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You are here: Home / Politics / Domestic Politics / It was all worth it…

It was all worth it…

by Betty Cracker|  March 2, 20177:00 pm| 43 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Food, Open Threads

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Some folks believe Twitter is degrading discourse and actively making people dumber. There is much evidence of this (Exhibit A: @realDonaldTrump). However, the following tweet redeems the whole enterprise, IMO:

Speaking of food, thanks to all who submitted squash recipes in response to my request for gourd grilling techniques. I went with the foil packet method since the squash I had was on the small side, and I added grape tomatoes, onions and garlic and seasoned it with salt, pepper and fresh thyme:

Ta-da! It was delish.

Open thread.

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43Comments

  1. 1.

    different-church-lady

    March 2, 2017 at 7:03 pm

    I’m sure that bonehead from PricewaterhouseCoopers feels so much better now.

  2. 2.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    March 2, 2017 at 7:05 pm

    One of the few? What other mammals lay eggs?

  3. 3.

    japa21

    March 2, 2017 at 7:06 pm

    Looks wonderful. Nice blend.

  4. 4.

    XTPD

    March 2, 2017 at 7:07 pm

    This was tweeted at six but the accompanying post still isn’t on the site. Admin?

    Also: ‘MURKA FUCK YOU

  5. 5.

    Mike J

    March 2, 2017 at 7:07 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Echidnas?

  6. 6.

    debbie

    March 2, 2017 at 7:11 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    One of the few animals.

  7. 7.

    different-church-lady

    March 2, 2017 at 7:11 pm

    By the way, it’s completely wrong that Twitter is making people dumber. It’s merely leveraging their inherent dumbness in a more streamlined fashion than previously possible.

  8. 8.

    different-church-lady

    March 2, 2017 at 7:12 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    What other mammals lay eggs?

    Comedians.

  9. 9.

    Betty Cracker

    March 2, 2017 at 7:17 pm

    @different-church-lady: Excellent point.

  10. 10.

    Baud

    March 2, 2017 at 7:21 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    Humans make custard.

  11. 11.

    evodevo

    March 2, 2017 at 7:21 pm

    @debbie: Huh? There are a LOT of animals that lay eggs. Only a few species of MAMMALS that lay eggs. Or did I misunderstand?

  12. 12.

    XTPD

    March 2, 2017 at 7:24 pm

    @evodevo: @evodevo: You misunderstood; ONLY mammals can produce milk, and only monotremes do both.

  13. 13.

    Nicole

    March 2, 2017 at 7:27 pm

    Hall & Oates and Tears For Fears are going on tour together this summer. I’m a little overly excited at the prospect.

  14. 14.

    efgoldman

    March 2, 2017 at 7:29 pm

    @XTPD:

    ONLY mammals can produce milk

    You never drank salamander milk? It’s the trendy thing at some NYC and San Francisco restaurants.

  15. 15.

    chris

    March 2, 2017 at 7:30 pm

    Some notes for anyone who wants to participate: International Women’s Day (and strike) is next Wednesday, 8MAR17.

  16. 16.

    Mike J

    March 2, 2017 at 7:30 pm

    Eric Lipton‏ Verified account @EricLiptonNYT
    IndyStar Scoop: Pence used personal email for state business — and was hacked http://indy.st/2lFe0ij via @indystar

  17. 17.

    debbie

    March 2, 2017 at 7:31 pm

    @evodevo:

    Look at the Tweet. He said “one of the few animals,” not mammals.

  18. 18.

    Sab

    March 2, 2017 at 7:31 pm

    Yuck. That platypus would be cooking it’s own offspring.

  19. 19.

    XTPD

    March 2, 2017 at 7:36 pm

    @efgoldman: Usually when people eat/drink that type of thing, they’re held back a grade or 4 early on and eventually put in the special class.

    Or die.

  20. 20.

    MomSense

    March 2, 2017 at 7:36 pm

    Here is a last minute science project for the students in your lives. Sten Odenwald from NASA is crowd sourcing gravity data.
    The deadline is tomorrow morning but even if you can’t meet the deadline, there are cool math links.
    Here’s the link. spacemath

  21. 21.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 2, 2017 at 7:38 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    One of the few? What other mammals lay eggs?

    Echidnas. There used to be more, but they all went extinct.

    Now I want to see a competition on Food Network or something between platypus custard and echidna custard. Monotremes, start your engines!!

  22. 22.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 2, 2017 at 7:43 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    What other mammals lay eggs?

    Comedians.

    Applause ?? Applause ??

  23. 23.

    different-church-lady

    March 2, 2017 at 7:43 pm

    @MomSense:

    Sten Odenwald from NASA is crowd sourcing gravity data.

    [Looks at feet]

    It appears to be working here in the Boston area.

  24. 24.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 2, 2017 at 7:47 pm

    @Sab:

    Yuck. That platypus would be cooking it’s own offspring.

    Pretty sure there’s something in Leviticus against eating Monotreme Custard.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack

    March 2, 2017 at 7:52 pm

    @Mike J:

    Plus it was an AOL account. LOL, grandpa!

  26. 26.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 2, 2017 at 7:55 pm

    Here are some pictures of baby platypuses (or platypi?), and they are really quite cute.

    I think baby monotremes are known as “puggles,” but will gladly wait for Mighty Trowel or Debbie in Oz or one of our other antipodean commenters to set me straight.

  27. 27.

    p.a.

    March 2, 2017 at 7:55 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: it’s meat it’s dairy it’s what the fuck is it??!!

  28. 28.

