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  2. 2.

    Jerry 101

    it ain’t mine.

    But, I’m gonna hide the cupcakes, just in case. Fortunately, it appears this one’s small, so the top of the fridge should suffice.

  5. 5.

    Lt

    You mean we can just claim it? This site gets better all the time. (And it even comes with a cupcake!)

    Dibs! Totally.

  6. 6.

    mr. whipple

    Give a kid a cupcake, they eat for a day. Teach a kid to make cupcakes, and I can eat all week.

  7. 7.

    beltane

    My kids would only eat the icing. It’s nice to see this child eat a balanced cupcake.

  10. 10.

    Comrade Mary

    Gah! So many cute kids, so little time!

    Hey, is anyone tracking the many changing taglines? In reverse order:

    – All your base are belong to Tunch.
    – I showered with Rahm and all I got was this shitty blog.
    – … and something something from yesterday that I’ve already forgotten

  11. 11.

    Lt

    @mr. whipple: Give a man to fish, you have fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, good chance he dies before he catches a fish, because you were too goddamn selfish to give him a fucking fish.

  12. 12.

    robertdsc

    and something something from yesterday that I’ve already forgotten

    “How has Obama failed you today?” was the first one.

  16. 16.

    demo woman

    Fergus Wooster @ 54 on Tim’s beer open thread has quite a cute picture also. Remember her when you call your reps to pass the damn bill cuz she has a preexisting condition.

  17. 17.

    BethanyAnne

    So a friend was in line at the store with a snack. Kid with parent behind her helpfully offered “I could bite that for you”. It has now entered the local lexicon :-) At dinner with a friend and something yummy is sat in front of them? “I could bite that for you”. :D

  21. 21.

    R-Jud

    @Comrade Mary: “How has Obama failed you today?”

    @DonkeyKong: That cupcake is a wingnut’s nightmare:

    1. The cake itself is vegan;
    2. The frosting is made with cream cheese, which also goes on bagels, which come from NEW YORK CITY, which is as we all know not part of real America except for the part of it where Glenn Beck broadcasts from;
    3. The child is semi-English, and therefore European, and therefore a Nazi Commie.

  23. 23.

    demo woman

    @Fergus Wooster: She is a doll. Sam is too young for her though. We’ll have to match her up with someone else.
    Health reform will pass and when she is older she will be able to choose a public option. I’m an optimist.

  24. 24.

    gwangung

    Holy cow, this entire thread is full of win. (And MUCH appreciated after a stressful week).

  27. 27.

    demkat620

    @R-Jud: That has win all over it.

    Mine are old enough now to have odor. My son took his sneakers off the other night and my eyes watered.

    Is there any kind of powerful deodorant soap that helps these things be less toxic?

  30. 30.

    demo woman

    @demkat620: When my son was a tween and had sneakers like that, the pediatrician was thrilled. Is there any thing you can do for the odor.. no. I tried everything.

  32. 32.

    demkat620

    @demo woman: I’ve tried too. And it’s like they don’t notice.

    I am just thankful that the brushing and flushing are optional stage are passed. They will at least do that now.

  33. 33.

    Fergus Wooster

    @demo woman: I’m optimistic too, or at least more than I was. I figure when the insurance companies start collapsing after their CDS bets – or whatever crap they’re investing in now – tank, a strong public option will be legislatively viable and necessary.

    Seeing this come back from the dead has really made my month.

  36. 36.

    RedKitten

    Nah, she’s not too old for Sam. When they’re in their twenties, there won’t be a difference.

    I’ll have to show SamKitten this picture tomorrow to see what he thinks of his beautiful fiancée. Right now he’s in his crib, doing his nightly ritual of thumping the crib bars with his hand before nodding off to sleep.

    He met his new sitter today, and she’s very nice. At one point, a 5-year old who she’s watching asked if she could go outside without her coat on. Wanda (the sitter) said, “Do you have a cold?” The kid said no. Wanda then replied, “And we’re going to keep it that way. Go put your coat on.”

    I like her style. I think SamKitten will be in good hands.

  37. 37.

    Mark S.

    This could be bad news for Senator J. Peterman:

    Nevada Senator John Ensign is in the crosshairs of a Department of Justice criminal investigation. The criminal probe stems from a romantic affair Ensign had with the wife of his key staffer and close friend, Doug Hampton, and what Ensign has done to help Hampton financially. Subpoenas have been issued to at least six las vegas businesses. The Justice Department came to Las Vegas to interview several prominent business and political figures in what appears to be a wide-ranging and deadly-serious criminal probe.

