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 The husband-proof grocery list 

 

Here.

 

 It's not just husbands who need a grocery list such as this. I speak from experience. 

 

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I always made lists but then I'd get a call from The Mister who said he couldn't read my (printed) handwriting.

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19 minutes ago, Anna N said:

 The husband-proof grocery list 

 

Here.

 

 It's not just husbands who need a grocery list such as this. I speak from experience. 

 

 

That's a hoot.  I would add one thing.  I would includes a drawing of what two looks like II and what 4 looks like IIII so that when I ask for 2 smoked picnic shoulder as I did last week, he doesn't come home with four.

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That still wouldn't work with my son-in-law. His M.O. is to just shrug and fill the cart with stuff he likes (and they can't afford) and then say "I couldn't find the things that were on the list."

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1 hour ago, Anna N said:

 

 The husband-proof grocery list 

 

Here.

 

 It's not just husbands who need a grocery list such as this. I speak from experience.

 

 

Amusing, but certainly not new. Here is one by the artist Michelangelo (1475-1564) for his semi-literate servant.


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You're On Fire -- They Might Be Giants' more-than-worthy successor to Peter Gabriel's classic dancing chickens.

 

(Anyone else here a TMBG fan?)

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How to resist a band that writes lines like "say I'm the only bee in your bonnet"?

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2 hours ago, chromedome said:

How to resist a band that writes lines like "say I'm the only bee in your bonnet"?

 

Or "Triangle man, Triangle man/Triangle man hates particle man/They have a fight, Triangle wins/Triangle man"

 

Or "Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding"

 

Here's what they look (and sound) like: NPR Tiny Desk Concert   At the Kennedy Center 

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"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

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Today's Foxtrot: PIZZA as an acronym

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7 minutes ago, Smithy said:

Today's Foxtrot: PIZZA as an acronym

So, I wonder what S.T.E.A.K and L.O.B.S.T.E.R stands for!

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2 hours ago, JohnT said:

So, I wonder what S.T.E.A.K and L.O.B.S.T.E.R stands for!

 

Steamed Tofu, Eggplant, And Kale

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"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

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Side salad

 

 

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"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

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I think this is legitimate for our thread, since it addresses at least the "drink" side of food and drink...

 

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/drunk-man-arrested-claims-he-time-travelled-to-warn-of-aliens-1.3619979

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One more for everyone's delectation: 

Authentic Chicken Parmigiana

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6 hours ago, chromedome said:

One more for everyone's delectation: 

Authentic Chicken Parmigiana

 

Cute. I liked the "Alternate Ending."

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"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

A king can stand people's fighting, but he can't last long if people start thinking. -Will Rogers, humorist

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8 hours ago, chromedome said:

I think this is legitimate for our thread, since it addresses at least the "drink" side of food and drink...

 

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/drunk-man-arrested-claims-he-time-travelled-to-warn-of-aliens-1.3619979

 

I'll see your aliens and raise you one wombat.

 

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Mr Stringer said alcohol had played a big part in Cradock's life. However, defence lawyer Michael Vesty said alcohol was not a problem that day.

 

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"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

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On 10/5/2017 at 2:30 PM, Alex said:

Side salad

 

 

 

Complete with terrible looking slices of styromate and brown lettuce. I guess it's funny in a way, but not if you're the paying customer who receives this pathetic excuse for a salad. Wish they had said where it was from so people would know to eat somewhere else. :) Or maybe they just concocted it for amusement?

> ^ . . ^ <

 

 

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43 minutes ago, Thanks for the Crepes said:

 

Complete with terrible looking slices of styromate and brown lettuce. I guess it's funny in a way, but not if you're the paying customer who receives this pathetic excuse for a salad. Wish they had said where it was from so people would know to eat somewhere else. :) Or maybe they just concocted it for amusement?

 

 

You do realise that The Onion is a satire site?

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5 hours ago, liuzhou said:

 

 

You do realise that The Onion is a satire site?

 

TftC is in good company.

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"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

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I love me a good library joke.....

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Zucchini: Is there anything it can't do?

 

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A German man feared a monster courgette he found in his garden was an unexploded World War Two bomb and called the police.

 

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"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

A king can stand people's fighting, but he can't last long if people start thinking. -Will Rogers, humorist

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