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When you wrote Dan Savage, my mind initially thought about Michael Savage. Gman

Thank gosh I'm an American and acknowledge no King, except of course from having grown up in the largest contiguous cotton-growing region in the world, King Cotton. Gman

My English teachers in school often talked about parallel structure. It seems to me that leaving the last comma out is non-parallel. It looks funny. And without it http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/oxford-comma-jfk-stalin.jpg Not to mention... http://americandigest.org/sidelines/oxfordcomma.jpg So let there be no more discussion of eliminating my Oxford Comma. Gman

I think this cartoon had a Headline referring to Trump when I first saw it. http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j12/itsallos/CBF34704-57D4-435E-B9B5-2062F70ADA38_zpspuhms13n.jpg Gman

Here's a very good article by Daniel Gritzer, a former professional chef on basic scrambling techniques. There are also links to recipes of three different types of scrambled eggs. He disagrees with Gordon Ramsey on the effects of adding salt to eggs prior to cooking (although he claims there's not a lot of difference.). Daniel actually tested adding salt to the eggs and has pictures in the article. The article is titled -" Tips and Tricks for the Best Scrambled Eggs, Your Way" http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/05/how-to-make-scrambled-eggs.html Gman

Let me preface this by saying my tastebuds are very plebeian. I know many of you on here are fabulous cooks. And many of you who don't cook still have excellent, hi-falutin' tastes. Well neither of those descriptions cover me. I'm still likely to take two pieces of bread, cover them with Heinz 57, and drink them down with a glass of milk for a snack. As a public service I am warning anyone who is trying to restrict their salt intake to stay as far away from this recipe as you would if you were a vampire and I was holding up a cross in front of your face. So with that in mind-I was trying to figure out what to do for dinner. I was looking through the pantry and had some chicken flavored Rice-Aroni. But I wanted something more substantial. I tell you what I decided to do-in general terms, and if this strikes your fancy-you can play around with it yourselves. So in addition to Rice-Aroni I have a large Jennie-O Cooked Turkey Breast that I've been working on. I decided to combine them. So I cooked the Rice-Aroni per the stove top directions. To the Rice-Aroni I added one of those small boxes of Sun-Maid Raisins. It was one of those very small boxes. The kind you'd put in a small child's lunchbox. I only used one-I think it could have used another one. To this I add two slices of the Jennie-O cooked turkey breast. I cubed the turkey before adding it. Let's say it was 1/2 a cup. While that was cooking down, I scrambled 6 eggs in another skillet-actually I scrambled three and then another three. Pre-scrambling-I added curry powder and paprika to the eggs. When the eggs were done and the rice was basically cooked and on warm, I added the eggs to the rice-raisins-turkey mixture and stirred to mix it all up. I plated it up along with a little salsa-it was delicious!!! (I got the idea because I have a box of a pre-mixed quinoa and rice salad that comes with some cranberries. I didn't want to open that yet. So I substituted the quinoa-rice with my box of Rice-Aroni and raisins ). If my little impromptu rice dish sounds awful to any of you, I promise not to serve it the next you come to my place for dinner. But I definitely plan to keep this improv dinner recipe for myself. Gman

Migas are ok. But I prefer having meat in mine which is why I prefer machaca- Scrambled eggs, onion, pieces of pot roast type beef, tomato, and tortilla chips (+ some people add cheese and jalapeños which I leave out because I don't like them). Serve with warm flour tortillas and salsa. Some IHOPS serve it-namely all the ones in Texas that I've been to and I've found it at other IHOPS like ones in LA before. http://www.muybuenocookbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/machaca_con_huevo.jpg I believe my maternal grandfather who died back in 1980 left 'mother' Russia when the Tsar was recruiting for the Russo-Japanese War. On the other hand, it might have been a general conscription after that war. My paternal grandfather served in WWI, but I don't think he saw active combat. Gman

Why how congenial of you, Tru, to post a better picture. Gman

And pico de gallo too-but 86 the cheese please. Or better yet, someone can have my portion-wouldn't want to waste it. I also love to cook Vienna Sausages and stuff all of the above in a whole wheat pita. My body just laughs. At least you started out in good shape. I'm sure it's delicious. But sounds a bit too involved for me. Plus I don't like caviar or sour cream. I have lately been mixing curry powder in with my eggs pre-scrambling. It gives the eggs a not so nice brownish color, but I lob the taste (As an aside I've also been putting curry powder in with my routine tuna salad. It really wakes it up!!!) I like scrambled eggs. I used to fix them along with hotdogs (or Vienna Sausages ) + salsa for years for dinner when I was in grad school. Until recently I hadn't done it in years. It had been so long I even looked up how to make scrambled eggs on the internet before processing. I probably could have done it without looking up. But I wanted to check. You know I can remember the small skillet my Mother used to cook them in when I was a child almost perfectly. The covering on the skillet handle was partially broken-ahh childhood memories. They are often clearer than what I had for lunch yesterday. Aside from eggs-while I'll eat breakfast for dinner-I really prefer dinner for breakfast. I'm not sure how well I'd do with spicy spaghetti in the morning. But I could definitely handle steak, fried chicken, teriyaki chicken and noodles, meatloaf-love meatloaf, tuna salad. After all I'm sure most of us remember eating leftover pizza the following morning. It's interesting how you really aren't supposed to eat food left out over an hour or so. But the pizza was usually left out sitting on the stove overnight. So far as I can remember you hear very little about food poisoning deaths from eating cold left out pizza. Even better combine breakfast and dinner with a breakfast chicken or steak fajita with scrambled eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes, and bell peppers along with healthy helpings of salsa and pico de gallo!! Gman

