Weather Report

Global warming, climate change - call it what you will, there is something occurring to our environment that is unsettling at best. In upstate New York, it is almost January 30th, normally the height of midwinter. At 11:21 pm, it is 50 degrees and there is absolutely no snow on the ground. The local weather news includes the fact that there are early blossoms beginning to appear, and they have facetiously issued an "earthworm alert", meaning that earthworms are indeed appearing above ground.

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Remember, as the legend so proudly boasts, "OUR MEATS ARE FRESHLY CUT"

Herewith the "Special Cuts" edition -

"Cut Me Up?" Hey, aren't the butchers supposed to do that? What happened to "Our Meats are..."

They can't cut up their meat but they can cut up their pasta? Huh?

Now this we can understand, but still .... they are butchers ...

Ahhhh ... it all becomes clear. Who has time to butcher meats when there are all those cold cuts to be sliced?

And then there's -

After carefully inserting, probing deeply with, and then withdrawing his digit from his nostril, Harold receives an astonishing revelation.

Bonnie, who has been watching The Food Network, remarks "Good Eats!"

Peace.