I guess we can take some small measure of comfort in the fact that your vote in 2016 didn’t have any bearing on the outcome of the presidential election…
Not exactly. I have a healthy respect for an opossum. I know from experience that they will sneak into your house, rummage through your trash, and then hiss at you for being in their way. They carry fleas, ticks, and mites. They’re territorial about things that aren’t even their territory. They’ll eat your pet’s food and leave their droppings in your garden shoes. They’re mean-spirited, foul tempered, and smell like the garbage rummaging pseudo rodents they are.
I think your comparison is extremely unfair to the opossum.
Poor opossums…
Watching the original Dracula, I saw Browning used opossums and armadillos to sub for rats. If he knew shit about American vermin he’d know that rats are the best choice. Idiot. :mad:
Nineteen-year-old college man from Joisey. Honors student, too, perchance?
I’ll join, but you owe one too Cochrane.
Scratch Biscuits
Heat Oven to 425
Ingredients
2 cups self-rising flour
1 Tb sugar
1 pinch salt
2 Tb shortening
4 Tb butter, cut into chunks
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
Directions
I use a food processor with the bread paddle, but you can also hand mix.
Put flour, sugar, and salt into bowl. Pulse briefly until the ingredients are mixed. Add shortening and butter. Pulse 10 seconds at a time until the middle of the bowl looks like corn meal, with some larger chunks. Stir the edges into the middle, and pulse one more time for 10 seconds.
Add the cream. Start with one cup. Run food processor until the dough forms a ball that circles the bowl. If a lot of flour still remains, add the rest of the cream and continue running the food processor until you have your ball of dough.
Dump the dough onto a floured cutting board or other smooth surface. Fold the dough once or twice to make sure the ingredients are fully blended. Use your hands or a rolling pin to roll the dough out flat. I aim for about 1/2 in or a little thicker. Cut out the biscuits, using a biscuit cutter or a glass that has been dipped in flour to prevent sticking. Put the biscuits on a cookie sheet. Continue until you have cut all the biscuits you can. Unused dough can be reshaped and made into additional biscuits.
Place in oven and cook for 10-14 minutes, depending on your oven and preferred doneness. You may brush the tops with melted butter if you like.
Helena, Wife is gone for another week. How You doin’? 
I made a reverse cheeseburger pie once. I took a glass pie pan and used ground beef to make the crust, which I baked in the oven. I then fried up some hash browns with some onions chopped in and used that as the filling. I put slices of cheese on top and then heated it back up in the oven. I then put some lines of ketchup and mustard on top.
I realize this may come as a shock to CosmicManiac, but the internet seems to know about “think with your dick” expressions, as well as the variant I am personally more apt to use, “thinking with the wrong head.”
Granted, the first example probably doesn’t count, because it looks like one of them man-hating, ball-busting feminists might have written it. I don’t think that criticism can be flung at the second example, though.
Pork Chops Stuffed with Smoked Gouda and Bacon
Ingredients
2 ounces smoked Gouda cheese, shredded
4 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 (2 1/4 inch thick) center-cut, bone-in pork chops
1 teaspoon olive oil
1/4 teaspoon salt
ground black pepper
Directions
Preheat an outdoor grill for medium heat.
In a small bowl, combine the cheese, bacon, parsley, and 1/8 teaspoon black pepper.
Lay the chop flat on cutting board, and with a sharp knife held parallel to the board, cut a pocket into the pork, going all the way to the bone, but leaving the sides intact. Stuff cheese mixture into pocket, and close with a wooden toothpick. Brush meat with oil, and season with salt and more black pepper.
Lightly oil the grill grate. Grill over medium heat for 5 to 8 minutes on each side, or until pork is done. Careful not to overcook!
It’s my damn thread and y’all need to stop bitching about politics and start posting recipes!
Stolen from somewhere, I don’t remember where, but these are phenomenal. I always get compliments.
Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon brandy (I’ve substituted milk for when I didn’t have brandy or I thought it might send peoples’ lives spiraling down the drain)
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup white chocolate chips
1 cup dried cranberries
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg and brandy. Combine the flour and baking soda; stir into the sugar mixture. Mix in the white chocolate chips and cranberries. Drop by heaping spoonfuls onto prepared cookie sheets.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. For best results, take them out while they are still doughy. Allow cookies to cool for 1 minute on the cookie sheets before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
Have a cookie. 
We are not complex creatures.
Cheddar Chicken Broccoli Bake
3 or 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
3 cups frozen broccoli florets
1 can condensed cheese soup (N.B. cream of mushroom also works)
2 cups shredded cheddar chees
Heat oven to 400F.
Place chicken breasts on baking dish
Place broccoli on top
Spread soup over chicken and broccoli
Distribute cheddar cheese over all
Bake 45 - 60 minutes (internal temp of chicken should be 165F).
Yummy.
Hey! Some are horny clean dudes!
Heck, I’m always thinking with my dick.
Just the other day I was doing my taxes and lil’No-Ca popped up to remind me to declare fire and earthquake insurance.
That’s good. It’s an uncouth expression, and refusal to use it speaks well of your group.
Very good. We all shoot off our mouths sometimes. Acknowledging you’ve made a mistake is a sign of growth. An apology to **Esco **in the original thread might be an even better gesture.
Norman Osborn is a fictional supervillain not widely recognized as a credible source of advice.
As to your “point”:
If you mean a) that **Esco **is unwise to maintain a relationship or have financial engagements with a drug abuser, then that is not an unreasonable point, and one which I see Helena330 had already made herself (although much less churlishly than you).
If you mean b) that all women are ravening wolves out to tear men’s money away from them (AKA, the Green Goblin philosophy), then no, I don’t think that point stands at all.
If you mean c) that Helena330 is an “anti-male feminist zealot”, then go back and read through this thread again. Pause at post #137. Take a look in a dictionary. Take a look in a mirror. Take a look outside.
Take a moment to think about . . . flexibility, love and trust . . .
Sorry, got distracted. Yeah, grow up.
Oh! We doin’ recipes already!?
But he should fuck her a few more times, right? Get what he really wants?
Man, now you’re just thinking with your…
( And suggest Esco to do the same )
Hell, I’d rather listen to Ozzy Osbourne than Norman Osborne any day.
“Everyone else in the world is fuckin’ stupid.” - The Prince of Darkness
Forgot to say. We use that saying in Europe, too. In different languages. In the hick towns. Everywhere. Everybody.