given name, he left out her middle name, and the mistake is now her current legal name. It's always entertaining when she receives junk mail with her middle initial, 'cause we know it's junk based on some seriously old mailing list - the divorce was 40 years ago.

In the UK there's no such thing as a 'legal name' - you can call yourself anything you want as long as it's not for fraudulent purposes. And banks are sniffer than they used to be about multiple names, but there's nothing stopping you doing it.

The palaver to change names in the US is a right pain. I went for 20 years using different names in the UK and US because the cost of a US lawyer to fix the latter was prohibitive. And then the Embassy spotted my credit card was made out to a different name than my passport...

Eventually they added a 'AKA' to the passport endorsement page, but that took about four hours and an essay from me about the name change, and about 20 long phone calls, even after I convinced them I hadn't stolen a stranger's wallet, just because I refused to pay to change my name when I already had a name.

Of course it makes it more entertaining when applying for the kinds of jobs where you have to give all the names you or your parents have ever been known as. I got to 12, which includes only one change on marriage - mostly it's just my grandparents were shit at spelling!

 

[litfan10]

In the UK there's no such thing as a 'legal name' - you can call yourself anything you want as long as it's not for fraudulent purposes. And banks are sniffer than they used to be about multiple names, but there's nothing stopping you doing it.

The palaver to change names in the US is a right pain. I went for 20 years using different names in the UK and US because the cost of a US lawyer to fix the latter was prohibitive. And then the Embassy spotted my credit card was made out to a different name than my passport...

Eventually they added a 'AKA' to the passport endorsement page, but that took about four hours and an essay from me about the name change, and about 20 long phone calls, even after I convinced them I hadn't stolen a stranger's wallet, just because I refused to pay to change my name when I already had a name.

Of course it makes it more entertaining when applying for the kinds of jobs where you have to give all the names you or your parents have ever been known as. I got to 12, which includes only one change on marriage - mostly it's just my grandparents were shit at spelling!

Can you blame your grandparents? I mean Kumquatqueen isn't the easiest thing to spell.....

 

[Duleigh]

Good morning folks. You can call yourself anything you want in the UK? That explains a lot
Anyhow, morning coffee is hot and ready, the kettle is starting to boil for us tea drinkers
- Ringo Dog

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Good morning folks. You can call yourself anything you want in the UK? That explains a lot
Anyhow, morning coffee is hot and ready, the kettle is starting to boil for us tea drinkers
- Ringo Dog

As long as you don't call me 'late for dinner' ...

Ah, thanks for the hot water. I love Earl Grey in the morning ...

 

[drobert44]

As long as you don't call me 'late for dinner' ...

Ah, thanks for the hot water. I love Earl Grey in the morning ...

Those Brits in the desert had a BV on their trucks; hot water in 20 minutes, tea at 5, and dont be late!

 

[MrPixel]

...grandparents...

Dad's Dad had his run-in with the system when he enlisted in the Navy. The recruitment officer added a letter to the family name. It was sort of okay, it didn't break it phonetically, but he couldn't get his birth name back no way no how. It also didn't matter much. On doing minimal genealogy, apparently the spelling flipped back and forth in the family.

Speaking of names, there's an empty cup of coffee with mine on it. It needs to be rendered non-empty.

 

[NotWise]

I'm a little late on the pour, but here you go @MrPixel, sir. You might need to add some water to that to get it to your preferred consistency.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I have a friend who has no middle name, he has a middle letter. R How that seemed like a good idea to those filling out his birth certificate is beyond me. He told his kids that it was a leftover from his pirating days... Arrrrr!

If you went to school in the USA, you probably heard about "George Washington Carver". Except his name was George W. Carver, no actual middle name. Some reporter said it was Washington, and it stuck.

Then there's Harry S. Truman. Just "S".

--Annie

 

[Duleigh]

If you went to school in the USA, you probably heard about "George Washington Carver". Except his name was George W. Carver, no actual middle name. Some reporter said it was Washington, and it stuck.

Then there's Harry S. Truman. Just "S".

--Annie

How about Ulysses S. Grant. His name is actually Hiram Ulysses Grant A congressman screwed his name up nominating him to West Point calling him U.S. Grant. He was actually known as Sam because U.S. stood for Uncle Sam at the time.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Congratulations to the Nude Day event winners: @Vaguewriter, @LesLumens and @crookedletter. A tough contest.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

‘Mornin’ to everybody. Looks like it’s my turn to put on coffee, so maybe I’ll sweeten the deal with an experiment - banana-bacon muffins with cream cheese icing.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Those Brits in the desert had a BV on their trucks; hot water in 20 minutes, tea at 5, and dont be late!

And British Army tanks and armored vehicles STILL have a special hot water boiler (BV = Boiling Vessel) in them for making tea.

 

[drobert44]

And British Army tanks and armored vehicles STILL have a special hot water boiler (BV = Boiling Vessel) in them for making tea.

2 milks and 2 sugars...........NATO standard.

 

[ChloeTzang]

‘Mornin’ to everybody. Looks like it’s my turn to put on coffee, so maybe I’ll sweeten the deal with an experiment - banana-bacon muffins with cream cheese icing.

Thank you, TP

 

[TarnishedPenny]

People gotta eat and drink and, as the vid mentions, this is also for heating field rations. The British also considered nuclear, biological and chemical warfare to be a factor - try setting up a naphtha or propane stove inside a tank when sealed up against NBC! Warm food and hot drinks are morale-builders, making the troops that much more effective. This is actually one of those things that look silly at first glance but prove brilliant in practice.

 

[Rustyoznail]

‘Mornin’ to everybody. Looks like it’s my turn to put on coffee, so maybe I’ll sweeten the deal with an experiment - banana-bacon muffins with cream cheese icing.

That's... One of things that sounds weird, but I really want to try.

 

[Duleigh]

And British Army tanks and armored vehicles STILL have a special hot water boiler (BV = Boiling Vessel) in them for making tea.

That slayed me when I saw the history of the BV - I could just imagine what would happen if every US tanker refused to get in their tank until a microwave oven was installed so they could heat up frozen burritos or make popcorn. Do the Brit tankers still stop every day for tea at four? And how did the Wehrmacht not catch on?

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Oh, I’m sorry, Rusty. I’ll add the recipe to your Repository.

Edit - done.

Chloe, maybe you could add your icing recipe below it? I hadn’t thought to use vanilla, but it sounds good.