Sandwich cream?

You mean Miracle Whip?

I thought the exact same thing, kinda.

I think it's different though.

I was thinking about this stuff:

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Kraft Sandwich Spread...

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I suppose a more accurate description would be salad dressing.
Since the nation's trendsetters are now using it as a sandwich filling, the marketing bods at Heinz wish to call it 'Sandwich Cream'.
Vinegar sandwich, vicar?

They are so missing the boat ....... package the same product twice, once as Sandwich Cream and once as Traditional Salad cream. Increased audience, increased £££

Yep. They'll probably lose some salad cream customers...

My Dad's uncle worked in a putty factory in Beverley, Yorkshire.
He said that the only difference between oak putty and elm putty was seven shillings and sixpence a barrel. :)

Another day another irritation.

When attempting to access aspendailynews.com I get this:

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Similarly, clicking on the wnep.com link in Griff's post prompts this response:

'Sorry, this content is not available in your region'.

I thought that I'd have a go via startpage.com where a proxy can be used. No luck there either.
Once again I shall have to invoke the 'embuggerance' word.

Try right clicking on the link and going to "Incognito Window".

Unfortunately that doesn't work. I'd concluded that IP addresses might have been the stumbling block here.
A search has come up with an article from the (UK) Evening Standard...

Evening Standard.

Sorry about that, I'm just waiting for that to happen here.

Ever meet a woman that everyone likes, is always smiling, never a bad word about anyone, and brightens the day of everyone she encounters?
I have. I went to her funeral today. :sniff:

That sucks. Sorry Bruce.

The poem is pretty...

I'm sorry you're missing your friend, xoB.

(I hope I don't presume too much. The poem seems bright and hopeful. Surely she will be missed.)

Sorry, Bruce. :(

Nipped out for some milk earlier this AM, (remember that 'AM', you'll need it later)
and spotted this notice in the Post Office window.

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The USP of the 24 Hour clock is that it avoids ambiguity.
4.50, unless qualified by AM or PM can be in the morning or the afternoon.
1650 can only be in the afternoon, but you knew that, didn't you?
So why 1650PM?

I didn't notice the entry for Saturday until I downloaded the pic.
12.15AM. That's 0015, isn't it? :)

I'm sorry for your loss Bruce.

I'm concerned about your school system C.

Sorry for your loss Bruce. I knew a man like that my father. I still hear from friends and relatives something he said or helped them with. As long as people remember then the deceased are still among us.

I'm sorry to hear about your friend, Bruce. You have my sympathy. Losing good people is bad enough, but really good friends are tough to lose.

Bruce's post reminds me of what Richard Petty said when Buddy Baker died:

That's about as good as it gets, right there.

Actually, I have.

I went to her funeral Sept 2 last year.

Today the water heater was leaking because those damn steel nipples at the inlet and outlet, that Sears says not using voids the warranty, rust out. Of course once they are rusted enough to leak they collapse under a wrench.
My plumber buddy saved my ass but had to remove the sheet metal jacket and cut away the foam insulation. :facepalm:

"Boofing" means buttfucking. Always has. Don't @ me with your lately-edited urban dictionary links, or other trusted online sources assuring you what it means. Unless you belonged to a social group who actually used the term pre-2000, like I did, shut your trap. It means buttfucking.

Never heard of it. Class of '81 here

boffing is fucking; boofing is butffucking. Flint will Boof you in the mouth

Well, now that that's cleared up...

I heard it in the early to mid 90s in DC.



In any case, from the way it's used in the yearbook, it definitely did not mean farting.

Please excuse me, but I need to vent. :mad2: I had an entirely fucked up day.

I'm a freelance writer/editor/proofreader. Currently, I'm editing/proofing a 1300-page med school training book (25th edition). For the last six weeks or so, the project manager has sent me three chapters a week which I tweak and adjust, and then return.

On Friday afternoon, I got an email from a new (?!) project manager for this book, saying "When I reviewed the schedule, I realize we are really short on time and we'll never make the FTP date if we don't finish proofing pages before the end of October." She then asked me to (at least try to) start completing a chapter a day for the next 10 days. And once those are done, there's another 10 chapters that have to be done by the end of October. Huh. :eyebrow:

Mind you, it takes a good six to eight hours to complete one 20-25 page chapter file (40-page chapters obviously take nearly twice as long). I need to have Chapters 19 - 26 done by October 10th. Those chapters are all 35 to 45 pages long. So . . . . yeah.

Now, these chapter files are necessarily dense with medical terms and confusing procedures (i.e., medicalise), so just trying to edit/proof a single sentence is mind-numbing. These chapters are also filled with illustrations, photos, graphs, charts, and tables. My job is to check EVERYTHING (not just words) against separate files for each collection of like items. So, for each chapter I've got a gigantic pdf file of the final proof chapter, a Word file for the actual words, a Word glossary file for medical terms, a photo file (pdf), a table/chart file (excel), and two different Word style guide files (which occasionally contradict each other, btw; yay).

