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Voting for Flight 4 is now closed. Headed into the Round of 32: vanilla; Irish cream; Chubby Hubby; raspberry sherbet; praline (upset); peanut butter cup; grasshopper pie/Thin Mint; and coffee.
Round of 32 will appear …
Hi Sars,
I’m thinking about getting a tattoo, and I’d like your advice on whether my reasoning is sound or I’m fooling myself as to what it’d really mean (which, in certain moods, I sometimes suspect).
My …
Proceeding to the next round: strawberry; pistachio (upset); lime sherbet; Neapolitan; Rocky Road/heavenly hash; peanut butter and chocolate; dulce de leche; and chocolate chocolate chip. No huge surprises there.
Flight 4 stays open ’til tomorrow …
You may care to enjoy a little baseball-related project I’ve got going: Crazy Nines, in which I put together fantasy teams based on the most arbitrary imaginable attributes. The first team, Seven O’Clock Noir, …
I’ve decided to pull the content from my Crazy Nines blog over here, in the hopes that it will force me to update that section more often than I have. (These posts are a couple …
Prevailing flavors: cookies and cream; fudge ripple (barely, in a minor upset); sticky toffee pudding (upset); Heath Bar Crunch; Key Lime Pie (upset); both regular and mint chocolate chips; and rainbow sherbet. This will …
News of the N.C. Double Scoop: Flight 1 voting has closed. Proceeding to the next round: cookie dough; black raspberry/Oregon blackberry (upset) (well, it was an upset; I am the opposite of upset about it); …
Tropic Thunder seemed almost guaranteed to disappoint, because I couldn’t wait to see it and really wanted to love it.It didn’t disappoint, and I did love it, but not for the reasons I’d expected to.
The …
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1 Vanilla vs. 16 olive oil. You do have some vanilla-loathers out there, but I can’t imagine they’d make this one close.
8 Irish cream vs. 9 Gold Medal Ribbon. …