Looks like some pretty schizophrenic weather is on the way.
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We’re doomed!!
They’re just going to keep kicking the can down the road until we’re just like Greece. No one in Washington cares more about the country than they do about getting re-elected, 🙁 -
#2 After the fall, I just want to be on the team that tars and feathers Paul Krugman and runs him out of town on a rail.
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I ran across this yesterday.
Ginger’s legs…uh, wait – sorry, I got distracted…
As long as there has been a Hollywood, Texas has been providing the top talent. Ginger Rogers was raised in Fort Worth and Ann Miller was from Chireno, between Nacogdoches and San Augustine. You can hear Miller’s Texas accent in the clip below.
Consider, at the time this movie was made, Ginger Rogers was 26 and yet, the lovely Miss Ann Miller was only 14 and barely so. She had lied in Hollywood and told them she was 18. Amazing poise.
Ginger Rogers was already famous and she had every reason to resent the young upstart Miller, but the two would remain close friends for the rest of their long lives.
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the team that tars and feathers Paul Krugman
We should start a fund for the tar and feathers (I will contribute). But let’s not limit the target to Paulie Boy. I say we include Helicopter Ben, Turbo Timmy, and a host of others. Let’s get this party started!
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RE: #4
Miller on Being the Mother of Pantyhose:
“When I was under contract with RKO, I wore these long black stockings and the wardrobe ladies would sew them on briefs. If I got a run, they’d say “cut” and I’d have to take them all off and put on new ones. One day, Mr. Willis {hosiery maker} of Hollywood came by the set and I said, ‘Mr. Willis, why don’t you make some stockings like you make for ballerinas, like tights, but let them be silk,’ and that was the birth of pantyhose. I kind of figured that I was the mother of pantyhose and I’ll bet all the men hate me, but I thought it up.” -
Waitaminnit…
I thought smoking weed while driving was ‘safe’? -
#7- being a DUMA$$ is never safe – (even as a pedestrian)
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Here’s a wrapup from last night on the 2 Grail satellites that were guided to impact on the moon at the end of their mission life.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20761903
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Here’s a wrapup from last night on the 2 Grail satellites that were guided to impact on the moon at the end of their mission life.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20761903
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Got a problem: I have entered an item twice, but it hasn’t shown up.
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Twenty years after Alexis de Tocqueville wrote his famous Democracy in America, he published The Old Regime and the French Revolution. A quote here and commentary following by Dr. Don Boudreaux of George Mason University:
By the time their ancient love of freedom reawakened in the hearts of the French, they had already been inoculated with a set of ideas as regards the way the country should be governed that were not merely hard to reconcile with free institutions but practically ruled them out. They had come to regard the ideal social system as one whose aristocracy consisted exclusively of government officials and in which an all-powerful bureaucracy not only took charge of affairs of State but controlled men’s private lives. Desirous though they were of being free, they were unwilling to go back on the ideology described above and merely tried to adjust it to that of freedom.
This they proposed to do by combining a strong central administration with a paramount legislative assembly: the bureaucratic system with government by the electorate. The nation as a whole had sovereign rights, while the individual citizen was kept in the strictest tutelage; the former was expected to display the sagacity and virtues of a free race, the latter to behave like an obedient servant.
– Alexis de Tocqueville, 1856Oui. And this situation, as described so eloquently by Tocqueville, is precisely the one to which “Progressives” would march modern-day Americans. It is a state of society that is at best stagnant and dreary – and one, more realistically, saturated certainly with all manner of petty, and perhaps even monstrous, tyrannies. Of course, no “Progressive” intends such an outcome – for to be aware that such a situation is the inevitable outcome of the dogged progress of “Progressivism” is to be aware that “Progressivism” is terribly regressive. But as we teach our freshman econ students, intentions are not results.
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Our Host over the last couple of days has made comments about fat and the BMI. I would like to state that the BMI is garbage, a classic example of top down, one size fits all, non-thinking bureaucratic crapola. The BMI stats do not take into account those who, on average by race have higher bone density, nor those who have a more athletic build (more heavily muscled). To simplisticly take height and weight and from that derive body fat percentage is inaccurate at best. This is true if and only if we are all to be skinny vegetarian types with little muscle mass. The BMI puts someone at 5’9″ to be overweight at 170 lbs, a body fat test (calipers) indicate that would put me at somewhere around 10% body fat which is borderline unhealthy. A man in his 50s should be closer to 20% body fat.
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#9 mh42
third time’s a charm?
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G’Morning All
Here’s another weather forecast.
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Yeah, I think a nice hike down south would be just fine. Don’t stop at the border, just keep marching. Get away from white people, since you don’t care if their kids get killed.
