sara, heads up - I'll want to know where there's a Dunkin Donuts AND a Baskin Robbins. Good thing you've got the BK all scoped out.
My boss is leaving early. WHEE! And then out the next 3 days.
Mal: How drunk was I last night? Jayne: Well I dunno. I passed out.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Jun 23, 2008 8:29:33 am PDT #4454 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Sophia Brooks - Jun 23, 2008 8:30:24 am PDT #4455 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
You know-- being raised by grandparents who were born in the 1910's really makes me sound old! I also said "ashcans" for metal trash cans, "davenport" for sofa, and "dungarees" for jeans.
DavidS - Jun 23, 2008 8:33:38 am PDT #4456 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You know-- being raised by grandparents who were born in the 1910's really makes me sound old! I also said "ashcans" for metal trash cans, "davenport" for sofa, and "dungarees" for jeans.
It makes you sound like Mr. Burns.
sarameg - Jun 23, 2008 8:36:31 am PDT #4457 of 10003
Good thing you've got the BK all scoped out.
Actually, I don't know if the one nearest me will be open yet. They tore it down and are putting in a new one.
DD right up the road. And there is one of those DD/BR co-stores not much furhter (I only noticed that because so WEIRD.)
Trudy Booth - Jun 23, 2008 8:37:25 am PDT #4458 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I think Oleo was a brand name that wound up like Xerox or Band Aids or Saltines.
Rick - Jun 23, 2008 8:37:53 am PDT #4459 of 10003
My mom remembers it came in a bag with a capsule and you'd break the capsule and knead the color into the margarine.
This was true in most dairy states. It was illegal to sell yellow margarine, on the grounds that people might get confused and think it was butter. To protect the dairy industry, the yellow and the margarine had to be in separate packages.
msbelle - Jun 23, 2008 8:42:08 am PDT #4460 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
tore it down
!!!?!?!?!?!
so WEIRD
you misspelled "awesome and proof that things are sometimes right in the world."
tommyrot - Jun 23, 2008 8:42:56 am PDT #4461 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
When I hear "oleo" my first reaction is to think of shock absorbers for aircraft.
DavidS - Jun 23, 2008 8:43:14 am PDT #4462 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Interesting tidbit, Rick.
In news guaranteed to make SA howl:
The era of carefree, unlimited Internet browsing and downloading might be coming to an end.
Industry leaders Comcast and Time Warner Cable have started testing traffic-metering and management techniques that seek to rein in heavy usage, and AT&T says such limits are inevitable for the most extreme users of its network.
That means that for the first time since the era of dial-up access, Internet providers are looking to count how many bytes a customer uses, potentially ending or significantly altering the practice of all-you-can-eat broadband consumption.
The providers say the initiatives - which are only tests at this point - are aimed at a certain subset of heavy users who consume an inordinate amount of bandwidth, threatening the performance of the network for other customers.
Sean K - Jun 23, 2008 8:44:45 am PDT #4463 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I think Oleo was a brand name that wound up like Xerox or Band Aids or Saltines.
While it may have been a brand name (I don't know for sure), the word oleo is a shortened form of oleomargarine, which was the butter substitute invented by a French chemist at the request of Napoleon.
Napoleon wanted a butter substitute that would go bad, for use by the army and the lower classes.
The word oleo is derived from the term "oleic acid," which basically means "oil."