I’ve been past that Donner sign. Also have been to the visitor center there, and the statue whose plinth was the depth of the snow. (It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the plinth was covered three years ago when they had the incredible deep snow loads. Truckee building code is designed to bear the *70* feet some places had.)
Back in ancient times when multi-vehicle ski trips I was on used CBs for coordination, the standard call when passing that sign was either “anyone hungry?” or a variation on the old restaurant waiting area joke of “Donner, party of ten… nine…”
No 4th floor — some residents at the assisted living place I worked had an apartment on the 2nd floor. Lovely couple, very pleasant. One day they complained about the construction noise from the 3rd floor. Whoops – 2nd floor was the top. We asked them to move into our memory care wing.
Food engineering – when my wife was a PhD student at UC Davis, 1974-ish, she used to eat lunch with an assortment of other grad students. I got an early intro grapes in a net bag!
Captain Janeway was a sorcerer?
Garlic and vanilla extract – recipe quantities are just a start, everybody knows that.
I don’t think I want to take home any leftover assassin.
The recommended amount of garlic is a starting point, not a limit. “Two cloves of garlic” means “start with two large cloves of garlic, then toss in a few more because they will get stale or sprout otherwise, and the flavor’s probably weak anyway.”
“Subtle, delicate flavor” is not how I cook main dishes.
The recommended amount of garlic is a sop to the poor unfortunates who, for some unfathomable reason, do not like garlic. For anyone else it’s a bare minimum to be followed only when you have no more garlic. Well-known fact.
One of the most amazingly weird techniques in old cookbooks is the use of garlic only to flavor the dish. Literally, just rub the dish with garlic and then throw out the garlic.
Our apartment building does have a fourth floor (I’ve checked). From time to time, I’ll hear the sounds of people clomping around above us. I’ve never considered complaining, though, for the following reasons:
It’s not really all that loud,
I have no idea what we sound like to the people below us, and
I don’t want to complain to the manager about the tenants above us, just to hear the manager say, “No one lives in that apartment, and no one ever has.”
Could be ‘No one lives in that apartment now; tenants never seem to last long, and they always move out undetected, leaving the apartment empty. Never contact us for their deposit. Never leave a forwarding address …’
Ooo. Kitty crack! I’m familiar with that problem and solution concept.
/sigh So much for that 90 day probation period feeding fish.
Dishwasher safe skulls was a great Conan the Barbarian moment.
Isn’t that interesting. The rotisserie chicken from Costco is my favorite bird too!
Now we know why the mayor of LA let Pacific Palisades burn, and why it’s taking so long to rebuild. She owns stock in wheel chair ramp manufacturing.
Question: Do you think Booth & Co would have forgone their assassination attempts if Congress had impeached Lincoln or if he had been brought to court for violating the Constitution?
Communist synonyms: Marxist, Maoist, Socialist, Antifascist, Democrat.
They said there are no stupid questions. Then Ketanji Brown Jackson said, “Hold my beer.”
Dear Melania: Let Jimmy keep talking and he’ll do it for you.
To be honest, Omar did immediately correct herself. But that’s like jumping off a cliff and then realizing you shouldn’t have done that.
true fact: I was taught the greater and lessor signs just that way. Point the mouth to the larger number. I can’t tell you which is which, I just face the bigger prey.
Note that I’m not an authority, I do not speak for anyone else, and I didn’t sleep at a Holiday Inn Magnum Express last night.
I /am/, technically, impatient.
Largely because I want to see more wars before the congressional cycle.
Cuba and Mexico are just sitting there, for example.
I basically don’t think we have toppled all of the regimes that have been illegally contributing to Democrat campaigns, nor have we fully destroyed their economies.
Trump is arguably too much of a liberal, and too much of a democrat, but he is the compromise that could hold this coalition together.
I do realize that these things take time, but I got my instant gratification hopes up after some events earlier this year, where I have entirely lost track of the actual timeline.
The “Democrats’ secret weapon to woo back men” looks like a half-ton (well, maybe quarter-ton) stick-shift that could not woo any man, let alone one with eyes in his head.
The “Democrats’ secret weapon to woo back men” looks like a half-ton (well, maybe quarter-ton) stick-shift that could not woo any man, let alone one with eyes in his head.
Answer to question: Yes, the skulls of your enemies are dishwasher safe if properly defleshed and cleaned beforehand. If not, first EW and second, unsanitary already and you’re asking about proper washing techniques?
Regarding the first rule of Excel, as a former plumbing guy and wiring guy with a bit of OCD, ouch. Very, very ouch.
Regarding do you want problems, you (original memer) just made several of us Odds do simple word problem math at a grade school level. This does not qualify as “problems.” I get paid to solve those because they are harder.