    I surprised this case hasn’t gotten more attention. It’s pretty damn sleazy, and the husband of the mistress really comes across as a pimp. It’s also got the Family all over it.

  39. 39.

    demkat620

    Check your email peeps. The Final March for Reform has a nifty email tool to send to your reps. I just got it and used it.

    Pass the damn bill.

  40. 40.

    lemma

    Fess Parker vineyards makes a damn fine pinot noir. Bought it first time as a joke but it is really very good if a bit pricey.

  41. 41.

    RSA

    Fingers aren’t for holding a cupcake. They’re just in case the cupcake tries to escape.

  42. 42.

    IndyLib

    @demo woman:

    Put listerine mouthwash in a spray bottle and have him spray it on his bare feet before he puts his socks and shoes on in the morning. The listerine kills the germs that cause the odor. My dad used this for years and passed it onto my husband. It works for him when he wears his boondockers, and that’s saying something.

  43. 43.

    Jules

    Those are some cute kids y’all have.
    Not as cute as mine was 17 years ago.

    He stopped being cute around 13….

  44. 44.

    ajr22

    Health care bill getting a real good segment on CBS following tournament. Pass the dam bill and the media might actually tell the American people what’s in it.

  45. 45.

    Phyllis

    @lemma: I’ve had that, it is good. The Frontier Red is okay as well. It has a twist off cap, which makes it perfect if you’re stuck in a hotel somewhere and don’t want to pay 10 bux for a glass of wine in the bar.

  48. 48.

    Brick Oven Bill

    Soon, this little lady will surely graduate to cream puffs. Then she will begin to believe in hope.

    Her parents should instead be feeding her carrots, potatoes, onions, and a meat product.

  49. 49.

    gbear

    @IndyLib:

    Put listerine mouthwash in a spray bottle and have him spray it on his bare feet before he puts his socks and shoes on in the morning. The listerine kills the germs that cause the odor.

    Now that is dad advice.

  50. 50.

    Adrienne

    @IndyLib: Don’t use Listerine… it has drying alcohols…

    Here’s a dirty hippie tip: Instead, get a spray bottle, fill it w/ some distilled water mixed with good quality witch hazel and add in either some tea tree, lavender, or geranium essential oil, – or a mixture to your desire. Spray it on his feet in the morning and after it dries, only put him on 100% cotton socks. FYI: Tea tree is a little medicinal smelling, so I suggest mixing.

    My grandmother would swear by a foot soak w/ white or apple cider vinegar and some baking soda or boric acid in the shoes.

  51. 51.

    mr. whipple

    Listening to our Dem Women reps speak on the House floor supporting HCR, and Marcy Kaptur is up. I think she’s getting off the Stupak bus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  53. 53.

    AhabTRuler

    @demkat620:

    Is there any kind of powerful deodorant soap that helps these things be less toxic?

    Encourage teh inner hippie, as bare feet do not smell (unless, of course, they have just come from out of the dreaded (brown) shoe).

  54. 54.

    Lt

    @gbear: Totally Dad advice. Mine would probably add, “Cut holes in the side of the sneakers to let the air circulate.” Swear to god he would.

  55. 55.

    R-Jud

    @Brick Oven Bill:

    Her parents should instead be feeding her carrots, potatoes, onions, and a meat product.

    Don’t fret, the kid gets all of that, plus spinach, every day. The cupcake was for her birthday. (Eggs don’t agree with her, though. Hence the vegan baking.)

    Plus, cream puffs? Please. Her father is English. He’s not about to let her eat FRENCH things.

  56. 56.

    Xenos

    Has there been a call for cute kid pictures? I suppose I could submit a couple, but it never occurred to me there would be much demand for them. Cute animals have general appeal, but even cute children are still Other People’s Children.

    Sam Redkitten seems to be a notable exception testing that rule.

  58. 58.

    Fergus Wooster

    @Xenos: It was my fault. I posted a pic a couple threads back, more out of smugness that my chicken parm was so good the baby dug it.

    Then R-Jud had to up the ante with the cupcake photo, and we were off. Apologies to the non-breeders (I was once like you).

  61. 61.

