Please! I am at loose ends since Rothfuss still hasn’t come out with book 3 of the Kingkiller Chronicles (it’s been an effing 9 year wait FFS). I would probably prefer if there were an SF or fantasy element though but I am willing to accept recommendations across all disciplines.

It has been 40 years since I hung out with a band named Ellipsis - I think ramekin just flowed like nippikinin my head; hell, I even got the bowl wrong! Congratulations on seeing past all that and recognizing the song anyway.

Every time I hear ‘ramekin’ I have to sing “and a small bowl” I can’t find the song but it goes through a list of drinking containers from the brewery through barrels to ‘ramekin and a small bowl’ - my google-fu is bad.

Same,same - I admired from afar a woman who really rocked the bald look; I used to see her almost daily and finally did something stupid - I told her that her head was perfect for the bald look...she responded “yes, I am lucky that way”. Sigh! I gotta keep my mouth shut.

OK Trumper

The first drink I ordered in a bar (I was 15) was a sloe gin fizz - I have no idea why or how I even heard of that drink, I still cringe when I think of it since this was in a rural, Montana bar.

Do upscale places know what a ‘well’ drink is (rather than ‘rail’)? would that get me the cheapest?

It is quite likely that even Neanderthals used bark and/or hide to boil water since water boils below the ignition point of either so carries off the excess heat.

Thanks for the chuckle.

Somehow, my feet always hang over the mattress and I am only 5'8"

The tag is always on the lower left (upper right).

Shouldn’t this shit be enough to look at any prosecutions that these shits were involved in AND be thrown out.

Yeah, I really like his Tarzan series - but didn’t see bagels mentioned once. I especially liked Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod

My local Asian market is stocking Japanese (and other) KitKat flavors now; I have to hide them in the freezer so I don’t eat them all as soon as I get home.

Hold it! The rules say the the challenged gets to choose the weapons - that dude is out of order.

Possibly a neck-beard.

In the 2009 remake of Zatoichi, a couple of gangsters get their hands on swords and immediately accidentally cut each other up. Theoretically, you have to use rattan swords for years before they let you handle a real one - those damn things are really sharp.

My sister is trying to come up with a way to make sure that my cat isn’t surviving by dining on my corpse - I am 71 with no known companion other than my cat.

Might be more along the lines that dogs joined humans when both were hunter/gatherers but cats didn’t need/join us until we became farmers - about 10,000 years difference in timing.