Regarding garlic to cooking, if you want “clove” to mean one itty bitty piece of the whole garlic thing, you need to be more specific. Also, less tasty. As in, it’s less tasty without enough garlic to inoculate an entire village against vampires for weeks on end.
Regarding the cat treat snek, that thing’s not venomous so back in the garden it goes. It competes with kitty for the verminous things is more why kitty got jealous and chomp chomp here hooman hooman…
Regarding the surveillance device, how will it turn the pages is what I want to know.
Regarding Moron Labe, sure. We just give you the bullets first, unpackaged, so be ready to catch. Hope you have very fast hands.
Regarding accidental purchases, I can recall when entire crates of Krags went for barely a C note. Beautiful guns, smooth as butter action. Too many sporterized and bastardized, unfortunately. A bunch of AKs for $15 is a steal though, no lie.
Regarding “get Jimmuh Kimmuhl,” whatever does Carmen Sandiego have against sorry, sad excuses for comedians?
According To Hoyt 
No comment because I can’t think of anything intelligent or funny. [Crazy Grin]
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That doesn’t stop politicians when they see a camera.
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challenge accepted @#$%^&*()
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Of course, very few politicians (especially D ones) are intelligent. [Very Big Grin]
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SFBS!
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I’ve been past that Donner sign. Also have been to the visitor center there, and the statue whose plinth was the depth of the snow. (It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the plinth was covered three years ago when they had the incredible deep snow loads. Truckee building code is designed to bear the *70* feet some places had.)
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Back in ancient times when multi-vehicle ski trips I was on used CBs for coordination, the standard call when passing that sign was either “anyone hungry?” or a variation on the old restaurant waiting area joke of “Donner, party of ten… nine…”
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I sent the word problem one to my daughter because I think she’ll use it soon against a couple of other girls.
I feel like the elephant one should have a hung over marine there.
I nearly died from the Voigt-Kampff test.
Well done collection this week, some new ones for the coffee wall in the break room.
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No 4th floor — some residents at the assisted living place I worked had an apartment on the 2nd floor. Lovely couple, very pleasant. One day they complained about the construction noise from the 3rd floor. Whoops – 2nd floor was the top. We asked them to move into our memory care wing.
Food engineering – when my wife was a PhD student at UC Davis, 1974-ish, she used to eat lunch with an assortment of other grad students. I got an early intro grapes in a net bag!
Captain Janeway was a sorcerer?
Garlic and vanilla extract – recipe quantities are just a start, everybody knows that.
I don’t think I want to take home any leftover assassin.
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The recommended amount of garlic is a starting point, not a limit. “Two cloves of garlic” means “start with two large cloves of garlic, then toss in a few more because they will get stale or sprout otherwise, and the flavor’s probably weak anyway.”
“Subtle, delicate flavor” is not how I cook main dishes.
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The recommended amount of garlic is a sop to the poor unfortunates who, for some unfathomable reason, do not like garlic. For anyone else it’s a bare minimum to be followed only when you have no more garlic. Well-known fact.
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MSG: Minimum Safe Garlic ?
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I just figure whoever wrote the recipe meant a bulb of garlic, and didn’t know the word…
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One of the most amazingly weird techniques in old cookbooks is the use of garlic only to flavor the dish. Literally, just rub the dish with garlic and then throw out the garlic.
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Our apartment building does have a fourth floor (I’ve checked). From time to time, I’ll hear the sounds of people clomping around above us. I’ve never considered complaining, though, for the following reasons:
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Could be ‘No one lives in that apartment now; tenants never seem to last long, and they always move out undetected, leaving the apartment empty. Never contact us for their deposit. Never leave a forwarding address …’
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Manager: “Ain’t nuthin but ‘possums livin’ up there now. At’s probbly what you’re hearin.”
Midnight: “Clumping around like that? No ‘possum could make that kind of racket!”
Manager: “Got some big ‘possums ’round these parts. And mebbe they’re bowlin!”
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As far as the Sam Eliot one, about Reaching That Age When…
That was about twelve. Since about thirty-five or so I have realized the need to claw that one back a bit.
Sometimes.
Maybe.
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Ooo. Kitty crack! I’m familiar with that problem and solution concept.
/sigh So much for that 90 day probation period feeding fish.
Dishwasher safe skulls was a great Conan the Barbarian moment.
Isn’t that interesting. The rotisserie chicken from Costco is my favorite bird too!
Now we know why the mayor of LA let Pacific Palisades burn, and why it’s taking so long to rebuild. She owns stock in wheel chair ramp manufacturing.
Question: Do you think Booth & Co would have forgone their assassination attempts if Congress had impeached Lincoln or if he had been brought to court for violating the Constitution?
Communist synonyms: Marxist, Maoist, Socialist, Antifascist, Democrat.
They said there are no stupid questions. Then Ketanji Brown Jackson said, “Hold my beer.”
