The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for July 22, 2011

lmao@cocoa poofs

Easy find today. Like the Chevy keys hanging on the Lexus key board.

Many years ago, I had a friend who would fill an empty Chivas bottle with $2 scotch and take it to an office Christmas party. Then he would magnanimously leave the bottle there “for you guys” when he left.

“Dom”??As in grape Kool Aid subbing for champagne?Right, who’d notice, especially if he adds some of that swell $2 vodka, Hmm,,,,, and I’d rather have a tin full of home made toll house cookies being passed off as Mrs. Field’s, than a plate full of Mrs Field’s cookies wrapped to look home made.Oh, wait…. these are JOY’s Toll House cookies, with cheap margarine and imitation chocolate flavored baking bits.Never mind…

I’m thinking they’re immitation people. They certainly can’t be for real.

Well, I had to laugh at Cocoa Poofs, Around where I was raised that would have clearly meant dark skinned men who were into other dark skinned men. As it were.

“Dom” must be a cheap imitation of something. Can someone tell me? I hate being left out of the joke!!

$100 and way up depending on the vintage……….. Burl/Joy are is passing off something else…. as “DOM”………… typical……..

green blouse…….. orange flowers………… again………….

In case you all missed this comment….. from K Scott…… about the green blouses…….I am copying it over below……I don’t know wheather it is true…… or a case of pulling the leg….. but I am smiling…… either way………

K Scott said – July 20

“GymShoe… Interesting story about Joy and her green blouse(s): In one of the computer classes, Burl strayed onto eBay and bought it… but he bought 11. Of course, he would never admit he goofed, and Joy would never return any of them, so Visa and the seller eventually gave up.”

OK, I was wondering also about “dom” in a koolaid pitcher. It has to be more than Koolaid with vodka because I see bubbles in the champagne flutes- so Burl added some sparkling water too!

Love that story on the blouse! It makes sense in why we see that one so often.

And the “tiffany” crystal piece (from Marshall’s). I bought my mom a nice large pressed glass vase from Marshalls when she was in a nursing home where I could only vsit on weekends. It worked well because the flowers last for a week. It was stolen because someone must have thought it was that valuable ;-P There are many greedy people around those places and after her stroke Mom could do very little. Even the hearing aide I bought her (a $100 amlifier with a dial she could work) was stolen within a year.

I think “Dom” might be a play on “POM” – the pomegranate juice. It isn’t as expensive as Dom Perignon – but it is an expensive product – and one the would fit into the “Kool-aid” theme.

Ray I answered your question before you asked! I’m soooo clairvoyant. LOLI know, I know….sigh…. some people won’t read long comments and others post straight from their “My Comics” pages, where you can only read the LAST comment and not all of them.<And we now have a collaborative recipe, I guess: 1 pkg Kool-Aid (I’m sure they use the pre-sweetened, to be sure to get all the chemicals they’re paying for), 4 oz of the cheapest domestic vodka you can find, and a liter of club soda. Mmmmm. DUMB Perig-NON.

Also – my Dad spent a few years in an “independent living” facility, where residents must be able to dress themselves, and come to the dining room. His last 5 years were in an Alzheimer’s facility — very clean, organised and well-managed.In spite of supposedly no dementia cases in the first one and all the supervision in the second, disappearance of personal items was constant.It wasn’t usually staff or visitors, or even ill intentions. It was befuddled residents wandering into wrong rooms, putting on jackets and shoes, eating candy, “recognising” a lamp or watch from years ago on someone’s dresser and taking it “home.”My severely diabetic father “found” a huge box of cookies from his “mother” and hid them in his “dorm room” till they searched it cos his blood sugar was spiking. Meanwhile the daughter of the woman from whose room he took them wrote a nasty letter accusing the staff of pilferage. They told us, and we offered to replace the cookies.

I’m surprised they don’t have crystal light lemonade and try to pass it off as Crystal Champagne (the best tasting in my book)

Aw Ray, probably it’s that I’m so verbose.

Thanks, Susan- love your recipe! I now normally shop at my Sprouts grocery- more healthy organic options and generally better produce prices.

And the wedding of a cousin had them serving grape juice (or kool aid don’t remember) because their Baptist church did not allow drink. I was glad that I packed my own little mini bottle in my purse;)

Darn the silly strickouts!