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  1. Xoic

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    Yeah, that's more what I was expecting. I don't know what's wrong with Google maps. Or I just don't know how to use it.
     
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    My daughter and I went to Ireland about 15 years ago. We stayed a couple of days at a B&B owned by folks we really hit it off with (it was early season and they weren't sick of tourists yet). When I asked about restaurants in town, Tom told me the best good cheap food in Ireland was "bear food." "Bear food?" I asked. "Bear food," he confirmed. "And where do we get bear food?" Says I. He bellowed, "In a bear, of course!" At the look on my face he added, "In a bear- a pub!"

    :superlaugh: Separated by a common language again. Children were welcome in Irish bears and we had many good meals therein.
     
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    Back when the Portuguese first arrived in Japan, they bought with them European cakes and sweets (particularly those cakes now known in Japan as castella). When the Dutch were forced to head off to Edo (Tokyo) to pay tribute to the Shogun, they had to take him gifts from their latest shipments and provide sweets at his banquet.

    I reckon there will have been some years where they'll have been sitting there wondering what to take him, and someone says "Oh, let's just bake him a cake".
     
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    Now this is bizarre. Romance author fakes own death online then comes back.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64179548

    Would *you* be suspicious if someone who always wrote "supposed to" as "post to" also passed that trait down to their "daughter"?
     
  5. Link the Writer

    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    I might be going to Hell for this... creating Jesus with a wife and child, and Pilate with his own wife and child in The Sims 4.
     
  6. Louanne Learning

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    Her online community feels justifiably betrayed, but I think this is a story about mental illness rather than duplicity.
     
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    Mental illness appears to have been a factor, but evidence of fraud can't be brushed aside with pleas of illness.
     
  8. Louanne Learning

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    Unless she was delusional, and then could not distinguish between what was real and what was not. Mental illness can be terrorizing, and the survival instinct goes on high alert. One response is the need to make yourself disappear.
     
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    Mmm, possible, but I wonder how delusion might lead to this particular type of activity. Hiding out from fear is one thing; profiting by one's actions is another.

    Well, it's all intellectual exercise on our parts since we have only what's printed in the press to go on. Would be interesting to read the investigation reports. You are a kind person, Louanne. I've spent too many years around LE and addicts and have grown skeptical about claims of innocense based on mental and chemical impairment.
     
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    The best-selling product from at least one of Walmart's drone delivery hubs is Hamburger Helper.
     
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    Well that's horrifyingly consistent.
     
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    Alas, first the hamburger must want to be helped.
     
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    GrahamLewis To be anything more than all I can would be a lie. Contributor Contest Winner 2022 Contest Winner 2024 Contest Winner 2023

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    Nope, never worked on a ranch, though I was born out near Chadron NE, love the Sandhills, and lived out in western Nebraska for awhile after college. And I must confess I have a great fondness for Nebraska beef.
     
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    What a turkey is called in various places around the world

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    It may be relevant that 68% of all suicide victims have eaten hamburger helper, just sayin,
     
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    Mental note…
    If you’re going to attempt burgers in an air fryer, make sure the drip tray is big enough for all the juices. Mine wasn’t, and now my kitchen counter looks like a crime scene.
     
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    The US State Department has agreed to the request by the nation which formerly was called the same name as the bird to be called Türkiye, which is the native spelling. The umlauted "u" is pretty hard for native English speakers to pronounce, but the rest of it is just about as it looks: toor key yay! (exclamation point optional)

    I've seen some people unhappy with the change, to which I reply that the Korean word for "America" is "MeGook."

    Really.

    미국
     
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    When photographers used to say "watch the birdie" they really had a little birdie for the subjects to watch. This one dates to about 1900.

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    In Ontario, we get our milk in bags.

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    i've lost it again :dead:
     
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    Various dairies have tried that here in the US, but it never caught on, far as I know. I liked the bags, especially for freezing.
     
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    Cows store the stuff in bags.
     
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    Those bags have easy pour spouts though.
     
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    Easy squirt spouts, maybe.
     
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    Lol, you got me there
     

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