Seen in the impulse-buy bin at Kohls during a Memorial Day sale:
Am I taking crazy pills, or are the makers of one of America’s most beloved candies paying some sort of tribute to a know-nothing, white nationalist aspirant to the presidency?
Please tell me this is some other pop culture reference I’m missing! I kinda expected the Beltway media to normalize Trump. But if we’ve lost Mars, is there any hope in the solar system?
rikyrah
Even in my beloved chocolate….he’s creepy.
When chocolate can’t make you look decent…..nothing can.
redshirt
Mmm… peanut butter.
Gin & Tonic
“White chocolate” is an abomination.
JPL
All I can say is that Halloween should be fun this year. ugh
rikyrah
I have to admit – I don’t understand the Tiny House thing.
I don’t understand it for one person. I definitely can’t comprehend it for more than one person, or a couple with a child or with a pet. I didn’t think I was claustrophobic, but maybe I am. Because, I can’t understand how this could possibly work – ever.
redshirt
@Gin & Tonic: I legit love white chocolate, not in the racist sense.
Betty, I think the Dumpster has gotten in your head. That’s a popular rockabilly hairstyle, popularized in the 50’s. The Pompadour. Think sort of Elvis.
FlyingToaster
@Gin & Tonic: Cocoa Butter, Vanilla, sugar, milk. I don’t think that’s anywhere close to abomination. You can quibble that it’s insufficiently chocolate, but it really would need more offensive ingredients to abominate.
Olivia
Before I read your post, I thought it looked like the Chewbaca lady and thought “Boy, they got that out fast.”(My eyesight sucks)
But I suppose you’re right and it is emulating Hair Drumpf.
Fuck!
ploeg
It’s a Peanut Butter M&M, with a dab of peanut butter flipped into a do. Any resemblance to orange presidential candidates are almost certainly unintentional. Corporate America isn’t into alienating half of its potential customers.
redshirt
@rikyrah: No mortgage, no debt, low expenses. Say you’re retired and you want to travel 30 weeks a year – why have a big house?
My Step Dad is into it, but was just talked out of buying a tiny house due to the commute.
Betty Cracker
@redshirt: Entirely possible, and I hope you are right.
RandomMonster
Trump would make more sense on a bag of Cheese Puffs.
debbie
@rikyrah:
Easy to keep clean.
pluky
@Gin & Tonic: Don’t think of it as chocolate, but as its own special (and nummy!) sorta food.
Eric U.
@rikyrah: Fine Homebuilding had an article about a tiny house. The family had a 14 y.o. daughter — they were homeschooling her. The parents worked from home. 250 square feet. I eventually expect to see that there has been a murder suicide.
Gin & Tonic
@redshirt:
Why have a house at all, if you’re going to be out of it 60% of the time?
Read an article a while back about a couple that retired, sold their house and all their stuff, and would rent an apartment for 4-6 months at a time in various cities they’d always wanted to visit. No permanent address.
JPL
@RandomMonster: In January the Post had an article about what children think about the candidates. One little girl said Trump looked like a tomato. He’ll always be Mr. Tomato head to me.
Gin & Tonic
@pluky: Fine. But don’t call it chocolate. Like calling something not cut from a cow “steak.” It may be tasty, but it just isn’t steak.
redshirt
@Gin & Tonic: Snowbird/be near the grandkids stuff.
redshirt
@Gin & Tonic: If white chocolate is not chocolate, what is it?
rikyrah
@redshirt:
the thing is…I understand RV living….but, even that…….
eh….
redshirt
@Betty Cracker: I am. Trump’s hair is not anyway close to that good either. Especially in peanut butter.
John H
This M&M character is a few years old. Not related to trump
redshirt
@John H: Is there like an M&M comic universe? Where they have personalities and adventures?
Gin & Tonic
@redshirt: It’s some awful confection of cocoa butter and sugar.
RandomMonster
@JPL: Mr. Tomato, first name Rotten.
JPL
@John H: So are you saying that Trump paid to look like a bag of m & m’s
He’ll probably sue Mars for not crediting him.
dww44
@rikyrah: I’m with you. Perhaps we’ve gone over the top with the McMansions in the last decade or two and the tiny house movement is a natural reaction to that.
redshirt
@rikyrah: Your other home is an RV. Or a van. At least that’s my plan.
cmorenc
@JPL:
It will be fun only if theDonald is far enough behind on Halloween, according to several reliable polling outfits, that he has no chance of winning. Otherwise, the next four years could be like a continuous nightmare version of Halloween every day.
redshirt
@Gin & Tonic: It’s delicious. Are there white chocolate M&M’s by the by?
