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1. 18 minutes ago on Bound and Gagged

   So I’ve read. Why the sailors that ate them didn’t take some for breeding and egg laying kind of boggles the mind.

2. about 2 hours ago on The Grizzwells

   He wrote a series of books of copycat recipes very similar to original product and restaurant fare. A lot of them are available online for free now.

3. about 2 hours ago on Monty

   My doctor who’s also my friend told me to place a sheet of paper towel over the rim of a glass of water and drink through the paper towel. It worked within seconds and hasn’t failed to remedy the hiccups since. Years later I heard a young clerk at the mall with a terrible case of them and I told her about my doctor’s remedy. She looked at me like I was some crazy old man, but she tried it anyway and as we were leaving the store she ran up from the back to thank me. It seems she had been painfully hiccupping for almost an hour with no relief.

4. about 3 hours ago on Bound and Gagged

   Well, us eating all of them might have played some small part as well.

5. about 3 hours ago on The Grizzwells

   Powdered milk is essential to making homemade YOO-HOO. I make a big pitcher for the grandkids every now and then. Todd Wilbur’s recipe online is an extremely close copycat and is best if left in the fridge overnight to fully develop. To be honest I do still partake as well.

6. about 3 hours ago on Crumb

   Some years ago, our cat developed painful bladder and urinary stones from the magnesium in the food we had been feeding him. After the surgery we switched him to Science Diet of which he refused to eat. It took three days of dumping his refused food and replenishing it before he finally accepted defeat and started eating again. I don’t know why the cheaper brands added magnesium to their recipes back then, but I think it has been pretty much eliminated from pet foods these days.

7. 1 day ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   I wondered the same thing when I read it because I have always had a card with my number and now, I have to insert my card into a reader, but this was a story from the late 60’s when I read it, and I don’t know how other clubs operate. Our current board has considered installing biometrics, but I think they dropped it due to pushback.

8. 1 day ago on Lio

   I bought the program years ago for my daughter and she still uses it and now her kids are using it. No updates but it’s so complete that they’re not needed. If you can find one in a garage sale with the code and are using Windows, it will still work great due to Windows reverse compatibility. Subscriptions absolutely suck.

9. 1 day ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   Years ago, I read an article, I don’t remember but it might have been in Esquire Mag., about a guy who had been such a regular guest of one of the members at a golf country club that staff and members thought he was a member. He started showing up alone or with a guest of his own to golf and have lunch. He would even bring a client with him to seal a deal over cocktails. Then he showed up for the club’s open board meetings and somehow got elected to the board as he had networked everyone there. Twelve years later an audit of membership accounts revealed he wasn’t on the books as a member. Because he had been a productive club member and had accumulated so many members as clients, he was given a membership gratis. Personally, I believe it was just the expedient thing to do to avoid the embarrassment of his non-membership grift getting out.

10. 1 day ago on WuMo

    This is our latest model, now equipped with an ejection seat!