~~~SANDBOX 77~~~

thx vg

By dose is gold.

man, sending good vibes your way JF :/

-my free NYT subscript is running out - anybody got leads on a good cheap way to get a digital subscript?

looool

yeah, i got the same message today

It's spam!!!!

I got it, and then got another msg later retracting it with an apology, if that makes any sense.

yeah - I forgot which free offer I signed up for (some cadillac thing) and I can't remember for how long that lasts. worried that my NYT is running out :/

Wait not spam. A mistake, I think, per Gwen Ifill:

talk about oops. @nyt spam wasn't. it was sent by mistake to 8m instead of 300 pp. (h/t @amychozick)

Whoa JF dude, so sorry to hear this man..

But like others already said Paul, you are not a "life ruiner"... You handled on instinct maybe, at a do or die moment, and I don't think that can be bad. I relate to the crushed-by-piano feeling though :-/ But that will pass.

Sorry dude, hug and hang in there

jf <3

^^^ We're here for you.

Ended up not going to the flea market; I couldn't wake up my husband in time to get there. (However, it was the best sleep he's had in weeks.) We're going to try to get to a different one on New Year's Eve morning. We did find a big bag of cans behind the shed--we'll take that and some more copper that we got off of the house in tomorrow.

Just ordered $155 worth of groceries for 108 bucks--thank u for promotions, grocery service that rhymes with mesh protect!!

- had lunch at chinese place we often eat at in the evenings
- lunch = different menu, different staff, different tablecloths
- felt like we stumbled into a parallel universe

- washing machine was making horrible noise, minimum repair callout charge was £80
- groped around inside drum, pulled out tiny (tiny!) magnet that was stuck to the wall
- machine now (fingers crossed) making only the normal noises, without spending £80
- no idea where the magnet came from, hope it was not an important component of anything

- best wishes to you, jf

agh. I give up. What rhymes with "mesh protect"?

fresh? select? reject? erect?

Flesh Erect

Creche Reject

David Koresh

That's it. David Koresh delivered a truck load of sale groceries to Laurel.

he lives!

I hope she got some Waco Bits.

Oh. We don't have that brand here. I don't think. We have one that rhymes with glee squad.

best jaymc joke in some time!

We have Pubix--Where Fucking is a Pleasure.

Superfresh - Stupidfresh
Acme - Smackme
King Sooper - King Stupid

Piggly Wiggly and Harris Teeter kind of write themselves imo.

When I worked at Food Lion we got a shipment of bags that said Food Loin.

irl lols over here

You guys have supermarket chains called Piggly Wiggly and Harris Teeter? o_0

In the southern US, yup.

http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/wp-content/uploads/Piggly_Wiggly.jpg

We had Piggly Wiggly in northern Minnesota.

http://agentscott.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/harris-teeter.jpg

That lady looks sad to be going into Harris Teeter.

Harris and Teeter were the names of the founders.

She's sadder to be wearing those pants.

Piggly Wiggly is also found in the Midwest (and used to be in the West as well before they sold off some stores). Harris Teeter is in the mid-Atlantic.

Also the southeast.

What is the naughty name for Harris Teeter that comes to your mind? My people always called it "Harry Peter," but I just realized it also sounds lie "teat."

Piggly Wiggly was founded on September 6, 1916 at 79 Jefferson Street in Memphis, Tennessee, by the American entrepreneur Clarence Saunders. It was the first true self-service grocery store, a concept patented[3] by Saunders in 1917. Because customers could choose their products directly, packaging and brand recognition became very important.

There's a replica of the first Pig at the Pink Palace Museum in Memphis. When I worked for a grocery wholesaler in the 80s, one nickname was Hoggly Woggly. #uselesstrivia

i have several honeymoon photos in the parking lot of a piggly wiggly in wisconsin because we forgot to pack toothbrushes and toothpaste.

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/263755_10150256624544609_548884608_6964796_5466354_n.jpg
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/271112_10150256624714609_548884608_6964801_4973362_n.jpg

nbd just poppin off tomorrow for a few days to spend new year's here:

http://www.agolfingexperience.com/uploadphoto/Lough%20Erne-3.JPG

i will not be bringing my clubs tho ;_;

OMG Hoggly Woggly

xp nice - it looks lie you're lighting a roach in the 2nd pic

xp again - wow

Where is that, d? It's gorgeous.

lough erne, up north. v much looking forward to it, renting a chalet with friends for a couple days.

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/263755_10150256624544609_548884608_6964796_5466354_n.jpg

holy christ this is awesome

apropos of nothing rly i just want youse to look at how str8 happy this sumbitch right here is

http://www.eatmedaily.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/pig-head.jpg

after the relative horror of food lion (sorry jesse) and other nc stores, my friends refer to h-t as taj ma teeter

In Greensboro, NC there was one VERY LARGE Harris Teeter* (at Friendly Center, on Friendly Ave.), which some friends called Taj Ma Teeter.

Food Lion wasn't bad, IMO. Some were, some weren't. There was a super shitful Harris Teeter in Greensboro (on Summit Ave.) that made Food Lion look opulent by comparison. It later became a Sav Yr Monee or something like that.

*When I moved to Chicago, I really missed the palatial, abundant Southern supermarkets. They're catching up in some parts of town, but it took some time before the feeling of austerity subsided. I don't now if Jenny (or Jeff) would agree, but I know a couple other NC transplants who did.