Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

I think I usually say /s/ for both unless I'm in a particularly Southern idiom, in which case a lot of /s/s become /z/s.

Also, we splurged and went out for sushi tonight. (It was only a partial splurge, because I had a coupon, but even with $10 it was more than we usually spend.) But dang ... sushi is tasty.

we had bubble and squeak, which in my husband's family is pieces of potato and cabbage fried in bacon grease. We even had a little bacon to put in too, fancy.

Which is the bubble and which is the squeak?

hmmm I think the bacon grease is the squeak. Potatoes as bubbles?

Actually, how I understand it, the bubble and squeak is how the dish sounds when you're cooking it, not Cockney slang for any of the components or anything like that.

I could really go for some bangers n mash now...

I have a "language filter" on Chrome. Because stumbleupon was a little vulgar, well... most of the time. And unnecessarily so.

Anyways, the amusing part is that whenever people say stuff like "Cockney slang" or someone's name on facebook is "Something Babcock", or I saw something for "Shrimp cocktail". Anywho. These all come up as "****ney slang", or "Something Bab****", or "Shrimp ****tail". I'm greatly amused.

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:I have a "language filter" on Chrome. Because stumbleupon was a little vulgar, well... most of the time. And unnecessarily so.

Haha! The best I've seen of that is two authors discussing Charles ****ens, since they had a filter on their chat program...

Giovanni Schwartz wrote: Anyways, the amusing part is that whenever people say stuff like "Cockney slang" or someone's name on facebook is "Something Babcock", or I saw something for "Shrimp cocktail". Anywho. These all come up as "****ney slang", or "Something Bab****", or "Shrimp ****tail". I'm greatly amused.

I actually just removed that from my language filter this week. What filter do you use? I haven't been able to find one that fixes Facebook stuff yet.

Tonight my daughter really, really wanted soup. But "with nothing in it". Whenever there is "stuff" in soup she won't eat it. (Seriously?) So I made sweet potato soup, which was actually really good, and then a chicken salad for my husband who didn't really want to eat soup when it is 90 degrees out.

And then my daughter put some pieces of chicken in her sweet potato soup and ate it.

Sigh.

*like*

It's called "Simple profanity filter 1.2.1". I did a search for profanity filters in the chrome extension dealio, and it popped up. I think it was the first one. (It still won't filter pictures, obviously, but it's definitely zealous enough on text (See "****ney").

A new one: Alfred Hitchc***.

Lobster and corn on the cob and garlic bread and peach cobbler. (That was yesterday.)

My dinners are not usually so fancy, but I had company visiting from out of town.

Wait, I thought you lived in Maine? Don't you guys have a lobster with every meal, and two for elevensees?

Marduk wrote:Wait, I thought you lived in Maine? Don't you guys have a lobster with every meal, and two for elevensees?

Of course! (But we don't normally have fancy garlic bread. )

I wish I was having fancy garlic bread tonight. That sounds delicious.

Apparently I am going to a BBQ for dinner tonight, my roommate just informed me. It's BYOM (Bring Your Own Meat), which is unfortunate because I don't have any at the moment. To Smith's I go!

Oh, the Mormon version of a barbecue... FTR, I've never been to a BYOB anything. Or BYOM. Or BYOAnything, really.

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:Oh, the Mormon version of a barbecue... FTR, I've never been to a BYOB anything. Or BYOM. Or BYOAnything, really.

I wonder, what would be the oddest BYO?

BYO... Salad Dressing?

I sense myself asking a Board question in the near future...

Mmm... BYO food! We're not providing anyone with anything to eat. Actually, we're not providing a place for you to sit either. And you can't actually come to our house at the time of the party.

That way, EVERY DAY is a party!

I'm off to have my own little party, now.

I wanted to go to Costa Vida, but my sister didn't. So I'm just having sourdough bread toasted with butter for dinner.