Does your town have an equal number of bars and churches?

Heh. My college town actually had one more bar than church. Very scandalous.

I guess I am 100% not Minnesotan. Step-dad is 100% though. And a lovely person.

Is it possible for an old break in a leg to start hurting years later?

I think arthritis hits old breaks.

Bread is my hiccup cause almost every time.

My college town actually had one more bar than church. Very scandalous.

My home town had about five or six churches and 21 bars. At one point, anyway (I think there are a few less bars now).

Bathroom Monkey (video)

Heh.

Out here, in the other contender for Bluest-State-of-All, many towns have no bars at all (save those in private clubs like country clubs, VFW's etc.), and restaurants have to meet size and seating quotas, before they get a liquor license. There are tight restrictions on how many drinks restaurants can serve, and if the patron doesn't order food, they often can't be served at all.

We do have bars in some places, but many towns are dry. The town in which I grew up doesn't even allow liquor stores (and you cannot buy beer and wine in grocery stores in this, the other contender for Bluest-State-of-All). There is currently a movement to change that, it's being fought fiercely, and by a powerful lobby (the liquor store owners).

Ah, the old meaning of liberal. I'd almost forgotten it.

Ah, the old meaning of liberal. I'd almost forgotten it.

Heh, I was just talking to a friend yesterday about the stunning contradiction of Massachusetts being such a hotbed of commie-pinko-liberalism, and, yet, the phrase "banned in Boston" was well known OUaT for a reason. Gay marriage! And blue laws! Puritans! And Kennedy's! Busing riots in Southie! And the People's Republik of Cambridge!

Heh, I was just talking to a friend yesterday about the stunning contradiction of Massachusetts being such a hotbed of commie-pinko-liberalism, and, yet, the phrase "banned in Boston" was well known OUaT for a reason. Gay marriage! And blue laws! Puritans! And Kennedy's! Busing riots in Southie! And the People's Rebublick of Cambridge!

Weirdly, or perhaps not, Seattle is much the same way: blue to the point of pink, but with a ridiculous number of blue laws.

The cure for hiccups I know about is to get a glass of water and straw, stick your fingers in your ears, and blow through the straw into the water. This comes from a Subaru repair manual so you know it has to work.

Old Atari vidoe games on a keychain! [link]

Each keychain has a secret - they contain real games. Plug in the included 6 foot cable (on a battery powered reel) into the keychain and your TV , and you really can enjoy the games of yesteryear. Yes, you read that right: these keychains contain real Atari games, and are fully playable!

Speaking of Cambridge, Chris Schlesinger of East Coast Grill and cookbook fame has opened a sandwich shop (with beer and wine available!): [link]