    Adrienne

    @demkat620: I answered you above, but in addition to that suggestion, instead of a deodorant soap, you can just go ahead and spread some deodorant directly on his feet in the morning. But, I would personally go w/ the witch hazel solution.

  64. 64.

    RedKitten

    @Xenos:

    Sam Redkitten seems to be a notable exception testing that rule.

    He IS a bit freakish that way. Even avowed kid-haters like him. When I bring him out in public, I would expect to have other women and grandmotherly types fussing over him, but I even get comments from other kids, teenagers (girls AND boys), middle-aged men. I mean, I think he’s cute, ’cause I’m his mom, but it’s bizarre how everybody just swoons over the kid.

  65. 65.

    jibeaux

    I don’t know from English desserts, but I’m saying there’s nothing finer than a macaron. (not macaroons, which have nasty sweetened dried coconut = cuticles) Unless it’s creme brulee. Okay, I think I’m coming down on the French side of desserts, actually.

  66. 66.

    AhabTRuler

    Sorry. I don’t go to England for food, even sweets, I go there for the beer. Especially the cask ales. It makes drinkin’ so damn easy.

    I go to France for the food. And other countries.

    I don’t go to Amsterdam for the food, either.

  67. 67.

    Fergus Wooster

    @jibeaux: Three words: Sticky Toffee Pudding.

    It’s neither sticky nor a toffee, but this English dessert will make you cry. It’s like a pudding was poached in dark, buttery maple syrup.

  68. 68.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @Violet:

    Probably, us Lancastrians call em cream puffs, them snobby southerners probably call ’em profiteroles, you know bragging about the fact that a) they know the word and b) can pronounce it :) (England and the US are completely reversed when it comes to the whole North/South salt of the earth v/elitist thingy.

  69. 69.

    R-Jud

    @AhabTRuler:

    Especially the cask ales. It makes drinkin’ so damn easy.

    Yeah, it would be really, really hard to say goodbye to the ale if we ever move. Also: pubs, Private Eye, and public footpaths.

    R-Jud +3 Blandford Flys

  70. 70.

    PTirebiter

    @demkat620:
    I don’t think anyone has mentioned the sneakers’ role in this toxic relationship. It doesn’t much matter what you do to his feet if he’s sticking them back into a petri dish. If at all possible, don’t wear the same pair on consecutive days, they need a full day off to air-out completely. Loosen the laces, pull out the tongue (if the insole pops out easily, do that? and set them somewhere that’s airy, dry and light. There are sprays to treat them as well.

  71. 71.

    Fergus Wooster

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    England and the US are completely reversed when it comes to the whole North/South salt of the earth v/elitist thingy

    Funny you mention that. I’ve been watching/reading Red Riding recently, which brings that point home. (“This is the North – we do what we want.”)

  72. 72.

    PTirebiter

    Almost forgot, what a doll! Mine are grown and my grandson regularly kicks my ass playing Call of Duty. Cy, I need me a toddler!

  73. 73.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @Fergus Wooster:

    With custard! (or ice cream if you must). I watched a tv show once about a “pudding club” (no not the pregnant person thing) whereby people in a club go to restaurants and eat nothing but puddings, the restaurant closes to the public the night and serves up the best of English puddings (desserts) sticky toffee, chocolate steamed sponge, treacle sponge, plum pudding, spotted dick, with custard, brandy butter, fresh whipped cream, fresh poured cream, and then at the end of the night they all vote on the best one. It was fascinating TV (for someone who misses English food so much she had to curl up into a ball and weep gently for an hour after watching the show). Whenever I go home and my little feets hit the tarmac at Gatwick (or Manchester) I become the equivalent of a real life pac man, and commence eating my way through everything in my path, from a full English breakfast at the nearest location, to lunch at the nearest pub, to running pacman like through every aisle at Asda, and the local market, and then a pub for dinner.

  74. 74.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @R-Jud:

    That is what I miss the most the Pubs (well apart from the food in general), no matter how they try to recreate a pub over here they always fail miserably, I do not know why, perhaps it is cause most of the bars here in the South do not have windows (or covered ones) something to do with the Baptists not wanting people to see them drinking. If I ever win the lottery I am going to build an authentic English Pub here, with windows, and nice curtains, and PUB GRUB!

  75. 75.

