[nesfa-reading-group] Dr Boots
Liz P
lpatton88 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 07:29:41 EST 2023
What about Dr Boots list?
The whole book was like a treasure hunt of amusing and sometimes
mystifying references.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM <reading-group-request at lists.nesfa.org>
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> From: "R. Luoma" <malkin8244 at pobox.com>
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> Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] 28 flavors reference in ? Engine
> Summer?
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> I think that the "28 flavors" refers to the Howard Johnson's chain (it
> seems still to exist);
> while I ate at Howard Johnson's many times, I do not remember the "28
> flavors" as part of
> the Howard Johnson's image.
>
> As for the seven scoops, if I remember correctly, the number of
> combinations
> should be 28!/(28-7)! or about 5.9 billion.
>
> ... or did I misinterpret the question?
>
> Did anyone recognize the orange water-container figure?
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> R. Luoma malkin8244 [at] pobox [dot] com
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> From: cjhi newcastle2.com <cjhi at newcastle2.com>
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> Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] 28 flavors reference in ? Engine
> Summer?
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> I definitely remember 28 flavors as being part of HoJo marketing;
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson%27s#Early_years confirms
> this, but doesn't note that restaurants rarely if ever had all the flavors
> (unlike Baskin-Robbins, which always had the advertised 31 choices
> available). The restaurant chain is really most completely dead (there was
> a sole survivor for some years, but it finally gave up); Wikipedia asserts
> the name still appears on hotels, although with some of them being labeled
> "Howard Johnson by Wyndham" the name may fade. The symbol was always a
> bright-orange silhouette, of a fat man with a tray of pies and a boy
> pointing to one of them; I don't know where a water container would have
> come into it.
>
> 28!/(28-7)! is the number of permutations; the number of combinations is (
> 28!/(28-7)! )/7! ~= 1.18 million.
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> /CHip
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> R. Luoma <malkin8244 at pobox.com>
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> Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] 28 flavors reference in ? Engine Summer?
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>
> I think that the "28 flavors" refers to the Howard Johnson's chain (it
> seems still to exist);
> while I ate at Howard Johnson's many times, I do not remember the "28
> flavors" as part of
> the Howard Johnson's image.
>
> As for the seven scoops, if I remember correctly, the number of
> combinations
> should be 28!/(28-7)! or about 5.9 billion.
>
> ... or did I misinterpret the question?
>
> Did anyone recognize the orange water-container figure?
>
> --
> R. Luoma malkin8244 [at] pobox [dot] com
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> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2023 18:32:31 -0500
> From: Shelly Thomas <yellerdoggy at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] 28 flavors reference in ? Engine
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> I think the water jug logo was the old Gatorade one before G
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> On Sun, Jan 29, 2023, 6:26 PM cjhi newcastle2.com <cjhi at newcastle2.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I definitely remember 28 flavors as being part of HoJo marketing;
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson%27s#Early_years confirms
> > this, but doesn't note that restaurants rarely if ever had all the
> flavors
> > (unlike Baskin-Robbins, which always had the advertised 31 choices
> > available). The restaurant chain is really most completely dead (there
> was
> > a sole survivor for some years, but it finally gave up); Wikipedia
> asserts
> > the name still appears on hotels, although with some of them being
> labeled
> > "Howard Johnson by Wyndham" the name may fade. The symbol was always a
> > bright-orange silhouette, of a fat man with a tray of pies and a boy
> > pointing to one of them; I don't know where a water container would have
> > come into it.
> >
> > 28!/(28-7)! is the number of permutations; the number of combinations is
> (
> > 28!/(28-7)! )/7! ~= 1.18 million.
> >
> > /CHip
> > ------------------------------
> > *From:* reading-group <reading-group-bounces at lists.nesfa.org> on behalf
> > of R. Luoma <malkin8244 at pobox.com>
> > *Sent:* Sunday, January 29, 2023 5:44 PM
> > *To:* NESFA Reading Group <reading-group at lists.nesfa.org>
> > *Subject:* Re: [nesfa-reading-group] 28 flavors reference in ? Engine
> > Summer?
> >
> >
> > I think that the "28 flavors" refers to the Howard Johnson's chain (it
> > seems still to exist);
> > while I ate at Howard Johnson's many times, I do not remember the "28
> > flavors" as part of
> > the Howard Johnson's image.
> >
> > As for the seven scoops, if I remember correctly, the number of
> > combinations
> > should be 28!/(28-7)! or about 5.9 billion.
> >
> > ... or did I misinterpret the question?
> >
> > Did anyone recognize the orange water-container figure?
> >
> > --
> > R. Luoma malkin8244 [at] pobox [dot] com
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