The wife takes the husband's name, which, hello! Why can't the *husband* take the *wife's* name? (Although, really, the wife's name is actually her father's name, so it's all one big patriarchal gang-bang of nomenclature.)

The best solution I ever heard to this was a couple who held a big bride's side vs. groom's side softball game on the morning of the wedding, loser takes winner's name.

t /random

I feel that chocolate is a big bully in most recipes. Stick any amount of chocolate into a sweet recipe and it muscles its way to the front.

It's a diva, it's a star, it refuses to play second fiddle to anything. You put a couple of chocolate chips in an oatmeal cookie and they sit there in your mouth shouting: "I'm still big, it's the cookies that got small!".

Raisins know how to work in an ensemble. I can work with Raisins.

The best solution I ever heard to this was a couple who held a big bride's side vs. groom's side softball game on the morning of the wedding, loser takes winner's name.

That's fabulous.

Oh, hey, my parents totally know the guy who created Boudreaux's Butt Paste.

It just induces Mad love! I have never even seen it. Cashmere has mentioned it a couple of times, and it nearly makes me want to have another baby (until I think about being pregnant, giving birth, and living through the toddler years). I used Balmex, but I totally would have bought Boudreaux's Butt Paste, on name alone.

Dana, totally off the Butt Paste topic, but how are your parents doing? Were they able to go back to stay in their old house? Do they still have a lot of work left to do?

It's a diva, it's a star, it refuses to play second fiddle to anything.

Damn straight!

This is why I am CONSTANTLY denied chocolate macaroons. By Tom. Who is mean.

Nora, he's only doing it for your own good. There are plenty of coconut/chocolate recipes that are right, but you're so mired in wrongness, you don't even recognize right, any more.

I feel *so* betrayed.

I now want oatmeal cookies with Raisenettes really badly.

t sits in corner with brenda m

t brings Vera

You'd think they'd find a better name than bang sticks.

"This... is my boomstick!"

The best solution I ever heard to this was a couple who held a big bride's side vs. groom's side softball game on the morning of the wedding, loser takes winner's name.

LOVE.

I am doing a beginning of spring clean out the toxins diet for a week and having no grains or sugar of anykind.

That is to say, all you cookie discussers? you suck.