Coffee - America's favorite 'Pick Me Up'

skeeter1.

Posted to Etcetera on Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 07:13:44 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

It has been my entire lifetime.  Starbucks is good, but getting too pricey.   McDonalds coffee has always been a favorite of mine, but it's no longer cheap anymore as well.

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Nostalgia

skeeter1.

Posted to Etcetera on Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 09:31:48 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

We're living in an era of rocketing fuel costs, rising grocery costs, and taxes.

My Granddad  used to talk of pork chops (early 1900's) costing $0.05/lb.  Well, no longer.  

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Anyone remember "Service Stations"?

skeeter1.

Posted to Business on Mon Jun 16, 2008 at 08:42:08 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

At one time, you could go to a Service Station (some call them call them "gas stations", "petrol pumps", all depends where you live).  This was back when gasoline cost ~30-cents/gallon.  A strapping young lad would come out, fill your tank, check your oil, clean the windshield, and check the air in your tires.

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Salt & Pepper

skeeter1.

Posted to Etcetera on Fri Jun 06, 2008 at 08:48:55 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Black & White.  Yin & Yang.  

For whatever reason, salt & pepper have become the almost-universal accompaniment on just about every dining room table and restaurant I've ever seen.  Indeed, I have salt and pepper shakers on my own table.  People even collect  the things.

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Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam...

skeeter1.

Posted to Etcetera on Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 07:19:19 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Yes, I know it's the brunt of many jokes, like Monty Python's Flying Circus, and the word has taken on an evil connotation for junk email.  Why Spam was singled out rather than Baloney is beyond me.

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You like recipes?

skeeter1.

Posted to Etcetera on Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 05:10:28 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

I like recipes, and have made that entirely clear on this forum.  Here's my next experiment:

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NUKES!!

skeeter1.

Posted to Etcetera on Fri May 30, 2008 at 10:46:11 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

No, I'm not talking Hiroshima here, I'm talking about in the kitchen.  Microwave ovens have been around since the late 1960's, IIRC, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven).  My first one was an Amana Radarange, and when it finally gave up the ghost, it was ~20 years old.

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Salads -- Everyone's Favorite Diet Food...

skeeter1.

Posted to Etcetera on Thu May 29, 2008 at 06:39:05 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

...Or is it?  

There's only about a bazillion ways to make them.  Cheapy-Iceberg lettuce, Romaine lettuce, Arugula, water-cress, Boston-bib lettuce, oak-leaf lettuce... the list goes on and on.

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Gas or Electric?

skeeter1.

Posted to Etcetera on Mon May 05, 2008 at 11:48:29 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Small yard tools, that is.  Not cooking.

I used to be a big fan of two-stroke outdoor gizmos, but one-by-one, I'm getting rid of all of them.

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Cheese!

skeeter1.

Posted to Etcetera on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 06:20:15 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Quite possibly the finest food that mankind ever conjured up.  For cheese was one way of preserving milk, along with yogurt.

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Which way do you keep a roof over your head?

skeeter1.

Posted to Etcetera on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 12:32:43 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Conventional mortgage, rent, lease?  

I once almost got sucked up in a land contract a long time ago.  Upon reading the contract closely, just painting a wall could have got me thrown out on my ass, not to mention having to pay back taxes and property liens.

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Television - the medium that everyone loves to hate... and loves

skeeter1.

Posted to Media on Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 12:32:08 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

I was a product of the '50s, when television was just becoming popular.  All we had then was Black & White, but without, I'd never have seen the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the wonder of the first  lunar landing in 1969.  Later on came color TV, and with it the horrors of the Vietnam War, the god-awful  vision of 9/11/01, and countless other news events.

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