    Fergus Wooster

    @Litlebritdifrnt:
    If you’re ever in Houston (not exactly your territory, but closer than the UK), try a restaurant called Feast. They do English country cooking, with a nose-to-tail focus, and with incredible puddings. Frank Bruni wrote them up in the NYTimes just before he retired.

    http://www.feasthouston.com

    Don’t know why they’re in Houston of all places, but bloody delicious. My wife scarfs down their fish and scallop pie every time we go. They even do a Sunday Roast now.

  76. 76.

    Violet

    @Litlebritdifrnt:
    Hmmm…rellies are from the north. Maybe they’re just snobby. Heh.

    @Fergus Wooster:

    Three words: Sticky Toffee Pudding.

    The most amazing dessert ever. Haagen-Dazs makes an ice cream, but it doesn’t begin to compare.

    @AhabTRuler:

    I don’t go to England for food, even sweets,

    Best Indian food on the planet is in the UK. There’s also some surprisingly good British food around the UK. They’ll never be France in that regard, but you can have some excellent meals. We had a fantastic one at The Ubiquitous Chip in Glasgow a few years ago. Worth checking out if you’re in the area.

  77. 77.

    R-Jud

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    That is what I miss the most the Pubs

    What I like about pubs–the ones we like to frequent, anyway– is their feeling of being an interconnected series of living rooms (with a bar). You can hole up in one for most of a Sunday and nobody minds, even if you only nurse two or three drinks and the newspapers and a roast lunch. A pub with a fireplace after a long hike in chilly weather is heaven on earth.

  78. 78.

    Violet

    @Litlebritdifrnt:
    If you are ever in Houston, be sure to try Feast, as FW mentioned above. But also go visit The Red Lion. It’s a classic English pub – the dour Yorkshireman that runs it brought the furnishings over from a pub in the UK. The best fish and chips in the US I’ve ever had. He flies in the cod to make them.

  80. 80.

    Xenos

    @Fergus Wooster: No need for apologies – I have five kids under the age of 14! I guess we got a little too much momentum in the whole business. Now I am looking for a nice sockulist government to provide affordable college education.

  81. 81.

    Svensker

    @IndyLib:

    Put listerine mouthwash in a spray bottle and have him spray it on his bare feet before he puts his socks and shoes on in the morning. The listerine kills the germs that cause the odor.

    Why didn’t somebody tell me about this when my sprout was doing the teen gym thing? Gahhhh. But I may tell my SIL about it… Her feet…

  82. 82.

    Fergus Wooster

    @AhabTRuler: Having visited the UK fairly recently, I can say that you should absolutely go there for the food.

    Incredible local produce (incl. beef, pork and game) prepared with skill and passion. Try Roast in the Borough Market, or St. John. Or just about any Indian place.

    It’s not just pub grub anymore, not that there’s anything wrong with that. My mouth waters just thinking about it.

  83. 83.

    Svensker

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    “Researchers in the US genetically engineer glowing sperm to track its performance in the female”

    In the female what? Not in my female what, they don’t.

  84. 84.

    Tax Analyst

    What a well-behaved group in this thread today. (Almost) Nary a swear-type word to be found.

  85. 85.

    RedKitten

    @R-Jud:

    A pub with a fireplace after a long hike in chilly weather is heaven on earth.

    Indeed. We used to go here on a regular basis. It’s cozy, with good food, good beer, and a completely unpretentious feel to it — you feel like you’re in your Anglophile uncle’s rec room.

  87. 87.

    Annie

    @mr. whipple:

    LOL…a winner

    @Lt:

    LOL…Maybe he didn’t want to fish…Once again, international development imperialism…We tell others what they need to learn…

  88. 88.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @litlebritdifrnt (please, the rest of you ignore this, I’m serious): You’re from Lancaster? Have you ever heard of a place on the River Ribble called the Bungerly (or Brungerley) Hippingstones? It is an important site in the Wars of the Roses. If you have any knowledge of this place, I’d like to know and maybe set up an offline conversation (so we don’t annoy Chuck, Fuck, and Stuck).

    If this means nothing to you, well, never mind :-)

  90. 90.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @litlebritdifrnt:

    something to do with the Baptists not wanting people to see them drinking.

    There’s an old joke to the effect that the only reason Baptists don’t fuck standing up is that people might think they were dancing.

  92. 92.

    Ash Can

    @Mark S.:

    Nevada Senator John Ensign is in the crosshairs of a Department of Justice criminal investigation.

