The junk drawer

[bushey]

Varmint, LOL! We have a lot of drawers in our kitchen also, and three of the drawers would probably look like junk drawers to anyone not familiar with the method of my madness. For example, under one of the drawers we have a pull out shelf that I use for baking, mixing, mashing potatoes, etc. (I'm short and the counters are a tad bit too high). Therefore, potato masher goes in this drawer and NOT the drawer under the cooktop where all the other cooking utensils go. How hard is that to remember????

The other day I was looking in the junk drawer for something or other -- matches? white cotton thread? -- and found my long lost Swiss army knife.

[tommy]

Varmint, LOL!

jeesh. i hand him the joke, he shamelessly takes it, *and* gets the laugh.

i'm outta here.

[Varmint]

C'mon, Tommy. You know I have no sense of humor. I just appreciate your being the straight man for once by throwing me that bone.

You may resume your rightful monopolistic spot on the jokester throne.

[Fat Guy]

Tommy, you are the Andy Richter of eGullet.

[bushey]

tommy, come back, please. I was laughing out loud about the plethora of drawers in Varmint's kitchen and still the need for a junk drawer. I'm not into outhouse humor.

mr. tommy, you're still my favorite poster .

[Varmint]

Careful, Bushey, as you don't want to stroke Tommy's ego too much. He'll forget to take his medication.

[tommy]

Careful, Bushey, as you don't want to stroke Tommy's ego too much.  He'll forget to take his medication.

i require *much* less medication than an awful lot of other folks here on egullet. this i know for sure.

[Jinmyo]

Careful, Bushey, as you don't want to stroke Tommy's ego too much.  He'll forget to take his medication.

i require *much* less medication than an awful lot of other folks here on egullet. this i know for sure.

tommy, it's quality rather than quantity that counts. Surely, surely.

[Priscilla]

Maybe a Medications questionnaire, over in Poll Station, is in order.

[Wilfrid]

Listen, Tommy's fairly stable by eGullet standards. Terrifying, isn't it?

[Priscilla]

i require *much* less medication than an awful lot of other folks here on egullet.  this i know for sure.

Listen, Tommy's fairly stable by eGullet standards. Terrifying, isn't it?

Tommy is surely as stable as he needs to be. It's just that his throwing down the gauntlet there, sounded a little, dunno, competitive, and everyone seems to like polls and such so well.

Topically, I prefer utility drawer to junk drawer. Gives one something to live up to.

[Wilfrid]

A utility drawer = a junk drawer with aspirations.

[Priscilla]

Yes. Could be a subconscious riff on Pudd'nhead Wilson's cauliflower being a cabbage with a college education.