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Working 'til gametime then rushing home to watch a Pats victory. Will head to bar later after all the drunks go home.

On crusty bread with some goat cheese.

Guacamole recipe 101 - avocado, jalapeno, onion, salt, lime. You can take it other places e.g., garlic, serrano, black olive, tomato, but you don't have to. The first five make it perfect.

@AnthonyC - lime juice brightens it a bit and widens the flavor profile. If you don't think you need it, then maybe you actually need more than you have used in the past.

Yellow mustard and dill pickle relish. Sweet pickle relish is a vulgar abomination in the eyes of Helldog.

Here is my MD 20/20 story. The night before I left for college, I drank a bottle of grape Mad Dog and nine cans of Molson Ice. Needless to say, I did not feel great in the morning. My Mom picked me up to drive me to college. She proceeded to tell me about condoms and how I should be sure to use them. Over a 24 hour period it was the best of times, and it was the worst of times.

I bet I am the only person who remembers these tasty treats, but Weaver Chicken Turnovers were one of the best things I ever ate as a child. I think they came four to a pack, and I don't know if I was ever "big enough" to eat two of them before they disappeared. I think everyone in my family other than my sister remember and miss them dearly.

@ geeyore:

'"Not so much" is just one of a series of contagious phrases to take hold in recent years. Not so long ago, every other sentence trailed off into "yada yada yada." Before that, everyone had "been there, done that." And more recently, if you asked too many questions about something, you might be told quite simply: "It is what it is."

But how do these phrases come into vogue? It helps, of course, to have a celebrity standard bearer. For the phrase "not so much," that would be Stewart, host of Comedy Central's "Daily Show." He famously gives the words an expert, drawn-out delivery, pausing to consider whether the subject at hand passes muster before nailing it with a "not so much."

Though the phrase has become widely identified with Stewart, it appeared on several other television shows dating back to the early 1990s, including "Mad About You" and "Friends." But it didn't achieve widespread popularity until the beginning of the current decade, when it began to appear on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

It sneaked into the vernacular by becoming what linguists call a "camouflaged form" of speech, said Michael Adams, professor of English at Indiana University and author of "Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon."

"It would be very easy for it to migrate, because it would change its meaning just a little bit every time it got used until suddenly it was that dismissive not so much.' "

While Buffy may not have coined "not so much," the show's language was unusually experimental and influential, including such neologisms as "afterness," "heart-of-darknessy" and "suckage."

Before its writers tackled "not so much," they had already pushed "so" and "much" into novel roles.

"We so need to get out of here," a character would say at a precarious moment, or "Morbid much?" when another dwelt on gory details. Before long, "not so much" was a regular part of Buffy's linguistic arsenal.

"You've changed," Buffy once said to a character whose appearance had improved after he got his soul back. "Not so much with the crazy."

And when another character said, "Willow's good at all that computer stuff, but me, not so much," a thousand punch lines, online quips and newspaper headlines followed."

You asked, so there is your answer. Buffy FTW!

I held my little dachshund Cecelia Louise as she departed, and I was happy to have been there for her. It sucked worse than anything ever in my life, but I owed her for what she gave to me. That is the price of the unconditional love they give to us. I'm so sorry for the loss of Dumpling, but you were good parents and you gave Dumps a great life so take comfort in that. You and your wife are in my thoughts.

Olive sauce. Sure, you get it on an olive burger, but that means there are a lot of burgers lacking it as a topping.

tryitall - We did our best to get Vivio's on the list, but we failed. No worries! Still, like I mentioned in the nomination thread, get a greasebomb pepperoni-and-something pizza from the Pinehurst some night. It is best if it is a long bar night, though, because it isn't classy pie or classy company.

I made a retro salad of Spam, lime Jell-o, onions, green peppers, mayo, sour cream, diced celery, quartered hard-boiled eggs and a couple other ingredients. It was worse than you would expect.

My school lunch pizza was either a pita bread pizza or a regular cut rectangle piece. Rectangle was available most days, and I loved to scrape all the cheese off and put them on my fries. I'd eat the "crust" and then the mashup of fries and pizza cheese. I would not advise doing this on days where you have track practice, but it took me a while to figure that out on my own.