Dear Melania: Let Jimmy keep talking and he’ll do it for you.
To be honest, Omar did immediately correct herself. But that’s like jumping off a cliff and then realizing you shouldn’t have done that.
Cool manga. What’s the name of it?
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true fact: I was taught the greater and lessor signs just that way. Point the mouth to the larger number. I can’t tell you which is which, I just face the bigger prey.
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re: republican patience with Trump’s Iran war
Note that I’m not an authority, I do not speak for anyone else, and I didn’t sleep at a Holiday Inn Magnum Express last night.
I /am/, technically, impatient.
Largely because I want to see more wars before the congressional cycle.
Cuba and Mexico are just sitting there, for example.
I basically don’t think we have toppled all of the regimes that have been illegally contributing to Democrat campaigns, nor have we fully destroyed their economies.
Trump is arguably too much of a liberal, and too much of a democrat, but he is the compromise that could hold this coalition together.
I do realize that these things take time, but I got my instant gratification hopes up after some events earlier this year, where I have entirely lost track of the actual timeline.
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The “Democrats’ secret weapon to woo back men” looks like a half-ton (well, maybe quarter-ton) stick-shift that could not woo any man, let alone one with eyes in his head.
Are we sure that’s not The Onion? Or the Bee?
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The “Democrats’ secret weapon to woo back men” looks like a half-ton (well, maybe quarter-ton) stick-shift that could not woo any man, let alone one with eyes in his head.
Are we sure that’s not The Onion? Or the Bee?
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If you don’t like my solution… indeed. “Solve the problem”, people say. “Not that way!” Make up your minds….
Okay, the stairs one is appropriately creepy.
The dark elixir of sanity! …though mine has more chocolate.
July. Yeah, that scans with my mood….
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Answer to question: Yes, the skulls of your enemies are dishwasher safe if properly defleshed and cleaned beforehand. If not, first EW and second, unsanitary already and you’re asking about proper washing techniques?
Regarding the first rule of Excel, as a former plumbing guy and wiring guy with a bit of OCD, ouch. Very, very ouch.
Regarding do you want problems, you (original memer) just made several of us Odds do simple word problem math at a grade school level. This does not qualify as “problems.” I get paid to solve those because they are harder.
Regarding garlic to cooking, if you want “clove” to mean one itty bitty piece of the whole garlic thing, you need to be more specific. Also, less tasty. As in, it’s less tasty without enough garlic to inoculate an entire village against vampires for weeks on end.
Regarding the cat treat snek, that thing’s not venomous so back in the garden it goes. It competes with kitty for the verminous things is more why kitty got jealous and chomp chomp here hooman hooman…
Regarding the surveillance device, how will it turn the pages is what I want to know.
Regarding Moron Labe, sure. We just give you the bullets first, unpackaged, so be ready to catch. Hope you have very fast hands.
Regarding accidental purchases, I can recall when entire crates of Krags went for barely a C note. Beautiful guns, smooth as butter action. Too many sporterized and bastardized, unfortunately. A bunch of AKs for $15 is a steal though, no lie.
Regarding “get Jimmuh Kimmuhl,” whatever does Carmen Sandiego have against sorry, sad excuses for comedians?
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“Walk me through your thought process” is definitely a keeper!
But busting on Ohio? Again? Some parts of Ohio are nice. Take Cincinnati for example. And, well, but…did I mention Cincinnati?
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I’m sorry, tie location on a brontsaur’s (don’t @me) neck is not a serious debate.
Ties go around the base of your neck, not up under your jaw.
Unless you’re this guy:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/temple-macaroni-1772-an-exquisite-with-a-waist-length-news-photo/464475415?adppopup=true
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“Stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni.”
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Just now saw this on X.
Since it is nearly the same as one of my first posts here, and got me my first carp launch, seemed appropriate …
One day God calls down to Noah and says, “Noah me old mate, I want you to make me a new Ark.”
Noah replies, “No probs God, me old Supreme Being, anything you want…”
But God interrupts, “Ah, but there’s a catch. This time I do not want just a couple of decks, I want 20 decks one on top of the other.”
“20 DECKS!” screams Noah. “Well, OK Big Man, whatever you say. Should I fill it up with all the animals just like last time?”
“Yep, that’s right… well, sort of right… this time I want you to fill it up with fish,” God answers.
“Fish?” queries Noah.
“Yep, fish… well, to make it more specific, Noah, I want carp wall to wall, floor to ceiling!”
Noah looks to the skies. “OK God, let me get this right: You want a New Ark?”
“Check.”
“With 20 decks, one on top of the other?”
“Check.”
“And you want it full of carp?”
“Check.”
“Why?” asks the perplexed Noah… “
Dunno,” says God. “I just fancied a Multi-Storey Carp Ark.”
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