I bet at least one of the guys owns a football, but probably not an NFL franchise team. Plus, Kraft isn’t accused of “soliciting sodomy,” which is a very Victorian term, just a handie or two from his accommodating masseuse.

This actually isn’t as strange as it seems. The station this happened at, 28th St/7th Avenue, is at the epicenter of New York’s shrinking Flower District. There is, or was, a place on the corner that sold trees like these, you kind of had to walk through them to get into one of the station entrances if they were…

How do your grandparents pronounce the word “mittens” or “kitten”, if you’ve ever heard them say this? I had a Boston-born grandmother who did the glottle stop. She also pronounced “film” as “fill-um.” And “theater” as “thee-ay-tah,” but she wasn’t imitating Downton Abbey, that was just a Boston thing she grew up…

I’ll name one.

For a couple of years I’ve looked for part-time retail work in this new booming economy and you can’t just wander into a place anymore and chat with a manager, you have to apply online. That must be another hindrance, the assumption that everyone can somehow get to a desktop to fill out these applications that go on…

I think when Au Bon Pain first got started they made their sandwiches with croissants, which was new to the US at the time. (Come to think of it I don’t think I’ve ever had a sandwich made with a croissant in France, so maybe today it would still be new to the French, but I digress.)

I learned about the magic of adding bacon to egg salad a couple of decades ago. My thought was, “If I like bacon, eggs, and toast so much, why not have it all at once in a combo?!”

I didn’t know where to leave this so I’ll leave it with you. Paul Gosar is a 60-year-old dentist, now an Arizona Rep. Arizona must be a very strange place.

Exactly. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon sounds like someone Bertie Wooster would have known at Eton.