<div dir="auto">What about Dr Boots list?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The whole book was like a treasure hunt of amusing and sometimes mystifying references. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM <<a href="mailto:reading-group-request@lists.nesfa.org">reading-group-request@lists.nesfa.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send reading-group mailing list submissions to<br>
<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a><br>
<br>
To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br>
<a href="https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group</a><br>
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br>
<a href="mailto:reading-group-request@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group-request@lists.nesfa.org</a><br>
<br>
You can reach the person managing the list at<br>
<a href="mailto:reading-group-owner@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group-owner@lists.nesfa.org</a><br>
<br>
When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>
than "Re: Contents of reading-group digest..."<br>
<br>
<br>
Today's Topics:<br>
<br>
1. Re: 28 flavors reference in ? Engine Summer? (R. Luoma)<br>
2. Re: 28 flavors reference in ? Engine Summer?<br>
(cjhi <a href="http://newcastle2.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">newcastle2.com</a>)<br>
3. Re: 28 flavors reference in ? Engine Summer? (Shelly Thomas)<br>
<br>
<br>
----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>
Message: 1<br>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2023 17:44:46 -0500<br>
From: "R. Luoma" <<a href="mailto:malkin8244@pobox.com" target="_blank">malkin8244@pobox.com</a>><br>
To: NESFA Reading Group <<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] 28 flavors reference in ? Engine<br>
Summer?<br>
Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:20230129174446.3644e093cbb8ba9f7bbb15bc@pobox.com" target="_blank">20230129174446.3644e093cbb8ba9f7bbb15bc@pobox.com</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII<br>
<br>
<br>
I think that the "28 flavors" refers to the Howard Johnson's chain (it seems still to exist);<br>
while I ate at Howard Johnson's many times, I do not remember the "28 flavors" as part of<br>
the Howard Johnson's image.<br>
<br>
As for the seven scoops, if I remember correctly, the number of combinations<br>
should be 28!/(28-7)! or about 5.9 billion.<br>
<br>
... or did I misinterpret the question?<br>
<br>
Did anyone recognize the orange water-container figure?<br>
<br>
-- <br>
R. Luoma malkin8244 [at] pobox [dot] com<br>
<br>
<br>
------------------------------<br>
<br>
Message: 2<br>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2023 23:25:54 +0000<br>
From: cjhi <a href="http://newcastle2.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">newcastle2.com</a> <<a href="mailto:cjhi@newcastle2.com" target="_blank">cjhi@newcastle2.com</a>><br>
To: NESFA Reading Group <<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] 28 flavors reference in ? Engine<br>
Summer?<br>
Message-ID:<br>
<<a href="mailto:SJ1PR20MB4740263BDA337F68EFE44B30FFD29@SJ1PR20MB4740.namprd20.prod.outlook.com" target="_blank">SJ1PR20MB4740263BDA337F68EFE44B30FFD29@SJ1PR20MB4740.namprd20.prod.outlook.com</a>><br>
<br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<br>
<br>
I definitely remember 28 flavors as being part of HoJo marketing; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson%27s#Early_years" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson%27s#Early_years</a> 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.<br>
<br>
28!/(28-7)! is the number of permutations; the number of combinations is ( 28!/(28-7)! )/7! ~= 1.18 million.<br>
<br>
/CHip<br>
________________________________<br>
From: reading-group <<a href="mailto:reading-group-bounces@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group-bounces@lists.nesfa.org</a>> on behalf of R. Luoma <<a href="mailto:malkin8244@pobox.com" target="_blank">malkin8244@pobox.com</a>><br>
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2023 5:44 PM<br>
To: NESFA Reading Group <<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] 28 flavors reference in ? Engine Summer?<br>
<br>
<br>
I think that the "28 flavors" refers to the Howard Johnson's chain (it seems still to exist);<br>
while I ate at Howard Johnson's many times, I do not remember the "28 flavors" as part of<br>
the Howard Johnson's image.<br>
<br>
As for the seven scoops, if I remember correctly, the number of combinations<br>
should be 28!/(28-7)! or about 5.9 billion.<br>
<br>
... or did I misinterpret the question?<br>
<br>
Did anyone recognize the orange water-container figure?<br>
<br>
--<br>
R. Luoma malkin8244 [at] pobox [dot] com<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
reading-group mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a><br>