So last night, as I was working on Chapter 18, my poor old Dell refurbished computer had had enough. It simply would NOT save the final proof file I'd been working on. I tried everything. Couldn't save it to the computer, couldn't save it to a thumb drive, and saving it to the cloud wasn't an option. I was finally able to send it to myself in an email. But I still couldn't save it, which meant I wouldn't be able to upload it to the company's Dropbox account when I was done with it. That's why the cloud wasn't an option; I had to have an actual pdf file on my computer that I could upload, but my computer was having none of it.

Ok. *deep breath* What now?

I dragged my father's computer (much better than mine) out of the closet and hooked it up, then spent an hour or so trying to get into it (no idea what dad's passwords were). I'm freakin' amazed I finally McGivered it. Then I had to upload all sorts of files and programs that I need in order to do what I do, that (natch) weren't on dad's computer. Finally, around 3:30, I was ready to get back to editing Chapter 18. At 4:35, the power went out.

:facepalm:

Just got power back an hour ago. Please kill me now.

That's sure going to infringe on your pumpkin carving time. :comfort:

Ugh!

That project manager can fuck right off. (Not saying you can actually tell him/her to do so, I'm just saying it for you because it needed to be said. But seriously, why should someone else's mistake be yours to fix? That's bullshit.

Sonofabitch!!!

Is there any financial carrot to the accelerated schedule? Or are you paid by the chapter regardless to schedule, and the stick is that you won't be paid for any chapters after the end of October?

Well, that's my feeling, but this is my first project with this company and I want there to be many future projects, so I don't want to come off as Ms. Crankypants. :neutral:

Seems clear to me that this new project manager was brought in at this late point because their own internal deadlines weren't being met by the previous PM. So I can see her position - she's there to get this thing cranked up and ready (if at all possible) by the publishing date. It's not her fault, either. Unfortunately, I'm the guy left holding the bag because I'm the last person that can make changes before the book goes to print.

The deal was that I would be paid $2500 for the whole job, which was due to be finished by end of the month. Of course, until last week I had only been given a few chapters a week to complete, so I can't be faulted for not moving faster because the chapters just weren't available to me. I was notified on Friday that all the chapters I hadn't yet been given (about 20 of them) were suddenly now available.

No "bonus" has been offered for the crazy accelerated schedule, but I do plan to bring this up once I've finished most of the chapters. I figure, if I can make this BS happen for them, they'll be beholden to me and will give real consideration to additional compensation. At the moment, though, it's still a toss-up whether or not I'll be able to finish roughly a chapter a day for the rest of the month. *sigh*

that'll be the antibiotics...

you know I had to do it to 'em
 

boofing is definitely butt-ƒucking. confirmed 100%

Went to a gathering last weekend and was disappointed at friend from Canada didn't show up. Seems last year in advance of pot legalization he bought stock in one of the Canadian companies gearing up to serve the demand.

Trump's U.S. Customs and Border Protection had already declared workers in the pot business would not be allowed in, now investors are put in the same category as a drug dealer or for a drug cartel. :facepalm:

:eyebrow: FFS.

As of today, investors, businessmen, etc. involved in that industry in Canada *may* travel to the United States, for personal trips, but not business trips. And carrying marijuana across the border will still get you in federal trouble.

If they want to travel to a free country they need to learn to submit to authority.

38 degrees F (3.33 C) this morning, and frost tomorrow morning. :(

I heard NOAA give an extended forecast for my area yesterday, and they used the phrase "...areas of frost during the day..."

I'd never heard that one before.

Ugh. I went to my 20th reunion. It was a mistake.

I went to a halloween party last night. also a mistake.

Believe that.

Humans are weird. I prefer the company of dogs, bikes, and saws, which I'm told were actually invented by humans.

As I get older, everything seems to be to damn loud.

I thought I was supposed to go deef in m'dotage.

Neighbors are having a pool put in. On the one hand, it's kind of cool to watch, and the hole they've got so far provided a very clear object lesson to the kids about why we don't have basements in Texas: there's about 18 inches of dirt, and after that, it's solid limestone. But that means I've had to listen to a steady soundtrack of jackhammering for the last two days. Really hope today's the last day.

...and hell no you can't use the pool!!

Psh... Don't need to. We have 3 neighborhood pools within walking distance, and another 4 that are just a few minutes by car. If it's raining and you don't mind paying, you have your choice of 8-10 indoor pools within a 15-minute radius. It's not a luxury item around here, just a home insurance hazard.

Damn. I'm not aware of any public pools. Do wave pools count?

Ya got no pool, and you wanna swim around here, ya go to a motel. One that has a pool.;)

ETA: Or the creek.

Reader, it wasn't.

It's a deeeeep pool.

Do they hit ground water too?

Undercover fracking?

Not in this part of town. There are areas of central Austin that you theoretically could, within the basin of the Edwards Aquifer. There are warning signs all over town about the dangers of dumping there.

That looks like a great resource, but vulnerable.

With the recent torrential rains, the water treatment facilities were overwhelmed and Austin was put on a "boil water" notice for over a week. That's never happened before that I can recall. I kept thinking that this is how the apocalypse starts: something mundane that just... keeps... going, and suddenly you're a month without clean water and the next shipment of bottled water from the north doesn't arrive and it's instant chaos.

That reminded me of the maxim that we're only ever four meals away from anarchy, at least on this side of the Atlantic. Read on:

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