Christmas morning. Pistols. We will see who is Oliver Hamilton and who is James Burr.
…I said good day!
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If I’m gonna fight as a pistol duel persona, I call Andrew Jackson. Sure, he was a horrible human being, but he survived getting shot a lot.
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I, Edouard Manet, shall give taste of my blade to any and all critics.
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You must not like Bloody Marys. Or good chicken salad.
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I uh… Make mine with finely diced cucumber pickles…
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Bugs are great protein. I remember a part of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart where the village is infested with locusts and the villagers are ecstatic. Food from the Gods has arrived!
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I have a … complex relationship with clear spirits. Wait. Actually, now I come to think about it, it’s a very simple relationship; I leave it alone, and it leaves me alone. It’s only when we step outside that framework that things get complicated.
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Those taste horrible as well.
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I wouldn’t know. I’ve only ever gotten shoved into them as a teen.
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Canadian kids of a certain age will recall the “gum” named Thrills. It tasted like soap. In fact the modern packaging proudly states “it still tastes like soap!”
[Edit: For the life of me, I can’t figure out how to get images to appear inline. I tried the HTML img tag but that doesn’t work.]
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I remember my little bro buying “thrills” gum taking a road trip up to Hi-Hium lake, and being severely disappointed. I also remember telling him he’s dumb for not going for a 7-11 style squishee, which I delighted in.
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Remember: We are all mutants in some way.
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I do, and I thank you for the italics. Most people don’t get it: its The Code. The Code is the law. Italicise, for the sake of every botanist on earth, if you use scientific names.
Also, its a scientific name. Not a Latin name.
(Btw, 
any self Canis lupus familiaris (Linnaeus, 1758) would be mad at you for calling scientific names dog Latin, thank you very much. But I see where you are coming from.)
FTR, my spice collection is labelled scientifically so everyone can find the right spices, wether they speak Spanish, English, French, Chinese or whatever they do wherever they grew up.
I admit this causes confusion with some people. But those aren’t allowed to use my kitchen, anyway. They couldn’t savour the moment in any case.
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oh, i didn’t mention i was a goat?!
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Just FTR, some sites seem to support embedding, others don’t. [ETA: size matters. Yours is too big. ]
I just whish I could directly post from Gboard. sigh Especially giphy sucks in supreme. Ok, they want the traffic, I get it. But it breaks my flow. Google should seriously rank them down for broken embedding, they should.
Also, I don’t object to stuff tasting a bit soapy, but chewing gum? Should taste of resin, at the most.
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Sadly not entirely true. I’m half Mexican and still can’t deal with it. It tastes like hate every single time.
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If I find a gif I want that’s hosted by giphy, I typically re-host it with Imgur, and embed from the Imgur link, since Giphy embedding really is broken.
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I weep for you, Mark. Perhaps gene editing will someday offer a cure.
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I think this is a “two nations divided by a common language” problem.
In the UK we say coriander and coriander seeds, because we didn’t have a large enough Spanish population to call it cilantro.
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