Wisshole.
/spits
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Merry Christmas from my house to yours. Finally got to unload the attic last Wednesday and start prettying up the house. Finally got through ’bout noon yestiddy. Here’s the hearth.
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MHarper – They were flagged as spam and dumped in the bucket. I think Blog Monkey didn’t like the Beeb. He’s somewhat of an Anglophobe.
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Even “right place / right time” doesn’t guarantee the outcome – did this young man contribute to the end of the mayhem? God only knows……………
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Read the article, references somebody we know.
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#20 – wtH is wrong with folks?
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Hey! isn’t that texpat 5th from the left in the 153rd row?
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Why is Time Mag still in print?
Short list of “person of the year”On Tuesday morning, TIME magazine’s short list of eight potential choices for its iconic Person of the Year cover was revealed live on TODAY. The list includes Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!; Mohammed Morsi, president of Egypt; Undocumented Americans; Bill and Hillary Clinton; President Barack Obama; Malala Yousafzai, the student activist from Pakistan who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban; Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple; and the Higgs Boson and Italian physicist Fabiola Giannati.
undocumented Americans are you wissin kidding me?? First of all they are NOT AMERICANS second, they are trespassers and need to be deported. Person of the year . . . . . . in a pig’s eye.
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#20, 21 – Darren linked to that story last night. If you haven’t had the unfortunate chance to come in contact with John Cobarruvias consider yourself truly blessed. He’s a piece of work. Even my Granny wouldn’t say “Bless his heart” talking about that scumbag. He is an evil farging bastidge.
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We should be able to come up with a test to predict insanity based on “crazy eyes syndrome“. Was that runaway bride from a few years ago his sister?
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#25 Hamous, here’s another one!
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Heh.
Texans running back Arian Foster is going to try to optimize his 50% blackness. -
Super Dave – Triplets!
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Super Dave – Do you know that John Cobarruvias chucklehead? He’s a NASA employee. Several years ago NASA suspended him for violation of the Hatch Act. I guess he didn’t learn his lesson. Hopefully the NASA bosses are paying attention to his death threats against law-abiding American citizens.
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#14 Pyro
nothin’ stuck in Granny Hamous’ craw.
Never happened to me before, but I will recognize it if it does again. On clicking Post Comment, the window went to the top of the current thread. After I scrolled back down to the bottom, the new entry is not seen.
I thought maybe I just dreamed I hit Post and pasted in again, exact same scenario.
Charmed third time, I was typing direct into the text panel.
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#25, 26: One thing that stands out to me in the pic of the now rehabilitated nutbag murdering scum, is that the white of his eyes shows below the iris – creepy.
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Crazy eyes and no ear lobes.
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This whole budget debate thing is completely off the rails. Boehner and JugEars both believe that raising tax rates will raise revenue to the treasury which is an absurd notion. If either really honestly wanted to raise revenue, the first step would be to cut taxes across the board followed by a 3x cut in spending across the board. By not wasting the money, which is what the feds are famous for, it would be put to a more productive use which would increase its multiplier effect, growing the economy and revenue to the treasury. JugEars could not care less about revenue, he wants to punish whitey.
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#18 Hammy
I think Blog Monkey didn’t like the Beeb. He’s somewhat of an Anglophobe.
Oh wow, was it like unpatriotic of me to cite a British link? Iron Mary Cash never got spammed out, and she is Brit.
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Crazy eyes and no ear lobes.
I bet his arms didn’t swing when he walked, either. Oh well, he’s playing butt darts with Gacy and Dahmer now.
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The pic with this story does not look like a female to me.
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/12/14/bay-areas-womans-sex-act-reveals-workers-comp-fraud/
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and the demons are using cheese grater condoms to boot.
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I had a funeral to attend this morning. The founder of Village Plumbing passed away. During his eulogy, his grandson referred to his “building his future based on hard work”. He was a nice guy. I didn’t know him well, but I met him in passing, and we belong to the same association.
I had a headache before I left the house, and I thought it was going away when I was rushing to leave. It returned in force during the mass, so I didn’t go to the interment or reception. I was very close to Star Pizza, so I thought I’d splurge on their spinach pizza, hoping that if I ate, I’d feel better. I got it in the car and immediately realized my mistake, but I was determined that I was NOT going to throw up on the pizza! I made it home, took my aspirin, laid down for a while, and I’m finally getting to eat.
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#36 M42: I’m not sure that is a human. Funny comment:
If Obama had a son…..
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#36: Didja notice the whites of its eyes showing below the iris?
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My diagnosis: You are working yourself into a breakdown, dear lady. Can you take it slower?
