I figured it was the guests.

“....it does bug me a little that we can see all the pot and stuff on the counters at Thanksgiving,...”

I hadn’t heard ‘rumpus room’ since I used to hang at my buddy’s house in the 60s. Is it an older East Coast thing? Though we lived in L.A., my buddy’s mom was Boston-Irish. I’m now in NH, and no-one says that (though we have mudrooms, not foyers).

Any party I’ve attended, from college keggers to adult dinner parties ALWAYS end up in the kitchen, anyway, no matter the size of either the party or the kitchen.

What? No Bag Balm? It’s not just a ‘rural’ thing...I learned of it in L.A. 

What? No Bag Balm? It’s not just a ‘rural’ thing...I learned of it in L.A. 

Yeah, at least we knew what we were getting.

Once upon a time there was an engineer, who drove his locomotive both far and near, accompanied by a monkey who would sit on a stool, watching everything the engineer would do. One day the engineer wanted a bite to eat and left the monkey sitting in the driver’s seat. The monkey hit the throttle, locomotive jumped the…

The true ‘monkey’s paw’ curse would have your diet restricted to fruit-only, and only those tiny-seeded fruits that would aggravate your Crohn’s.

You sound a bit like me.

We always hear from the Right that celebrities should stay in their lane when it comes to advocacy and politics.

My late wife’s meatloaf? - Basically, it was a giant hamburger (as in, open the 1 lb package of burger, throw it in a frying pan and dump a can of mushrooms on it.) Did not impress my daughters.

I have this model of Morakniv. It came sharper’n a mother-in-law’s tongue.

I have this model of Morakniv. It came sharper’n a mother-in-law’s tongue.

‘Tis a fine line between ‘white trash’ salads and recombinant cuisine.

God bless the 225 and all who use them.

Solved 1/2 of the problem by building a garage in 1990.

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“not only admitted to being the driver of the car that struck this girl, but also that she had done so intentionally”.

They revel when he’s incivil. If he was in any way polite at any time, he’d be labelled a pussy for that.

The head to body ratio is totally different in true felines than the actors in makeup/cgi.

I was politically aware during Nixon’s administration, and even though I recognized the immense value of his foreign policy (except Vietnam, which he inherited and sought to ‘Vietnamize’ - he bought my sympathy by ending the Draft in the year of my call-up (low number)- and some domestic policies (EPA), I hated most…