Thanks, Bucky! EL

Somewhere along the way, I started jotting down quotations that stuck me as insightful or funny or potentially useful for staff meeting arguments in a little spiral-bound notebook that I carried around with me in my briefcase.  Thoughts like, “Sooner or later, you’re going to have to be your own hero” and “Work is for people who never learned how to fish.” 

When EL asked for a guest Top 10 to cover her while she was on vacation, I thought to myself, “Whoa, this should bring Jay C. back to the blog.”  Ha Ha Ha … I didn’t think that.  I’m just kidding. ...

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What to my wondering eyes should appear in my e-mail this morning but a rare guest post from Bucky. EL

Elizabeth’s post on unsafe foods, and microwave popcorn’s place on it, jogged my memory.  Last summer when I stopped at a roadside farmer’s fruit stand to buy peaches, I bought — out of curiosity — the “Mr. Popping Cob” pictured to the left.  I stuck it in the console between the seats and forgot about it.
 
I sent EL an e-mail and the picture and said I was going to pop it for the football game this weekend.  She asked if I’d write a post about how it worked.  Of course, once I remembered it, there was no way I could wait until Sunday to pop it. ...

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Bucky's guest post this week needs no introduction. Especially as he asked me not to give away the ending in my intro. Here's Bucky. EL

So, we were at the bar on Saturday, were Paco, JMT and I, and it was uncharacteristically quiet.  We were the only customers in the place.  Paco was concentrating on his chili relleno, JMT was rearranging the condiments on his cheeseburger and I was staring at my BLT, thinking that it isn’t really “toast” if it’s still soft on the outside.
 
Stacy was providing a syncopated rhythm to the odd afternoon by absent-mindedly drumming on the bar with a couple of swizzle sticks. ...

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I can't figure out what got into guest poster Bucky today. I was expecting a good ole boy take on, say, summer grilling, and look at the fascinating facts he came up with. Here's Bucky. EL

Have you ever been in a restaurant that was so crowded that you couldn’t get your server’s attention to, say, get a refill on your Coke?
 
Think what it must be like at the Bawabet Dimashq during the peak dinner hour.
 
The Bawabet Dimashq (Arabic for “Damascus Gate”) is located in Damascus, Syria and is the world’s largest restaurant.  It seats 6,014 diners and at peak times during the day over 1,800 people are working there.  (I, myself, probably would have named it the Bawabet Bistro, just to make it sound more intimate, but I digress.) ...

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I was thinking of doing a post asking everyone to tell us how you're celebrating the Fourth. But frankly, I don't think yours could compete with guest poster Bucky's. EL

Tomorrow is Independence Day, and this year we will engage in one of our semi-traditional activities, going up into the mountains to have lunch at the Coney Island Boardwalk Hot Dog Stand in Bailey, Colo. ...

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It's weird, but Bucky, our macho, rural good-ole-boy regular, has been getting sort of existential and Zen-like lately. Witness the questions at the end of his guest post today. Here's Bucky. EL

Everyone has his or her own little quirk, right?  Except for my friend, John Martin Thomas (JMT).  He has everybody’s little quirks.

He is, for example, extremely particular about his food.  Every aspect of it.  He is also very predictable about what he eats.  Having breakfast at the course after an early round of golf? He eats huevos rancheros.  Every single time.  Meeting him at Elw…uh, the steakhouse we go to for dinner?  Prime rib.  Every single time.
 
So, last weekend, Paco and I were to meet JMT for Saturday lunch at the bar.  I got there and was surprised to see Paco’s car already in the parking lot.  (Paco’s quirk:  never on time.  And the most amazing thing about this quirk:  He always has a good excuse.  Not “good” in that it’s entertaining, “good” in that it is always a legitimate reason for being a few minutes late.  But I digress…) ...

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Bucky is better than anyone I know at writing guest posts that have no food in them at all and yet I still want to publish them. Is that a good thing? I can't quite decide, but I admire his cleverness. Here's Bucky. EL ...

