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I am an ENFP, procrastinator, and inventor of holidays. I wish I needed my own business cards. My daughter says that I'm a good fixer of things.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. ~H. Allen Smith

The list is the origin of culture... ~Umberto Eco

bookmarks:
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travel (memorable locations)
SONGS
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Kate Things I Love (November 2024)

Diner lingo (vegetarian)

  • Beverages
    • Coffee
      • Beans to go
      • Belly warmer
      • Hot blonde in the sand (w/cream & sugar)
      • Cup of mud
      • Dirty water
      • Draw one in the dark
      • Flowing Mississippi
      • Java
      • Mud of murk
      • Frosty Joe (iced)
    • Water
      • 81
      • Adam's ale with hail (ice)
      • Balloon juice (soda water)
      • Dog soup
      • One on the city
    • Milk
      • 5
      • Baby
      • Cow juice
      • Moo juice
      • Sweet Alice
    • Tea
      • Boiled leaves
      • Cold spot (iced)
      • English winter (iced)
      • Leaves in the hail (iced)
      • PT (pot)
      • Arnold Palmer (half sweet tea half lemonade)
    • Juice
      • 21 (limeade)
      • 41 (lemonade)
      • Battery acid (grapefruit)
      • Florida tonic (oj)
      • Hug one (oj)
      • Oh gee (oj)
      • Sun kiss (oj)
      • Squeeze one (oj)
      • Virgin Mary (tomato)
    • Soda
      • 55 (rootbeer)
      • Black water (rootbeer)
      • M.D. (Dr. Pepper)
      • Stretch one & paint it red (cherry cola)
      • Swamp water (soda made with all flavors)
    • Yummy
      • 51 (hot chocolate)
      • Black & white (chocolate soda w/ vanilla ice-cream)
      • Black cow (chocolate milk)
      • Hoboken special (pineapple soda & chocolate ice-cream)
      • Hot cha (hot chocolate)
      • In the hay (strawberry milkshake)
      • Jerk (ice-cream soda)
      • P.C. (chocolate milk)
      • Shake it (milkshake)
      • Velvet (milkshake)
      • White cow (vanilla milkshake)
  • Food
    • Meal
      • B & B (bread & butter)
      • Baled hay (shredded wheat)
      • Birdseed (cereal)
      • Burn the Brittish (English muffin)
      • C.J. Boston (cream cheese & jelly sandwich)
      • Cremate a blue, bikini cut (well toasted blueberry muffin, cut in four pieces)
      • Dog & maggot (crackers & cheese)
      • Dough well done with cow to cover (buttered toast)
      • Elephant dandruff (corn flakes)
      • Hope (oatmeal)
      • Looseners (prunes)
      • Love apples (tomato)
      • Maiden's delight (cherries)
      • Old maids (prunes)
      • One from the Alps (Swiss cheese sandwich)
      • Shingle with a shimmy & a shake (toast with jam)
      • Wheat down (wheat toast)
      • Whiskey down (rye toast)
    • Dessert
      • A-pie (apple pie)
      • Barked pie (fruit cobbler)
      • Belly chokers (doughnuts)
      • Bucket of cold mud (chocolate ice-cream)
      • Chicago sundae (pineapple)
      • Choker hole (doughnuts)
      • Coke pie (coconut)
      • Corrugated roof (lemon meringue pie)
      • Dusty Miller (chocolate pudding topped with malt)
      • Eve with a lid on (apple pie)
      • Fly cake (raisin)
      • Georgia pie (peach)
      • Houseboat (banana split)
      • Jack Benny in the red (strawberry jello)
      • Let it swim (ice cream on top)
      • Life preservers (doughnuts)
      • Magoo (custard pie)
      • Nervous pudding (jello)
      • Pink stick (strawberry ice-cream)
      • Roach cake (raisin)
      • Shivering hay (strawberry jello)
      • Sinkers & suds (coffee & doughnuts)
      • Sleigh ride special (vanilla pudding)
      • Snowball (vanilla ice-cream)
      • Submarine (doughnuts)
      • Sunny sundae (pineapple)
      • Virtue (cherry pie)
    • Cereal (in bulk bins)
      • Cocoa Puffs 
      • Lucky Charms
      • Rice Crispy Treat
      • Cookie Crisp
      • Shredded Wheat (baled hay)
      • Kix
      • Cap'n Crunch
      • Cheerios
      • Cinnamon Toast Crunch 
      • Grape Nuts
      • Granola 
      • Fruit Loops
      • Trix
      • Rice Crispies
      • Corn Flakes
      • Cream of Wheat with sprinkles stirred in
    • Peanut Butter sandwich (variables)
      • Marshmallow 
      • Jelly (grape)
      • Preserves (strawberry, pineapple/apricot, cherry)
      • Jam (blackberry)
      • Apple butter
      • Marmalade 
      • Fluffer Nutter
      • Creamy peanut butter
      • Crunchy peanut butter
      • Natural peanut butter
      • Honey roasted peanut butter
      • Maple syrup (Vermont or motor oil)
      • Brown sugar
      • Powdered sugar
      • Pickles
      • Mayo
      • Bananas
      • Honey
    • Gourmet popsicles
      • tba
    • Music (no set genre)
      • Think ~Aretha Franklin (Blues Brothers diner scene)
      • Misirlou ~Dick Dale (Pulp Fiction diner scene)
    • Design
      • Googie architecture and signage
      • Colors - that bright lipstick old ladies wear because their eyesight is failing them, that unnaturally bright red old ladies knit afghans with, bright white
      • Mid-century modern furniture 
      • Lot's of chrome 
      • Gottlieb 1975 bowling pinball machine

Not complete. I'm tired of typing

jun 4 2011 ∞
jan 5 2013 +