Thanks, Miss C! :-D

(Hey Beagle--boil your water, hon! :-P )

--TwoDragons

What the heck do you DO with that thing? Eat it, or chain it up in the yard to scare away Jehovah's Witnesses?

--TwoDragons

Polx--

I wasn't defending it, trust me. I find the recent obsession with "Deep Fried _____" and "Seriously Unhealthy Vaguely Edible Crap" absolutely rank. I just get tired that people from another country instantly assume that every American is slobbering with Pavlovian glee over these heaping mounds of cardiac distress--and that we're the only country with an exclusive hold on high-fat-high-carb food. It doesn't help that such disgusting culinary "delights" seem to be--ahem--hogging the spotlight. But that's not the only kind of food we offer here.

I should have added the clarification that the image still makes me sick to my stomach to look at. I'd rather have a nice salad topped with lemon-poached chicken and homemade balsamic dressing, thanks.

*burp* What raisin...?

--TwoDragons

No probs, Beagle. It just doesn't work out for some folks, that's just the way things roll. I have several friends who feel the same way as you, and I don't hold it against them any more than I'll hold it against you. I hope you have as much joy and contentment in your marriage and life as I do, however different our perspectives on motherhood may be. :-)

--TwoDragons

Oh shuddup y'all. That was cute!

Wish I could get away with that kind of hard work... ;-)

--TwoDragons

I presume you've never been pregnant or had a spouse who was, EvilBeagle.

I am in love with my six-months-along figure m'self. Usually I can't stand looking at my body in the mirror because the years have not been very kind to it. But with the addition of Mommy Glow and that wonderfully unique abdomen you don't get from overindulgence, I can't help it. I'll even make myself giggle so I can watch my perky belly bounce up and down like a soccer ball. And then Tabitha will kick me for making her home shake, and that makes me laugh even more...

--TwoDragons

I swear that the Wikipedia section was written expressly because of me. I am SO bad about that! LOL

--TwoDragons

Of course, American food is the Great Evil.

...Because German cuisine is mostly vegetarian fare and has little to do with sausages and fried pork, the French have never heard of butter sauce, and the Chinese don't know a thing about MSG or carbohydrate-laden noodle and rice dishes.

Only American food is filled with calories and fat. Everyone else gets a perfect score in Healthy Eating.

*rolleyes*

--TwoDragons

I would sooooooo hire 16 people to power that thing, just so I could ride it around the block a few times! :-D

the only thing that could make it cooler is if it was a giant Drider. /geek

--TwoDragons

Mousetrap? Or sucker trap?

If it's the latter, they're doing a fair job of it...

--TwoDragons

IN small doses. Aargh.

--TwoDragons

I was about to comment on the gullibility of anyone who puts 20 nutmeg nuts in a cake, but it looks like most everyone else here in on the same level with me in that respect. And good grief, that must have been one seriously expensive cake. Nutmeg ain't cheap, especially in nut form.

I love nutmeg, is small doses. sprinkled on a cappuchino. Or in eggnog.

Mmmmmmm...eggnog...

--TwoDragons

We stopped watching TV several years ago, too. It's not a snob thing, it's because we were sick and tired of the advertisements and the lack of decent programming. I really don't miss the constant barrage of commercials. Most of the shows we loved have either been canceled, turned cheesy, or the host was killed in a freak stingray accident. Anything else can easily be downloaded or the DVD's can be picked up for a song.

My parents are notorious TV junkies--the television runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and only goes off if a storm cuts the power. The most radical thing they will do is mute the thing when we come over, or turn on Closed Captioning. And they have one in EVERY ROOM. I have to go outside most of the time, because it makes it hard to keep up a conversation when you have this glaring screen of hypnotically shifting color beaming at you.

The funny thing is, how many people comment on my young son's incredible imagination and his storytelling abilities. He can entertain himself--and us--for hours.

--TwoDragons

Kitteh sez: "Forget the dude. *I* make this shirt look good!"

--TwoDragons