Wow, very nice. The writing on this group of submissions is quality. Except Bob. Poor Bob.

I can’t put my finger on it, but this truck has a threatening aura about it.

Some of the easiest we’ve dealt with, and most welcome around the house, is mint. Just carefully dig up a few specimens from the source location - mature but not yet flowering - transplant to the new location in cultivated soil that drains decently, keep moist for a couple weeks. We pretty much neglect it after that…

...rightfully a little freaked out...

Favorite use of dried beef: cheese ball

I’m down with everything in this article. Now, please write the article “Stop Crapping on Potted Meat.”

2013 Dodge Dart

The Archos Jukebox was the stuff. It’s only ugly by modern standards. At the time it was a tad bulky but otherwise it was fine, especially for as capable a device that it was. When I got mine off Ebay I immediately upgraded the rechargeable batteries for looooong play time, removed the drive and stuffed a 20GB (!)…

I appreciate the participants in this thread willing to embrace conciliation and civility even while disagreeing rather than the typical internet escalation and vitriol.

I have never soaked because that makes steam, not smoke, but the concern of the chips burning fast, hot, and clean instead of slow and smokey is a valid one.

Uh...what? Yelp, someone who has no part in worker’s wages and compensation and creates a platform where they can be recognized for their work, creates another opportunity to recoginze them and drop some cash on a few lucky souls and you frame it as a cage fight (“pits workers against each other”) intended to further…

The fact you’re looking for a way to apologize means 1) you value the relationship and 2) the thing you did, right or wrong, jeopardizes that. Apologize that the thing you did is wrecking things and you really regret it. That is completely true so the apology will come naturally and sound sincere, because it is, and…

“fat” is always the answer

I would pay good money for the Taco Town Tote Taco. Don’t know why you’d throw the corn husk in there, but I’m down with everything else.  Looks flippin’ amazing.

For the record, I didn’t type “are will” in my original post.

“3 less frequented states worth your time”

Delaware - “some of the nicest beaches on the East Coast”

Vermont - “littered with beautiful mountains up and down the state” for skiing, snowboarding, and tubing

Montana - “Big Sky. For the outdoorsey types it doesn’t get much better.”

Exactly. You can’t see any given blade but the disk is clearly visible if you are paying any attention whatsoever. And that last bit may be the crux of this whole matter.

The gyros at Arby’s. Nobody ever has “gyros” and “Arby’s” in the same thought, understandably. But though they’re not quite as good as you’ll get at the local Greek restaurant or falafel truck they are pretty decent and will satisfy if you got a hankerin’ and there’s no real gyro place nearby.

Steak Breakfast Crunchwrap with a side of red sauce. The packets won’t do, must be the same red sauce used a bean burrito. That slightly smokey chili flavor on the nice steak and eggs...mmmm, that’s the stuff.

Very nice. Thanks for this. My son found a pristine Western Electric rotary phone in a flea market he just had to have and I’d promised to retrofit bluetooth into it. It was going to be janky and would be little more than a bluetooth speakerphone adapter. That XLink product is way better and saves me a bunch of…