Why are hiking boot laces so long?

It doesn't make any sense.

Is it an intentional design?

My boots today have about 9 inches of extra lace on each one.

Maybe it's so if you get lost out on a trail, you can use the laces as string to build a shelter.

Who knows.

Question....

This post on Gizmodo brings up an interesting query:

Say you're doing some shopping and when you get home, you realize that you weren't charged for some items due to an error on the part of the cashier.

Do you keep the items?

Do you return to the store and point out the mistake?

If you keep the items without paying, is it stealing?

Personally, if this happened to me, [actually it has on a lawn chair], I would just consider it the store's loss and the employee's mistake.

I like to think that I am a morally conscious person, but I don't see it as stealing.

Just a mistake-generated bonus.

What do you guys think?

Can Kosher Jews eat Chinese food?

At my local place they cook beef and pork in the same wok, so I would think not.

Also, are there such things as Kosher Chinese restaurants?

I think that would rule out Mongolian BBQ's as well.

Guess: 'Who Dis?'

Mr. Tubbs

Vernon Kay had this thing on his show where he had listeners text in the names of stuffed animals people had as kids.

Mine was a cute fat stuffed rabbit called 'Mr. Tubbs' [not pictured].

So what was yours?

Who's seen 'Catacombs'?

I have a question:

Was 'Henri' in on the whole thing, or just an innocent party goer who got stuck down there too?

I actually liked it.

It was kind of predictable, but I like the twist at the end.

But then again, I'm a sucker for unhappy endings.

So....

This morning at work, while I was in the kitchen getting my breakfast ready, a worker from another department that I call 'Bootius Maximus' [because he has a total big ol' male J Lo booty - in a good way] said something that kind of struck me as odd.

Now, we have never even said as much as 'hello' in passing, to each other.

Well, while I was digging in the fridge, and he was next to me getting ice, he asked where I got my shoes.

I must admit, they are pretty sweet shoes, and one of my fave pairs which do happen to get a lot of compliments. [Not pictured above.]

So I tell him where and then he goes:

'Cute shoes.'

?

Now, I had always suspected he was 'family' after a co-worker once mentioned that he thought he had seen Bootius at The Big Gay Club.

To look at him, you would just think he's a big burly straight boy with some inkling of a fashion sense.

He's far from looking all Metro.

But, his use of the phrase 'cute shoes' totally has me thinking he's a big ol' 'mo.

Or am I wrong?

I personally have never heard a straight guy use the term 'cute' to describe a piece of fashion.

Much less to another guy.

I could see a straight guy saying 'cool' or 'sweet', but not cute.

So what do you guys think?

Friend or 'family'?

What do you guys think about this?

Woman fired after shaving head for cancer charity

So....

If Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are the Middle East, and China and Japan are the Far East, what is/are India and Pakistan?

The Near East?

East-Adjacent?

Grody, Or Not Grody?

This morning in the restroom at work, someone had shaved in the sink, and left all the hair all over the sink and counter.

I say 'grody'.

Team Pant

Colleen brought up an interesting question.

Why are they called 'a pair of pants'?

There is only one.

I can understand a 'pair of shoes', because there's two.

But 'pants' plural?

I think she may have just converted me to use 'pant' instead of pants.

For an examination of pants vs. trousers and a probably way too over analyzation of the issue, go here.

Who would win in a race?

A bunny or a cat?

?

Why does Ziggy have underwear when he doesn't even wear pants?



Did Ziggy have a job?

Do you think cavmen and women had acne?

I doubt they washed on a regular basis, so their skin was used to being dirty and oily.

Do monkeys get pimples?

Death and Taxes

Claystation asked me a tax question, and it made me think of something my tax prep person mentioned, but I didn't clarify.

Can you claim bus passes and car rentals for work as deductions?

Since I don't own a car, I have to mass transit it.

Or rent a car if it's out in the boonies [we have training in campus way down in South Suburbia].

Anyone have any accounting/financial adviser friends?

There has to be some sort of tax break on that, right?

I crunched the numbers and I pay almost 2 grand a year just to get to work!

Who invented sausage?

'Sausage is a logical outcome of efficient butchery. Sausage-makers put to use meat and animal parts that are edible and nutritious, but not particularly appealing, such as scraps, organ meats, blood, and fat, and that allow the preservation of meat that can not be consumed immediately. These were typically salted and stuffed into a tubular casing made from the cleaned intestine of the animal producing the characteristic cylindrical shape. Hence, sausages, puddings and salami are amongst the oldest of prepared foods, whether cooked and eaten immediately or dried to varying degrees.


