Yeah, my childhood was 40 years ago, to be fair. Different era, then. No Internet (well, it was still limited to the military at the time), video games were limited to Pong, and of course cell phones were way off. Nowadays when kids say they’re bored, what they might really mean is “I don’t have game/movie X, so I’m…

(and then go don some steel-toed boots. Those motherf**kers HURT when stepped on).

Smile when you say that.

I told my mom “I’m bored” a handful of times growing up.

Ahh, yes, Urban Dictionary. Making it impossible to say just about any word in the English Language without wanting to bathe afterward since 1999...

Being originally from New England, I am of the opinion that Texas has no spring. It goes right from “Vaguely icy” to “Blast Furnace”.

There is a kind of fall, tho. November and December here are fabulous.

My mom was an RN, and she would hold ear piercing clinics in the early 80's (before the whole “get your ears pierced by anyone in a mall anywhere” thing really took off). She sterilized damn near everything, and would only use 24kt gold over surgical steel posts. I believe in the state of CT back then, you had to be…

I am fortunate to work in Software Engineering for an oil and gas company, and when I started at my current gig, my boss asked me to do business casual or jeans, but allowed me to wear shorts on Fridays.

2 months in, when things were starting to take off and he realized I was one of his top performers (and one of the…

I occasionally work from home, and I have been sorely tempted. That being said, my furniture is mostly leather. Eww... :-)

For people that do that: There is a place in Hell reserved just for you.

This Austinite agrees. If I could figure out a way to go to work in a T-Shirt and skivvies, I would.

Applegate’s are really good, as are Hebrew National.

Yep. And I currently live in Texas, where, despite sharing a southern border with Mexico, the locals pronounce the town of Llano as “lawn-oh”.

We also have Manor, which is pronounced as if you are referring to a resident of our northeastern-most state.

Come to think of it, when I lived in Maine, they had the border…

Meh. I just switched to pngs. Because screw licensed formats. Well, and the whole debate thing (although it’s a hard g, dammit)

We won’t believe you, of course. We’ll be too busy chilling.

Depends on what they use for the oil they fry in. I think they’re all vegetable shortening now, but they used to use beef tallow (and it might be up to the franchisee).

Perfect shot of Mitch McConnell. Perfectly captures his smarminess in all its glory. Makes me want to punch him in the fucking throat.

True, it doesn’t lower your taxes, just your taxable income. But if you need that one more thing to make it worth while (say you also have medical bills and you donate a lot, and if you have other business losses), it might do.  

I know, it’s not a solid scenario, but nobody had mentioned it, so I figured it was…

YASSSS. Cup of coffee and a pork chop that we grilled the night before. Even the cats hop up and try and gnaw on it. No, Max, that’s daddy’s.

Assuming there is a tax write-off associated with this? That might make it worth it alone. My wife and I get slammed every year with taxes because of the marriage penalty and we both make close to the same amount. Declaring 0 doesn’t cut it (which is stupid, because the IRS is establishing the tax tables in both…