Charlie

I find the breakfast bowls have too much potato as filler.

They are my guilty pleasure. I just bought a new kind an hour ago: The Egg'wich, a breadless sandwich. My favorite until now has been the croissant filled with egg, cheese and sausage. I doubt that most doctors would recommend them--400 calories, 230 of them from fat, and 5 grams of sugar--but I find them very satisfying. The Egg'wich is only 240 calories, 160 of them from fat, and 3 grams of sugar.

No photo of the iconic "boy in the sand," Casey Donovan/Calvin Culver?

That is a misleading description, since he started at the Realschule in Linz the same year that Hitler dropped out, and both were 16 years old at the time. Also, they were from very different social classes; Wittgenstein was a boarding student (his wealthy family lived in Vienna) while Hitler was a day student. Wittgenstein needed a lot of private tutoring, because he arrived unprepared for the standard courses, so he probably didn't even have the same classes as Hitler, who had been a student for a few years. It's unlikely that they had any kind of personal relationship. Nevertheless, once Wittgenstein became a kind of cult figure in intellectual circles, his opponents were always looking for some Hitlerian connection.

The Amish used to use "gay" to refer to anyone who was not Amish. I don't know if they still do.

Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca

Yesterday for breakfast I had o.j., a banana, a bowl of rice chex cereal, and a cup of coffee. Lunch was a slice of Sbarro pizza. Afternoon snack was a little tuna salad. Dinner was a large Cobb salad with a glass of chardonnay, and a chocolate covered vanilla ice cream pop. Lots of water and Gatorade during the day. This morning's breakfast was o.j., several strawberries, a cheese omelette with a side of pork sausage, and a cup of coffee.

:cool:Happy Birthday to a cool guy!

It would depend on the dog. My current dog is priceless, but I have given other dogs away.

What do you do if your phone is lost or stolen, or not working?

I carry two wallets, one with ID cards (driver's license, AAA, health insurance, library card, etc., the other with cash and credit cards. Both are in my front pockets. I usually wear cargo pants/shorts (one of the perks of being retired and living in a resort town).

Apartments burglarized twice; two bikes stolen, one of them left for only a moment in front of house, the other stolen from garage while door was open (he jumped on the bike and rode away as I chased him on foot); car window smashed by vandal; contractor took money for job, then disappeared without doing the work.

Happy Birthday! (hehe--I know how old you are)

Sorry, I have to save some private information from identity thieves.

Of course. The article even mentions that fact, but doesn't bother to follow up with any commentary on the fact that the stats are not very useful in the first place, because they are comparing apples (a demographic that has always been able to marry) to oranges (a demographic that has been legally able to marry for only a half decade).

An excellent example of who should and who shouldn't go out in public in a harness.

Organizations that thank you for a donation, and immediately ask for another one, usually in the thank you letter.

Having lived in both England and Czechoslovakia (when it was one country), I was expecting this to be amusing, but it was simply inane.

I also have never liked carrots, and I feel justified now, because I recently had a food allergy test, and the only vegetable to which I had a strong reaction was carrots.

I have never tried to look younger than I am; why pretend? I had fun being a twink when I still was one, but being a mature adult was more fun. And there are perks to being recognized as a senior citizen. If people tell me I look younger than my age, I assume they are referring to my physical activity level rather than my epidermis.

I live in the desert, so I have to use moisturizer to keep my skin reasonably soft and smooth. Since I also spend a lot of time outdoors in the sun, I use sun screen on exposed body parts (and put on a hat) before I go outside. At my age, using something else to try to make me look younger isn't worth the effort.

Thank goodness.

A friend of mine, who was not especially physically attractive, used to just walk up to a guy he found attractive in a gay bar and say, "I have a big cock. You wanna get fucked?" It amazed me how often it worked.

I am not crazy about veggies. I do like avocados, cauliflower, spinach, broccoli, and tomatoes (although technically they are not a vegetable).

I never made an error when I did my own federal taxes, but this year our tax accountant did, and it was a whopper of a digital error (a $1900 deduction became a $19000 deduction). Luckily, I checked everything before it was sent to the IRS, and got it corrected.