YES WE DID!

2 things.

I can’t explain it, but the water bottle that rests atop the cooler in our break room MUST be facing forward so that the label is showing.

I have a piece of graphite (pencil lead) in my palm. It has resided in there since I slammed my hand onto the wrong end of a pencil during a meeting when I was about 23. Whenever I bring this up at a party, I am usually met with someone else that has the same affliction.

Okay, so this isn't my hand nor is it even lead...but, you get the idea.

A picture of a perfectly toned African male hangs in Beaner's apartment.

I just happen to have a photo of it.

I blame this place...

Most of my rearing (heehee I said rearing) took place in a little town. I learned a lot about morals, about horses and buggies, about keeping yourself busy and most of importantly...about gossiping from a place in Wisconsin that I sorely miss when I look up at the sky and see airplanes and no stars.

I recently took some shots while passing through and thought I test your knowledge of my growin' up place - since most of you were also reared there.

Small town picture trivia (WOW - that is what I call FUN)!

This old man lives on the side of which building?

Before being donated to the Public Library, which street did the following reside?

What is this?

What building is this lamppost in front of?

Where did I grow up?

I like mine with a little ranch dipping sauce.

Me: Let’s go to dinner.
Friend: Sounds good. Where do you want to go?
Me: Well there are a couple of places around the corner. Jakes, Houlihans and a new Buffalo Wild Wings which I haven’t been to.
Friend: Yeah, let’s go to BW3s I could go for some wings and beer.


BW3s? Did she just say BW3s?

A few days later at a staff meeting…

Coworker #1: I heard our new office is near a BW3.
Coworker #2: Sure is.

BW3? Did I just hear BW3? For the second time?

Thus began my irritation.

First, there are only 2 W’s in Buffalo Wild Wings. Second, most buffalo only have 2 wings. And, it can’t be merely coincidence that two people in my life would say BW3. There must be something that I am missing.

Thus began my investigation.

I first thought it was just a Minnesotan thing. I asked some native peeps what they called it. Some said, “Buffalo Wild Wings” – well, actually they said, “Buffalo Wild Wings, DUH!” A couple of people said, “Bdubs”, but nobody gave up BW3 as a possible answer.



I inspected the logo. Yep, only 2 W’s. I looked for hidden W’s. Nope. No hidden W’s. Not even a website address containing a W in triplicate.

When all was looking grim, when I was ready to throw in the wetnap, I decided to turn to another famous W… Wikipedia.


Buffalo Wild Wings was founded in 1982 after James Disbrow and Scott Lowery moved from Buffalo, New York, to Kent, Ohio. Unable to find authentic Buffalo-style chicken wings in their new town, they decided to open up their own restaurant first, in Columbus, Ohio, and then one in Westerville, Ohio one year later. Originally called Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck, from which the abbreviation BW3 was created, the restaurant became a franchise with more than 430 locations across 37 U.S. states. The original name and acronym, BW3, was intentionally reminiscent of the acronym TW3 popularly used in referring to the television show That Was The Week That Was, a show of which co-founder James Disbrow was a fan. The company later changed its name to Buffalo Wild Wings, but still uses the short name BW3 on occasion due to the common usage by patrons.


I need a beer and some celery.