RandomMonster
@redshirt: My wife and I are considering a tiny house, because we live in the San Francisco Bay Area and wouldn’t be able to afford anything else.
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
The one of those that made perfect sense to me was a couple who lived up in the mountains and wanted to be able to run the entire house just off the energy they could generate from their own solar panels. They were also a little traumatized because they had lost their previous house to a wildfire and were adamant that they wanted to be able to have a house small enough that they could pack everything in it into their cars in an emergency. Since it was essentially a cabin, it made sense for it to be a tiny house.
But tiny houses in suburban or urban areas make no sense to me.
jayboat
@redshirt:
Me, too. Plan to live in an RV and see a lot of this country. I had a small one back in the late 90’s and loved it.
I’m single with no debt, so it doesn’t seem like a difficult choice.
burnspbesq
Holy crap. According to this, the next three generations of Greeks are well and truly fucked (h/t Drum).
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2016/cr16130.pdf
jl
It’s peanut butter and chocolate. Which seems to be the default nut and chocolate combo in the US, and my European co-workers constantly complain about as inescapable and barbaric.
So, the locks are delicious creamy peanut butter, which is far more respectable and comes with more brains than Trump. And even ignoring the peanut butter angle, the curly locks are full and golden and gracefully curl out forward.
As opposed to godawful thinning white mange, sprayed with cellophaney gelatinous gold yellow tan spray, combed backward to cover up something ugly and nasty, or to hide something trivial, like a cowlick that offends the oaf’s vanity.
So, quite a difference. Fear not for the soul M&M’s just yet, BC.
Edit: If it were white chocolate M&M, with a ring of snowy hair, I guess BC would freak out about Bernie taking over M&Ms.
Edit2: BTW, I think I saw a profile of HRC in my Micky D egg and sausage burrito this morning. It must have been a miracle and A Sign. Should taken a pic and sent it for BJ blog to use as a shrine of some sort, but I was hungry and ate it.
Mnemosyne
The lady that G is tutoring in reading has been thanking him with food lately, which is why I get to have tasty pork adobo for dinner tonight — yum!
StringOnASick
@rikyrah: tiny houses are a thing, but most places have zoning that doesn’t allow anything smaller than 1,000sq ft, so while tiny house lovers say they are lower impact environmentally, they are usually miles from anything you need like grocery stores or, say, a job. So maybe low impact, but lots of car miles.
My husband loves to read about tiny houses and van dwelling, usually when he finds his job irritating. Maybe that’s the main appeal for most? They just don’t seem practical unless you’re a single monk with no possessions, but I like that it makes me think harder about buying stuff for stuff’s sake. Hobbling around on crutches rught now and having troublesome knees, any place that requires a ladder to get to bed is a no go for me.
redshirt
I’m trying to guess what the low fat snack on the left is, but coming up empty.
SFAW
I didn’t know that M&Ms now come in ipecac flavor. Let’s hope they’re confined to FLA.
StringOnASick
@efgoldman: so it really is a weave?
jl
@efgoldman: That M&M ad makes me think Trump could have gotten a peanut butter doo, or maybe goo would be a better way to put it, that would look nicer and cost about 20 bucks, including the ingredients, if the hairdresser liked Trump and chose creamy rather than chunky.
SFAW
@redshirt:
Twizzlers
magurakurin
@Gin & Tonic: Go to Brugge. Find one of the 47 hand made chocolate makers (easy to do). Eat some white chocolate. Not an abomination.
jl
@StringOnASick: Let’s write Trump and tell him to go with some dreads. Help him with ‘The Youth’ and ‘The Blacks’, who love him.
redshirt
@SFAW: Makes sense. Thanks!
Amir Khalid
@redshirt:
in his later years, as I recall, Elvis used to love him some peanut butter and banana sandwiches.
Dork
@burnspbesq: 23 pages of legalistic pablum. Can you please summarize?
redshirt
@Amir Khalid: Who doesn’t though?
StringOnASick
@jl: Being close to the People’s Republic of Boulder, I think dreads could sway some Bernie bro’s too.
