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  1. I've used this recipe to adapt with different additions for several varieties of very easy cookies that everyone likes. Instead of the 1 1/2C chocolate chips called for by the base recipe, you can add: 1 1/2C Raisinettes (covered with either dark or milk choc) = "Raisinette Cookies"; or 1 1/2C Trader Joe's mini peanut butter cups = "PB Cup Cookies"; or 3/4C dried cherries & 3/4C white choc chips = "Cherry Chip Cookies"; or 3/4C dried cranberries & 3/4C white choc chips = "Cranberry Chip Cookies"; or 3/4C dried bananas & 3/4C choc chips (milk or dark) = "Banana Chip Cookies"; or 1C dried mandarins (chopped) & 1/2C semi-sweet choc chips = "Orange Choc Chip Cookies"; or 1/2C dried cherries, 1/2C dried blueberries, 1/2C white choc chips = "Red White & Blue Chip Cookies"; or Etc., etc., etc.!
  2. The last time I saw a movie in a theater (rather than on TV), it was the Indiana Jones movie with Sean Connery as Jones' father. I just looked it up for the date & have forgotten the title in the time it took to come back to this site, but apparently that movie was released in 1989. I remember it was pretty good, as I thought it would be with that cast & all those snakes, but nothing since has attracted my attention. Instead, I watch TCM comfortably in my bathrobe & am more than satisfied with Cary Grant.
  3. I bite my tongue whenever someone refers to children as "the littles", because I don't want to berate a fond mother or grandma for brutalizing the English language (however much they deserve it). But I was just watching a wildlife camera at a waterhole in Africa being visited by a herd of elephants, when a comment suddenly appeared on screen about how cute "the littles" are! I suppressed the urge to add my own comment, but felt free to rant about it in the privacy of my own room: Hey, idiot commenter! Elephants are the epitome of dignity, even the baby ones, & deserve to be respected (as does the language). 🐘
  4. Vegetarians eat only vegetables, so people like me who eschew meat & poultry but do eat seafood are not vegetarians. We are pescatarians, but I don't say that because it sounds like some weird Calif religion & I don't want to open that conversation with strangers at the salad bar.
  5. There's no question in my mind that cats do wonder while wandering, & vice versa, but that doesn't make me feel better about what's happening to the poor English language. If the 2 words are pronounced the same down east, you're probably right about the origin -- but who knew that area had such a farflung influence on the rest of the country? And I agree that spellcheck is much too limited to help with this.
  6. The language continues to deteriorate (or, as many would say, "evolve"): "It's not safe for your cat to wonder around the street like that!" I see "wonder" used instead of "wander" so often, though never the opposite. One is no easier to spell or say than the other & they don't really sound alike, nor do they mean the same thing -- they're not technical or complicated terms. How does this happen, & why? Is it just because people don't read anymore? So many questions.... 😼
  7. Sadly, no -- it's everywhere! 😿
  8. Very common in Calif -- if a restaurant offers burgers, there's pretty much always a vegetable patty alternative. Surely Canadian supermarkets carry Impossible Burgers or Beyond Beef, etc?
  9. I feel the same way about "veggie" but that's become so common it's on pretty much every menu. And to make matters worse, I don't eat meat or poultry, so a burger made with a vegetable patty is often the very thing I'm looking for, but of course it's referred to as a "veggie" patty. Once, I asked for "the vegetable burger" & the teenage server replied "So, a veggie burger, right?" & I winced involuntarily. 😾
  10. Not awkward, just dignified. Congratulations on your having learned to speak like an adult!
  11. Or any of those other cutesy shortcuts -- veggie, convo, etc. Grow up!
  12. Don't worry -- "fastrack" isn't a real word anyhow.
  13. Barry Goldwater, Howard Baker, John Dean -- I'm pretty sure that those guys, & other Republican politicians, would not have been afraid to speak up now as they did during Watergate.
  14. Maybe they're created by the people who wear PJ pants in public?
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