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This is guest poster Bucky's idea of a fair test. Bucky, no human being would like unsweetened yogurt on pumpkin pie. The idea alone makes me gag. To be fair, I want you to cut up a ripe nectarine and mix it with a quarter cup of blueberries. Put the Fage yogurt on top of that, and I guarantee you'll like it. Here's Bucky. EL

So, last week Elizabeth piqued my interest (and that of PBC Rob, Bourbon Girl and Stacy) with her comparison of Fage yogurt to whipped cream.  I like whipped cream — the real stuff, not Cool Whip or the kind that squirts out of a can. (Although the kind that squirts out of a can is fun, in its own way, and that’s a point in its favor.) ...

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Bucky raises an important and difficult question in his guest post today, and my only concern with it is why he thought he wouldn't eventually be writing about every food-related event in his life for Dining@Large. 

Wow. This is one ugly photo. He must have been taking lessons from jl.

Here's Bucky. EL

So, we were driving down the coast last week, on our spur-of-the-moment vacation, and Mrs. Bucky spied a little café that looked out over the beach in Newport, Oregon. 

“Why don’t we stop for lunch,” she instructed. ...

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This excellent guest post by Bucky got me to thinking about my favorite restaurant names. Top on my list has to be the Burnt Wood Roadhouse, which is so awful I've decided it's wonderful. Although Butter isn't far behind. Here's Bucky. EL

SEASIDE, ORE. – In July 1976, I went out one evening to get a cheeseburger and came home with a new jeep.  I bring this up so you will know that I’m nothing if not flexible. 

Two weeks ago the Oregon coast wasn’t even on my list of potential vacation destinations.  As I write this, I’m sitting on the deck with my laptop, watching the sun set over the Pacific Ocean....
 

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This fine Bucky's World is the third in a triumphant triumvirate of guest posts about Memorial Day.  What? Owl Meat's Funtastic Thursday yesterday wasn't about Memorial Day? Well, that's because I didn't publish his Memorial Day post. It's tempting to blame him because he put "date: whenever" in the subject line of the one I DID publish; but since the other was right there in my inbox, too, I don't think I could get away with it. So we'll be getting a bonus Funtastic this Monday. Meanwhile, here's Bucky. EL

I have a theory that nothing is all good or all bad.  Take, for example, polka music.  Mostly bad, except that the “Chicken Dance” is fun when you’re at a wedding reception that has an open bar.  Bacon…mostly good, right up until your left arm goes numb and that elephant sits down on your chest.
 
See how this theory works? ...

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I'm excited. Are you excited? Bucky might come to Baltimore to eat. Some of his restaurant choices surprised me, some didn't. I did think it was a little disingenuous of him to say he would be going to Michael's because he had a recurring dream about it. He'll be going to Michael's because of the photo of the two-pound slab of prime rib that accompanied my review. Here's guest poster Bucky. EL
 
It is about that time of year when we start planning our summer vacation.  The possibilities this year are varied, because Kaikala’s family is visiting here; we don’t have to make that dreary trip to the islands. 

Potential destinations at this point are (from west to east): ...

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This is my favorite Bucky's World yet. However, I had to make guest poster Bucky promise the art wouldn't contain any bare breasts when I got the post with "art to follow" at the top. Little did I realize what he would come up with. I feel ashamed. EL

I believe that a few weeks ago we (and by “we” I mean “me”) agreed unanimously that we don’t comment about Hooters often enough in this blog.
 
So, last week I took Mrs. Bucky, Bucky Jr. and Mrs. Bucky Jr. (who, to simplify things, will hereinafter be referred to as Kai, Junior and L3, which stands for “Lovely Lori of Littleton”) to Hooters for dinner. ...

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What impressed me most about this Bucky's World is that our guest poster would undertake such a dangerous culinary experiment for our benefit. EL

Last week, noted blogging psychologist Dr. O.M. Gravy shared with us his ground-breaking studies of Recovered Childhood Lunch Trauma (RCLT).  Commenting on Dr. Gravy’s work, Old Phil prompted my own personal recovery of a non-traumatic culinary memory from the 1950s:  Chef Boyardee Pizza Kits.

