Oh What A Night

[benchilada]

   God bless Constantine “Taki” Iatropoulos. He was a mad bastard, but we loved him.

Taki had run a lot of eating establishments in his life, from a high-end establishment in New York that used to have people like Zoot Sims and Dean Martin as regular guests, to a Weenie Wagon on the streets of Champaign, Illinois.

Sometimes Sara and I

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[benchilada]

Man, you uncle be MADD CRAZIES!!!

[wagemage]

The man with the hook for a brain doesn't fear the man with the hook for a hand.

[benchilada]

Were truer words ever spoken?

I'm gonna claim that as my own, if I may.

"benjamin sTone: He has a hook for a brain."

[wulfsbane]

Swashbuckler to the end?

[benchilada]

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS IS IN MY PANTHEON OF GODS!

He's under the lithe and sexy and awesome yet regretably womanizing section.

[thetophe]

Aw man, I sure miss that place. Good times...

-Capt. Super Happy Jesus... Pants.

[benchilada]

Diane still owes me tip.
We've decided that we can never fully pay it off, or the world will end.

[sapphiredonna]

next time I see you I might give you a quarter. if I'm feeling generous.

and I miss your origami boulders.

[froborr_dwiggy]

Awesome. Daniel Pinkwater-esque -- if you've read any of his autobiographical essays, you know what I mean. Chicago must be a kick-ass town.

One question: what's up with not ending any 'graphs with periods?

[benchilada]

Hey, that was in Champaign!
And yeah, I love pretty much everything Pinkwater's ever written.
And that's only ONE story from there.
I was there for a loooong time.

and the periods was from me trying to fix the damn formatting errors that the new Rich Text input thing kept making.

[ex_fixer]

My 'little' brother Kyle just mentioned how he missed the dagwood, ben and the crazy ass greek dude. followed by "Was he greek? or like from some small island somewhere"

[benchilada]

He was from mainland Greece, but Mykonos is an island.

Yeah, I remember setting down Dagwoods in front of people and saying, "It was nice knowing you."