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Cake day: August 2nd, 2024

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  • I have a dog who weighs ~45 lbs and is a total bed hog. I’ve tried her in the bed a few times in the 8 years I’ve had her, but it’s always a bad night sleep for me. Not only does she hog the bed, but she wakes me up by getting up and shaking off or by shifting and kicking me.

    She is allowed on the couch, though, and I love taking naps with her. I think the main difference is I’m only sleeping for a hour or so, rather than all night.


  • Notice how one says milk chocolate and the other says milk chocolate flavored. For something to be called “milk chocolate” in the USA, it must have at least 10% by weight of chocolate liquor. Chocolate liquor is the result of grinding cacao, and must be 50-60% cacao fat.

    What you see, especially around Easter, is a lot of cheaper candies labeled chocolate flavored or chocolatey or similar, instead of chocolate, because they don’t meet the minimum cacao requirement. You can see this with other processed foods, as well. The companies aren’t trying to be trendy or cute, they’re complying with regulations.


  • long game - for the first 3 hits, you weren’t allowed to cherry bomb

    long game forevermore - can’t cherry bomb this round

    no bobbling - bobbling is where you would repeatedly “juggle” the ball with one hand since holding the ball wasn’t allowed

    nice and easy - nothing resembling a hard hit allowed

    I’m sure there was more that I’m not remembering. It was up to the king to declare which special rules they wanted to play with that round before they served. “Long game forevermore and all that crap” was used to declare a standard set of special rules most of us would use, but you had to pay attention since it wasn’t always declared. Rule breaking was a regular thing, but would slide if it was done in a funny way or if the other 3 didn’t like the person who got out.