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Shouldn't that be, "Thank no one I'm an atheist!"?

Skyline Chili may be America's quirkiest culinary idiom.
The signature dish of Cincinnati, Ohio — it's also the name of the casual-dining chain that made it famous — is nothing more than spaghetti topped with chili and piled high with shredded cheddar cheese.
"It's weird to a lot of people," Sherry Tomlinson, whose grandfather and father, Nick and Bill Lambrinides, were two of the co-founders of Skyline Chili, told Fox News Digital in an interview.
"People either love it or it's just not their thing," she said. "But people who love it become addicted to it."
Skyline Chili boasts an appealing retro diner-counter vibe, the charms of the Skyline brand compounded by its own lingo.
Skyline's famous spaghetti with "secret-recipe" chili and cheese is simply called 3 Way.
Add diced onion or beans, and it's called 4 Way; add both, and it's known as 5 Way.
Skyline Chili also offers Coneys. That name is derived from Coney Island, New York, home of the annual 4th of July Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest.
The short, stubby hot dogs are "specially made" for Skyline Chili, according to its menus. Coneys are served on a bun with mustard, the house chili and available with cheese or without.
A small 3 Way plus a cheese Coney and soda, eaten in-house with friendly diner counter service, cost just $13.09 with tax during a recent visit to the Ludlow Avenue Skyline Chili in Cincinnati's Clifton neighborhood.
It's a bona fine bargain in terms of cost per calorie.
The price point is certainly rare in this day and age when a fast-food meal for one person to go can come in at $24.
Restaurant industry experts marvel at Skyline Chili's operational efficiency.
Everything on the menu is ready before guests walk in the door and sits in plain view behind the counter as they order. The spaghetti is cooked, the chili stewed, the hot dogs griddled, the cheese shredded.
It takes just seconds to fill orders for an entire table.
Nick Lambrinides, an immigrant from Greece, founded Skyline in 1949 with his four sons.
Tomlinson, the granddaughter, said she has "no idea where he got the idea" for Skyline Chili, though she did note he worked as a cook on the railroads.
Its recipe remains a closely guarded secret.
"All I can say is that my grandpa loved garlic. It was a flavor that was very interesting to him," said Tomlinson.
The main ingredient in Skyline Chili, its diehards argue, is its indefinable deliciousness.
"Skyline Chili is a perfect food and I will tolerate no slander of it," Cincinnati-area native Mat Kinsman wrote in a breathless tribute last year in Food & Wine magazine..
He cited clove, nutmeg, cinnamon and "God knows what else" as some of its ingredients.
Kinsman also said, "To those of us who grew up in the Greater Cincinnati area, this stuff is mother's milk … It's a Cincinnati thing, look it up — and it's the pride of the Queen City."

THAT LOOKS SO GROSS

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Perhaps looking at this routinely beaten dead horse discussion this way will help put things into perspective:
Like gridlocked political parties, you're probably not going to sway the other side with your point of view.
So...  Why waste your energy?  
You keep doing whatever works for you.  Don't try to control what other people do or don't do.
If you can follow these rules, life becomes so much easier.

Run for congress as Republicans.

The latest in yoga pants. 😁

Would a lawyer or doctor agree to an appointment at 2 a.m.?  Most would not.  They would happily forgo the extra income in order to not interrupt their daily/nightly routine.

There are good and bad hires in all markets. 
Overinflated ego sometimes is in the eyes of the beholder (client). 

Taking the plunge - I off to Tokyo next week.  
I plan to sample Tokyo - Kids, Heros, King of College
Any current experiences - tips - you are welcome to share or PM me

I have never really understood this kind of gossip.  Unless someone is being outed who is otherwise a homophobe -- particularly a homophobe in a position to help enact anti-gay laws -- doesn't the person deserve privacy and a right to tell their own story whenever and however they want?  Even if it's just gossip about someone's sexual activity and not their sexual orientation, I don't see what business it is for other people to discuss. 
I get the "wish fulfillment" aspect of it, but if I was someone famous I know I wouldn't want people who don't even know me gossiping about my sex life.

If you've ever wondered about how self-discriminatory a community can be, just look at a wide swath of gay men on an Atlantis cruise.
It's uncomfortable and it's just sad.
I've had better experiences on gay cruise itens that sail from foreign waters, but it's still there.

Three Sears stories
as a child in Chicago - brother and I would go to Sears and try to put my head under the shoe X-ray machine - fortunately the opening was only big enough to two shoes - customer looks down at his feet knew a friend whose mother would mark up the sears /JCP catalogue and pencil in the scanty pictures years ago I worked in the original sears building on west side Chicago - building was maybe three stories and had a five story sears tower in the parking lot

Three Sears stories
as a child in Chicago - brother and I would go to Sears and try to put my head under the shoe X-ray machine - fortunately the opening was only big enough to two shoes - customer looks down at his feet knew a friend whose mother would mark up the sears /JCP catalogue and pencil in the scanty pictures years ago I worked in the original sears building on west side Chicago - building was maybe three stories and had a five story sears tower in the parking lot

Taking the plunge - I off to Tokyo next week.  
I plan to sample Tokyo - Kids, Heros, King of College
Any current experiences - tips - you are welcome to share or PM me

I've enjoyed many stars on the net but Alam is the top of the list for fantasy
Day comes - I win PowerBall - I will reach out to him as a permanent pool boy
 

I've enjoyed many stars on the net but Alam is the top of the list for fantasy
Day comes - I win PowerBall - I will reach out to him as a permanent pool boy
 

I've enjoyed many stars on the net but Alam is the top of the list for fantasy
Day comes - I win PowerBall - I will reach out to him as a permanent pool boy
 

Taking the plunge - I off to Tokyo next week.  
I plan to sample Tokyo - Kids, Heros, King of College
Any current experiences - tips - you are welcome to share or PM me

Taking the plunge - I off to Tokyo next week.  
I plan to sample Tokyo - Kids, Heros, King of College
Any current experiences - tips - you are welcome to share or PM me

Three Sears stories
as a child in Chicago - brother and I would go to Sears and try to put my head under the shoe X-ray machine - fortunately the opening was only big enough to two shoes - customer looks down at his feet knew a friend whose mother would mark up the sears /JCP catalogue and pencil in the scanty pictures years ago I worked in the original sears building on west side Chicago - building was maybe three stories and had a five story sears tower in the parking lot

Me too

Do you think he’d be willing to bend over for me in the Senate Judiciary Committee room? 

I would much prefer to invest in Argentinean men.