Ooh, it's got a plate you could make something resembling aebleskivvers with! I already have pretty much all of your books in paper form, but good luck on your Waffle Quest!
Oh yes, my mother in law made a dish that was oven roasted shredded carrots and onions. They were done when they were slightly burned around the edges. Delicious.
Ooh, that's a really, really, REALLY good roadsign to get then! When I was a kid we'd play it on the 9-10 hour drive from suburban Chicago to south central Missouri every year. Games could take hours!
This is something I do as well, but forwards. The x rule is the same. No moving vehicles; only vehicles which are being used primarily as signs. When I was a kid we'd play left side of car vs right side; over-road signs counted for either side. Right-side was coveted: less looking behind. Q is hard.
Bodies are weird; I get seasick on small boats, but I never get seasick on cruises, even when it's very rough out. Must be a frequency thing.
1900-14: My grandfather and his twin brother grew up as orphans on a rotation of family farms as unpaid farmhands. The family did commit some mild fraud to make sure that each of them got a different county's college scholarship. They got out of farming and never looked back.
Oh, that makes sense! And I even knew about bone glue....
A side question: I've read about "rag and bone shops" for years. I know that rags could be repurposed into lots of things, but why would people buy bones?
"HUdson 3 2 7 Hundred!"
The sung phone number of a carpet cleaning and dying service in the Chicagoland area. I've actually used them to get an area rug cleaned! It's been stuck in my head for over 50 years....
Keep us posted. Or toasted. Whichever!
Metamorphosis Alpha
The original Star Trek, mimeographed paper fanzines. 14 or 15.
Of course you're right. Thanks for catching that!
Whereas a woman in the workforce in the 1940s and before, and at least some of the 50s was expected to NOT be married, and could be fired if she was, because she'd be taking a job away from a man who needed it, you see. She, obviously, did NOT need it, because married. Sigh.
Thanks!
I would say not, though it's certainly Nicoll Event adjacent.
Which reminds me; I was recently remembering @jdnicoll.bsky.social 's older relatives (parents? grandparents? g'grandparents?) adventures in the volcano (yes, in) in Hawaii some 100 or so years ago; is it written up somewhere I can find?
It takes practice, yes, and also extra facewashing especially around the nose if you've got oily skin the way I do. I went in for a scan yesterday which I'd misheard as an MRI but turned out to be CT, and the tech had never seen one and asked All The Questions.
I remember that last year we couldn't use the ship's library because it was being used for something else, and a suggestion was made that we put together a library on the shelves near the craft room. Is that what we're doing this year?
Will the JoCo Cruise be doing the book library (as opposed to games library) thing this year? If so, donations or loans?
Yeah, for 53% I'd go with "about half" or "just over half".
I'm listening, I care, and I wish I were able to help.
It probably is and I missed it.
If you click a "like" on individual pronouns before scrolling down the veritable mountain of pronouns and seeing paired ones and so find yourself with She, Her, and She/Her, you can reset your pronouns by liking this post in the middle of the pronouns list, and then re-liking the pronouns you want.
Thank you! I'll go looking for it immediately! It's a pronoun Everest <wry grin>.
It's a still image for me, too.
Cool. Milk glue! It never occurred to me that it was named after its mascot. I figured there was some guy named Elmer who started the company!
Wait, it WASN'T hoof glue? I'd always assumed that it was, especially since it was always marketed as non-toxic.
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I'm glad nobody got injured in the course of your adventure. Hope the saddle isn't damaged, or if it is, not too badly!
As a monolingual (I hope not dickburger) I can confirm that even menus can be fraught. As a teen with 1 year of German, I went to Germany. There was a menu item that I translated as "Chicken Soup with Egg" It arrived at my table--and the waiter broke a raw egg into my soup. Cultures and idioms.
I liked "she" and "her" before I found "she/her" at the bottom of the list. Can you take the "she" and "her" off my labels and keep the "she/her"?
