# (Old) FA LA LA LA LA Decking The Halls In The MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [November 27, 2023, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fa-la-la-la-la-decking-the-halls-in-the-mmp/993763 "2023-11-27T11:07:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 218
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> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > She’s 92 and her innards are failing. If she wants a hot dog or an Egg McMuffin, who cares? I absolutely 128% concur. (The math works out; I checked.) > [@LSLGuy](#): > > most of my recipes off the internet. But I usually pick two or three, eyeball what I like about each then wing it from that collective baseline. That’s almost exactly the same as my style, too. I cannot follow a recipe precisely to save my life - the one time I came close, just to prove to myself that I could, there was something about the finished product that I just knew would have been improved if I’d followed my instincts instead of the instructions. (The precise details have been lost to the mists of memory.) > [@LSLGuy](#): > > You’re such a sweetheart softie under that sometimes crusty exterior. Shh. Don’t tell anyone, ferchrissakes; I have a reputation to uphold. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > The end spiral is quick, and can sneak up on you unawares until suddenly it’s both very obvious and very acute / imminent. Goddamn, but ain’t that the truth. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > removed the petcock. I feel like there’s a “that’s what she said” joke in there somewhere. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Further proof that MIL is losing it - she considers Pizza Hut to be the standard against which all pizzas are judged. { **Shoe** has left the chat … in a huff. } > [@2gigch1](#): > > Checking in - y’all seem to be doing okay - carry on! > [@Nyvaak](#): > > Pizza Hut pizza is just about the best available where I live. Well, hey y’all! > [@JaneDoe42](#): > > There was a close call with an Avon lady and a tube of men’s hand lotion … that doesn’t at all sound like the opening plot for a porn. Nope. Not even a bit. > [@JaneDoe42](#): > > **shoe’s** hoops (friends don’t let friends go to Hobby Lobby this time of the year) I luv you. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > When I moved up here from California, I was shocked that I couldn’t buy some cognac to make steak au poivre at the grocery store. In California, you could buy spirits anywhere. I had to go to a liquor store. For me it’s the opposite; thirty years in the Bible Belt will mess you up. I’ve been in the Mitten State for three years now (!!) and it still weirds me out to see handles of Jack Daniels an aisle over from the toiler paper and over near the eggs and hot dogs. Then again, even after working at a dispo for a year, it still amazes me that I can swing by the one near me on my way home from work - they have a _drive-thru_ ferchrissakes - hand over a fiver and even _get change_ (which I always tell them to keep, I may not be rich but I’m not a complete savage) and go home with one or two decent joints for the evening. Amazing. * * * There’s a tradition at my current job 🍕 to get a cake for people after they’ve been there for some amount of time. I got mine today! It was chocolate, with vanilla icing _and vanilla filling_ and someone commented that it was kinda like an Oreo cookie. It was lovely. I nearly cried. The crew happily helped me absolutely _demolish_ it. [https://imgur.com/gallery/OzcOGG9](https://imgur.com/gallery/OzcOGG9) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fa-la-la-la-la-decking-the-halls-in-the-mmp/993763)._