I saw a extremely tan white woman on the Big Island who had blonde dreadsc past her knees. We called them the Dreads of Significant Commitment.
benw
@Amir Khalid: I think Elvis may have fried his, but non-fried PB&banana sandwiches are delicious.
pseudonymous in nc
I am fine with tiny houses in the same way that I am fine with small apartments in certain cities: in places where there is sufficient and adequate shared public space (and amenities) you can live outside your private living space for most of the day. In the grand scheme of things, it would be better to have more small apartments (in well-built blocks) than tiny houses, but in certain cities, zoning laws make it easier to build tiny houses. And there we are.
I’m also fine with white chocolate in a land where the prevailing chocolate tastes of vomit.
StringOnASick
@Dork: Item 7 on page 5 tells the tale, but just reading the bolded sentences in each section tells you Burnspbesq is right. The IMF is going to force extreme austerity for as long as it takes. Funny that in the prior paragraphs they admit that at each step along the way, Greece’s prospects deteriorated, thus requiring new plans, but the new plans were always more austerity, followed by further deterioration. Squeeze, starve, repeat.
Zinsky
@StringOnASick: HA! I bet she smelled good! Yuck!
SFAW
@StringOnASick:
What happened to “OnAStick”?
ETA: Or is this another example of my brain cells dying?
Miss Bianca
@Gin & Tonic: Only if you expect it be a substitute for chocolate chocolate, like carob was supposed to be back in the 70s. If you can accept it on its own terms, ’tis a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
jl
This post got me to thinking about the top and terrific Trump GOP convention speech.
“American will have jobs again. You won’t believe the all the jobs. Terrific top jobs, the best jobs. So many great jobs, you’ll be sick of great jobs.
Security, So much great security. You won’t believe the fantastic security. The best security, brought to you by top people. The very best most suave and secure security, that you won’t even believe. James Bond style classy security..
I’m going to crack down on the Chinese hoax climate change, and we’ll have the best climate. You won’t believe the climate. The best classiest climate for the top classiest outdoor functions with beautiful smoking hot women, and reemember I love the women, at a great Trump facility near you, staffed by top people, the classiest. I’ll crack down on the Democratic droughts and blizzards. We’ll have the best water, every part of this country will have the best crystal clear water, just the right temperature, for the greatest classiest drinks, and perfect for golf courses and manicured lawns. The classiest smoking hot beautiful women will walk barefoot on Trump lawns perfectly wet with the best water. You won’t believe the financial system. We’ll have the top, most terrific financial system. Well have nothing but the best, top, banks again loaning the best, most terrific money, the top money. The whole country will be like the classiest Trump resort. And remember, all Trump resorts are the perfect Top Resort. Everyone will get sick of top, classy and best when I am done with this place, believe me.”
Tenar Darell
@rikyrah: I’m a pack rat in a lineage of pack rats. If twere not for books, I’d do anything to force myself to get rid of “the stuff.” However, I live alone. I’m pretty sure a tiny house would not work with my need to recharge alone,
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ mais à chacun son goût.
Schlemazel Khan
@rikyrah:
The wife loves the shows & I hate them. One of my favorites had rough hued wood on the walls & the daughter had to squeeze between the bed & the angle of the roof and, of course, her hair was being caught on the snags and ripped out.
A reoccurring theme I have seen on one of the shows is people spending more than $100k on one of these eye sores. For that kind of money you could get a very good camper trailer with a much better design and the truck to pull it with.
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: Yes, there was an M&M Minis cybercomic drawn by Marvel.
https://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/1714636/an-offline-m-ms-comic-gets-online-treatment
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/comic-book-exploits-mm-minis-19895
And here’s a link to comics that have used M&M characters:
http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/category/mms/
burnspbesq
@Dork:
If you have issues with wonkery, that’s on you, not anyone else. However, there is a Classics Comics version for the lazy.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/05/imf-greece-totally-screwed
pseudonymous in nc
@jl:
Well, it is. Antipodeans like chocolate-cherry and chocolate-peppermint and even chocolate-violet, which all seem more reasonable and less cloying options.
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: I should be surprised but the internet has hardened me.
Figures you’d find it.
? Martin
@pseudonymous in nc: But peanuts are an american thing. For that reason alone they’ll be popular here.
Miss Bianca
@pseudonymous in nc: Yeah, well, the Europeans are all into chocolate and hazelnut, which as a combination I cannot find superior. The only excuse for hazelnuts is Frangelico, as far as i’m concerned
Tenar Darell
@pseudonymous in nc: Ooh! Well if I get to choose my smaller footprint living, I’ll take a small well designed apartment with custom sliding floor to ceiling shelves preferably in the heart of Boston (but Paris or New York or San Francisco or London work for me too). ;-)
Major Major Major Major
@SFAW: Good question. The first one, that is.
jl
@pseudonymous in nc: I like small doses of chocolate and peanut butter. Most of the junk food variety is too damn salty for my taste. I am a boor and a barbarian, proudly so in front of my colleagues from strange and foreign lands, like Switzerland, UK and Taiwan, but even I have my limits.