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#38 TT: Sounds like a tension/stress induced migraine. Mayhaps you should go see a chiropractor and take the kink out of your neck.
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#36 mh42
She then performed oral sex at the park on a boyfriend. Doctors concluded she couldn’t have done so with an injured ankle.
What does an injured ankle have to do with applying a “mouth hug”?
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…investigators caught Martin on videotape throwing her crutches into a car and running in high heels at a public park.
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I think Shannon has identified the source of confusion.
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#43:
What does an injured ankle have to do with applying a “mouth hug”?
So many possibilities and none could pass the Grannymous test.
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What kind of American mother would name a child of either sex “Modupe Adunni” ?
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What kind of American mother would name a child of either sex “Modupe Adunni” ?
Perhaps one who wasn’t American?
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What kind of American mother would name a child of either sex “Modupe Adunni” ?
The same type that would name a child “Barack Hussein Obama”.
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New doomsday bug predictions begin:
Global travel and climate warming could be creating the right conditions for outbreaks of a new virus in this country, according to a new Cornell University computer model.
The model predicts that outbreaks of chikungunya, a painful virus transported by travelers and spread by the invasive Asian tiger mosquito, could occur in 2013 in New York City during August and September, in Atlanta from June through September, and year-round in Miami. The probability of a disease outbreak is correlated with temperature, as warmer weather allows the Asian tiger mosquito to breed faster and grow in numbers, according to the study published in the November issue of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.Chikungunya. Sounds like a battle fought during the War of Northern Aggression.
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Modupe Adunni’s last name is Martin, so sounds to me like she had at least one parent who was not an aborigine.
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Chikungunya = Modupe Adunni’s sibling/parent/misc. relative?
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We’re all gonna die Friday anyway.
By the way, nice knowin’ y’all.
Most of ya, anyway. 🙂
Regrets? Just a few, but then again, too few to mention.
Sure would have liked to meet Ms. Adee (among others) and have a mint julep with her. -
Here’s a scary scenario for Californians, Midwesterners, Northeasterners, and New Englanders that have self-deported to more favorable climes:
Government debts are accrued on your behalf by elected officials for whom you had a chance to vote, all supposedly representing your interests. In a democracy, all citizens are obliged to pay the government’s bills as determined by the duly empowered taxing authorities – regardless of whether they voted for a particular officeholder or not. What’s to stop legislators from passing laws that make debt obligations due and payable by any citizen who decides to leave for another jurisdiction? After all, they don’t hesitate to take your money when you die.
Mayors and governors of most tax-and-spend, heavily unionized, low-growth cities and states are both desperate for revenue and tired of watching disgruntled citizens vote with their feet. Think how politically attractive it would be for them to make “economic deserters” pay their “fair share” of old debts. I can see the arguments already: “You can’t move away from credit card debt or commercial debt, so why should government debt be so easy to dodge?” Politicians could easily win kudos from both public employee unions and the overtaxed residents left behind, for the mere cost of enraging emigrants who won’t be around to exact retribution at the next election. -
#42 Bone
#38 TT: Sounds like a tension/stress induced migraine. Mayhaps you should go see a chiropractor and take the kink out of your neck.
Yep, got a coupla kinks in the neck. I’m slowly working them out. I can tell that the one on the right side is definitely part of the problem. When I twist my head to the left, the pain increases.
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#55 Shannon
Hey, you met Tedtam and myself! What are we, chikungunya? -
#58 Mharper
Hey, you met Tedtam and myself! What are we, chikungunya?
I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling very emotionally distraught over this social slight.
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#57 TT: Get thee hence to a chiropractor post haste woman!
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Wait. The END isn’t until Saturday.
I’m going to acquire a sixties muscle car and ride around the Hill Country for a couple of days.
Then, late Friday night, acquire a bottle of Jack black, sneek into the Alamo and sit and listen to good music till the END. -
Boney –
Our chiro owes us one, but I have to find the time. I lost almost all of yesterday running permits for a customer, and lost a lot of time today because of the funeral/illness.
I can usually work ’em out myself. If not, I’ll see about going later in the week. -
Every chiro I have ever met will work in a patient in crisis pretty quick. You qualify as “in crisis.” HOw much good are you gonna be tomorrow if this slips into a full blown “episode” today? Don’t wiss around, just get the wissin thing fixed today so tomorrow will be better.
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Now, ladies…
You know I was glad to see you.
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This sounds like an awesome teacher. Mebbe he should come to Texas. You know, now that he’s quit his job in Rhode Island.