You might recall that my early years were spent primarily in a place so small that there was no café or restaurant of any sort.  Regular Bucky-readers have also certainly deduced by now that I spring from a decidedly meat-and-potatoes background. ...

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For some reason this seems to be lunch week for my guest posters, at least for two of the three. I like this game. Here's Bucky. EL

So three of us were having lunch at the bar on Saturday, and my friend Paco proffered this wager:  that I couldn’t come up with five first names for people that were also food terms. ...

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I had no clue that Bucky was such a social butterfly until this post. I'm always amazed at the amount of entertaining other folks do. The last time I had people over for dinner was Christmas...2007. Here's guest poster Bucky. EL

I have my poker group.  Mrs. Bucky has her bridge and bunco groups.  (If you don’t know what bunco is, it’s a game that is something like Yahtzee, but requires neither the skill nor the concentration that Yahtzee demands.  It is mostly, so far as I can tell, a good excuse for a bunch of women to get together and drink copious amounts of wine.  Thus, my nickname for Kaikala’s bunco group:  The Drunken Buncos.)

It doesn’t turn out this way often, but the planets and stars have aligned in such a way that next week our home will be host to the bunco game on Tuesday night, the bridge game on Thursday night and the poker game on Friday night. ...

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I used to order food over the Internet. One specific food, anyway, and one you've heard me whine about before: Brownberry Bread. Guest author Bucky has opened an old wound with this Bucky's World post. EL

I just restocked my potato chip inventory with an Internet order to Mrs. Fisher’s potato chip factory in Rockford, Ill.  Mrs. Fisher’s are my favorite chips, but that’s not the only reason I order them on the ‘net. ...

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...and you only get it IF you win the Masters. Of course, this is coming from someone, me, who loves food and doesn't consider golf a sport. (Bucky's definition of sport is considerably broader. If you can drink beer while you do it, it isn't a sport.) With what might be the best Bucky's World yet, here's our Friday guest poster. EL

I spent some time figuring it out this past weekend, and according to my calculations, I’ve spent almost eight years of my life either playing golf or fly fishing.

The remaining years I’ve just frittered away.

Golf season starts for me the first full weekend in April, when the beauty and grace of azaleas and dogwood in full bloom are juxtaposed against the roar of the crowd on Amen Corner.

The golf season starts with the Masters Invitational, no matter how many rounds I’ve managed to play in the preceding couple of months, and the Masters Invitational begins next Thursday. ...

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No word from guest poster Owl yesterday, so no Funtastic Thursday. To make matters worse, guest poster Bucky had already scheduled a vacation day. He was having food writer's block (not writer's block) so I suggested topics such as how he fixed the trout he had spent the weekend catching.

I got a three word e-mail back from him saying, "Catch and release."

Now doesn't that seem like a colossal waste of time? But I digress. ...

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I've been meaning to publish Bucky's guest post all day, but breaking news -- such as it is in my world -- and time-sensitive material kept distracting me. Luckily Bucky is out in the wilderness of Wyoming this weekend and can't check on me. I asked him if he had ever heard of internet cafes, but he just laughed at me and said this place doesn't even have a cafe. Or a place to buy groceries, for that matter. "Alcova, Wyoming isn't the end of the world, but you can see it from there," he told me. Quote of the day. Anyway, here's Bucky. EL

So, as I was doing research on RPIs in preparation for filling out my brackets this year, I ran across this: ...

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Now everyone take a deep breath, because Bucky has an idea that will revolutionize Dining@Large. Here we go. EL

So, one of my 25 random facts, for you Facebookers out there:  Among my immediate circle of friends and co-workers, I’m known as Mr. B.I.G.  That stands for Big Idea Guy. 

The box has not been built big enough that I can’t think outside of it.  If this country were a box, I’d think of the world.  If the world were a box, I’d think of the solar system.  If the solar system were a box, well…you get the idea.