It is often assumed that sausages were invented by Sumerians in what is Iraq today, around 3000 BC. Chinese sausage làcháng (臘腸/腊肠), which consisted of goat and lamb meat, was first mentioned in 589 BC. Homer, the poet of Ancient Greece, mentioned a kind of blood sausage in the Odyssey (book 20, verse 25), and Epicharmus (ca. 550 BC – ca. 460 BC) wrote a comedy titled The Sausage. Evidence suggests that sausages were already popular both among the ancient Greeks and Romans, and most likely with the non-literate tribes occupying the larger part of Europe.

During the reign of the Roman emperor Nero, sausages were associated with the Lupercalia festival. The early Catholic Church outlawed the Lupercalia Festival and made eating sausage a sin. For this reason, the Roman emperor Constantine banned the eating of sausages. Early in the 10th century in the Byzantine Empire, Leo VI the Wise outlawed the production of blood sausages following cases of food poisoning.

Traditionally, sausage casings were made of the cleaned intestines (or stomachs in the case of haggis and other traditional puddings) of animals. Today, however, natural casings are often replaced by collagen, cellulose or even plastic casings, especially in the case of industrially manufactured sausages. Additionally, luncheon meat (such as Spam) and sausage meat are now available without casings in tins and jars.

The most basic sausage consists of meat cut into pieces or ground and filled into a casing such as an animal intestine. The meat may be from any animal, but traditionally is pork, beef or veal. The meat/fat ratio is dependent upon the style and producer, but in the United States, fat content is legally limited to a maximum of 30%, 35% or 50%, by weight, depending on the style. The USDA defines the content for various sausages and generally prohibits fillers and extenders.[1] Most traditional styles of sausage from Europe and Asia use no bread-based filler and are 100% meat and fat (excluding salt and other flavorings, such as herbs).[2] In the UK and other countries with English cooking traditions, bread and starch-based fillers account for up to 25% of ingredients. The filler used in many sausages helps them to keep their shape as they are cooked. As the meat contracts in the heat so the filler expands.

The word sausage is derived from Old French saussiche, from the Latin word salsus, meaning salted.'

Saucisse

If this is the case, how come I haven't come across an Chinese/Asian sausages in contemporary cuisine?

Tagged!

T$ at Buffalo Void tagged me with a meme, so here goes!

1. Pick a single person, past or present, in the film industry who you'd like to have dinner with, and tell us why you chose this person.

Marilyn Monroe because I would love to dish the gossip and find out what really went on with her life. This is assuming she teleports to the present day for the special dinner.


2. Set the table for your dinner. What would you eat? Would it be in a home or at a restaurant? And what would you wear? Feel free to elaborate on the details.

It would be out at Zengo.

Everything on the menu.

For fun I'd sport a tux, and she of course would be glammed out.

Kimono Kisses would be drank throughout.

Yum!


3. List five thoughtful questions you would ask this person during dinner.

1. So what really went on with John F. Kennedy?

2. Robert Kennedy?

3. What was it like to work with Montgomery Clift? Would she have done him if he hadn't [wasn't?] a big 'mo?

4. Did you realize what an impact you would have on pop culture and history?

5. What rumors are/aren't true about her and her life?

Bonus questions:

What was being married to Joe Dimaggio like?

Was he an Italian Stallion?

Can I videotape the dinner date for proof?

4. When all is said and done, select bloggers to pass this Meme along to. Link back to Lazy Eye Theatre, so that people know the mastermind behind this Meme.

Those who I tag are:

James

Christopher

H. Alan Scott

Lioux

Clay

Meredith

Sacajawea

Viva Vavoom

Caffeinator X

So....

if chimps and other monkeys can pick up and learn some basic human words, how come we can't speak monkey?

Are we too smart?

Also, do you think birds of different species understand each other's calls?

They all descended from essentially the same dinosaur.

Question.

Viva Vavoom has an interesting post.

She remembers the exact date of when she lost her virginity.

All I can remember is that is was sometime during spring, who it was with, and what music was playing.

Ha.

What about you guys, do you remember the date?

Was there mail yesterday?

Netflix got my movies.

I thought it was a Federal holiday.