I’ve stayed away from junk food as much as I could in my latest effort to lose a few pounds. Now I find most of it nasty tasking, too much sweet salty nasty chemical tasting. The the shit grease they put in fried food smells and tastes rancid to me now. Jeebus, I don’t even like those Hostess rasberry twinky things anymore. Must be the end of the world. Next time I see some Tastykakes, I’ll see how I like them now.
Major Major Major Major
(go warriors)
redshirt
@Tenar Darell: Where is the heart of Boston?
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: Unfortunately the cyber comic is no longer available for viewing. However, as this was done by Marvel, I’m surprised you didn’t know about it.
? Martin
@Major Major Major Major: Yes, looks like Steph woke up at halftime.
Dork
@burnspbesq: Uh yeah, sorry I’m too stupid and disinterested to read 23 pages of Greek tragedy on a holiday evening. Thought maybe you could be helpful and summarize; instead you patronize. Go chase a few ambulances.
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: I’m partial to chocolate and marzipan. Also chocolate and actual almonds. Chocolate and pecans. Chocolate and cashews. The hell with it, just give me the bag of bridge mix and leave me alone…
Corner Stone
That NBA game though…
Citizen Alan
@efgoldman:
What really makes this funny is that I didn’t read the quoted section at first and thought we were still talking about tiny houses, and I thought $60k was ridiculous for a tiny house. And then, I realized we were talking about Drumpf’s absurd headgear.
Tenar Darell
I’m reliably informed that the heart is buried somewhere on the original peninsula ;-) It’s a secret to the descendants of the original Winthrop Colony, yanno?
FlyingToaster
@redshirt: Fenway Park, the Gahden, or Foxboro. Take your pick.
schrodinger's cat
Peanuts and chocolate don’t go together in my humble opinion.
fuckwit
this sums it up for me: http://i.imgur.com/6pnYQUv.jpg
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: My Dad and one of his friends in the biology department once ran a sample of Entenmann’s coffee cake through to see what was really in it. It came back benign: no food value.
Corner Stone
Dribbling down to get the last shot of the 3rd quarter from 10 ft beyond the 3 pt line…yeah.
Major Major Major Major
@schrodinger’s cat: you monster.
divF
@Major Major Major Major: Yeah !
Up by 11 at the end of the 3rd.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@redshirt: Boston has no heart.
Corner Stone
“Takes a little Hart and a big Johnson”
That’s gold, Jerry! Gold!
magurakurin
100 square feet sounds truly tiny, but I live in a very standard and average two bedroom apartment in Japan. 600 square feet. And that includes a set of stairs from the front door up to our apartment. So effective living space is probably 550 or so. The stairs do give a sense of space though. I like it. But living space is much, much smaller here. But yeah 100 to 200 square feet for a house seems small.
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: All of those combinations are lovely (particularly marzipan). It’s just the chocolate/hazelnut thing that leaves me cold – well, cold in a relative way. I’ll still *eat* it, of course.
H’m…chocolate-covered bridge mix…I think you’re onto something there!
smith
@StringOnASick:
Didn’t the IMF just release a study saying austerity does more harm than good? Why yes, yes they did.
Corner Stone
Man, this last quarter is a freakin mess.
redshirt
@FlyingToaster: Foxoboro is like 30 miles to the south bro.
Omnes Omnibus
@magurakurin: Bruges, damn it.
redshirt
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: It’s probably in Cambridge, actually. Hidden in the Harvard Natural History Museum.
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: You’ve never had that? Did you not have a grandmother? (Also, if they both passed before you met them, I’m sorry to have brought it up and my sincerest condolences) Brach’s makes it, but I think there are a couple of higher end versions out there as well.
http://www.sees.com/chocolate/nuts-and-chews/bridge-mix/200398.html
https://nuts.com/chocolatessweets/nuts/chocolate-covered/mixed/bridge-mix.html
http://www.brachs.com/products/bridge-mix/
StringOnAStick
@SFAW: No, it is an example of (1)using a kindle since I can’t sit at my PC currently, (2) needing readers, and (3) heavy pain meds. Thanks for helping me see that!
