I looked around Ellen. Kn*ckers was in the Cafe just yesterday afternoon. I guess she just doesn’t love us enough to show up here anymore…
You know what I have? A bird’s nest in the tree in my backyard. It’s one of those yellow finchy birds and the little chicks are looking out of the nest and peeping furiously.
Not that I’m a big fan of birds or anything. But thses little yellow finchy birds are OK. They don’t tweet real loud and they don’t poop all over my patio furniture.
-Rue. (looking around)
Well my children had fruity rice crispies for breakfast this morning. I don’t know what the actual name is, since I buy Kroger Brand Cereal, and I don’t even know what it’s a knock-of of. But it was exceedingly fruity smelling. Almost as obnoxious as the fruit Gushers that my son was claiming are Actual Fruit, and therefore permissible as a breakfast food. (He didn’t get anywhere with that tack!)
I have a coffeemaker in my office, and I just brewed a pot. Mmmm. It smells wonderful.
deb2world I enjoyed your pet tales!
Ex, darling, your talents are limitless! Poetry! <swoon>
No! No! I still love you all, I’ve just been super busy, so I haven’t spent much time on the SDMB lately (You did catch me peeking into CS, though).
I’m quitting the Job from Hell, next month, so I’m in the middle of all kinds of administrative hassles, right now, as well as looking for another job. So I’ve rather a lot on my plate, and since I only have internet access at work, it does limit my SDMB time…
But hooray for the Shittiest Job Ever going away! Here’s hoping I don’t end up starving to death as a consequence…
Who is this K-a-l-e-s-s-s-a person you keep threatening to turn into burgers? It can’t be me, like the llama, I’m a two-L.
I’m going back to the drive by fruitings now (try to keep up)–would they be done on the fruited plains? Would we need to wear Fruit of the Loom? Does fruitcake figure into this at all? How about fruitbats? If we’re on the Atkins diet, can we use vegetables instead? And just where does the fruit of my loins fit in? Inquiring minds want to know.
Kallessa (soon to be channeling Carmen Miranda, or maybe Opus)
Oh yeah, JOKE about drive-by fruitings. It’s all fun and games at first. Raspberries, grapes, maybe a Bing cherry. Then it gets more serious. Lemons, limes, oranges and other, heftier citrus. Before you know it honeydews are being lobbed at innocent bystanders. It could even escalate to… watermellon!!!
Think of the children people! Think of the children.
-Rue. (fruit of your loins? Mom!)
Hey, treated correctly, Spam’s good stuff. Our Hawaiian dopers know all about Spam musubi, a sort of sushi-like snack.
It’s a soap-bar sized cake of cooked rice topped with a spam slice which has been cooked in a little teriyaki sauce. Wrap the whole ensemble with a wide belt of that crackly dark green nori seaweed, and there you are. I know it sounds weird, but it is seriously addictive. Packs up well in a lunch box, too.
Did you ever chew Juicy Fruit gum? Probably. I mean it’s a pretty popular gum and it’s easy to find, so I think it’s safe to assume the majority of us have at one time or another chewed Juicy Fruit gum. It’s a pretty good chewing gum if that’s what you have. It’s no Big Red, but then what is? I ask you. Big Red is probably my favorite chewing gum. For bubble gum, I prefer Hubba Bubba because it won’t stick to your face. Although I haven’t had Hubba Bubba in a real long time and don’t know if they (the Hubba Bubba people) still make it or not. There used to be Dr Pepper gum which was a big nugget of gum with a squirt of real Dr Pepper syrup in the middle. Sort of like Gushers, only a gum. It wasn’t as good as what I expected and I’m pretty sure they don’t make that any more.
But I was talking about Jucy Fruit gum. If you don’t believe me, go back to the top of the post a re-read it just to be sure. Or save the effort and just trust me. Like Indiana Jones said: “Trust me.” Did you know the Jelly Belly Jellybean company makes a jellybean called “Tutti Fruity”? Yeah, they do. It tasted JUST LIKE Juicy Fruit gum. Since I like Juicy Fruit gum, I like the taste of Jelly Belly Tutti Fruity jellybeans. But since they taste JUST LIKE Juicy Fruit gum and you’re not supposed to swallow chewing gum and I always try to do what I’m supposed to I don’t much like to eat Jelly Belly Tutti Fruity jellybeans because I’ve been conditioned not to swallow anything that tastes like that since I associate that taste with a chewing gum.
I really like the cinnamon and the blueberry Jelly Belly jellybeans best. So I get those instead.
Or those red and black candy raspberries. I like those too.
-Rue. (the Candyman)
Incidentally, I just finished eating an apple, and I bought two melons the other day, but they’re in Florida and at the moment, I’m in Maryland at my mother’s house, so I’m 800 miles from my melons.
I needed a chuckle this morning and something about FairyChatMom being 800 miles from her melons made me smile.
Speaking of fruit - who else remembers the alien guy from Saturday morning cartoons who ‘was from mars and only ate candy bars.’ He was then summarily seduced by a big pile of fruit that was ‘yummy and not bad.’
Gum makes my teeth itch. I know of no other way to explain it than that. I was always a fan of either grape or chocolate hubba bubba but I haven’t had bubble gum in about 15 years and I have a general gum phobia since the day I was illicitly chewing gum at work (but my boss gave it to me!) and I lost a filling in the gum.
Oh and I’m guessing if Swampbear is fruitylicious then he is also delicious and nutritious? I think that should be his new slogan - it may help him get a few health conscious cabana boys to give him a try
No, no no–bazooka is the best bubblegum. The old kind that came in little squares and had a comic (and was often hard as a rock). That squirty hubba bubba stuff is just not good–the mean people used to give it away on Halloween and that was the candy I took to school to put in the “share treats” bowl. (I imagine I just dated myself, being in school when it was still okay for a teacher to have a big ol’bowl of candy to hand out with a good test grade or a neat art project or for not being bad for ten minutes–surely they’re not allowed to do that anymore).
I’m wondering when FairyChatMom will be reunited with her melons. It seems to me that being separated from them for too long would really spoil things.
