Lets get all of the off topic stuff out of the way today and talk about whatever is on our minds. Sheer stupidity is not only acceptable today, but encouraged

I'll start. I have been drinking out of the same coffee cup for 20 years, an Al Agnew bass fishing design. Maybe I should trade it in. BTW, it is washed daily.

Have at it kids.

I bought batteries at the dollar store once and they were made to look like Duracell batteries, same design but they were called Dunacell. Never buy bootleg batteries.

Just wondering.

I'm already convinced that elderly asian ladies win their driving priviledges at Mystic Lake.

Who, for the record, can kick Tony the Tigers ass any day of the week. Captain Crunch, Count Chocula, Toucan Sam, bring them on. He'll Chuck Norris that ass. Leprechauns are hardcore - trust me. Malt-o-meal better step up security.

With the cost of food skyrocketing, I was thinking about baking my own bread. I like whole grain and wheat bread. Is it cost effective and worth the trouble?

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How come TER thinks Minnesota is a city?  When I search for new reviews, I have to pick a city. The choices are almost all cities, except for Minnesota and one or two others.  Same for the regional boards.  What gives?

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I replaced mine (RIP old friend) after eight years with one I found in Fargo at the grocery store. Damn impulse shopping! It is bigger & of course has a Vikings Logo on it. Indulging in a hot cup of Java right now. Yum!

I never buy wrapping paper!  Other great things to use to wrap gifts:  Newspaper, comics, magazines, paper bags, the old atlas you need to replace anyways, maps and those brochures you picked up on vacation.

Great ideas Miss Leah! I do the same though I've never thought to recycle the travel brochures in that way; I'm set for wrapping this years gifts! Thanks!

hahaha! Ive always wondered that too!! You are so cute!

I was in Cub a couple days ago and was dismayed at how pathetically Malt o’ Meal "Magic Stars" aped Lucky, how their "Fruit and Frosted O's" yearned to be Fruit Loops, how "Crisp Crunch" ached to be mistaken for the Captain. It was truly sad; I mean I know that's what generics are supposed to do, but to mimic the colors and shapes and ignore the mythic characters, their lives, loves and desires, to actually think you could tear us away from our shared history with Tony and replace him with -- what the hell is that thing anyway, a teddy bear? -- some cheap trashy cartoon drawing with no depth, no soul, no emotional resonance for a mere 18.5% less than the corporate brands.

Effective advertising we sucked up with our greedy young primate eyes imprinting heavily on the cosmology of propeller-headed aliens, kangaroos, and the earth-tree-mother that convinced us to take it in, bowl after bowl, milk into cocoa puff liquid candy like water into wine mouth gaping around the spoon dribbling white down the chin, the flakes of life anointed with the milk of American cows, eyes gaping to accept something colorful something sweet for breakfast but please make it good for me too yes..yes…oh god…oh yes...oh…god…YES!!

I wish someone would have told me which side was the right side of the bed many of years ago.   I always got out on the left (wrong) side but today I fell out of the bed on the right (right) side.    After all those years getting out of the bed on the wrong side of the bed, I finally found the right side....

Sun is shinning and I'm going to get laid.......   stupid is what stupid does!!!    Good topic

Minnesota instead of Minneapolis so other places like Mankato, St. Cloud, Duluth, Bemidji, Grand Rapids, Hibbing, Albert Lea and Appleton wouldn't feel left out.

I wish to suggest a seasonal topic, "Lutefisk". It's a white jelled-like prepared fish of Nordic origins. (In Norwegian, "lutefisk", in Swedish, "lutfisk", in Finnish, "lipeäkala". All translate to "lye fish". Lye is used in the preparation of this delicacy.)

Did you hear about the woman who placed lutefisk under her porch to get rid of skunks? It worked fine but now she can't get rid of the Norwegeans.

Can't they even give you the standard Positive....A+++ highly recommend...?
It takes so little time. I'd settle for neutral...just gimme somethng.

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Lets get all of the off topic stuff out of the way today and talk about whatever is on our minds. Sheer stupidity is not only acceptable today, but encouraged

I'll start. I have been drinking out of the same coffee cup for 20 years, an Al Agnew bass fishing design. Maybe I should trade it in. BTW, it is washed daily.

Have at it kids.    

I don't remember exactly when it happened but it used to just say Minneapolis or Twin Cities or something but was switched quite a while ago to make it clear this was the place for all Minnesota reviews.

The board was originally called the Twin Cities Board and Twin Cities was available as an option in the search menu. It was Ben Dover's idea to change the name to the Minnesota Board. He wanted all Minnesota area codes and reviews from "other cities" into the Twin Cities region.

He successfully lobbied admin to make the change. At that time he also wanted coverage of Minnesota to include parts of Wisconsin as well like Hudson, La Crosse etc.

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negative feedback, it has become a bitch to get buyers to leave feedback.

I don't sell much stuff on there anymore but on a rare occasion I might put up a laptop or item of value that I am done using. Their ever increasing fees have made returns not worth the time for me anymore.  I list my unwanted stuff on the "free" section of Craigslist and most times someone will come get it. Other times, I simply haul the stuff to a thrift store.

...I don't think I could be able to sink my teeth in that.

You don't sink your teeth in it. Saturate it with plenty of hot butter, & let it glide down your throat. Mmmmmm.........

I use both melted butter and white sauce. Smothering lutefisk with both helps it to go down quite nicely.