Adam L Silverman
@smith: consistency, hobgoblins, small minds.
redshirt
@efgoldman: Bullshit. Unless you’ve got a peanut allergy.
Corner Stone
This game 7 is nuts.
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: No, alas, how did I miss it? My grandmothers did me wrong! Mixed nuts sans chocolate and sips from their highballs were the best I ever got from them. ; )
magurakurin
@Omnes Omnibus: Isn’t Brugge the Dutch? And isn’t Brugge in Flanders? Where they speak Dutch? But I have been there. And it is beautiful. And the chocolate is the finest in the world. We order a kilo box every February and have it sent to us here in Japan.
FlyingToaster
@redshirt: And yet some Pats fans worship the joint.
The sports franchises are as close to a heart as Boston has. Unless you subscribe to the National Treasure theory and believe that the Freemasons buried it in a passage between Paul Revere’s House and Old North Church….
(I’m sure that’s the plot of National Treasure 16)
StringOnAStick
@smith: Yes, their studies show that, but punishing Greece seems to rate higher than admitting austerity will keep Greece on its knees for decades.
schrodinger's cat
@redshirt: No allergies, I like peanuts just fine, boiled, roasted, fried. Just not with chocolate. YMMV.
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: Mine weren’t big drinkers – that I know of. The one that was down here with us always had a variety of Brach’s stuff about. Butterscotches, mints, fruit flavored gum drops, and bridge mix. The one in Colorado baked. She’d come visit and bring three months worth of baked goods with her on the plane. And when we would go out and stay with my grandparents, or when we lived there, she had enough stuff in the pantry to feed an army. With her if you weren’t hungry, you were ill. If you were ill, that meant the thermometer with the vaseline on the end! No one, adult or child, every told my grandmother they weren’t hungry!
Omnes Omnibus
@magurakurin: You are correct. However, in English, we tend towards the Francophile version. To be fair, though, we butcher the name of the capital of France. It evens out.
Major Major Major Major
Aaaaack go warriors
Corner Stone
Nuts!
Amir Khalid
@benw:
I think having his PB&banana sammies fried had a lot to do with Elvis only living to be 42.
Major Major Major Major
@Corner Stone: some woman in the bar just yelled out “they lost the ball! YOU FUCKERS!”
She’s been like that.
Corner Stone
Flocking nuts!
magurakurin
@Omnes Omnibus: I suppose an English speaker reading “Brugge” would probably read it as “bruhg” and “Bruges” would probably get the “u” sound as in “new” and the “j” sound as in “garage”, they would also probably pronounce the “s” but still closer I guess to what the people there say. It seems like the two names get used somewhat interchangeably on the net. Probably reflects the tension that exists in Belgium between the French speakers and the Dutch speakers.
Major Major Major Major
It’s mathematically still possible for Oklahoma to win this game. Have they tried suing the DNC yet?
Ruckus
@rikyrah:
I could see it. A couple of my friends are looking for a house, more rural than urban/suburban and suggested that I could have a small cottage in the back. I’m just about ready. I live in a 10×12 room now and it’s more than enough. It would be better than a single or one bedroom apt. and cheaper too.
Corner Stone
GSW Shocks The World!
redshirt
@Major Major Major Major: What are you doing in a bar?
jl
@efgoldman: Don’t worry. I will always give new junk food recommended by BJ commenters a try when I come across it. I am broad minded.
Major Major Major Major
@redshirt: watching the basketball game, obviously.
redshirt
@Major Major Major Major: Of course!
scav
the small houses I’ve seen, at least, were as well designed as ships and fit more clever storage and views in as poorly designed appts I’ve lived in. They take nore skill than the sloppy monsters, but can work and be fun. Do require discipline.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Oddly, I saw a bear this weekend.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: It was 1-3.
redshirt
@efgoldman: Drink, right?
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Where? I’ve never seen a bear in the wild.
jsrtheta
“White chocolate” is a contradiction in terms.
For what it’s worth, The do doesn’t make me think of Trump. Or chocolate. Or whatever “white chocolate” is, which is neither white nor chocolate.
benw
@Amir Khalid: that and the massive piles of drugs… so I’ve heard.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: I see bears every day in the Castro, so what
Mnemosyne
@redshirt:
Maybe being in the wild is your problem. They’ve been showing up a lot in local urban areas.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Just north of Wausau, WI.
@Major Major Major Major: Ursus type bear.
redshirt
@Mnemosyne: I know. That’s a crazy fact. All the other critters too – like coyotes and wolves and tigers and probably some birds. I don’t see any of them but am ready.
