I'm pretty sure that my mother took my sister and myself to the NY automat when I was really young ... but it would have been long enough ago that I could easily be mistaken.
Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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Toddson - Jan 20, 2015 11:43:42 am PST #4891 of 5827
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
-t - Jan 20, 2015 11:52:52 am PST #4892 of 5827
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I guess a resurgence wouldn't fly between modern day health codes and the way some people behave in restaurants.
Actually, I feel like I've heard they are making a comeback. In Norway? Somewhere in Europe whence they might leap back over here.
I would guess the key to a successful Automat would be high turn, so the food would stay fresh and delicious in the cases until it was selected. Complying with health codes ought to be a technologically solvable issue.
Zenkitty - Jan 20, 2015 12:04:03 pm PST #4893 of 5827
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
My grandmother called the laundromat, the automat. I didn't know for years that an automat was actually some kind of restaurant. I don't think Mam ever lived anywhere sophisticated enough to have a real automat, I guess she just heard the word and applied it to the thing she knew that made sense for it. This connection in my head made the conversation about automats funny and a bit confusing at first.
You may, if you like, take a guess at what Mam decided a "robot" was, when she first heard the word. Hint: it was in the movie Westworld.
Connie Neil - Jan 20, 2015 12:32:57 pm PST #4894 of 5827
brillig
Sexy killers that looked like Yul Brynner?
Zenkitty - Jan 20, 2015 1:40:07 pm PST #4895 of 5827
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Basically. There was one robot that was supposed to be a saloon girl or a prostitute. Mam didn't really understand the plot. She said something scornful and righteous about the saloon girl, and I said, "She's just a robot," and Mam said haughtily, "Well, a robot ain't nothing but a whore!" At which point I realized my grandmother would now declare until the world ends that robot means whore, no matter what anyone told her, so I just shut up and went back to the movie.
Connie Neil - Jan 20, 2015 1:43:10 pm PST #4896 of 5827
brillig
"A robot ain't nothin' but a whore!" is a terrific piece of dialogue, though.
Zenkitty - Jan 20, 2015 1:51:40 pm PST #4897 of 5827
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Isn't it? My grandmother is a great character.
SailAweigh - Jan 20, 2015 2:25:30 pm PST #4898 of 5827
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Sounds like something Mal Reynolds would say.
Zenkitty - Jan 20, 2015 2:45:48 pm PST #4899 of 5827
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I don't know why people think Joss Whedon made up that down-home dialect in Firefly.
and we're back to topic! All roads lead to Whedon.
Connie Neil - Jan 20, 2015 2:45:51 pm PST #4900 of 5827
brillig
That's what I thought, SA. Or someone on Firefly.