Bad, bad, bad compendium of weird things I thought

If you think your cat really goes for those squeeze-ups gravy treats, wait until the aerosol whipped-cream version comes out.

What was that about hats?

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It helps my brother who has no imagination about cooking. And it did help my mother who had a ton of ground beef in the freezer (we’d buy have a cow at a time) and children who complained about hamburgers more than once a week for dinner. But we can all make similar things without the boxed ingredients. If we want to, that is.

I wish hat wearing for women would come back in style.
I’d love to visit a milliner and buy a hat.
Then there’s that weird thing about a Mad Hatter. Something they used to make men’s hats made them insane.

It was apparently mercury.

“Why do dogs watch TV? They even have a dog channel. My dogs never look at that when I’ve stopped on that channel to see what it was.”

I had the tiny kittens live feed on my PC today. I left the room to get something, and when I came back, Zoey was staring intently at the kittens. Possible glaring

Where’s this? I could really use a massive dose of adorable.

Part of it is that there are four different substances which can be sold as OTC oral pain medication in the U.S.:

  • Aspirin (brand name: Bayer)
  • Acetaminophen (brand name: Tylenol)
  • Ibuprofen (brand name: Advil)
  • Naproxen sodium (brand name: Aleve)

All of those are out of patent now. So, for each of those, you’ll find the primary name brand, and at least one store brand/generic, and sometimes in several different forms (pills, caplets, gelcaps) and strengths. Plus, some also offer a “PM” version, with a sleep aid added.

And, for aspirin, which is no longer broadly recommended for pain relief (due to side effects), it’s primarily positioned for heart patients, to prevent blood clots, and marketed in various formats and strengths for that purpose.

Every cat we have owned was bananas for them, to the point that the nickname for cat treats in our house is, in fact, “crack.” Fun fact: I know (and used to work with) the person who spearheaded development of the first major cat treat brand in the U.S., Pounce. She had to fight hard to convince her company’s management that cats, indeed, would want to eat cat treats, and that owners would buy it; the conventional wisdom at the time was that only dogs cared about treats.

I’m guessing that somehow management had not actually ever met a cat. :slight_smile:

https://tinykittens.com/
This is their front page with links to various videos and the live feed

Thank you! (rushes to check out the cute)

  1. Yes, it does. If you are a single parent with little time and even less storage in your apartment, the stuff is a life-saver. Is it good? YMMV.

  2. Whatever fridge you have + Krylon.

Hamburger Helper is a Godsend for a working parent who doesn’t want to get fast food AGAIN. At one time I worked 40 miles from home. At quitting time, I was like a sprinter coming out of the starting blocks. I’d stop by daycare, pick up the kids, drag everything into the house, throw dinner in a pan, and take care of a toddler and a baby until Sgt VOW walked in the door. We’d eat dinner, toss the kids in the tub, get a load of laundry started…you get the picture.

God has been merciful and kind, and allowed me somewhat of an amnesia of those days.

Many times, I didn’t even get to PEE until the kids were in bed!

Chicken Helper was VERY good, but it took too damned long to fix.

Those days were chaos. Other than working 40 miles from home, we had NO relatives or close friends nearby to call on for help. A military wife knows that she is the ONLY one there for the kids when the military member is on field exercises, away for training, TDY, or in one fun instance, hospitalized for two weeks for deep fat frying his hand.

I had one woman look at me wide-eyed and say, “My God, how do you cope?” I met her in the waiting room of the pediatric clinic, where my son was being treated for his 10,000th ear infection.

I shrugged and said, “What else can I do?”

Hamburger Helper was one if the little things I had that helped me cope.

~VOW

Any auto body shop can paint your refrigerator any color you want. Pin stripes, fades, lace overlays, flames, whatever your heart desires.

Apparently not!

In order to convince them, my former colleague worked with her R&D counterpart to make a batch of tasty cat treats, put them into zipper bags, and gave them out to every cat owner they knew. They then collected feedback from the cat owners, which was almost unanimously, “My cat loves these! Where can I buy more?” :smiley:

Oh, please no. Don’t tell me that.

Did nobody ever watch Alton Brown? He has a totally flamed-out KitchenAid in red. The fridge is a breeze. Maybe add some “freeze faster” stripes. Pin striping around the ice maker. That sort of stuff.

Instant red refrigerator.

StG

I’m so ordering that. ,:relaxed:

You can get a matching dishwasher skin magnet.

StG