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.
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.
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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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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