    Fuck me sideways, isn’t that shitheel in jail yet?

  93. 93.

    KDP

    @Fergus Wooster: NO apologies needed for this non-breeder. Would of if I could of, but not in the cards for me. Good genes never sown here.

    Happy to observe others spawn vicariously.

    R-Jud: The sweetest thing.

  95. 95.

    Keith G

    @Fergus Wooster:

    Don’t know why they’re in Houston of all places….

    1) The money
    2) The foodies
    3) The expat community
    4) The money

    @Violet:

    But also go visit The Red Lion.

    I am 4 blocks away. Its great to stop off for a pint of bitter and some grub.

  96. 96.

    KB

    I like that I came to this site to see why my “adopted” niece was suddenly the talk of the town, and now I know how to cure smelly feet and where to drink in England. Love to the little one. She is officially too heavy to carry around the mall now. The cupcake put her over.

  97. 97.

    Anne Laurie

    @demkat620:

    Is there any kind of powerful deodorant soap that helps these things be less toxic?

    Povidine iodine (generic Betadine) splashed on in the shower, just before the final rinse. Theory is, the remaining invisible film kills odor-producing bacteria/fungi for the next 24 hours. Of course, you still have to convince kid to shower every day… and not to splash the stuff around & stain all the linens.

  98. 98.

    BDeevDad

    Hey, Malkin has found a new Graeme Frost. How long until she’s reporting on the son’s countertops.

    Malkin dismissed Marcelas Owens as “one of Obama’s youngest lobbyists” who has been “goaded by a left-wing activist grandmother,” promoted by Murray and has become a regular on the “pro-Obamacare circuit.”
    Malkin also suggested there were other programs that could have helped Tifanny Owens, adding, “It’s not clear that additional doctors’ visits in the subsequent months would have prevented her death.”

  100. 100.

    Fergus Wooster

    @Keith G: Thanks to both of you for the Red Lion rec. I’d always wondered if that place was as advertised.

    And Feast. Everyone should go to Feast.

    G’Night.

  101. 101.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @jibeaux #65: “dried coconut = cuticles” LOL, just noticed that. I will never look at shredded coconut the same way again!

  102. 102.

    Ruckus

    Vinegar works on shoe odor or most any other odor. Runners and triathletes have lots of ways to get and keep their shoes from mowing down bystanders.
    1. Athletic shoes can be washed – remove the insoles, wash in machine (adding borax helps) air dry
    2. Spray vinegar in the shoes and wipe dry. Kills the bacteria, kills the smell.
    3. A dryer sheet in the shoes will help.
    4. If possible have more than one pair of shoes and rotate so the off day shoes dry out.
    That said a friend I grew up with had the worlds worst smelling feet. Ever. Mom tried everything. Including all of the above and multiple doctors. Nothing helped. It may be why his folks smoked like chimneys. And even that didn’t help.

  103. 103.

    Xenos

    @Fergus Wooster:

    Don’t know why they’re in Houston of all places, but bloody delicious

    British Petroleum. It employs tons of Brits who cycle through the area.

  104. 104.

    Jim Once

    @demo woman:
    Try teaching a class of 28 high school freshmen with that odor – it only takes five or six to take their shoes off in a 90 minute class period. I swear that’s why I have late onset asthma.

  106. 106.

    asiangrrlMN

    @R-Jud: I recognized Little Bean right away! Those big eyes and round cheeks. Soooo cute nomming on her birthday cupcake!

    @Fergus Wooster: OK, your Little Peanut is so freaking cute, too. I sense a rivalry for the hand of dashing SamKitten!

    @Lt: You are killing me! Cracking me the fuck up!

    My brackets, they are busted. S’ok. I can watch in relaxation now, rooting for the underdogs and for the teams with the better unis.

  107. 107.

    Chuck Butcher

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    offline conversation (so we don’t annoy Chuck, Fuck, and Stuck

    Just hold the phone a minute here, I’ve never expressed any discontent with pics, foodie, or drunkie stuff. My wife may be well post breeding but we do have an 11 month boy living with us (no cuteness competition) and food is one of my favorite things. But since dogs and babies are a favorite around here this is from a couple months ago.

    I have had my share (and a couple others) of beer and the only US pub I’ve ever been in that was worth spit had a large ex-pat clientele (Scots and Brits).

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