Today, I’m thinking of this:

(Are you ready?)

(Are you sure?) ...

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I get that Bucky has a larger point here, but all I can think about is a toasted peanut butter sandwich for lunch. Also, what's a Frito pie? No, don't tell me. I just want to imagine. Anyway, here's our guest poster. EL

So, I was looking for the peanut butter the other day because all morning I had been thinking about toasted peanut butter sandwiches for lunch.  But there was none in the pantry.  This was odd, because I distinctly remembered having bought peanut butter a couple of weeks ago, making sure we had the kind that wouldn’t kill us.  And I didn’t remember having had toasted peanut butter sandwiches but one time since.

I also didn’t remember having had any peanut butter cookies lately.

So I did what I normally do in situations like this.  I yelled, “Hey! Kaikala!  Where’s the peanut butter?”  ...

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Bucky has invented a wonderful food quiz for us, and I'm not allowed to say he will send you a fabulous prize if you win -- not because he minds sending fabulous prizes that I commit him to without his consent, of course, but because that encourages cheaters.

No Googling or otherwise looking up the answers. If you're the kind of person who will be embarrassed if you don't get all the answers right, use an alias and answer as many as you can off the top of your head.

Once again, no one likes a cheater.

Here's Bucky's quiz. I'll post the answers later today: ...

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Actually, after this guest post from Bucky, I may not be eating lunch at all today. If you're wondering how the video fits in, his e-mail said this: "Ok, with this, the metaphor I'm trying to construct should be more clear, I think."

Uh, no. Urg. Here's Bucky. EL

According to Wikipedia, earthworms (phylum: Annelida) are mammals that, genetically speaking, are closely related to the Canadian goose.

Ha ha ha.  I crack myself up.  Wikipedia says no such thing, of course.  I was just seeing if Prof. McIntyre was paying attention.

I have a theory that when guys get together in a bar, if there’s nothing on the big screen television in which they have a betting interest, there are four things that can happen.  Three of them are bad. ...

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Poor Bucky. To come up with the art for his guest post today he had to go buy a cup of Starbucks coffee. It must have killed him if he can't tell the difference between it and any other coffee.

Think of the photo as something old, something new. The old is his Stanley stainless thermos, which he tells me has been with him longer than Mrs. Bucky. EL

So, I hesitate to bring this up, because I know that, once again, I’m going to be exposed as Joe the Plumber of the Sandbox—somebody who is well-intentioned but who has managed to get himself in way over his head.

The current issue of Consumer Reports rates coffees.  And of the 13 different coffees they rate, Eight O’Clock Coffee ($6.28/lb) was one of three they judged to be “Very Good.”  Caribou ($11.76/lb) and Kickapoo ($14.33/lb) also earned a “Very Good” rating.  Because of its price, Eight O’Clock Coffee was judged a best buy. ...

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In his guest post today, Bucky touches on a subject that plagues me every time I take a road trip. I have packed lunches often enough, but I hate eating in the car, and there are only a few routes I take that have picnic tables in nice rest stops. Here's Bucky. EL

I was struggling to come up with a Bucky’s World topic for this week, primarily because of that pesky food-reference requirement under which all the guest-posters labor.  In another blog I frequent, on Tuesday I posted the annotated lyrics to “American Pie” (Tuesday being the 50th anniversary of the day the music died) that explained definitively who “the father, son and the holy ghost” that “caught the last train for the coast” were. ...

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Usually Bucky doesn't get involved in politics, but in this case it's clearly an issue near and dear to his heart: cheeseburgers. Here's Bucky with his guest post. EL

I don’t know how many Sandboxers caught the new show, running on the National Geographic channel, about Air Force One.  Very interesting.  I never knew, for example, that whenever the President flies on Air Force One, a second, backup 747 that is exactly like the primary aircraft, follows him around in case the primary Air Force One breaks down.  That’s good planning. ...

