My Jewish self and my whole family say something awful close to lot-key.

Isn’t this John Doe? Not only in its basic premise but as a reminder not to get attached to shows like this that get cancelled long before you have any clue what is going on.

Soft-shell corn tortillas (also known as tortillas) are kind of like biscuits that way. If you have ever had fresh-made biscuits you’d never want any other kind but fresh-made. If you have ever made biscuits from scratch, you know how unbelievably easy it is to do better than any mix or frozen or canned version and…

Not necessarily Southern.
I once attended the funeral for the mother of a coworker in a very Yankee state, Catholic church. My coworker was uncontrollably loudly blubbering through the whole service, understandably, her long-time girlfriend doing her best to comfort her, and the priest having to practically shout over…

The plastic hood, boots, overdress, train all say to me, “got married on Maid of the Mist.”

Isn’t that Russian dressing? Cocktail sauce has horseradish.

Ugh, Silver Diner. The menu is so strange, interesting, but strange. Last time I went was for breakfast. Before taking our order I overheard the server tell another table they had maple syrup. When she came around to us I asked if they really had real maple syrup (it isn’t exactly in a region where you would expect to…

I am not a vegetarian, but have been known to eat cocktail sauce with saltines. Or bread. Or as a baked potato topping. Cocktail sauce is good.

Pretty dresses and tiaras, but really love the whiskers. When will that make it to this hemisphere?

Saranac Lake may be one of my favorite places, but when you say Eastern Canada, islands, deep water, I think of Georgian Bay first. Well, maybe not in May.

It seems like a big-sister thing to do to purposely have her wedding small and low-key so as not to steal the pageantry from little-sister’s long-planned wedding.

It might not be that section that is most relevant. Her son may be “actual or perceived” special-needs in some way, hinted at by her letter trying to get out of bringing him to the interview describing “life circumstances.”

Tylenol? Never, anymore. There has not been any time I have ever taken tylenol where it had any benefit, no noticeable worsening either, but when I read that liver thing, ... Why take something anyway that doesn’t seem to work at all. Ibuprofen works. It doesn’t work for everything or every time, but it is the only…

Remember the old, thin, fast, clever Outlook Express? It did not try to do too much, and what it did it usually did better than fat nonintuitive Outlook. I heard once (don’t know if it is true) that Outlook Express was made by the IE team and Outlook was made by the Office team. It makes some sense if it is true,…

And just because it is curly, doesn’t mean it is curly everywhere the same. I almost always have to re-trim after any haircut. The worst was when I got home, took a shower to get rid of all those bits and crumbs of trim that was left behind, and found one side 3” shorter than the other when wet. After a while the math…

What happens when a heavy truck behind you in the line of traffic loses its brakes and there are those sturdy fences and no shoulder?

chapter 19 of the computer’s manual

It is a common term, not just Midwestern. http://wescreamcustard.com/blog/?p=29

Thank you. I had never been to Steak ‘n’ Shake until I was over 30. But hand dipped shake? I probably would have given that same answer to anyone decades before setting foot in one. Sort of the same as the answer I’d give someone who asked, “what is a chocolate cake?” Um, a chocolate cake.

After two weeks of terrible customer stories, turnabout is fair play...