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- Saw a license plate that said PRSTFAN. Perhaps the owner is a former choir boy?
4 days ago - We (Phoenix Suns) beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 152-114 tonight. That's beyond embarrassing. That's an atomic smackdown. http://ma2t.me/b
5 days ago - NASA finds shrimp dinner on ice beneath Antarctica: http://ma2t.me/8 [Shrimp on ice? The only thing we're missing is cocktail sauce!]
6 days ago - If college is supposed to prepare you for real life, then why do you only have to work at it for 8 months out of the year?
9 days ago - Here's another email tip, free of charge: next time you consider attaching a file greater than 100 KB in size, just turn your computer off.
13 days ago
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Category Archives: food
Another fantastic fortune
I really hope this fortune comes true. Oh, what’s that you say? It’s not actually a fortune but a saying? Well, whatever. I hope it comes true anyway.
If you want the rainbow, you have to tolerate the rain.
My favorite Chinese restaurant in Tucson just keeps delivering the hits in the fortune department.
Confucius say… good fortune hard to come by
Here’s some insightful advice I received in a fortune cookie yesterday:
Well, why not? Admit it—you’re intrigued.
Touché, fortune cookie. Touché.
Smuggling a truckload of Coke across the border
At about this time last year, I had my first taste of Dr. Pepper made with real cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup. I enjoyed it so much that I wrote about it. It’s hard to describe in scientific terms, but cane sugar tastes more like sugar than corn syrup—it’s more sugary, if you [...]
Bacon: it’s what’s for dinner
Mmm. I sure do love bacon, but I’m not exactly what you’d call a bacon enthusiast. Thankfully, some other people are, and they make homemade bacon, bacon cupcakes, and bacon cookies. Mmm.
Coolest waiter ever
We headed to T.G.I. Friday’s after we won our game tonight (by forfeit—the best way to win), and our waiter was so cool that I decided to dedicate an entire post to him. We were at the Friday’s on Broadway, and our waiter’s name was Lee. He was friendly and accommodating from the minute we [...]
Chocolate Rain
It’s so bad, it’s got to be good. And I don’t know why, but I just can’t stop watching it.
The Sweet Deliciousness of Pure Cane Sugar
Let’s hope my dentist doesn’t read this post, or else my premium might double the next time I go in for a cleaning. It would be worth it, though.
Someone at work ordered a couple cases of Dublin Dr Pepper (there’s intentionally no period after “Dr”), and so I tried a bottle—yes, bottle!—of it today. If [...]
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My world-famous hamburger recipe