<a href="https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group</a><br>
-------------- next part --------------<br>
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>
URL: <<a href="http://listsmgt.nesfa.org/pipermail/reading-group/attachments/20230129/4ec810a9/attachment-0001.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://listsmgt.nesfa.org/pipermail/reading-group/attachments/20230129/4ec810a9/attachment-0001.html</a>><br>
<br>
------------------------------<br>
<br>
Message: 3<br>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2023 18:32:31 -0500<br>
From: Shelly Thomas <<a href="mailto:yellerdoggy@gmail.com" target="_blank">yellerdoggy@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: NESFA Reading Group <<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] 28 flavors reference in ? Engine<br>
Summer?<br>
Message-ID:<br>
<<a href="mailto:CAGrUeaAMFmCG-mRL9utw6hnfZdQXfJH0e01UKz_a4VQBqkCRcA@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">CAGrUeaAMFmCG-mRL9utw6hnfZdQXfJH0e01UKz_a4VQBqkCRcA@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br>
<br>
I think the water jug logo was the old Gatorade one before G<br>
<br>
On Sun, Jan 29, 2023, 6:26 PM cjhi <a href="http://newcastle2.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">newcastle2.com</a> <<a href="mailto:cjhi@newcastle2.com" target="_blank">cjhi@newcastle2.com</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
<br>
> I definitely remember 28 flavors as being part of HoJo marketing;<br>
> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson%27s#Early_years" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson%27s#Early_years</a> confirms<br>
> this, but doesn't note that restaurants rarely if ever had all the flavors<br>
> (unlike Baskin-Robbins, which always had the advertised 31 choices<br>
> available). The restaurant chain is really most completely dead (there was<br>
> a sole survivor for some years, but it finally gave up); Wikipedia asserts<br>
> the name still appears on hotels, although with some of them being labeled<br>
> "Howard Johnson by Wyndham" the name may fade. The symbol was always a<br>
> bright-orange silhouette, of a fat man with a tray of pies and a boy<br>
> pointing to one of them; I don't know where a water container would have<br>
> come into it.<br>
><br>
> 28!/(28-7)! is the number of permutations; the number of combinations is (<br>
> 28!/(28-7)! )/7! ~= 1.18 million.<br>
><br>
> /CHip<br>
> ------------------------------<br>
> *From:* reading-group <<a href="mailto:reading-group-bounces@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group-bounces@lists.nesfa.org</a>> on behalf<br>
> of R. Luoma <<a href="mailto:malkin8244@pobox.com" target="_blank">malkin8244@pobox.com</a>><br>
> *Sent:* Sunday, January 29, 2023 5:44 PM<br>
> *To:* NESFA Reading Group <<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a>><br>
> *Subject:* Re: [nesfa-reading-group] 28 flavors reference in ? Engine<br>
> Summer?<br>
><br>
><br>
> I think that the "28 flavors" refers to the Howard Johnson's chain (it<br>
> seems still to exist);<br>
> while I ate at Howard Johnson's many times, I do not remember the "28<br>
> flavors" as part of<br>
> the Howard Johnson's image.<br>
><br>
> As for the seven scoops, if I remember correctly, the number of<br>
> combinations<br>
> should be 28!/(28-7)! or about 5.9 billion.<br>
><br>
> ... or did I misinterpret the question?<br>
><br>
> Did anyone recognize the orange water-container figure?<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> R. Luoma malkin8244 [at] pobox [dot] com<br>
> _______________________________________________<br>
> reading-group mailing list<br>
> <a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a><br>
> <a href="https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group</a><br>
> _______________________________________________<br>
> reading-group mailing list<br>
> <a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a><br>
> <a href="https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group</a><br>
><br>
-------------- next part --------------<br>
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>
URL: <<a href="http://listsmgt.nesfa.org/pipermail/reading-group/attachments/20230129/84740cc0/attachment-0001.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://listsmgt.nesfa.org/pipermail/reading-group/attachments/20230129/84740cc0/attachment-0001.html</a>><br>
<br>
------------------------------<br>
<br>
Subject: Digest Footer<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
reading-group mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a><br>
<a href="https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group</a><br>
<br>
<br>
------------------------------<br>
<br>
End of reading-group Digest, Vol 95, Issue 6<br>
********************************************<br>
</blockquote></div></div>