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Is that a fresh pot sitting on the Bunn-O-Matic? Pour me a cup and hand me a pack of crackers.
And put away that screwdriver. You’ll void the warranty on this episode of The Diner.
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That spoils my fun before I even hear your voice.
Great show as usual, Mister L. A few great laugh lines, like “Everybody involved was second rate.” I did not expect that one.
As for crackers, oh, the memories, but they don’t like me anymore. I’m relegated to corn chips.
Thanks! I wish I could remember where that line meant and what it referred to. Guess I’ll have to listen!
The songs made with lyrics written by amateurs and pressed into records by a team of people with some company.
There’s no valid argument against a quality saltine.
I’ve read stories (possibly apocryphal) that with elevators that use an employee’s access card to program the elevator, “the boss” could, instead of leaving a message for the employee to “see me immediately,” have building security arrange for the elevator to deliver the employee immediately to the boss’ floor instead of the employee’s normal floor.
Does it go with dotori-muk?
James’ talking about your penname made me hungry. I wonder if I can find a good Korean place around here.
The joke’s on me. I don’t even like dotorimuk, but it’s wordplay on my name.
And here in Seongnam, nothing BUT Korean places around me.
One of the world’s finest snacks is butter and honey mixed and topping a saltine. (Can substitute peanut butter for butter. What the heck… All three.)
I remember the “being sick” diet as well. Mention an upset stomach to mom, and out came the 7-up and crackers. I’ve tried to pass it along to my daughter, but doesn’t drink soda at all. That’s a good thing and I don’t want to push it on her, so we make sure she stays hydrated with water when she’s sick. Now the big thing in pediatric care for upset stomachs is the BRAT diet, which is banana, applesauce, rice, and toast. Similar to Dr. Mom’s. Something bland.
I got to do experiments on NASA’s microgravity plane, the “Vomit Comet”, many years ago. Our division chief told us to eat bananas for breakfast because they taste the same coming back up as they do going down. I made the mistake of also drinking orange juice, which burned. Only threw up the first time.
If you want, you can get a Sodastream machine, and make carbonated water and add frozen juices to the water… Thinking to get a carbonated drink without soda…
Carbonated lime juice, OJ or Cranberry….
I’ve thought about getting one but figure it will end up gathering dust within a year.
Yea. I bought mine 10 years ago … Maybe … I am still on the original CO2 canister…
Coming back after a break and listening to this; respect for the Coffee machine repair. I spent several years running this exact sort of maintenance on industrial machines; getting some kind of spurious error, blaming the sensor for being bad, looking up manual PDFs (which are almost never as helpful as the one you found, by the way), and so on and so forth.
Bet you a quarter you missed the maintenance guy coming to fix it because no maintenance guy ever came to fix it; the basket missing alarm sounds like a solution to a problem that never really existed. Leaving the detector off saves everyone time.
Kind of like the elevator that knows where you’re going. Bet you’d feel a lot happier about that if they processed it through a feller in a bright red uniform and a silly little hat.
Leonard Hofstadter to his Indian girlfriend Priya, at an Indian restaurant in/near Pasadena: “I like Indian food. Or as you probably called it at home, ‘food.'”
Or just have Ritz. Less messy.
For us it was (at least mostly) “flat” 7-Up, so basically just lemon-lime flavored sugar-water.