Usually, I worked in a couple of buildings where the government was the owner or tenant and they both had 13th floors. In the 2nd one my office was on the 13th, the elevators had gotten a janky & behaved oddly sometimes, I half-expected the doors to open to Anthony Perkins sharpening a knife on 13.

The other option will be dropping postal mail shipping in favour of much more expensive courier shipping with customs brokerage bundled in (which could then result in “surprise” duties owing for the buyer.

You’re not wrong

Cremini mushrooms and portobello mushrooms have nothing to do with Italy, they were given Italian sounding names as a marketing gimmick

All of the white button mushrooms sold worldwide are descendants of a single mutant mushroom found on a brown mushroom farm in Pennsylvania

Went to see Altered States at the University Theatre (RIP) in Toronto, sat in the balcony front row, at that moment when the Hurt character opens a door and there’s a fiery landscape on the other side my friend went “holy shit” and reflexively squeezed his popcorn bucket showering popcorn all over.

But once they do that the Russians will release the compromat, which, no surprise, has basically the same content as the Epstein list

I fought that fight for my pacemaker replacement, we eventually settled on car share being acceptable as long as my wife (who doesn’t have a DL) accompanied me.

Monkey thing? I wish I could give blood since I have iron overload disease but unfortunately some of my cardiac medications are not approved for donation.

I mean I get it but I still remain a little surprised that the vast majority of Japanese cats are named one of the synonyms for spherical

I’m pretty sure I have a set of bookends made this way, I’ll have to check for labels

Haig as well perhaps?

Ok while we’re talking about disappeared snack foods anyone remember a Nabisco cracker, about 2 inches around and coated on one side in sesame seeds. Usually packaged two to a little plastic packet.

The cheddar flavour is an abomination, original only

More or less still available in Canada as “Bits & Bites” but they have “toasted oats” (i.e. Cheerios but not violating the trademark) instead of peanuts. The best part is you can assemble multiple oat rings on a pretzel skewer for added amusement.

Thomas Edison’s supposed last breath in a sealed test tube at the Henry Ford Museum www.thehenryford.org/collections-...