"Things I don't get"

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Originally Posted by Mich & Tele

I hate this shit. This is STRICTLY a punk-ass hillbilly thing.

No, as Glenn pointed out, for decades, "Meijer's Thrifty Acres" was referred to as "Meijer's".

In general, the business of how and when to apply "'s" is murky and complex. That "'s" isn't just a possessive/genitive, but a clitic, and not STRICTLY punk-ass hillbilly by any means. The practice of referring to a business with a trailing 's" (or just trailing "s" with the once-possessive apostrophe being long gone) is big in the UK. But, if you want to feel better about the hillbilly aspect:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/ar...r_apostrophes/

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My next-door neighbor has been a proud employee of Ford's for 20 years. He tells me this shit every time I see him, along with how much he likes White Castle's. The next time he tells me this I am going to set him on fire.

If he can survive a steady diet of White Castle food, I doubt that mere terrestrial fire will have any effect on him.

This is more of a "thing I never got".

So I was driving in to work today and happened to think of the Marijuanna thread and then started thinking of all the different names for the sticky. I got a little off track with "houka" which isn't marijuanna and that lead me to "the hunka chunka" which is what Sylvester Stallone calls sex in Demolition Man. That lead me to thinking of having mental sex with Sandra Bullock, like happens in the movie, and that lead me to this revelation.

All the women in that hypothetical world are virgins.

It's like the Muslim version of heaven for martyrs. I never would have guessed they served Taco Bell there.

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Originally Posted by Fool

All the women in that hypothetical world are virgins.

Holy shit, I never caught that before. Very interesting.

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Originally Posted by Fool

All the women in that hypothetical world are virgins.

All the people in the cities, yes. The outcasts below ground (led by Dennis Leary) drove cars manually, smoked, had sex, etc that everyone else didn't do.

Still pretty wild to think all those people up there were "untapped" resources. And not just virgins either, those people never kissed at all either.

Shit, that's old stuff. It goes back to the Fifties, with the robotic, dress wearing, made up June Beaver housewife who looked like she hadn;t had sex since the catholic church was invented.

Like Pleasantville.

(Good flick, btw)

Sandra Bullock was a virgin cop. June Clever had 2 kids. They are not even close to the same.

I don't get why my buddy played the 'This is about me, not you' when breaking up with his squeeze over the weekend. It didn't soften the blow. Just break up.

I don't get why cashiers give you dollar bills and then the change after that in drive thrus. The damn coins just slide off the dollar bills and onto the ground where you can't get to them unless you get out of your car and walk back. Give the damn coins first, then put the bills on top of them.

I don't get why I never want to have the employee touch my hand when they are giving me said change.

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Originally Posted by WTFchris

I don't get why cashiers give you dollar bills and then the change after that in drive thrus. The damn coins just slide off the dollar bills and onto the ground where you can't get to them unless you get out of your car and walk back. Give the damn coins first, then put the bills on top of them.

that's been my pet peeve for years.

when you're putting your change away, it'd be so much easier if the coins were on teh bottom.

"I really hate drive through windows, they give the Wendy's people a bird's eye view of my boner"
--Detroit Lions Coaching Staff

People are never going to stop talking about that, are they?

Well, I don't think they ever should.

I don't get why the dude wasn't fired for being an embarrassment to the team.

I don't get that people don't understand by now that the Lions don't mind being embarrassed.

I don't get why when my wife makes a sandwich, it tastes so much better than mine, when i make them the exact same way.

Your wife is probably sprinkling drugs on your sandwiches.

I don't get why my wife thinks her sandwhiches taste better if they are cut in half.

They do. Its science.

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Originally Posted by Fool

They do. Its science.

I was going to say, 'but they do taste better'

This smells like a poll to me. Glenn?

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Originally Posted by Glenn

I don't get that people don't understand by now that the Lions don't mind being embarrassed.

It's obvious I don't get the Lions, then. I don't get idiots who masturbate with sandpaper, on similar principles.

I suppose they taste better diagonally cut too?

Why don't you add: "Becasue she told me they do"?

Cutting things physically breaks chemical bonds which often leads to an increase in things like the smell of the item cut (think about fresh cut grass, rather than an ordinary uncut lawn). The smell of food has been shown to greatly effect the taste of food. Thus cutting the food changes its taste.

Like I said, science.

Does that hold true for cutting the cheese as well?

But isn't the lunch meat or tuna already sliced or cut up? How about the tomato? It's already sliced. The bread is already sliced.
It just doesn't add up. I think the real reason women like to cut sandwiches is because they're neat freaks. They are too worried about crumbs and shit.
It's just another form of control.

The part you cut, is clearly together before you cut it.

If they're cut in half, your first bite is not against crust. Nay, it's into the juicy middle where all the goodness lies.

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Originally Posted by e-ray

If they're cut in half, your first bite is not against crust. Nay, it's into the juicy middle where all the goodness lies.

I think thats it too. Instead of a mouth full of crust, you're already at the goods. I like to break it down so I take about 35% crust with 65% goods per munch...then grind. You end up with a lil crust and then toss that to the dog.

This would make a fascinating front page article.

We'd be drawing traffic from all over the internets.

And to expound on Fool's theory, today I had a sandwich and cut it into 475 pieces, and yes, every one of them was better than the last!

I made no claims about exponentiality. I simply stated a fact about chemical bonds. Go write a new "dropping the deuce" article that I can ignore.

What? I just verified your theory! I should be hailed as one of the great sandwich experimenters of all times! Right up there with Dagwood Bumstead!
And I've given all the credit to you, oh Einstein of the Hoagie!

The only reason I cut a sandwhich is to dunk it in something (french dip, maybe grilled cheese, etc). You have to eat the crust some time, might as well start there. If you cut it, you are tempted to just eat out the middle.

I don't get why everyone seems to hate crust.

I don't hate it, but the innards are without a shadow of a doubt better. I'd rather start there.

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Originally Posted by Glenn

I don't get why everyone seems to hate crust.

Me either. If you hate the crust, stop buying shitty bread.

Do you make a sandwich with the ends?

I don't get why I never watched American History X until today.