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  • Danielhaug
    Junior Member
    • Mar 2018
    • 3

    "don't trouble trouble until troubles trouble you"
    this one is mine for today

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    • riverbabe
      Senior Member
      • May 2005
      • 3373

      "We’re going to have a lot of teachers at the ballot box who I don’t think would normally go in a midterm year. If I were a legislator right now, I’d be honestly sweating bullets."

      NOAH KARVELIS, an elementary school music teacher in Arizona and a leader among teachers there seeking better pay.

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      • riverbabe
        Senior Member
        • May 2005
        • 3373

        “My favorite meat is hot dog, by the way. That is my favorite meat. My second favorite meat is hamburger. And everyone says, 'oh don’t you prefer steak?' It’s like, I know steaks are great but I like hot dog best and I like hamburger next best.”

        Mitt Romney on meats to Washington Examiner / David Drucker

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        • billyjoe
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2003
          • 9014

          Originally posted by riverbabe View Post
          “My favorite meat is hot dog, by the way. That is my favorite meat. My second favorite meat is hamburger. And everyone says, 'oh don’t you prefer steak?' It’s like, I know steaks are great but I like hot dog best and I like hamburger next best.”

          Mitt Romney on meats to Washington Examiner / David Drucker
          ..................and these guys are like, you know, running the country.

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          • riverbabe
            Senior Member
            • May 2005
            • 3373

            "Good food, good eating, is all about blood and organs, cruelty and decay. ... It’s about danger — risking the dark, bacterial forces of beef, chicken, cheese, and shellfish."
            This is IT folks! The Essay that preceded the BOOK. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1...e-reading-this

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            • billyjoe
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2003
              • 9014

              River,
              After reading that essay I wish I'd paid more attention to Anthony Bourdain.

              --------------------billy

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              • riverbabe
                Senior Member
                • May 2005
                • 3373

                Canada imposes such onerous tariffs on U.S. products — shoes, for instance — that people are forced to "scuff 'em up" in order to "smuggle" them home, the president said, seemingly confusing tariffs with duties.



                P.S. Yours truly was but a toddler when she learned how to smuggle.
                Last edited by riverbabe; 06-20-2018, 09:14 AM.

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                • riverbabe
                  Senior Member
                  • May 2005
                  • 3373

                  Tree toad, anyone?
                  "It’s better if you have a good mouthful. They’re like potato chips."

                  ALF JACQUES, 69, on the Onondaga Nation’s practice of eating cicadas.

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                  • Paco
                    Junior Member
                    • Feb 2011
                    • 24

                    I have not eaten toad or goldfish, but I have eaten fried cicadas.

                    I get them when they are young - no wings yet - and they are nutty, like walnuts.

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                    • billyjoe
                      Senior Member
                      • Nov 2003
                      • 9014

                      " I'd give myself an A+ as president"

                      -------------Donald Trump

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                      • Louetta
                        Senior Member
                        • Oct 2003
                        • 2331

                        "I'm the one who's supposed to be f-ing him, not Major League Baseball."

                        Kate Upton, wife of baseball pitcher Justin Verlander, after he was edged out for the Cy Young award.

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                        • riverbabe
                          Senior Member
                          • May 2005
                          • 3373

                          • Gary Cohn, the former Trump economic adviser, said the president
                          shouldn’t comment on Fed policy

                          . Alan Greenspan offered some advice for the current Fed chairman, Jay Powell:
                          use earmuffs

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                          • riverbabe
                            Senior Member
                            • May 2005
                            • 3373

                            "I don’t mind someone having a snack. A full-on subway meal or a roast chicken, leaving the bones all over the place, isn’t acceptable."

                            ANDY BYFORD, president of the New York City Transit Authority, on the limits of eating on the go.

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                            • Louetta
                              Senior Member
                              • Oct 2003
                              • 2331

                              "AAPL had a nice write up in Barrons. They said that with new computers coming out before fall back to school.......sales will pick up. The new computers will run both Windows and Apple language programs. AAPL may be worth a look."

                              Peter Hansen, in this forum, 7-16-2006

                              Good call.

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