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fairffaxx

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  1. Any estimate as to when this might be fixed?
  2. This story about Walmart's grocery delivery is 2 years old and I don't know how well it worked for them, but it might be the answer to many a working person's prayers.
  3. The same was true of a judge I knew, though he was not typical of the breed. One of him was bad enough -- vastly overpaid, yet stealing food from interns whose sole compensation was law school credits, then leaving a mess in his wake.
  4. All of those missing Ts have been transferred into the word "often", whose T is supposed to be silent, but apparently not no more....
  5. Those who enjoyed watching Dodsworth might want to read the autobiographies of Mary Astor (My Story, 1959, and A Life on Film, 1971) and David Niven (The Moon's A Balloon, 1971, and Bring On The Empty Horses, 1975). Niven says that Ruth Chatterton recruited him for the role of her shipboard romance in Dodsworth, which launched his career. They are both wonderful writers and I loved their books almost as much as I loved this movie (except that Walter Huston doesn't appear in the books and he really does make the movie as outstanding as it is, every time I see it).
  6. All cats are psychic. Also telepathic. And most have a cloak of invisibility, which they're not loath to use whenever a human wants to do something to the cat for the cat's own good.
  7. I hate emojis too, but other people insist on using them, so it's nice to know (I guess) that there's an Emoji Dictionary Site.
  8. Lucky you, to encounter wild turkeys crossing the road! Wildlife has been pretty much crowded out of Silicon Valley where I live, but a few wild turkeys settled in a suburban trailerpark awhile back and we've been blessed with their offspring wandering around from time to time. A big tom spent the night in a tree behind my backyard a couple of years ago, then explored the cul de sac in front of my house for several hours on a quiet Sunday morning, ignoring the people walking dogs and retrieving their cars parked on the street -- we all stared at him, but he wasn't interested in us. They are huge and the blue neck with red wattles is impressive, not to mention that gigantic multi-colored flared tail!
  9. I'd rather sit next to a horse on a plane (or anywhere else) than a child -- even an apparently well-behaved child, because you never know when they might go off. In fact, I'd rather sit next to any kind of critter than a child, except for spiders (unless they're securely caged) and preachers.
  10. The latest Chevrolet ad with "real people, not actors" includes a female voice gushing "I can't stop staring at it!". We don't see the ecstatic woman, and the particular Chevrolet she's fixated upon isn't specified, but none of them seem worth a second glance, let alone a stare. I recently saw a meticulously restored 1955 Studebaker at a local charity event, so I realize that it is possible to be awestruck by a car, but Chevrolet must be aiming at a different audience.
  11. When I was 4, my father refused to pull over and stop the car despite my leaning over from the backseat and telling him, several times right in his ear, that I was carsick and felt like throwing up. Turned out I knew what I was talking about, right in his ear.
  12. Need to use up eggs and vegetables, so I made a huge frittata with onions, peppers, garlic, spinach, tomatoes, and 6 eggs. This is so big and dense that it will make at least four meals (with Parmesan cheese on top and English muffins on the side).
  13. Mail your letter with the PO -- you can probably find that address by googling. That kind of letter might get more attention than just another e-mail.
  14. Ruby24, I'm so glad that you've discovered one of my favorites, Margaret Sullavan -- but please note the spelling (as Ogden Nash did): "... The fairest of sights, in twinkling lights / Is Sullavan with an a.”
  15. One of the fairly well-known classic movies is Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy, featuring Melvyn Douglas as "the other man" (sort of) -- he holds his own in that outstanding company.
  16. Three olives sounds more like a salad than a cocktail. A restaurant in my city used to serve martinis with two really huge olives, until someone (a consumer affairs reporter, I think) pointed out that the olives were so big they displaced most of the liquid in the glass, which saved the restaurant money but cheated the customer who was basically buying pickled olives for the high price of alcohol. I only went there when I could charge my office expense account, so I didn't care what it cost -- those giant boozy olives were practically a meal in themselves with free French bread, they needed to be cut with a knife and eaten with a fork.
  17. At my HMO, it's standard practice to take BP with the patient seated in a chair, feet flat on the floor, following a wait of at least 15 minutes after arriving (not immediately after driving, parking, walking across the lot, climbing stairs, etc.). If those results are high, they wait at least 10 minutes and then test again with the patient standing, arm extended at heart level, hand resting on the BP machine -- that almost always helps to bring my numbers down.
  18. I've never encountered "disclude", thank goodness. Of course, all good things must end....
  19. According to "Why did Bette Davis and Joan Crawford Hate Each Other?" at Black and White Movies.com : "Tone, who was dating Crawford, was Davis’s leading man in Dangerous. Davis fell in love with him, but he married Crawford."
  20. Remember when Phyllis (Cloris Leachman's character on The Mary Tyler Moore show) complained that her husband Lars had been having a lot of late night emergency calls and Rhoda (Valerie Harper's character) pointed out that Lars was a dermatologist? The truth was that Lars was having an affair with Sue Ann Nivens (Betty White's character, star of "The Happy Homemaker" show on the TV station where Mary worked), and that's why he was never home at night. Who knew that dermatology could be so much fun!
  21. AngelKitty, pork is the meat typically used for Mexican chili verde (green), whereas beef is the meat typically used for chili Colorado (red). The easy way is to just buy a can of green enchilada sauce and mix it with your leftover cooked pork, heat, and serve over cooked rice or canned pinto beans -- preferably with cornbread and a salad of lettuce, tomatoes, and onions on the side.
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