Lipsmackers are my favorite.
I’ve always used Blistex for my lips when I need something for dry lips.
It doesn’t taste very good because it’s medicine, not candy. And it goes on my lips, not my tongue.
I didn’t know they still made those!!! When I was in 5th grade, my best friend showed up at school one day with one of the giant candy cane-shaped packs…for me! 
There was an apple flavor (possibly candy apple?) that was my favorite. And I want to clarify that I didn’t eat the things - heck, I still can’t stand the texture of lip balm - but they were so strongly scented that you could ‘taste’ them long after you rubbed some on your lips.
Burt’s Bees are generally my go-to lip balms now, except for anything that has pomegranate…for some reason, those make my lips peel.
It’s funny you say that. I almost exclusively use Burt’s Bees lip balms. A few months ago I was having awful problems with my lips feeling very dry to the point of being painful. And there was some peeling going on. I’m pretty sure I was using their pomegranate lip balm at the time. Now I have the coconut pear flavor and no peeling… 
IIRC there was a decent study cited around here a few years ago that lip balms cause, not cure, dry lips.
Folks who don’t use them don’t have problems. Folks who do use them perpetuate and exacerbate their problems.
I’m not competent to say for sure, but I recall the debate and cites.
A quick search shows that it depends on particular ingredients. Some will have ingredients like menthol, phenol, or salicylic acid, and those may irritate lips. Also, some will cause allergic reactions in people, leading to dermatitis on the lips. Beeswax or fragrances are also things to watch out for.
I’m not seeing anything that says that all lip balms are harmful to everyone, though. A simple lip balm with petroleum jelly as a main ingredient seems generally safe.
Have you tried rubbing chicken poop on your lips?
In one sense this is the mildest of mini-rants, but it does carry a message.
I was out grocery shopping today, and looking at best-by dates of various freshly prepared foods, I checked my phone to confirm today’s date. I pressed the usual power button, and … nothing happened! I pressed it again, and, again, nothing happened.
I figured it was highly likely that I had just let the battery drain, and indeed that was the case. But … when I plugged it in back home it was in a brain-dead mode that only indicated the charging state. It refused to function as an actual phone, presumably until it’s fully charged and reboots. There may be some way to force it to reboot before then, but I’m not sure how. And when it does reboot, I know from when this has happened before that various settings get all wonky.
So all you yung’uns who only have cell phones and no landlines, I hope you keep your phones charged. This kind of bullshit is why I pay for a landline, which consists of an actual telephone with a wire running into the wall!
“I say, I say, KISS MY ASS!”
IME your “, presumably …” is wrong. With every smartphone I’ve had, if you drain it completely then …
When you plug it in to charge, no it won’t boot up. The battery is too dead for the phone to activate any electronics beyond its own charge controller. But after about 3 minutes it’ll have enough charge that it can boot and be used normally.
That first 5 minutes of charging will get you 15 or 20 minutes of run time, enough to unplug it and get in the car, move it around the house, etc. During the short interval it really needs to charge, what you have is a phone tethered to a spot on the wall. Sound familiar?
In other words, your mobile, in its worst and most limited state, is exactly as usable for phoning as is a landline in its best state.
Which would be so useful at the grocery store.
That’s not how I see it. See below.
Phoning someone from the grocery store is not the primary use case I have in mind. It’s having a reliable always-ready telephone for health emergencies or other urgent calls that cannot be misplaced, broken, forgotten in the car, discharged, or otherwise not usable. It should go without saying that a critical resource should always have a backup, especially when one implementation of that critical resource is tiny and fragile.
Of course, I might readily concede to being an Old Dog with outdated views! 
Also wanted to add, the landline gives me telephones in three different locations in the house, as opposed to one easily-misplaced cell phone.
Anyway, the phone is now fully charged and, surprisingly, on reboot my icons are all just as they were – last time this happened they got all messed up. And, on this fine evening, my $700 tax credit for the Sebring has just arrived via email from the Kidney Foundation. There are other charitable organizations that do the same thing with car donations, but these guys seem to be the most generous.
When I one day tumble down the basement stairs and am unable to drag my broken body to the landline, I’ll use the cell phone which lives in my pocket for such an occasion (in a protective case). After my recent back surgery, it was a necessity, as I live alone much of the time unless a daughter is here. (I also moved an old Amazon Echo downstairs so I can just holler “Alexa, call 911”)
That’s a good point. But I don’t carry my cell phone around with me in the house and would be more likely to misplace it if I did. There is one landline phone on the main level which is also where I usually keep the cell phone, and two on the upper level, but there’s nothing in the basement. Falling down the basement stairs would be a Very Bad Thing. And the older we get, the more likely these things become.
I know I’ve been getting tiresome about my lovely Camry, but if I may be permitted to share one more detail … the car was originally purchased new by the parents of the LXW’s ex-husband. They were financially well off and opted for many of the optional extras, like the sunroof and heated leather seats with power adjustments. I’m sure this quiet elderly couple weren’t looking for a hot rod, but due to their selecting the top available options, I now own a car with a 3.5 liter V6 with dual exhaust that puts out 286 HP and can do 0-60 in 6 seconds!
I may be just a dog, and an old dog at that, but I am a male dog with testosterone! 
I’m so sorry for your loss.
Sounds like a good name to me!
Although I wonder - how much does the name put off potential customers? Monkey Butt Powder seems to have quite a following, but people unfamiliar with it seem to have a negative reaction when it’s mentioned. (A quick search tells me they now use “AMB” as their branding, with “Anti-Monkey Butt” in very small letters.)
A fresh mini-rant:
I just got my new 2026 SS benefits letter via their website. My SS went up 2.8% for inflation, as did everyone’s. But the IRMAA went up more since medical cost inflation is higher than CPI inflation.
My take-home SS will be $3 per month less in 2026 than it was in 2025. I expect this same outcome for most Americans who are subject to IRMAA, or at least the higher tiers of IRMAA.
That’s before, of course, we get into the premium increases of my Part G (“medigap”) health insurance.
At least the stock market is tanking and evil morons run our country. So we’ve got that to look forward to.
Sigh.
To save other people from looking it up:
“IRMAA, or Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount, is a surcharge added to the monthly premiums for Medicare Part B and Part D if your income is above a certain threshold.”