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The comment that made me laugh out loud last week was this from Bucky:

"the cook is bagging up your order and you are fixing your own salad, then the server isn't doing anything but taking your money, it seems to me. That makes him/her a cashier, doesn't it? Do we tip cashiers now?

(In these instances, I always find it helpful to ask myself, 'What would Springs1 do?')"

I didn't want to make it the Comment of the Week because a) it would involve too much explaining if you aren't a regular, and b) I don't want Bucky to get a swelled head.

But then when I got the following guest post from him, I realized we'll have to explain Springs1 to those who have just joined us. Here's the link. It will take awhile to read through all the comments, but it's well worth it.

And here's Bucky's guest post. EL...

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I'm terrified that my daughter will read this guest post from Bucky.

We never regularly had dessert after dinner in my family; but when I married, "I promise to love, honor and cherish and provide dessert every night, preferably in the form of chocolate" was actually incorporated into the service. Gailor grew up expecting dessert after dinner every single night.

Then one day she came up with the concept of "lunch dessert."

You can see how Bucky's post could be a problem. Anyway, here he is. EL

So, last Saturday evening, we did what we often do; we had breakfast for supper.  We had scrambled eggs, bacon and toast.  When we were done, I asked Kaikala, “What’s for dessert?”

She gave me that look and replied, “We had breakfast.  There is no dessert.” ...

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How did I somehow know I was going to regret my introduction to Bucky's post last week? But I can't let him get away with talking about the weather. I'm the only one who's allowed to talk about the weather on this blog. For instance, I was sitting here brooding about tomorrow's forecast on the Sun's weather page instead of publishing his guest entry. By the time you read this, it may change, but as of now the forecast for tomorrow in its entirety is: ice pellets.

Ice pellets? What kind of forecast is that?

Anyway, here's Bucky. EL

EL‘s introduction to my topic last Friday said, "Sorry, Bucky. Nice try. But you have to have more food in a post on a food blog."

I guess this means that Elizabeth has a beef with me.  She can be a real tough cookie, if you didn’t know. ...

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I took this with me and read it on my trip. At first I was going to send Bucky an e-mail that said, "Sorry, Bucky. Nice try. But you have to have more food in a post on a food blog." (This is a continuing problem with all my guest posters.)

But then I realized it was 90 degrees and sunny where I was, and I couldn't pass up the opportunity for a legitimate gloat. Just skip to the last sentence if you want to stay on topic. EL

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I was depressed enough about 2008 to hope that 2009 would hold better things for me. It turns out that's not true, if I'm to believe my  horoscope. And it's almost impossible not to, isn't it? (I'm a Pisces.) Thanks, Bucky. EL

The Official 2009 Bucky Horoscope

(And zodiac food selections, so I meet the “dining reference requirement.”)

Capricorn (December 22 to January 19)

New Year 2009 will be one that proves the old adage, “When one door closes, another one opens.” But not for you. When your door closes in 2009, you will be left standing out in the cold, in your bare feet. This year will be a composite of all your worst dreams: it will be like you are flying, naked, around your old high school, trying to find the room where you are suppose to take a test, while being chased by a mob of demons, all with big cigars.

You should avoid travel, relationships and, above all, career changes during 2009. It is a year full of promise and opportunity but—pay close attention here—not for you.

Zodiac food selection:  Capricorn-on-the-cob ...

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For someone who says he knows nothing about food, I think our friend Bucky is progressing nicely. In today's bit of culinary nostalgia, our guest poster from the big rectangular state out West even gives us a recipe. EL

Which is your favorite meal of the day? Mine is lunch and it has been for a long time.

 Lunch is on my mind because a bunch of us had one of our periodic grilled-cheese-sandwich-and-tomato-soup lunches at work the other day. We do that, sometimes, when it gets cold. I bring in my long electric griddle and a couple of people bring in crock pots to heat the soup in.


I never ate “hot lunch” at school; I always brought my lunch from home. In elementary school, I carried it in a Roy Rogers lunchbox. I still have that lunchbox, and every once in a while, I look on eBay to see how much it’s worth. (A lot.) But I would never sell it. ...

