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One of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies. The Americanization of Emily. And James Garner is explaining what's wrong with Europe. "I've had Frenchmen tell me I'm a Savage because I only take a half hour for lunch."

I got an email from CDNN. They were selling aftermarket Glock magazines. And they said in the ad that they were steel lined. Seemed to be making a big thing about it. "Our magazines are steel lined." They just made me wonder if the original ones were all plastic. So I asked. Pat, apparently, thought this was beginning of an anti-glock tirade, and he replied a little aggressively. I suppose the powers that be thought it was the beginning of a flame war, and locked the thread.

When I was a little kid there was a sign down on Beach Drive. Historical marker. THE BATTLE OF ST ANDREW BAY 10 years or so back that got changed to THE ST ANDREWS SKIRMISH Doesn't sound near as impressive, does it? https://civilwartraveler.blog/2025/03/31/st-andrews-bay-salt-works-and-raids-panama-city/ Frikkin' thieves. As you can see from the pix, in my linked article, somebody stole the sign. And there in the park, where the original salt works was, there was a modern made oven with an authentic era salt pot. And some worthless bastage stole the pot.

Thank you. That was me that asked.

Friend of mine got a mail order Russian bride. She came with a 15-year-old daughter. To welcome them when they arrived he cooked a big meal. One of the things he made was grilled shrimp. When they looked at the meal, the bride said something to her daughter and the daughter - she spoke English, unlike her mother - informed my friend that she and her mother did not eat bugs.

A frustrated gymnast, who failed to make the Russian Olympic team, now spends her afternoons turning cartwheels through the sky.

Gasoline in New Zealand is $3 a LITER????? That's $12 a gallon. That's more than what it costs in California!!! I should think one of the easier ways to tell them apart would be to check the undercarriage. I believe the Hillman has four tyres, while the Grumman only has three.

They could have been a little clearer with this. "This tradition continued through the dark ages, and became particularly cunning around the time of Edward Longshank’s reign, where a lord taking the bride into his bedroom on the first night of her marriage was also good reason to confuse the lords with bridesmaids." That's a reference to Droit du seigneur - also known as "the right of first night". The Lord of The Manor had the right to deflower the bride of any of his serfs. Good looking peasant girl? Well, you wouldn't want to marry her. She's so beneath you. But a nice tumble for the first time. And her husband can't complain. You pretty much own him and her, so you can do whatever you want.

The second comic - creeker blazing Western action as you like it Isn't that The Rawhide Kid??

May I draw your attention to number four? https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71858/10-things-you-might-not-know-about-hardees "Wilber distinguished Hardee’s from McDonald’s (and other fast-food hamburger restaurants) by designing the Hardee’s buildings in a hexagonal shape with a pointed roof. Some Hardee’s burger patties were also hexagonal rather than round. Food-wise, he introduced “charco-broiled” burgers, which were cooked on charcoal broilers. These burgers reportedly tasted juicier and smokier than other burgers due to the cooking process."

Ever tried "top of stove lasagna"? Basically a homemade version of hamburger helper lasagna. Spaghetti sauce - either homemade or from a jar. Wide egg noodles. Hamburger, unless your homemade sauce already has burger in it. Ricotta cheese, or if you're cheap, cottage cheese, because that works. And truthfully it's the only way in my opinion to make cottage cheese edible. And mozzarella. Warm up the sauce, add the meat to it if you need to. Boil the noodles. Drain the noodles, put them in the sauce and stir them all up, dump in the cottage cheese and stir that all up so it's all mixed up together. Let it simmer for a few minutes. Take it off the fire and sprinkle shredded mozzarella over the top and let the heat from the lasagna melt the mozzarella. It ain't bad. It don't have layers, but it's got flavor.

Similar. Maybe. I know the first part of this is true. I don't know the second part is, because I saw it on a television show, and as we all know, television makes stuff up. In the Orient white is used for funerals. It is the color of mourning. I know that part's true. Now for the maybe part. In Japanese traditional weddings the bride wears white. Not to show her virginity, like it is in occidental weddings. It's a symbol of mourning because she is now basically dead to her father's family. She is no longer part of his family. She's part of her new husband's family.