Isn't it? My grandmother is a great character.
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Zenkitty - Jan 20, 2015 1:51:40 pm PST #4897 of 5827
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
SailAweigh - Jan 20, 2015 2:25:30 pm PST #4898 of 5827
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Sounds like something Mal Reynolds would say.
Zenkitty - Jan 20, 2015 2:45:48 pm PST #4899 of 5827
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I don't know why people think Joss Whedon made up that down-home dialect in Firefly.
and we're back to topic! All roads lead to Whedon.
Connie Neil - Jan 20, 2015 2:45:51 pm PST #4900 of 5827
brillig
That's what I thought, SA. Or someone on Firefly.
SailAweigh - Jan 20, 2015 3:05:22 pm PST #4901 of 5827
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Now that I think about, more likely Jayne.
DCJensen - Jan 25, 2015 11:02:20 pm PST #4902 of 5827
All is well that ends in pizza.
Argggh, just got into it with a poster on another board who doesn't understand why product placement ads wouldn't work on Agent Carter. I mean, I'm sure Ovaltine would be thrilled to have increased brand recognition in today's market, but they're not going to be financing an hour of primetime on ABC every week.
You'd have to pick some well-known brands and show them in their 1940's iterations, at least.
Well, let's see.... Hershey's. Toll House morsels. Cooper Tires. Goodyear? M&M's. Pepsi-cola. Coca-Cola. Aunt Jemima Syrup (although I'm not sure the current company would want people to see the ads of that time.)
It would take some doing, though. Also? I'm not sure many companies want to seem "old" to their current market.
Typo Boy - Jan 26, 2015 6:22:16 am PST #4903 of 5827
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Might fit with Goodyear and Hershey brands. Did quaker oats exist then?
Ginger - Jan 26, 2015 6:55:30 am PST #4904 of 5827
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Coke and Hershey both tout their age in advertising, so they might be interested. I know from losing a trivia question on putting the age of several cereals in order that Quaker Oats is the first trade-marked breakfast cereal (1877), followed by Kellogg's cornflakes (1895) and Post Grape-nuts (1898).
M&Ms were created as chocolate that wouldn't melt specifically for the military in WWII and weren't available to the civilian market until after the war.
There are lots of food items that have been around forever: Hershey's cocoa, Gold Medal flour, Calumet baking powder, Arm & Hammer baking soda. Jell-O. Now if we could figure out how Peggy could make a bomb out of them.
Calli - Jan 26, 2015 7:07:19 am PST #4905 of 5827
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Baking powder bomb: [link] (You could probably substitute another container.)
Baking soda bomb: [link]
Flour bomb: [link]
Apparently there was an explosion in a chocolate factory a little while ago, but that seems more of an industrial accident. And all the jello bomb info I've found is for getting drunk.
Connie Neil - Jan 26, 2015 7:11:46 am PST #4906 of 5827
brillig
Grain silos and mills are powder kegs waiting to go off, all that flammable particulate floating in the air.