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[soccerdad]

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Brace yourself. It's a bit shocking.

 

[ContinuousD]

Evil Twin cucumber from the garden ...

 

[smurfjuicebrew]

Brace yourself. It's a bit shocking.

Beat me tool it ...

 

[doug293cz]

Beat me tool it ...

At first I thought it was a typo...

Brew on

 

[GrogNerd]

"plant based" popCORN?

 

[balrog]

One can never be too sure...

 

[DBhomebrew]

Interestingly, the product's website exchanges 'plant-based' with 'vegan'. Importantly, this seasoned popcorn has no butter. It's got nothing to do with the corn.

If you're looking to mock something, how about a national Walmart contract for popcorn going to a Jonas Brothers bandmate. Just like he used to make backstage!

 Speaking with a couple decades as a stagehand, we hate popcorn backstage. The smell everywhere! Greasy fingers on our really expensive-to-clean drapes! Microphones, etc., etc. Grease everywhere!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[grampamark]

Our city house has a row of small pine trees separating our side yard from the neighbor’s. I think they’re called Mugo Pine or Mountain Pine. Anyway, these trees have really small needles which grow in sort of star shaped clusters. A few days ago I noticed something sticking out of one of the trees, near the top. Upon further review, it appears that a seed from another variety of fir tree landed in this tree, sprouted, and grafted itself to the trunk. So now we have a Frankentree. Or something.

 

[Broken Crow]

Speaking with a couple decades as a stagehand, we hate popcorn backstage. The smell everywhere! Greasy fingers on our really expensive-to-clean drapes! Microphones, etc., etc. Grease everywhere!

Right there with you!!! Spending years as a sound-for-picture/mobile recording guy, there were few things worse than having to clean food, drink and bodily residue off of the disasteously twisted miles of expensive cables that somebody 'helped me out' by 'winding up' for me!

 

[MajorJC]

Whoops, replied to the wrong thread...

That's what happens when you have HBT open in more than one window.

 

[GrogNerd]

If you're looking to mock something,

I'll mock whatever the **** I feel warrants mocking, thankyouverymuch

 

[Pkrd]

"plant based" popCORN?

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Aren't we due a backlash?

Where's my meat based Brussels Sprouts?

 

[balrog]

Aren't we due a backlash?

Where's my meat based Brussels Sprouts?

 

[DBhomebrew]

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See, it's the seasoning that counts.

 

[balrog]

Proof reading.
A lost art.

 

[soccerdad]

They must have gauges that measure price fluctuations.

 

[Pkrd]

That must have gauges that measure price fluctuations.

The gauge measures how many shoppers switch to the competition.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Puppy was bad today.

 

[day_trippr]

Firestick remote gone to Puppy Heaven.
That happens.

https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=amazon+fire+stick+remote
Cheers!

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Yepper, not the first one Haha. The only question I had was where are the batteries. then 5 minutes later I heard my wife yell in pain.. she stepped on them.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

That looks like an amazing hike. How long will it take?

Just got done now, waiting for the boat over the lake to Ritsem

 

[Pkrd]

Yepper, not the first one Haha.

Stuff some jalapeños in the old one and leave it laying around.

 

[Konadog]

 

[Dland]

Our city house has a row of small pine trees separating our side yard from the neighbor’s. I think they’re called Mugo Pine or Mountain Pine. Anyway, these trees have really small needles which grow in sort of star shaped clusters. A few days ago I noticed something sticking out of one of the trees, near the top. Upon further review, it appears that a seed from another variety of fir tree landed in this tree, sprouted, and grafted itself to the trunk. So now we have a Frankentree. Or something.View attachment 775178

Alberta Spruce, which is a genetic dwarfing mutation of, I believe, White Spruce. They get used a lot in urban landscapes and cemeteries, since some find them attractive and are very slow growing.

What you have there is a sprout off the same tree that went back to pre-mutated form. It is actually pretty common to see that in older specimens.

 

[grampamark]

Alberta Spruce, which is a genetic dwarfing mutation of, I believe, White Spruce. They get used a lot in urban landscapes and cemeteries, since some find them attractive and are very slow growing.

What you have there is a sprout off the same tree that went back to pre-mutated form. It is actually pretty common to see that in older specimens.

Thanks, that makes sense. The house was built in ‘83; the trees were probably planted not long after. We’ve had the house for 6 years and the trees haven’t grown much, if any, since then (they’re about 7 ft tall).

 

[balrog]

Just wait till they become sentient…

 

[GrogNerd]

Just wait till they become sentient…

they will eat the younglings first

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Found some more pics from the Hike, both taken within 24hrs but showing the unpredictable mountain weather getting worser and worser, we walked through a storm during the highest stretch of the trail, leading through a mountain pass...
A happy Anglophile and a not so happy Anglophile...

 

[GrogNerd]

I only got 4 right.

I was told my answer to the riddle was incorrect, but it absolutely fits

I don't know how they came up with the number answer. it says "answer is not 6"

Spoiler: Actual answers (& mine)

1) 6 months (I said 4 years)
2) 116 years (I said 112. close)
3) International Committee of the Red Cross (League of Nations)
4) first ten Amendments
5) 36 years & still dead (I said 40. again, 4 years off)
6) asp/snake
7) Articles of Confederation
8.) 4

riddle: a bank (I said "river", which also fits the riddle)

extra credit: 7, tho I don't see how that works. I said "R" because I've driven a 5-speed transmission

 

[Rodent]

not having seen your spoiler ...

- riddle: US Government
- number: 8

 

[GrogNerd]

not having seen your spoiler ...

- riddle: US Government
- number: 8

my answer to riddle "a river" wasn't the answer they were looking for
my number was "R" because I drove a 5 speed Civic for years

 

[Rodent]

maybe somebody can explain how 7 is the correct answer to the extra credit question

R is a great answer, and 'algebra' makes it a proper numeric response

 

[Wash1]

Sure: Upper numbers, 1+3=4 +1 is 5.
Lower numbers, 2+4=6 +1 is 7.

That's the way I read it anyway.

 

[Rodent]

I read the bottom row as 2^1=2, 2^2=4, 2^3=8

 

[Ayzala]

I read the bottom row as 2^1=2, 2^2=4, 2^3=8

Then the top row is 1^1=1, 1^2=1 and 1^3=1?

 

[GrogNerd]

Sure: Upper numbers, 1+3=4 +1 is 5.
Lower numbers, 2+4=6 +1 is 7.

That's the way I read it anyway.

makes sense. thanks.

my first thought:

 

[AkTom]

Happy cat taking a nap.

 

[AkTom]

Happy new!

 

[Wash1]

my first thought:

That was my wife's first thought also, and she's a Pharm D REALLY good at puzzles!!