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The Del Monte Note. A $20 bill and a banana sticker sold for 396,000! (via Kottke)
The awful American consumer. We want cheap stuff fast and don’t care who it hurts.
Cracker Jill is the Newest Ballpark Snack. The new mascot is to promote women in sports.
Jokes people can't help but make about unusual names.
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From the linked article re life expectancy:
The prevalence of other health problems like diabetes and obesity also played a role, they say.
This. After age, obesity (and the diabetes related to it) is the biggest factor in COVID deaths, whether vaccinated or not.
Cracker Jill is that white girl down on Hollins Street who thinks she's all that.
Emily Stewart sounds like she would really enjoy 1970's era Service Merchandise, and their fine assortment of "quality" goods.
Have you ever noticed that when someone
draws a picture of an asteroid about
to hit, there's usually a T-Rex looking
at it, probably thinking "That can't be good."
Happy Friday Miss C!
The customer is seldom right, but they deserve to be told why before being maced and beaten.
Those parents should be forced to legally swap names with the kid they hung it on.
Recently a man on a message board was showing off his new granddaughter with a strange name.
I commented it will be hard for the girl as nobody will know the pronunciation and spelling.
I was told it will be simple for her to correct them.
Yeah, over and over and over and over and over and over ad infinitum.
> Ed Infinitum
That's my cousin's name.
Happy Friday, gwdMaine!
There is one other thing they changed for Cracker Jills besides the lyrics to the song... Cracker Jills don't have nuts.
Wokeness gone crazy. I expect that within another week PepsiCo will reveal a backstory whereby one of the Jills is a lesbian, one is autistic, and a third one is transgender.
-"BB"-
"Cracker Jills don't have nuts."
Is this something you read on one of 'those' sites who's goal is to rile people up over nonsense? Because the picture on the package clearly shows peanuts.
Unless you are saying that Cracker Jill herself doesn't have nuts. Well, that kind of goes without saying.
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