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Birthday of Note:
The man who has been married to Ann Margaret for forty-five years has survived to his 80th. Roger Smith also starred in the television series “77 Sunset Strip”, which most of you wouldn’t remember. -
Shannon
Just in case the End doesn’t pan out on Saturday, check this out.
This guy did a nice job, but I have a better design for your place in Milheim and I would use (4) high cube 45′ (8’6″ inside height) containers. That would give you 1,440 square feet of living space and you can always add on. And remember, they already have a hardwood subfloor in them.
Call me after Saturday and let me know when you want to start. -
Adam Kredo at the Washington Free Beacon:
A mysterious new computer virus has infected Iranian computers and is completely wiping users’ hard drives, according to Iranian officials.
The “efficient” virus is said to “wipe files on different drives in various predefined times” and cannot be detected by anti-virus software, Iran’s official Information Technology Organization revealed in a statement over the weekend.
The malware does not appear to be as sophisticated as previous viruses that have targeted computers governing Iran’s nuclear program, according to the statement. -
What a great flash mob!
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What does an injured ankle have to do with applying a “mouth hug”?
You’ve never been to the Main Gate at Fort Sill, have you?
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And these guys made me smile, too.
Guys. In skirts. With moves. What more could I ask?
Oh, a sense of humor.
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For you Catholics in particular and other Christians, Ignatius Press has a big sale going.
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#67 Texpat
The Taj Malodge is interesting, but I would be claustrophobic in that uber-efficient small space. -
She likes guys in skirts?
Having met her husband, something just doesn’t add up here. -
I’ve been looking at these little cabins for sale in Brenham. The guy does a really fine job.
But they are even smaller, maybe 16×30.
And no closet!!
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You’ve never been to the Main Gate at Fort Sill, have you?
Actually, I have.
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What more could I ask?
hussy
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#75 Shannon
She likes guys in skirts?
Having met her husband, something just doesn’t add up here.It takes a certain cajone size for a guy to wear a cheerleader outfit. When they’re doing it for fun, for their school – that’s okay. I love a sense of humor. And these are high school kids. They can get away with it, at their age. As you get older, you really have to work it to make it work.
I’m all for guys who are willing to be a fool for the right reasons.
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Those of you people who say you don’t like fruitcake, need to try some of this.
I vary the dried fruit a bit, depending on what Whole Foods or Central Market happens to have.
Mine’s also a bit more boozy (half gallon of rum for about 3 1/2 times the recipe).
Plus a cup or so of brandy.
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I am convinced that someone has implanted a chip/GPS/transmitter in my wife.
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The local grocery sells some pretty good tamales.
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#28 Hamous, I was LQQking for that one but in my haste I only found the Twins. 😀
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#82 Shannon
The Great Tamale Incident in San Antonio in 1976In this space last week, I mentioned that I had an entry already planned, but decided to hold it in favor of a more timely discovery. This week, I proceed with recognizing the 35th anniversary of what was called at the time, “The Great Tamale Incident,” and has passed into local lore.
President Gerald Ford, in town for a visit, was given a tour of the Alamo at a reception held for him by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. While there, according to the Express on April 10, 1976, he noticed “a plate of tamales, took one and began to eat it, shuck and all.” A vigilant DRT member stopped him “before it was too late.” He took it in good humor and “laughed as his hostess removed the corn wrapper and returned his tamal. He then proceeded to finish off the Mexican delicacy.” We laugh, but really, would a guy from Nebraska have known anything about tamales? At least he didn’t go “diva” and storm off. -
#29 Hamous
Super Dave – Do you know that John Cobarruvias chucklehead? He’s a NASA employee. Several years ago NASA suspended him for violation of the Hatch Act.
Let’s just say I know of him and leave it at that.
As a side bar, back when Obama was running for office the first time, we had a gal in the front office of our building that wasn’t in our group, since we’d lost a lot of people, we had a small amount of real estate that wasn’t in use so the squatters came in and occupied about 3 good sized rooms. Anywho, she had a bumper sticker on her fridge that said “Friends don’t let their friends vote Republican” I couldn’t believe that she could be THAT stupid! After a few days it disappeared, I don’t know if she really got into trouble, but I doubt it.
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#76 Shannon
When I last looked, you could buy these containers for $1,600. If you poured some concrete perimeter piers and beams, you would have the basic structure in place for a 1,440 foot dwelling for less than ten grand. Why would you want to settle 480 sq. ft. ? -
#80 Pyro
I never understood why people say they don’t like fruitcake. I have always liked it, but not to the point of wanting to build my own. Not that there is anything wrong with building your own!
