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We used to ride our bikes through the abandoned

  • We used to ride our bikes through the abandoned transmat docks, among rusty girders, phasing freight containers and veils of shimmering screams. One time at night Jimmy rode

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  • right into the side of one of the freight containers. He wasn't wearing a helmet, and he died. The end.

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  • "But what became of the freight container?" my sister asked. "He was my favorite character." She didn't appear any sleepier, so I pulled out the sequel, "The Freight Escape" by

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  • the time we had to go to work, we had seen a marathon of "Steel Dan, action freight container." The one where it was smuggled into N. Korea by steamer was the best.

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  • But my preference was for the ones smuggled under the sheets by the Cleveland Steamer.

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  • He didn't care for being called that, but the name was so fitting. He was from Cleveland, and as rumor has it, he was steamy under the sheets. As least that's what I heard from

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  • Don Quipunch and he'd know. He didn't just tilt at windmills let's say. Cleveland Steamer, he was a classier sort of guy; more discriminating in his tastes. Although, they say he

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  • was misunderstood by women. He'd been named after his grandfather & "Steamer" was an Americanization of his real last name: Steamolanskitch. Cleveland Steamer was actually a nice

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  • local delicacy served up by Clevelanders to visiting tourists. Cleveland Steamer is a chunky soup and it's difficult to stomach unless you're accustomed to its taste. A bit like

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  • Haggis but with less vomit after taste. Rumours spread and tourists flocked from around the world to try the delicacy. People tried to recreate it but lacked the Clevelandness.

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10 Comments

  1. PurpleProf May 03 2013 @ 22:09

    Wow...had to look up what a "Cleveland Steamer" was...and hmmmm... Think I'll go upstairs and put my Mary Poppins costume back on.

  2. inatick May 03 2013 @ 22:40

    Is it a soup?

  3. PurpleProf May 03 2013 @ 23:04

    Ummmm...not quite. Google it and you'll see...unless someone here would like to explain it to inatick. I'm too conservative. ;)

  4. MoralEnd May 04 2013 @ 01:12

    Well, a Cleveland Steamer could be soupy. It is thick like a soup. More chowder-esque.

  5. inatick May 04 2013 @ 02:28

    A stew?

  6. lucielucie May 04 2013 @ 05:22

    'Cleveland is noted in the world of haute cuisine.' - quote from wikipedia Cleveland article.

  7. Chaz May 04 2013 @ 12:06

    A Cleveland Steamer is a mess of crawdads, crabs and oysters spread out on butcher paper. Everyone is given a galvanized cleaver and have at it.

  8. inatick May 05 2013 @ 00:45

    I've never heard of a crawdad. Do they have crawmums too?

  9. Chaz May 05 2013 @ 10:12

    If your mum was a small lobster or cray fish, maybe.

  10. PurpleProf May 05 2013 @ 13:41

    That would be bad. This would mean your mum was always crabby.

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