    Mnemosyne

    March 2, 2017 at 7:55 pm

    I’ve been telling myself that I’m only excited about all of this Disneyworld stuff for the kids, and then I found out I can go to an ice cream social with Princess Tiana and was on the phone in a flash to sign up.

    Now my co-workers are saying they’re going to take up a collection to get me a character autograph book of my own. ?

  29. 29.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 2, 2017 at 7:58 pm

    @p.a.:

    it’s meat it’s dairy it’s what the fuck is it??!!

    Send in the rabbis.

  30. 30.

    Mike J

    March 2, 2017 at 7:58 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Plus it was an AOL account. LOL, grandpa!

    I worked there. Pretty sure still I have an account or two, but couldn’t even give you the usernames.

  31. 31.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 2, 2017 at 7:58 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Now my co-workers are saying they’re going to take up a collection to get me a character autograph book of my own. ?

    Awwwwwwwwwww…..

  32. 32.

    Steeplejack

    March 2, 2017 at 8:10 pm

    @Mike J:

    I had an AOL e-mail account back in the day. It might still be “active,” if I could remember the password.

    My RWNJ brother still uses his AOL e-mail account and (I think) might still use AOL as his browser app. Greater proof of his nut-job-iness does not exist.

  33. 33.

    XTPD

    March 2, 2017 at 8:15 pm

    @Steeplejack: Mass hate-mailing AOL addresses should be mandatory by law, and also Pence should hang himself the dog fucking piece of shit.

  34. 34.

    MattF

    March 2, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    Speaking of laying eggs, Tom Waits was interviewed by the NYT, and told a story:

    “I was a firefighter when I was 19 or 20. I was trying to get out of the draft and I thought of it as a good place to hide. I was working out of a fire station in a tiny town called Jacumba. There was an enormous amount of preparation and training that was like rehearsing a play … pretending to fight fires, learning how to dig a hole if you are cornered by a fire. … One night at maybe 3 a.m. the bell sounded. This was the real thing. I slept in my clothes and only had to put on my boots, and down the pole onto the truck and the siren was blasting and I am hanging onto the ladder and my heart is going like a drum and I am panting hard. It was late and all of a sudden the aroma of fried chicken envelops our truck and we begin to slow and there it is, roaring and crackling: a chicken ranch on fire. The old farmer couple, Mom and Pop, are holding each other in silhouette as their world burns. … The captain says: ‘WAITS!!! Take that hose and start putting out some of these chickens.’ So there I am aiming at these flying, screaming, burning chickens, and I had never seen a chicken fly before, but boy can they fly. … There had to be a hundred or so of them and the blast of water would douse the fire and they would come crashing to the ground — and then another and another. There was no time to think or prepare.”

    Here it was, as Waits closed out his story, here it was again, here was where songs come from: “It was an emergency,” he wrote, “and when dealing with emergent behavior there is nothing to do but respond. I was in the moment. And it was not the fire I imagined or dreamed of. It was the fire I got.”

  35. 35.

    Mike J

    March 2, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    @Steeplejack: At the time, the alternative to AOL was knowing how to install a winsock.dll and know which program to get to do what. Download a browser and have a few thousand sites, mostly compsci majors who put up “I have a web site” pages, you could go on IRC for chatrooms if you knew how to navigate them, there really weren’t good IM programs until we moved it off the mainframe and onto unix boxes and then opened it to the internet.

    So no, I wouldn’t tell anybody to seek out AOL now, but at the time it was a good alternative for people who really didn’t give a shit about how the internet worked.

  36. 36.

    Viva BrisVegas

    March 2, 2017 at 9:03 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I think baby monotremes are known as “puggles,” but will gladly wait for Mighty Trowel or Debbie in Oz or one of our other antipodean commenters to set me straight.

    There was never really a need to give baby platypuses a name because nobody ever saw them down at the end of their burrows. The only people who did see them were scientists or zoo keepers and they usually just called them baby platypuses (note the plural).

    Baby echidnas have been long called puggles since they are rather more gregarious and more often seen.

    With the advent of nature documentaries sticking their cameras up platypus burrows, baby platypuses have now generally come to be called puggles as well.

    As for being cute, it’s worth remembering that male platypuses are poisonous. Almost the only mammal that is.

  37. 37.

    Keith P.

    March 2, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    A tomato stuffed inside of a squash stuff inside an eggplant. I call it a “Turdsomethin'”.

  38. 38.

    Josie

    March 2, 2017 at 9:11 pm

    @Mnemosyne: My oldest son and daughter-in-law (a travel agent that specializes in Disney) took me to Disneyworld several years ago. I have an autograph book filled with special signatures that I would not trade for anything. Have fun and feel like a kid again. It’s great.

  39. 39.

    mainmata

    March 2, 2017 at 9:13 pm

    I’m a regular Twitter user but coming from a family of newsies I am very choosy about who I follow and, as a result, I see a lot of high quality tweets. I don’t follow the Large Orange Moron, of course. But I do love your wonderful and usually very witty blog posts, Betty so there’s that. (Oh and I do follow you on Twitter.)

  40. 40.

    XTPD

    March 2, 2017 at 9:18 pm

    @Viva BrisVegas: Venomous, you mean. It’s strong enough to kill dog-sized mammals, but in humans it’s “merely” hyperalgesic; the only way to alleviate the pain is to sever the affected nerve.

  41. 41.

    chopper

    March 2, 2017 at 10:46 pm

    unfortunately for some of us, cooking an egg in the milk of its mother isn’t kosher.

  42. 42.

    J R in WV

    March 2, 2017 at 11:05 pm

    @XTPD:

    Seriously?

  43. 43.

    No One You Know

    March 3, 2017 at 2:43 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: It’s treyf. Even Reform Jews won’t touch it ;-)

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