Brevity by Dan Thompson for May 28, 2014

The synthetics industry is spinning out of control.

I’ll have some of those dead flies in chocolate, and a Mr. Evil bar, but no popcorn. Tastes too much like packing material.

@capndunzzi, which one? The one that says candy for $18?

at least it’s not fiberglass insulation.

DigitalFrog, how do you know it’s not fiberglass insulation?

Enjoy it while you watch “Blended” with Sandler and Barrymore

Don’t Brits call cotton candy “candy floss”? If so, do they floss before, after, or during eating the stuff?

I see the prices are shown accurately..BTW: The girl behind the counter looks a lot like my wife did in some of her school pictures.

chitthing, one time when we were on vacation, we were in what must have been an unusual store…I was about 8. My dad knew the owner, and was talking to him as I wandered the store…When I saw them, I couldn’t help exclaim, “Chocolate covered grasshoppers! That sounds awful!” With a dry delivery that for some reason I remember to this day, the owner slowly said, “You should taste them without the chocolate…..” Thought it was the funniest line I ever heard….

Varnes…. my brother and his wife and kids ate lots of fried grasshoppers from street vendors when traveling in Southeast Asia.

They said they’re very tasty. I still say “no thanks”.

I know my horror is a purely cultural bias, but that doesn’t make it easy to overcome…and I don’t want to, cos if I did, I’d eat fried grasshoppers….. no thanks!

I hate to think what they’re making the Milk Duds out of now.“Silk™ Duds”?