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GMT-5: August 2012
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Monday, August 20, 2012. As drunk by Lawrence of Arabica. It's win or get eaten, I guess. Made in Chin, I presume. Look out: he's behind you! Whenever we visit a tourist hotspot like a national park, my kids therefore like to play a game that might be called "Where Am I From? This involves combing through parking lots checking car number-plates, which are issued individually by each state, to see which vehicle came from the furthest away. And Connecticut ("The Constitution State"). California and Colorad...
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GMT-5: September 2012
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Thursday, September 6, 2012. Yesterday I got the weirdest e-mail. As a subscriber to change.org. Did she call for an FDA amendment to include lunchboxes in the phthalates ban? No Did she call for an outright ban on the use of phthalates? She wants Disney to "stop allowing its characters to be printed on toxic lunchboxes". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Having plunged head-first into the Wonderful World of America, a European reflects on life in the US. View my complete profile. The world @ my feet.
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GMT-5: Open Letter
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013. To the Cyclist in the Sauna,. Please note that a sauna is not a warmup, cool-down, stretching and newspaper-reading room. If you wish to use the sauna, ask yourself if you are wearing any (or in your case all) of the following items:. A one-piece cycling outfit. Should you upon close inspection discover that this does indeed apply to you, kindly disrobe and take a soapy shower rather than inflicting your disgusting stink on less perverse club-members. View my complete profile.
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GMT-5: Costco
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Monday, September 22, 2008. To give you an idea of the contents of the average Costco shopping trolley, here are just some of the things I got at my most recent visit:. One triple pack of 1.25kg bottles of ketchup. Two twin packs of 3-litre bottles of apple juice and grape juice. Two 36-can packs of Coke. Six 15-litre bottles of rosé. One 28-litre bottle of liquid soap. One 36-roll pack of loo paper. One 45kg bag of granulated sugar. One 175-litre bottle of gin. One 12-pack of tins of sweetcorn.
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GMT-5: May 2013
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013. To the Cyclist in the Sauna,. Please note that a sauna is not a warmup, cool-down, stretching and newspaper-reading room. If you wish to use the sauna, ask yourself if you are wearing any (or in your case all) of the following items:. A one-piece cycling outfit. Should you upon close inspection discover that this does indeed apply to you, kindly disrobe and take a soapy shower rather than inflicting your disgusting stink on less perverse club-members. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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GMT-5: November 2012
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Friday, November 23, 2012. Dog shoes: because paws weren't made to run on the ground. Probably spinning in his grave at this juxtaposition. What do you mean, you don't have Thanksgiving in Europe? An incredulous young man said to me this week. "Aren't Europeans thankful? Well, yes we are, I assured him. Just not in the same way as our American cousins. As a result, about half of those brave transatlantic souls had perished within a year of setting foot on Plymouth Rock. You can therefore understand t...
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GMT-5: February 2013
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Friday, February 8, 2013. Today's a "snow day", in other words a day when my children get off school because there's so much snow on the ground that school buses can't get through the side streets of individual subdivisions, i.e. neighbourhoods, which, in contrast to main roads, don't get cleared immediately. Putting a picture of the Virgin Mary and a dollar bill under your pillow. More pious and costly than a spoon you can steal out of your mother's kitchen, but just as guaranteed of success. Flushing a...
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GMT-5: Odd products
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Thursday, April 4, 2013. Because bacon is so hard to cook. Where Hansel and Gretel went at Easter? Just like a n arm. As eaten by Sam Shepard. This had me in stitches! Too weird for words . . well obviously not! November 3, 2013 at 4:47 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Having plunged head-first into the Wonderful World of America, a European reflects on life in the US. View my complete profile. The world @ my feet. 169; New World Newbie 2008-2016. Powered by Blogger.
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GMT-5: Preppers
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Preppers are about as American as apple pie is commonly asserted to be. Like Tea-Baggers, Mormons, the Amish and the National Rifle Association (NRA), I doubt preppers could have developed - let alone thrived - anywhere but in the self-styled Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. As such, they are like the distillation of the American psyche. So what are they? Stockpiling weapons and ammunition. Training in armed combat. Disconnecting from the power grid and. Of wholesale stores...
