Comments on: Helpful Guide To Non-Christian Decorations

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:04:34 +0000

The waffles are great and you can get used to the fact that they use margarine instead of butter, but the lack of maple syrup and the constant questions about whether you want grits or hashbrowns will get a little wearing.

IHOP is fine by me, a Belgian waffle is always suitable.

By: Anya

Anya — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:50:59 +0000

We already have IHOP’s. What’s wrong with waffles? I love waffles — and no one has every accused me of being a conservative anything. I could eat “breakfast” all day long.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:32:37 +0000

This is what happens when you get labeled as conservatives. Next you’ll get Waffle Houses.

By: Anya

Anya — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:32:17 +0000

A friend of mine who has also lived in Florida says that, yes, it is part of the chain, complete with tacky gift shop. She hasn’t been there recently enough to verify the existence of ham ornaments, though.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:54:18 +0000

I hope it’s not associated, think of the children – chicken fried steak with cream gravy…reading the menu is enough to clog your arteries.

By: Anya

Anya — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:42:37 +0000

News Flash!

There’s a Cracker Barrel Restaurant in Londonderry, NH — less than an hour away.

Well, New Hamster has its share of rednecks, so I suppose it was inevitable….

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:41:09 +0000

Make it an ancient Slovene custom. The the Slovenes are working hard to re-build their culture and they could use a few customs.

It’s sad when people don’t understand a reference to the “group W bench”, it’s such a natural.

By: Anya

Anya — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:19:22 +0000

“Alice’s Restaurant” is a Thanksgiving tune, Steve. Back in the day, I could recite the entire 22 minutes of it. These days, nobody gets it when I hold forth with the “Twenty-seven 8×10 color glossy photographs with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us” (in one breath) and the “Typical Case of American Blind Justice.”

(Jebus. It’s been ages. I need a new copy of that album.)

Regarding the pickle myth, it would seem that, like pizza and chop suey, it has an American origin. Since I’m an Amuricen, I see no reason why I can’t put a pickle on my Solstice Tree if I want to. Might need a new myth, though.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:23:45 +0000

I have GOT to get a pickle ornament for my tree. – andante

“I… don’t want… a pickle;
I just wanna ride [Anya’s] motor-cycle…”

Hey, nothing says Christmas, um, I mean, Solstice, like Arlo Guthrie!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:39:09 +0000

That’s why I had one for years, the thin glass one from Germany. It may be sitting in a box in my brother’s basement. The one reason I brought it up is because I’ve been asked about it before.