What’s your favorite canned bean? Heinz Baked Beans. The British ones in the ethnic food aisle. No sense in faking a full English breakfast; do it right.

This might be the first Kindle of the current generation that supports Audible audio books, but Audble support (and a built-in speaker and headphone jack) were features available on previous generations that were eventually dropped.

I mean, it’s right there in the name.

I’m still pulling for him.

The thing about Usborne is that every American Elementary School and Public Library had a few of their books when I was growing up in the 80s, and the text (if not the books themselves) seemed to have been imported verbatim from the UK. I remember recipes that called for salad cream and digestive biscuits, and science…

Unsurprisingly, these are really, really good. My favorite salad dressing is a simple garlic herb, so I more or less followed your suggestion and added a little garlic and a pinch of seasoning. A bit fiddly for more than a couple of servings, but they’d make a good addition to an antipasto platter.

Excited to try this tonight. I knew there was a good reason to pick up extra cherry tomatoes on sale the other day!

I’ll be so disappointed if the phrase “Rising Tithes” doesn’t appear on a graphic behind one of the late night hosts while he is discussing this story.

What do you think your guests dry their hands on?

I wasn’t fully aware of what Hypercard was until it was already dead, but when I was in middle school we used PCs running a Hypercard clone called Linkway. There were a couple of things it did better than Hypercard (namely VGA graphics right out of the box), but Hypercard wins because people have actually heard of…

Same. Those prefixes come with an implied eyeroll; people who are okay with men wearing buns just call them buns.

You make valid points, but to me the terms purse, satchel, and messenger bag all imply a distinctly separate styles of construction. I’m not sure if I’m right about that (it’s less work to type this comment than it is to do a modicum of research), but I feel that very few people would describe the bag I take to work…

I’ve said it elsewhere and I think it’s still worth pointing out: Gene Roddenberry would have been delighted with the phrase “social justice warrior”, and would have happily self-applied it.

I always forget—is Reince Priebus the one who spins straw into gold, or is he the one that’s summoned when you say his name three times?

a terribly drawn singing elephant over your favorite beautiful Pixar film with a complex plot.

I’d’ve held out for Blow-me.gov, Blow-me.mil, and Blow-me.edu.

Just got up, huh?

I’ve been trying for like, five minutes too come up with a better response than “don’t uh, don’t eat it.”

Sandwich envy.

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