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This is one of those days when everything I post is weirder than the last. I need to roll up my sleeves and get to work on the kind of entry that I know you're waiting breathlessly for -- the kind other food bloggers post. You know, like the 208 Hottest Menu Trends for 2009. But until then...Here's Bucky. EL

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 One of these photos is the real Bucky. He will send you a fantastic prize if you can guess which one. EL

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There ought to be a law against making someone post a photo this ugly this early in the morning the day after Thanksgiving.

Ah, yes, the holiday pot luck. Certainly one of my favorite events of the year. And Bucky tells us exactly why.

Mr. McIntyre, Bucky made me put that headline on his guest post. EL

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Bucky has brought up an interesting topic today: Foods you don't eat because they offend one of your senses (other than taste).

For me, it can't offend my sense of smell, which is fairly acute. Or maybe things smell good to me that don't smell good to others (some cheeses, for instance) because they taste good. I'm not sure which came first.

Anyway, here's Bucky. EL

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Finally someone has articulated what makes our blog great. Thanks, Bucky.

I think.

For those of you who are just dropping by, Bucky lives in Colorado. After I read this, I was trying to think of not-a-foodie foods unique to this part of the country. The best example, I think, is the stuffed and fried hard shell crab.

Here's Bucky: ...

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Because Bucky hasn't known me long, he doesn't know that I'm very fond of toast. He couldn't figure out why I was so attached to this particular post when he felt he had come up with other, better ones that he kept making me replace it with.

It reminds me of the time after a hurricane's remnants passed through here and we didn't have power in our neighborhood for a week. After about five days I ran into my next door neighbor, and she said, "You know what I miss most?"

Without missing a beat we said in unison, "Toast."

I LOVE this video, by the way.

Here's Bucky: ...

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OK, I cheated a bit with that headline. This is a carefully crafted and thoughtful post by our friend and guest poster Bronco Bucky that was hard to sum up with just a few words. But it's not entirely off base, as you will see if you read on. EL 

A few days ago, bill wrote a comment that struck me as interesting.  In talking about a call to 311 that resulted in his car being towed, bill said he felt "reasonable rage" over the situation.

Let me digress for a moment and say I’m fascinated by the concept of 311.  I am assuming, from the context of the discussion, that it is used to report things that are only about one third as important as what 911 is used for. 

What a concept. 

This is why y’all back east are considered more civilized than those of us out here in the Mountain Time zone.  Here, if the situation isn’t important enough to call 911, you just shoot the perpetrator yourself, rather than waiting for the police to come and do it for you.  It’s why we overwhelmingly support "must-issue, concealed carry" laws.

But back to the topic at hand. …

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This is the entry you've been waiting for. The one where you CAN'T go off topic. Here's Guest Blogger Bucky. EL

Commenter's Choice Friday

I think all of us have had the D@L experience, at one time or another, of having an epiphanic, yet random, moment that we want to share with the Sandbox, but not being able to find an appropriate topic to put it under.

I’m from HR and I’m here to help you.

Today’s topic: ...

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The concept of guest posters was born to make the blogger's life easier introduce new voices and fresh ideas to the blog. For instance, your restaurant critic is not going to be writing much about hot dogs, and yet look! We have two posts about them in one week.

Notice the clever way I worked "hot dog" into the headline, even though as you read you will start to wonder where the hot dog comes in. That's because, as I explained when Bucky worried that Multimedia Editor Emeritus John had scooped him on Wednesday, hot dogs translate into more page views -- almost as many as Sarah Palin.

I can't bring myself to write about them as much as I should (although I'm not above eating one), so the more hot dog posts by others, the better.

However, this is a weird coincidence. Bucky sent me his thoughts last Saturday, long before he read John's post.

Could he actually be John?

One other thought: How many people know how old their toilets are?

Bucky, by the way, says he wants to be a recurring, but not regular, contributor.

Clever boy. 

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