I think Somali women have to pass the drivers test in an old minivan with a mobile phone tucked up into their head scarf, at least that seems to be the case.

Have a bread maker.  Couple things about them is need fresh yeast in mix to have good bread and has a hole in bottom of loaf from thing that stirs and kneads dough
What smells better than baking bread?

Is there no refuge from the 24/7 Christmas Music marathon.  Today I wasn't in a very merry mood and could not escape the incessant deluge of Christmas cheer - gas station, grocery store, restaurant, liquor store.  Even my present music stations for rock, oldies, country, etc have to play at least 50% Christmas songs and lots of them are pretty fucking bad - how many times can you stand to listen to the chipmunks (you know - Alvin).  

I think I should open a bar called Scrooge's for all those people like me that hate the holidays except on Dec 24 & 25.  Why do we need it to be 5 weeks long and like other holidays where you spend a day or two in celebration?

If you have ever taken a cab in one of these 3rd world countries you would welcome the small degree of sanity when they drive here.  There are no fucking rules of the road - its every man for himself.  THey have no problem passing on a two lane dirt road with oncoming heavy traffic - somehow it becomes a 3-lane road with an imaginary bi-directional suicidal passing lane with maybe a 1/4 inch to spare.  One time in India, the oncoming car was so close it clipped of the driver side rear view mirror (as if they even need those).

you know...flattery will get you everywhere

This is patriotism pretty much gone amok.

Wreaths Across America on the news tonight: putting 325,000 wreaths at $15 each plus transportation (volunteers and donations) on vet's gravestones.

"It's the least we can do," was the quote repeated twice. How about doing something that helps others instead of making yourself feel better? That $5 million could feed a lot of people in need or put or a bunch of kids through college.

Oh, and I AM a vet, with a father and several relatives at Fort Snelling.

Just sayin'

yes my mom uses one everday  but you have to get the right one  do your homework and you can find the at trift stores  from people who never bothered to learn how to use them my mom recommends panasonics but say all the newer ones are good !

I get it, but the choice of "cities" to categorize a review in has several cities that are the only one in the state, so why are we handled differently?  Take Wisconsin for example.  The only choice appears to be Milwaukee.  Same for Georgia (Atlanta), Colorado (Denver) and the list goes on.  Where are the poor saps in Hudson, Colorado Springs or Baton Rouge supposed to put their reviews?  And don't even get me started on the states that aren't represented at all.

I'll be your best customer!  Just stock some good local beers and and I'm there!

Is this really off topic? I suspect that something that smells for fish has been discussed on these boards before.

I suppose they should put them under either Other or the closest large city in the state they are in.  Although reviewing a girl one sees in Hudson and putting it down as Milwaukee would be quite odd.

I watched the news tonight as well and couldn't help but wonder, what if a particular soldier who died was Jewish, Muslim or even athiest?  What if they could give a damn about a Christian holiday?  It just came off as odd.  I'd like to feel as though someone would find some way to pay it forward or something...  It isn't as though they all lost their lives for Christianity.  I'll still attend church tomorrow but....

I think the one thing they could do that would have the biggest impact on traffic would be to hand out tickets for people who drive slow in the fast lanes!

Slowing down to "let somebody in" is usually the wrong thing to do. You're being nice at the expense of everybody else on the freeway behind you. (The flow is pretty much restricted to the slowest driver on the road when it's busy.) On top of that, you're making it much more difficult for the merger to gauge their speed of entry.

Your job is to stay the course or maybe even accelerate slightly if needed. Letting people in should be reserved for jammed up traffic. Then it's just normal courtesy.

Summary: It's not nice to be nice.

Also, it's not nice to refuse to do "zipper" merging, by panicking and stopping to force your way in, again at the expense of the general flow, wasting the open lane. Zip when you run out of road!

Sadly, there's more, much more ...

I love the driver on a freeway  who is in the right lane with no one else on the road.So you would like to get on and he can't move over one fuckin' lane to let you on? Only in minnesota!

I love mine, but the rapid rise yeast doesn't compare to original bread yeast as far as flavor is concerned. Also, I quit using the "bake" cycle. Just set it up to make dough instead, and use a regular bread pan, make buns, Italian style loafs, etc.

Word to the wise, fresh bread is addicting and anything but 'low carb'.

Dude, I thought I was the only one that's ever experienced that. My profession has taken me all over the world. Check out Hong Kong, Thailand, Beijing and a few others. Same deal. Totally insane. Honestly when I flag a cab I look for the outside mirrors. No mirrors, no fare.

Or, the assholes in a Camaro or a big pickup that you see in your rearview mirror accelerating in another lane and you know they are going to go past and cut in front of you.  I have a sports sedan with turbo, so I like to kick it down and quickly close the gap, thwarting them.  It pisses them off and I have been flipped off many times, but I enjoy it!  Anyone else in my car thinks it is immature of me, and it probably is.  But, that's ok.

I love lutefisk, but only on Christmas.  Once I had a girlfriend over to our family Christmas gathering. She was from South America and had never even heard of it, much less having eaten it.  She tried it, but before she ate it she leaned over to me and whispered in my ear, "It smells like pussy".

Every year since I can't forget that when the Christmas lutefisk is served.

So, if you see it coming, why not say, "Pick another spot?" to them.

On the other hand, if the gap in front of you ts large enough for a second car to fit comfortably to begin with, no so cool and any flip-off would be deserved. Cutting "in front" and cutting off are two different things.

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"Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way."

(Or more accurately,"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way." - George Patton.)

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