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laurenzo Jun 11th, 2006 07:16 PM

I had fried mini snickers with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce one time at this gourmet restaurant and it was divine!

JAGIRL Jun 11th, 2006 07:50 PM

May 25th is National Towel Day I suspect Faina might already know this!)

February 21st is National Sticky Bun Day.

Scarlett Jun 11th, 2006 09:19 PM

Bummer, I have to wait until Feb 21st ?? to celebrate Sticky Bun Day? :(

Is here a National Chocolate Cake day?

Intrepid1 Jun 12th, 2006 01:04 AM

The correct answer is Indianapolis but technically I suppose Oklahoma City is also correct so I guess there are TWO capital cities which do so.

Intrepid1 Jun 12th, 2006 01:08 AM

Fudge...easy...
Heat one can of Eagle Brand over LOW heat

Add a bunch of chocolate chips and walnuts or pecans; stir until blended

Add a couple TBP of butter

Pour into 9X13 pan and refrigerate until cooled and set.

JAGIRL Jun 12th, 2006 04:45 AM

National Cheesecake Day : July 30
National Dessert Month : October
National Pie Day : December 1

American Chocolate Week--March 14-20
National Chocolate Day--October 28
National Chocolate Day--December 28
National Chocolate Day--December 29
National Milk Chocolate Day--July 28
National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day--November 7
National Chocolate Mint Day--February 19
National Chocolate Chip Day--May 15
National Chocolate Eclair Day--June 22
National Chocolate Covered Anything Day--December 16
National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day--March 24
National Chocolate Custard Month--May 1-31
National Chocolate Pudding Day--June 26
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day--June 7
National Chocolate Milkshake Day--September 12

bennnie Jun 12th, 2006 05:54 AM

My daughter's nickname since she was born has been Cootch but no one has any idea why.

JJ5 Jun 12th, 2006 06:55 AM

FainaAgain gets my first monthly Best Thread award to the OP with an original Friday anti-work thread.

But it can't get too organized because then it will become useful. Well I guess it already is because it was useful in making me laugh. VERY USEFUL.

Totally useless in general but interesting to some:

There is a deepsea angler fish which mystified biologists for many years. The fish is about 46mm long and has all kinds of spikes and bulges on its body. They could never identify any male fish, the fish they caught or studied were always all female.

Finally someone figured out that one of the protuberances on the body and tail were males about 6.2mm long. They at some early stage become parasites to the female. She is 8 times larger than he is and she could have 2 or 3 handy for egg fertilizing. The male's mouth disolves and they even lose their own blood supply- fusing right into the female's.

And you thought you were always doing the majority of the housework.

GeorgeW Jun 12th, 2006 07:01 AM

I got the opportunity to fly over the beautiful Chesapeake Bay Saturday morning courtesy of the MD state police helicopter due to an unfortunate event with a riding lawnmower. A somewhat useless part of my pinky finger was disposed of at Union Memorial in Baltimore and a lesson has been learned.

JJ5 Jun 12th, 2006 07:21 AM

Ouch, sorry.

Scarlett Jun 12th, 2006 08:21 AM

My condolences on the loss of part of your pinkie, George :(

Here, have a piece of cake ((F))

JAGIRL Jun 12th, 2006 08:24 AM

Sorry to hear of your pinky GeorgeW.
Curious though...what was the lesson learned?

Or will that info be so useful that we'll have to be kept in suspense until Faina posts her upcoming <font color="blue">Friday Fun: useful info thread? </font>

bobrad Jun 12th, 2006 08:37 AM

4 out of every 3 people have problems with fractions.

GeorgeW Jun 12th, 2006 08:46 AM

Lesson learned- when one of your belt rotors is inert on your riding lawnmower, don't do a fool thing like use your hand to prod your rotor to start spinning. It might start spinning again at a moments' notice.

LoveItaly Jun 12th, 2006 08:47 AM

4 out of 3 people?????

Does that mean 1 out of every 3 people have a split personality???

P_M Jun 12th, 2006 08:57 AM

I don't know about that, LoveItaly, I'll have to ask my alter ego, M_P. She's the smart one....

P_M Jun 12th, 2006 09:03 AM

JAGIRL, your info on all of those National Sweets Days is indeed useFUL information, as I now plan to celebrate all of those important dates accordingly. Hence that info is uselsess on an useless info thread....if that makes any sense.

I like most all sweets but not sticky buns. That name &quot;sticky buns&quot; conjurs up images of me sitting in maple syrup and not being able to get up. :-[

starrsville Jun 12th, 2006 09:09 AM

&gt;&gt;&gt; 4 out of every 3 people have problems with fractions&lt;&lt;&lt;

Reminds me of a former co-worker's favorite joke -

He and his wife were considering having another child (they had 3 kids) but reconsidered when he heard that 1 out of every 4 babies in the world was Chinese. They decided they prefer not to have a Chinese baby.

Inside joke - he was a middle school math teacher. He loved the play on meaning :-)

P_M Jun 12th, 2006 09:15 AM

good one, starrsy!!

Your story reminded me of a useless fact. My great-grandmother was the first white baby born in Guthrie, OK, which was then the capital city. At that time Oklahoma was still called Indian Territory, as it was reserved for Native Americans only. Which makes me wonder how or why my white ancestors were living there.... :-?

JAGIRL Jun 12th, 2006 09:23 AM

Well P_M, Scarlett did ask.
How could I do her the grave disservice of not alerting her to the many days devoted to celebrating chocolate! :-)


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