Enjoy that banana, son. Betcha didn't know that bananas now contain 50% MORE PESTICIDES than normal farm grown fruit. But we deserve it, you know? When we let states like Hawaii go back to FROO FR

DB can testify to this example some years back:

"Yeah, I went to Harvard. *pause* Got laid."

Oddly, this was not from Mr. Perry.

Strongo, my brother in arms.

in an attempt to engage you in the most miserable smalltalk of your life?

THAT was fairly miserable smalltalk...but entertaining, I grant. ;-)

*Lights cigarette*

Hey, you heard that Philip Morris has a Marlboro Blue in the works?

No? Marlboro Blue is the marijuana cigarette color!

This doesn't really fit the topic, but: Once while walking along a street in Manhattan a crazy old guy walked past me, muttering about all these goddamn homosexuals how could you consider sleeping with another man when there are all these beautiful women everywhere, just look at them!

I wanted to point out all the hottie men to him but decided against it.

What about the older guy who went straight for Ron and tried to squeeze some change out of him?

But that drunken vaudeville sailor guy with the jug in his pocket who stared at Ron deserved a far sharper dead foot in his ass... either that or a large cane to yank him off the stage, so to speak.

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I have just cancelled my plans for visiting NYC.

This is a true one that a street crazy up I saw up Chicago was wandering around saying this one day around ten years ago.

Also there's the guy who hangs out by Chicago and Michigan Avenues in Chicago with a placard that warns about the Russian Communist menace. I wonder if anyone's told him that the Russians aren't Communists anymore.

Northampton has like, what, four cab drivers, so I saw Jerry a lot. The second time, I said, "I'm not Lou," and right away he goes, "Yeah, you never are," and keeps talking, which was just so succinct and on the money that no retort was possible.

But that drunken vaudeville sailor guy with the jug in his pocket who stared at Ron deserved a far sharper dead foot in his ass... either that or a large cane to yank him off the stage, so to speak.

See I disagree there. The vaudeville guy shut the whole crowd up temporarily while half of us felt sorry for the poor bastard and the other half tried very hard not to laugh at Ron's tiny predicament (which he handled nicely). So maybe he was creepy, maybe he was pitiful, maybe he was hilariously anachronistic, but he got an emotional reaction.

The coffee buzz kid, on the other hand, was a cock because he was trying too hard to get a reaction. Like, if he'd asked for money and talking about the coffee buzz was his schtick, I'd have more respect for him, but what he was really trying to do was show off in front of his cockfarmer groupies that he could get a rise out of a group of folks obviously a bit older and wiser than he is.

That is what led to my remarking that I wished my Chuck Taylors had steel toes.

Hurrah! I can easily pass for under 70, in dim light!

https://modernfarmer.com/2018/05/emails-show-fda-chemists-have-been-quietly-finding-glyphosate-in-food/

Shortly thereafter, a string of studies and reviews indicated that glyphosate should probably be further studied, and in March of 2015, the cancer research arm of the World Health Organization declared glyphosate a “probable carcinogen.”

...

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests were quickly filed, and the newest set, this one by the non-profit food industry research group US Right to Know and published this past weekend by the Guardian, turned up some interesting emails from within the FDA showing that their chemists have been busy doing some extra-curricular work testing regular foods brought from home, as opposed to the official samples tested by the FDA, for the presence of glyphosate.

All of the official samples passed the test and were within the legal limits of glyphosate residue. But those off-the-record, unofficial samples, though done with the same equipment and tested by the same chemists, showed glyphosate.

That’s right. The chemists found glyphosate residue on just about everything: crackers, granola, cornmeal, honey, oatmeal, baby food, and even corn. Their surreptitious corn test—one of the four items the FDA is actually testing—found glyphosate significantly over the legal limit set by the EPA. The chemists emailed their bosses to ask what to do. The FDA’s response (which was also captured in the FOIA documents): That corn was not an “official sample” and will thus be ignored.

the gravity of these revelations is somewhat mitigated by the phrase "surreptitious corn tests"

Chemists always work quietly - there are no loud partying chemists