soubriquet wrote: ...in Europe we think of you as a third-world country when we hear that wait-staff are expected to hustle for tips in order to make their pay.

Well, of course, a EUROPEAN would think of us crummy lousy Americans as 3rd world. Of course you would.

Ask me what I, crummy lousy American, think of wait staff in france, for example, who can't crack a smile, can't keep from making faces at me when I ask for a steak that won't bleed to death in my plate or more than 1 ice cube for the room temp coke that is put in front of me but that I'd like to drink COLD and who make me wait forever for a simple meal and then can't even say thank you and have a nice day when I leave?

Go on, ask me.

But are the ''books'' worth anything to the reader? Your article FAILS to address the issue. WHY?

Ugh.

Why would that make you vomit?

:o

Not a lot of questions having to do with BEING American. The title of the quiz should be ''How much of the trivia concerning these questions do you know?''

Someone wrote:: If you have something rude or unkind to say to someone else, be a grown up and say it to the person face.

I've never understood why it is considered better to say something rude or mean to someone's face rather than just keeping your mouth shut.

Not everything we think and feel HAS to be expressed. If you hate someone, why would you feel the need to say it to their face? What possible good would come of it? Just keep it to yourself and avoid the person as much as possible.

Music performed by real musicians! Get some of that on TV and on the radio, stat!

God, the UN is full of idiots.

I worked at CECheese, too. The food was fresh and the salad bar was never a health risk! We employees ate the salad all the time! All the products were in bowls on ice and we refilled the bowls from containers in the very cold fridge.

The pizza dough was made every morning early and we all ate the pizzas, too.

Don't assume that because YOU had lousy managers that all the franchises were run the same way. We had good managers and the place was clean and hygiene respected.

Of course, the costumes can get rank but that means that you and your fellow employees were not cleaning them and airing them after wearing them onto the floor.

And the cooks never were pulled out of the kitchen to dress up where I worked. The rest of us took turns. Cooks were too busy making the food to be taken out of the kitchen.

What.a.waste.of.time.

The whole genre of mafia/gangster movies is tiresome. They made so many. Ugh.

Joyce is SO over-rated rated rated rated.

It's not academic. That kind of thing needs to stay at the community college level. Two years and off you go to work.

You need a real wick or maybe dip your thread into hot wax a few times to give it some stiffness and burning power. A match will light once but not twice.

And it's much better to mix some stearine in with the wax. It's easy to set up a wick using a long needle that fits across both edges of whatever you are using to hold the wax.

Oh, and it might be good to wax the outide of the peel, too. Might help the peel stay fresh a day or two. Otherwise, it's gonna look ugly quickly.

Burning oils is dangerous and the smell is not attractive.

Over the top, n'est-ce pas? Why does everything in his drawings have to be about killing... Yuck.

Why is it ''questionable"?