Leinenkugel's Berry Weiss beer is nummy!

I'm always tempted to try a Berry Weiss float with some vanilla ice cream. I think it could work.

Emily Deschanel and Eddie McClintock working a case together

What did it turn out to be? Bones repeat?

Ronald McDonald Put to Pasture as Fast-Food Chain Gentrifies

As clowns' careers go, Ronald McDonald has had a pretty good run -- he's been the face of McDonald's (MCD) for 48 years. But as fans of the jester may have noticed, he hasn't been featured much lately in the company's advertisements.

There's a reason for that. Facing increased competition from more upscale chains, such as Starbucks (SBUX), McDonald's today is more focused on selling profitable coffee drinks and salads rather than Big Macs and kids' Happy Meals, reports Bloomberg News.

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McDonald's isn't putting Ronald out to pasture all together. His name, after all, does grace the company's charitable arm, Ronald McDonald House Charities. Ronald still plays an ambassador role, a company spokeswoman told Bloomberg. He just isn't tied to the menu.

So what does this mean for the Burger King?

What did it turn out to be? Bones repeat?

Yep, McClintock was an agent Brennan was paired with while Booth was being interviewed/analyzed by Stephen Fry. Hilarious that they picked Boreanaz' lookalike to replace him with for a week.

Lord. Someone posted pictures from a Prague party I helped host. Blast from the past. I'm only barely in them, but I recognize my shirt and hands. Date they provided is wrong, because I wasn't there in August, but that is me. And I remember the food. It was mexican (because my friend and I were so missing mexican food at that point.) I scoured the city trying to find sour cream because we couldn't figure out the translation (it was probably something stupid, but we're also the pair who we ended up sobbing with laughter on the floor after attempting to translate the washing machine instructions. We were afraid we'd pee our pants and then need to do laundry which had us breaking up even more. One of the options was filthy, though, so...) And we had to flirt with so.many.bartenders to lay in a supply of triple sec because we couldn't find it in the stores.

I was so very, very drunk by the time the party started, having been the taste-tester for the margaritas. Enough so that when the party moved to the clubs, I just crawled to the bed and refused to move, despite a couple of people trying to bodily carry me out. I woke up the next morning sharing the bed with 5 other people and the bathroom sink was on the floor and the cd player was fried.

Man, I'd forgotten all about that. She threw some epic parties, and I usually was her able assistant.

AND IT WAS 15 YEARS AGO. Lord.

Hee. I was looking at something today from 1991 and thinking, well, that's not that bad, it's only a decade ago. Nope, brain, TWENTY YEARS! Sheesh.

msbelle, I use the generic for max pepcid regularly, and have good luck with it (no, I did not go to a dr, but given my family history, looked like a good bet and it was.) A few years back I had started gagging/barfing in the am due to reflux and that fixed it right up. (And before anyone mommies me, my dad has had the same deal so it wasn't new territory for me. Though he's on something other than pepcid now, for reasons that can't apply to me.)

Liese, I know. I mean, Prague does feel like a lifetime ago, but really, it felt like that after 6 months back. But fifteen years? My friend now has 3 kids and is living between Prague and Amsterdam.

Mea culpa from a Wisconsin state employee (and also an old friend of mine) for causing this whole mess.