For those not in the know-as I was until just a minute ago-Mr. Fraser is an artist/model who paints with his tallywacker. http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_node_view/public/artist_0.jpg Gman PS-can we get back to eggs?

I think maybe it's a 'chef' thing. I've read multiple articles by chefs taking about scrambled eggs, they go on and on about 'custardy small curds'. Gman

I'd buy an entry to your room. Gman

Let me at it!! Gman

I thought we might have a discussion on scrambled eggs for those of us who like them. Gordon's in this video look a bit too runny and labor intensive for me. But what I wanted to make note of was the tomatoes and mushrooms. I love tomatoes and like mushrooms. I would never have thought of cooking fresh mushrooms this way. And both the tomatoes and mushrooms are delicious. I usually use the small grape tomatoes for this and the smaller whole mushrooms that I remove the stalk from. At my local Safeway they have artisanal bread baked but that you heat in the oven. There's one brand they carry from a bakery in California-La Brea Bakery. They have a rustic wheat bread and a ciabatta. Eight to 10 minutes in the oven while you are cooking the eggs and tomatoes/mushrooms-and you have piping hot crusty bread to put the eggs on and slather with butter and preserves. Gman

Ahh so that's why they dismissed it (you have insurance) but had to pay court costs. Years ago in Houston-I was given a ticket for not having renewed my license plate. I had. But I needed to get a scraper to scrape off the old tags-hadn't done it at the time the policeman gave me a ticket. Probably the car was parked with me being away from it-or I could have shown the policeman I had the sticker in the glove box. So I had to go to court. I was late getting out of work and missed my trial by like 15 minutes. I was terrified I was going to be arrested. I hired a lawyer and explained the situation. We showed up at court a few days later. He went upfront and talked to someone-the DA or the judge-they dismissed the ticket. I don't remember having to pay court costs-only the attorney's fee. Maybe I did though. It happened 25 years ago. I've definitely forgotten a lot of the details. Gman

Oh-I'm sorry you were in an accident. I hope you weren't hurt. Gman

Most likely with Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory. Gman

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Why was there a CPA in the town I grew up in with the last name of SWINDLE? Gman

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From The Onion. You know sometimes it only satirizes. Then at other times like now it's spot on!! How Supreme Court Justices Are Chosen INFOGRAPHIC February 16, 2016 VOL 52 ISSUE 06 · News · Government · Supreme Court http://i.onionstatic.com/onion/5271/6/original/1200.jpg Here is a step-by-step guide to how U.S. Supreme Court justices are selected: Step 1: Supreme Court vacancy opens after a sitting justice dies, retires, or is promoted to the Galactic Circuit Step 2: President wistfully crosses out own name from list of potential candidates Step 3: Official presidential nominee slowly lowered by rope into Senate Judiciary Committee pit Step 4: Nominee charged one-time $30 background check fee Step 5: Candidate asked whether they see themselves in exact same place 35 years from now Step 6: Judiciary Committee members ask nominee whether they capable of writing a dissent that could be described as “blistering” Step 7: Candidate attests they have no opinion whatsoever on issue of abortion, don’t know what it is, and frankly have never heard such a word uttered before Step 8: Senate takes nominee out to drinks to see how they act in casual, informal setting Step 9: Nominee stands as their predecessor’s robe is draped over them to see if government can save a few bucks on not ordering a new one Step 10: Following months of direct questioning, witness testimony, and poring over the nominee’s qualifications and judicial history, the Senate votes on whether they like the president or not Step 11: If confirmed, justice takes oath of office and is assigned a bench buddy to help them through their first few opinions Step 12: If candidate not confirmed, process repeats indefinitely until other party holds White House or country is awash in the hot, crimson blood of neighbor killing neighbor, whichever comes first Gman

I'm fairly sure he pretty much always advertised as a top. Now I know he bottomed in some videos, and I wouldn't be surprised if he occasionally bottomed as an escort. But in general as an escort, IIRC, he was known as a top. I actually did contact him back then to see if he would bottom. I'm pretty sure he said he would. But I wasn't certain how 'into' it he would be. Plus I think it was just before he quit escorting. So he disappeared while I was still considering it. The pictures on his ad where I think he looks best are #'s 3-5. They are also the pictures I remember from years ago. I am not sure when pictures #1 and #2 were done. He doesn't look awful in them. But he does look a bit skinnier and older in them. Gman

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Sigh, there goes my last excuse for not jogging. Gman

I wonder if he retired from the military at the same time he retired from escorting. Gman