It's that time of year, when one of the greatest issues ever divides families at the dinner table. Follow me below the dingledoodlesquiggliedKosagnocchidividerthingie fold after a word from our sponsor...
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It's another one of those inborn versus choice issues. Are we born to do it one particular way, or do we choose to be different from our parents, siblings and friends?
Are you able to enjoy a quiet late-July dinner with people who are so different in their behavior the mere idea can take your appetite?
No, I'm not talking about choosing the Red lever, or even the direction one hangs a new roll of toilet paper.
I'm talking about how one eats corn on the cob.
There, I've brought it out into the open. Last week Casa Brillig sat down to a delicious dinner of homemade slow-cooker pulled pork and we had corn on the cob with it. After a few minutes, Mr. Brillig noticed that each of us had eaten our corn differently...
From the top:
K2 eats his around the ear, but starts in random places... end, center, it doesn't matter. This one was from the center.
Yours Truly eats in rows, but I don't like to eat across the entire ear at once, so I (apparently) mentally divide it into sections and dive in.
Mr. Brillig is a traditionalist, eating in rows from one end to the other.
K1 currently has braces and can't eat it off the cob, so hers is cut. She says if she could, she eats around the ear, but starts at one end and works her way across.
As with other similar issues, at the end of the day it's all good, as long as much local summer corn on the cob is had! How do you eat yours?
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From Land of Enchantment:
In today's edition of navajo's New Day, new user boriskamite had a delightfully witty reply to the question du jour.
From kos himself.
From gchaucer2:
For context, you have to start with Phil S 33's comment in navajo's New Day diary. Then scroll down to the most lovely comment by smileycreek:. Sometimes pure beauty appears amongst junk or humour. Blessings to smileycreek.
From Noddy:
Superskepticalman's comment was good, but railfan's was better on kos's Free Sarah! diary.
From Actbriniel:
From this morning's Cheers & Jeers - this mini-thread started by blue jersey mom literally made me laugh out loud in my office!
From Dave in Northridge:
It's still post-meta somber, but in the long comment thread in Alyosha Karamazov's diary Does Team Romney Have ANY Ammunition, Whatsoever? Stucko had this to say.
From vcmvo2:
Nominating Black Max's comment.
From Yours Truly, brillig:
In Geriw's This morning my Republican husband says, chicago minx asked what did it. The answer? Lies & Rachel.
LaurenMonica shows you CAN have a TC nom solely from the subject line. From Kaili Joy Gray's McCain diary.
Top Mojo for yesterday, July 16th, first comments and tip jars excluded. Thank you
mik for the mojo magic!
1) He shoots, he... by JeffW — 177
2) For the best schadenfreude experience, by Eileen B — 143
3) Give Gergen credit, he was up front. by pollwatcher — 136
4) Mitt deserves lots of slack by blue aardvark — 126
5) So Romney to push meme that by JLFinch — 111
6) Would Mitt buy a company by dog in va — 97
7) He was a beneficiary of a transaction: by Inland — 91
8) I disagree - read his own words about his by angstall — 87
9) Your respect for Gergen should not extend to CNN. by pat bunny — 83
10) Palin-ku by yojimbo — 82
11) He shoots..... by Otteray Scribe — 81
12) Do you do grant writing? by SallyCat — 81
13) Very good. Thanks for this summary. by TomP — 79
14) how about retroactively.. by Karl Rover — 79
15) Wow. I get to use this twice in three minutes... by sfbob — 75
16) Scofflaws do not like following the law. by hannah — 74
17) He also compared himself to John Kerry's wife by Jacoby Jonze — 70
18) You're Dissing One of the Greatest Actors by JekyllnHyde — 70
19) The FDA is a wholly owned subsidiary of by Tirge Caps — 69
20) I'm thinking by Land of Enchantment — 67
21) This election is about the economy by BoiseBlue — 66
22) Watch your back, Michelle! by jamfan — 65
23) A particular cartoon answers that: by Inland — 65
24) LOL by NWTerriD — 64
25) Exactly. That is the only explanation for doing by Gary Norton — 63
26) I think it's more about Romney being a spoiled by addikell — 63
27) He had plenty of time to deal with this. by kravitz — 62
28) Exactly! That is the "money" quote. It screams: by More Questions Than Answers — 62
29) Our insane copyright laws? by commonmass — 62
30) Phuque Gergen by Quicklund — 61
31) Not admissible at all. by coffeetalk — 61
32) Hilarious. They couldn't come up with a good by addikell — 61
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