Green beans in a casserole that is bound together not with mushroom soup, but a mixture of cream cheese and brie.

This is a very important and underrated post, and should have more stars and be higher.

This is a really big conundrum. Because turkey does bore me to tears, but dammit... gravy is sublime.

One year I did Tgiving with 5 friends, and we were hemming and hawing about what the menu should be, and the friends who were hosting were obviously a little uncomfortable about shouldering the responsibility of roasting the bird in their oven.

(Saw your username, immediately knew what your icon was, starting singing the song in my head. It’s stuck there now. Thanks.)

So, here is a corollary question: is there any truth to the idea that we can’t smell our own smell, as much as we can others’ smells? I think I heard somewhere long ago that we don’t notice our own smell as much because it’s omnipresent to us. And this thought plagues me every time I’m doing a sniff-test on an article…

I wish to add my name to the THIS IS SOME BULLSHIT list, but also to the no-doubt long list of people wanting to be informed if Pinkham decides to resurrect this blog elsewhere. A++, would follow.

14) You’re participating in any kind of water sports at all.

LL Bean is good, obviously. Also try Duluth Trading Company. And Woolrich (for both cotton and wool plaids).

No, that is perfectly acceptable.

It’s worth remembering that the reason we call them “teddy bears” is because Theodore Roosevelt, an avid hunter, was on a hunting trip for black bears in Mississippi, when one of his guides found a bear and tied it to a tree for the president to “hunt”. Roosevelt refused to shoot the captive bear in disgust. The story…

I’m completely unable to read the lyrics without the responses sounding off in my head.

It could be that ukuleles used to be more associated with Hawaii in the 40s, 50s and 60s, than they are today? The word “ukulele” is Hawaiian (sorry, typo in my post above). They became popular in Hawaii in the 19th century because Portuguese immigrants brought their own versions of small guitar-like instruments, and…

I would assume it looks like a pineapple because ukeleles are associated with Hawaii? But as to what it’s doing in the add, you got me. “Tiny Bubbles”? Seems like a stretch.

But that means they probably weren’t FROM there. Most of the people you encounter in restaurants at the Jersey shore are there to vacation, and are actually from New York or Philly or something.

That is the worst, wrongest selection of Polar beverages I can possibly imagine. I *like* some Polar flavors and I wouldn’t touch any of those.

And gold. Don’t forget gold. Who am I, Cher?

No, I got it and I picked Rubio.

Untrue. I just recently went to the Worcester Art Museum for the first time, and it’s actually a nice little museum. (And it has the remnants of the Higgins Armory Museum in it now, which used to be the other good reason to visit Worcester.)

I don’t know if this is true of the originals in England, but in MA we have several -ham towns that are correctly pronounced with “ham” instead of “um”.