Ohio Mom
It’s off topic at this point in the thread but the Mars company is privately held by the Mars family. They are one of the 18 families who bank rolled the effort to get the federal estate tax repealed. It’s easily google-able.
They are part of the one-percent of the one-percent. I don’t know if that is supposed to be DT or not but the Mars have never and will never be on our side.
Davebo
@Ruckus:
The problem is from what I’ve seen here at least while small they are still quite expensive but that may be the land cost .
Major Major Major Major
@efgoldman: He blogging again?
redshirt
@efgoldman: I almost hit a scraggly ass moose the other week. Right around this righteous bend in the road which follows the river below, an S curve on the side of a mountain…..
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I almost hit a deer in Wisconsin one summer. Right by UW Parkside. Scared the crap out of me.
Mnemosyne
@redshirt:
@efgoldman:
Los Angeles is a weird city because we have wilderness areas right in the middle of everything thanks to the various mountains and foothills that are too steep to build houses on. Coyotes are the most common, but we get a lot of deer, mountain lions, and bears as well.
redshirt
@Mnemosyne: I almost hit deer all the time and have never still.
I’m wicked good at peripheral vision. And reflexes.
redshirt
@Mnemosyne: Oh my!
Major Major Major Major
I hit an elk one time on the highway. Totaled an SUV. what a mess.
SFAW
Apropos of nothing in particular: after watching the GSW-OKC game, I was flipping around the dial (as we oldsters used to say) and came upon a Charlie Rose from 3/28/16, wherein he interviewed Brooks. Even at that date, it seemed clear to Bobo that Trump was going to win, and he looked so despondent at the thought of that, that I actually started to feel sorry for the guy. I mean, he really looked like he wanted to cry.
Given what a moron he is and has been, I was tempted (for about a second) to laugh at him, along with a few epithets. But he looked so pathetic, as if he suddenly realized his political worldview was crashing down around him, that I felt it wouldn’t be right for me to laugh at him.
Fortunately, that moment has passed, so …
Fuck you, Bobo, you moron. You’re part of the reason Trump is where he is in the presidential race. You and George Will should be dropped from the top of the Trump Tower. Assholes. If there were a just God, you and Will would have been grease spots a long time ago. [Note: Not that Bobo and the Bowtied Bozo are the only ones, but they’ve been pretty visible in their pecksniffery.]
SFAW
@Mnemosyne:
I once shot an elephant in my pajamas.
NotMax
Haven’t read thread yet, but looks a lot more like a Liberace ‘do than anything else.
Or Chester Plunkett from the Little Archie comics.
Steeplejack (phone)
@SFAW:
No, we’re not touching that. We’re just going to leave you hanging.
NotMax
@redshirt
Had a deer hit me a few years ago (we have small axis deer here).
Just after dusk. Road runs through a depression, with upward incline off one shoulder. Over the top of the brush at lip of the incline comes a deer a-leaping. Landed right smack on the hood of the car, which had to be replaced. That plus one cracked headlight the only real damage. Deer ran off. Was able to drive the car home with no problem.
@Adam L. Silverman
Classic bridge mix rocks.
(Also now Chris Christie’s least favorite treat. :) )
SFAW
@Steeplejack (phone):
Good choice.
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: Great gasbags – if we must have eccentricities in our grandparental choices, I think I’ll take the drinking and the mixed nuts over being force-fed on pain of rectal probes!
@Omnes Omnibus: In a bar?
Ruckus
@Davebo:
Probably more that they are all custom build and few by the owners. The design cost is probably close to the same and the labor on a real custom home is not cheap so that leaves the material savings. And if you are building a custom home you probably are going to use premium materials. Now one way is to use shipping containers. Working on them is different than with wood but the basic materials are relatively cheap. Near the coasts $15-20K bought you 3 or 4 of them delivered not that long ago.
Steeplejack
@Miss Bianca:
In his pajamas.
Allen Snyder
Looks way more like Conan O’Brien to me.
Bostonian
@redshirt: 10 1/2 Beacon Street.
liberal
@redshirt: in pricey areas, it’s not the house that you’re really paying for, but the land.
Matt McIrvin
@fuckwit: For a lot of Trump’s voters, Trump is the giant meteor. They’re voting for him because fuck everything and we ought to smash it all up. If half the country gets killed so much the better.
Matt McIrvin
@jl:
Oh no! If you turn to a life of crime, superheroes will have no recourse!
The Gray Adder
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Move on.
pluky
@redshirt: bay village!