mangofirst

Is the question, "Which pencils, once proudly made so well in the USA are no longer made in the USA but in Mexico?" Oh no, I guess that'd be an answer. USA Golds all the way, baby!

*raises hand* what are we on now, 6?

[emoji13][emoji13][emoji13] https://youtu.be/ye5BuYf8q4o Course, I'm a southern *lady* so none of that applies to me.

Tomatoes are one of my favorite parts of summer! I only recently started perusing the local farmer's market...got some of those purple beans that turn green when you steam them, some yellow squash, a couple of mild purple peppers, and of course, as many fresh tomatoes as I could afford and my stomach could handle; I didn't eat much else that week. Aaand I crocheted myself a "French market" style bag to take next time. Only problem is, it's super stretchy...[emoji857][emoji383][emoji765]

I'm good. [emoji4][emoji106] Fun! Well, at my summer job after my freshman year of college - staff member at a church camp but don't get any ideas, it was still Meatballs level - we would get much of our food from a food bank. Out of date or close to out of date stuff, you know. One day, the boss brings in a case of mangoes. I had never had them and they were perfectly ripe. So I tried one. Then I ate them all over the course of the next two days...it became a thing and the kitchen staff teased me, calling me Mango. This was before it was a given for people to have internet at their homes, and I only had my school email address. The head of the kitchen tells me I should get a private email account. I had no idea how so he set it up for me because the camp office had internet: mango_111@hotmail.com (the 111 was my dorm room number). I lost the address years ago. Flash forward a few years and I joined a forum after an irl friend turned me on to an irc chatroom for said forum. When I wanted the username mango for irc it was taken, so in my pouting about it, I came up with mangofirst because I was mango first...this also ties in to the fact that I was mango before the popularity of the Chris Kattan SNL character if the same name. 🤷‍♀️ So that's my username story. Thanks for asking.

I prefer gas because I am so much better at gauging the heat by looking at the flame than the little dial marks. Also, I think it distributes the heat more evenly and consistently on the stove top and in the oven. Only time I prefer electric is for broiling or toasting but that may have just been because I had a cheap gas oven...for some reason I don't recall there being a heating element on top. Not sure if that's a standard thing or correct at all. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

I Soo don't remember anything about any salt shaker...I blame it on the cocktails. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Oh, how I've missed this place [emoji23] Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Don't like the sweetness of basil or just a 'use whatcha got' kind of thing? Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

So looks like not too many interested in RV sites, but a few need some clean, level ground for tents? We will scoop some poop out of the way just for y'all.

This is why I <3 vsauce! http://www.sleeveface.com/ Well, one reason.

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NOICE! Also...The Onion and AV Club? This I did not know. They just said Onion HQ. That's the satirical news Onion, yes?

I like your explanation better and the second time I watched it, a student had told me that it was on the HG soundtrack so I definitely had those themes in mind. There are many more emotions than upset, so no, I don't think the two must be intertwined. Emotional content could cause one to feel empowered, free, overjoyed... In other news, I was driving through downtown Hope today and rubbernecked as I passed the depot where sits a "reserved for Paul Klipsch" sign. :-) Probably driven past there 50 times and never noticed.

it was perceived as promoting pedophilia. it was perceived as promoting pedophilia. So it obviously is the second video. Well I guess there is that aspect of It, but that didn't jump to mind for me. I think she wants to lock the hunter side of herself in the cage, and be free to be a girl ouside of it. I wonder what Sia said about it. If it was about pedophilia, I can bet for sure that it was to bring awareness, not promote it. Interesting that people would jump to that interpretation. Madonna, broke the ground for this generation, Sia may be taking a page out of her book. Sia has said that they represent her different inner selves:

Really? I felt like the music was going through her. She was feelin' it.

Okay, so I watched this video last night and really loved it. Had heard the song but knew nothing about the artist or the dancer. Then I watched the second in a trilogy and thought it was great as well, but apparently people got all fired up about it. I honestly don't see why. I think both videos are strangely beautiful. Thoughts? **edit** this post made me a forum veteran

Ray Stevens is genius. Never heard that Tim Wilson guy before. Good stuff!

I can't think of many Jewel songs about social change and she was categorized as folk...that's my only problem with music: putting it into genres. Let's just go with good, bad, or somewhere in between.

http://www.biography.com/people/jewel-224921#recent-projects Wikipedia. Grrr.

Isn't that like saying it must be a different Madonna? :)Yee haw, just do what you've always done but add a fiddle, boots, hats, maybe a mandolin and steel guitar, and boom, you're on the country radio station making bucks. These things have a very simple formula. Folk and country are pretty darn similar...not sure what the difference is, really. Jewel already had the yodel in her voice and I think that fits right in. As for Steven Tyler's jump, the music is lovely so kudos to the session players there, but that voice just does not translate over for me. I <3 Aerosmith too much I guess. http://youtu.be/TlmNnscTtzI

John and Mitchy were gettin' kind of itchy Just to leave the folk music behind Zol and Denny workin' for a penny Tryin' to get a fish on the line In a coffee house Sebastian sat And after every number they'd pass the hat McGuinn and McGuire just a-gettin' higher In L.A., you know where that's at And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass Zolly said "Denny, you know there aren't many" "Who can sing a song the way that you do, let's go south" Denny said "Zolly, golly, don't you think that I wish" "I could play guitar like you" Zol, Denny and Sebastian sat (at the Night Owl) And after every number they'd pass the hat McGuinn and McGuire still a-gettin higher In L.A., you know where that's at And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass When Cass was a sophomore, planned to go to Swarthmore But she changed her mind one day Standin' on the turnpike, thumb out to hitchhike "Take me to New York right away" When Denny met Cass he gave her love bumps Called John and Zol and that was the Mugwumps McGuinn and McGuire couldn't get no higher But that's what they were aimin' at And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass Mugwumps, high jumps, low slumps, big bumps Don't you work as hard as you play Make up, break up, everything is shake up Guess it had to be that way Sebastian and Zol formed the Spoonful Michelle, John, and Denny gettin' very tuneful McGuinn and McGuire just a-catchin' fire In L.A., you know where that's at And everybody's gettin' fat except Mama Cass Di-di-di-dit dit dit di-di-di-dit, who-o-oa ------ flute ------ Broke, busted, disgusted, agents can't be trusted And Mitchy wants to go to the sea Cass can't make it, she says we'll have to fake it We knew she'd come eventually Greasin' on American Express cards It's low rent, but keeping out the heat's hard Duffy's good vibrations and our imaginations Can't go on indefinitely And California dreamin' is becomin' a reality

I'll take a strudel then. <bunny trail>First time I had strudel, from a little grocery/bakery in a small Texas German town, I ate the whole thing all by myself. It was cream cheese and weighed about 5 pounds. </bunny trail>

I think I will just stick to posting in this thread since I'm so easily distracted.

Not even the famous "...ein Berliner?" Dave Geez Dave, what an obscure reference. I bet not 1 out of 100 people know what you are talking about. I'm a one percenter