Randall’s makes a nice little 1 pound rectangular fruit cake, but for some reason they don’t make enough of them. By the time I shop for my Christmas meal, a few days ahead of time, they would often be sold out of them. This year, when I shopped for my Thanksgiving meal, I saw they had those fruitcakes in the bakery so I got one. We opened it about a week ago and have the occasional slice. Should still have half of it by Christmas and I expect it may last the two of us until New Year’s Day. -
Knowing that you have to shuck your tamale reminds me of the first time I ate edamame, served as an appetizer at a working lunch. I guess I wasn’t paying any attention to what others were doing, because I was eating the pods. Trying to anyway — chewing edamame pods is about as successful as I imagine chewing shoe leather would be. Finally someone noticed and told me you just twist open the pod and eat the beans.
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This year, when I shopped for my Thanksgiving meal, I saw they had those fruitcakes in the bakery so I got one. We opened it about a week ago and have the occasional slice. Should still have half of it by Christmas and I expect it may last the two of us until New Year’s Day.
There’s the #1 thing, anything baked that is still supposedly good 2 months later just caint be natural.
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I figured the instructions were for people from Wisconsin and New Hampshire.
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#56
Here’s a scary scenario for Californians, Midwesterners, Northeasterners, and New Englanders that have self-deported to more favorable climes:
Put in the provision that if they never voted or voted for any of the culprits, I’d be for it.
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#61 – I GOT SHOTGUN!!! (or you aint a goin)
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91 Shannon says:
December 18, 2012 at 6:53 pm
I figured the instructions were for people from Wisconsin and New Hampshire.Probly so. But then Texans need to be told where to get scrod, so it works to even in the end.
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I don’t get scrod; I always used protection when I was at the gate.
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#95 Shannon
Even though I live fairly close to New Hampshire, I always thought “scrod” was just a New Englandish euphemism for “screwed”.
If not, I’ll have to review 10 years of conversations in hopes I didn’t insult anybody.
Please advise.
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OhmyGod, I’ve been scrod!
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Even though I live fairly close to New Hampshire, I always thought “scrod” was just a New Englandish euphemism for “screwed”.
If not, I’ll have to review 10 years of conversations in hopes I didn’t insult anybody.
Please advise.In many Boston restaurants today, one can find Scrod on the menu. Is scrod cod or is it haddock? Scrod or Schrod, is actually both. For generations, the origin of the term scrod has been widely debated.
You see, its all about economy of words. Where everybody else says “Catch of the Day” the famously taciturn Down Easters use only one word: scrod.
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Of course, many women complain of having a haddock after getting scrod.
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You can get scrod in Boston, but its Baltimore that’s famous for crabs.
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So I take it scrod is some unidentified fish they caught and cooked?
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#99 Sarge!
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#87 mh42
This fruitcake is like none other that I have ever had. There is no candied citrus peel dyed unnatural shades of green & red; the only candied fruit is a little crystalized ginger. The rest is dried fruit (soaked in rum). Cherries, cranberries, blueberries, raisins, currants, dates (my addition), apricots, and sometimes figs, peaches, and whatever else strikes my fancy at the store.
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its Baltimore that’s famous for crabs
ditto the main gate at Ft Sill.
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anything baked that is still supposedly good 2 months later just caint be natural
It is if you put enough booze in it. 😉
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OhmyGod, I’ve been scrod!
hussy
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I’ve never watched anything on FoodTV, it’s not my bag. When I was in my 20’s, I made my own yogurt and baked my own bread. I am happy to let others do the cooking now.
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It is if you put enough booze in it.
When I was in the Army, my Grandmother would send rumcake. Normally a tea totalling Home Baptist, she paid no heed to the alcoholic content of the cake. Rum was simply an ingredient to add flavor. She would mail them in coffee cans to protect them from being crushed in the mail.
The first one she sent had so much rum in it that we didn’t discover she had wrapped it in waxed paper until we took a bite—after slicing off a couple of slabs. It had soaked into the waxed paper so much that it looked like it wasn’t even there. Do you have any idea how much rum has to be in a cake to do that?
From that point forward, anytime a cylindrical package from New Hampshire showed up in the mail room, the mail clerk would personally deliver it to me, after hours, with several freinds in tow. More often than not it was just cookies, but every once in a while we had us a little party. -
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December 18, 2012 at 9:43 pm
So I take it scrod is some unidentified fish they caught and cooked?Scrod is either haddock or cod—which pretty much is the totality of fish variety of any commercial quantity to be found in New England waters.
I should mention here that I absolutely despise most New England cuisine. Most of it is bland and unimaginative. The only exception to that rule is a big ol’ plate of Boston Baked Beans with codfish cakes and brown bread.
Stick to ribs that does.
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