Mmmm, Waffle House!
(Misnomer blissfully passes by Colophon and Lobsang… 
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Everything I know about grits, I learned from watching My Cousin Vinnie.
The entire grit eating world takes 20 minutes to make grits.
Things that pass this American by…
sports (except Extreme Dodgeball)
Survivor
Jerry Springer
sushi
The NFL
The NBA
The MLS
The one on Hillsborough Street, by any chance?
A corked bat is a baseball bat that has been hollowed out and filled in with cork. Supposedly, this will increase the distance one can hit a ball. Very, very, against the rules of play, but every few years a player will get caught with a corked bat, usually when their bat breaks on the field.
And now you know.
I’m an American born and raised and a lot of these things pass me by too. I don’t even know what grits look like.
I do read most of the political stuff during weeks where I’m on the board, but I get turned off by the ultra-partisan stuff where the person imagines their candidate of choice is incapable of error, or – the other extreme – threads where the truth is assumed to be exactly between whatever the Democrats’ and Republicans’ policies are this week.
TV stuff tends to pass me by, because I haven’t owned a TV in so many years. At this point, I don’t know any of the celebrities mentioned, and the only TV shows I recognize are the Simpsons and Enterprise.
For people on the board who don’t understand the Britishisms:
fari is an expletive in British slang.
David Beckham is the current British Monarch.
Marmite is marmot extract, spread on toast.
In my usual style of completely and utterly missing the massively obvious and simple joke I was about to reply with “Interesting. I’m british and I’ve never heard of ‘fari’”.
Then I spread my gaze to the rest of your post.
:smack:
I’m from the South and I don’t get it either.
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Politics
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Classic rock
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Mea culpa
Rather boringly, “fari” was just another typo. 
But I’m still chortling about the marmot/Marmite thing. Bad, misleading Hamish!
So much for it being healthy and suitable for vegetarians!
grits are southern, not american.
ask any southerner. he’s **Southern ** before he’s American.
except texans, they’re Texan, then Southern, and *maybe * **American ** if you push them enough on the subject 
Continuing the hijack, you’re mistaken. Grits most certainly have a flavor. They are primarily a vehicle for condiments, but they most certainly have their own distinctive flavor, which complements the taste of butter, salt, and pepper most excellently.
It’s true – there were things in that last post of mine that could be construed as misleading, if one insists on a factual perspective.
Truth be known, David Beckham is actually Chancellor of Exchequer, which is the only field position in cricket that can tackle.
Pepto-bismol. What is it?
You means grits are for eating? I’ve been putting them under my tires on icy days.
It’s a pink stomache-ache remedy. Basically a thick, acid-neutralizing coating medicine. Works pretty darn well. http://www.pepto-bismol.com/
I envy your tires.
Grits are not Pink!
And Rabid_Squirrel, “Column Shift” is a euphamism erferring to easing the discomfort caused by an unwanted erection while driving a car. Really.
I pass by the majority of threads, especially those on American politics. I have a general interest but not to the extent it is talked about on these boards. I will be so glad when the elections are over.
Normally the only threads I bother reading are those related to non-American topics.
I think I have spotted the problem. Raleigh is in the South but not of the South – especially if you are in the Cary area. (Shh! Carpetbaggers…Pretend you don’t notice.)
I had a visitor from Europe one summer and he just went wild about hotdogs…foot long hotdogs at that. You guys just don’t know what you’re missing.