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This does not make food.
Candice and I decided we wanted peanut butter cookies. First stop: the recipe on the side of the jar of Kraft peanut butter. Second stop: Any other recipe, because: Super Easy Kraft Peanut Butter Cookies 1. MIX together 1 cup KRAFT Smooth Peanut Butter, 1/2 cup sugar, and an egg. 2. ROLL into balls and […]
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truth in advertising
A wet wipe that came with nachos at the Heart and Crown in the Byward Market the other day:
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No.
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also the US curling effort seems to involve cute blonde sisters somehow
From a Associated Press overview piece on Olympic curling from the NBC Olympics website: Although popular in Scotland, which claims to have invented curling, and in Canada, which claims to have invented ice, curling remains on the fringe in the United States. Editors? Editors?
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snake oil bonspiel
Right now the Canada Cup of Curling is on the CBC. Now, curling’s reasonably mainstream in Canada, enough to get Sunday afternoon TV coverage, but it’s still a second-tier sport, so it tends to collect some odd sponsors. The men’s championship Brier, after being sponsored by Labatt for years, is now sponsored by Tim Horton’s; […]
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The Manchester Passion
The Guardian reports: The BBC plans to mark the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ this Easter with an hour-long live procession through the streets of Manchester featuring pop stars from The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays and featuring songs by The Smiths and New Order. … The climax of the event sees Jesus sing the […]
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escar-WHOA!
A moment ago I was reading the Wikipedia entry on snails after watching a bit on the Food Network about escargot. The Wikipedia entry made a passing reference to the “giant African snail”. Sure, I thought, giant snails. Those have to be what, a couple inches long? Well, that’s kind of neat. So I checked […]
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radio livejournal
The line between mundane and awesome is a fine one, and I think this falls on the “awesome” side. Brad has thrown together Radio LiveJournal, which is to phone posts what the LJ images feed is to images posted in journal entries. It just keeps streaming one phone post after another. No-one uses phone posts […]