trinacriabob

There are some pasta sauces that have bacon, but they call it pancetta (pahn-chet-tah). The sauce I refer to is boscaiola sauce. It is a tomato cream sauce with egg, onions and pancetta (and sometimes even mushrooms). I prefer any of the cream-based pasta sauces (Alfredo, carbonara, boscaiola, gorgonzola, pesto cream) over tomato marinara-type pasta sauces. Bacon is an awesome addition to any food but, man, in large quantities, it is dangerous.

Sonic Burger (do you have those in Michigan and the East Coast?)

I am sure it will last a long time and you probably got it for a good (reasonable) price.

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ISTJs are your engineers, accountants, pharmacists, etc, etc....people involved in precise detailed stuff, but the TJ part gives them some managerial aspects.

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Since I'm only 1 point over into E, I'll go with ISTJ for myself. I think it's a good category and I like what the profile indicates. For some reason, the big movers and shakers in this world supposedly test as ENTJs, with the people who do their work for them testing as ESTJs.

I get this one, too. However, the results are scaled. I tip into the "E" category by a slim margin. I guess figuring out there are so many jerks in this world, it's easier to be "I" than "E."

Very classless and mean-spirited...I wouldn't make an inference like that about someone I didn't know and hadn't met response to thread: Bombay

The Aura felt small...it's related to the G6 and not the GP, right? I like the grille and the taillamps on the Aura, and the corrugated applique on the dash insets...other than that, not much more. I've never seen one in a rental fleet.

Agreed. I'm not to the level of "hating" it, but "strongly indifferent" is about as bad. I see it as a collage of a lot of current cars it is trying to emulate. Sadly, I can't say that about the Fusion nor the new Taurus. The way the (sales) numbers will shake out for this segment will be interesting.

Please translate.

GP sits in the mid-size car line-up like a hotel does within a string of hotel chains. GP is like the Holiday Inn. For some people, they have to stay at a Holiday Inn to be able to afford their vacation. You get better digs when you pay more, for a Hilton or an Intercontinental or a Ritz Carlton, with the latter being akin to BMW-Mercedes range. There's a reason why there are price points. Some people can only spend so much and seek the best price/quality ratio they can. Since I still see tons of 97 GPs with either a 3.1 or a 3.8, and with over 200K, on the road, they can't be THAT bad. Also, when you pay $22.99 a day or $169.99 a week and they hand you keys to a GP, there's not much room to complain. In Europe, it's $269.99 a week for a Smart car, or other econobox. At least it's not a Motel 6 (Aveo, Hyundai, etc.)

You share a birthday with Bill Clinton. Depending on who you are, that can be good or bad! cspec!

JIF chunky/crunchy...(is there such a thing as bad peanut butter?) Dropped all the good stuff except for a buffet 1 or 2x a week and lost 20 lbs. and my cholesterol returned to normal range without meds. Gotten away from PB lately. Used to do the English muffin with PB/strawberry jelly every morning. No longer.

Kirstie Alley (wax and wane and wax and wane)

No, I've usually ordered halibut, salmon and red snapper. I will look for it. Snapper is often on the daily special menu at a lot of places. Vegas is a food lover's paradise. For buffets, the best price/quality relationship is at The Mirage (and cheaper if you show up before 3 or 4 when it changes to dinner pricing), according to a friend who has been living there for 5 years now.

Can't blame you for the kick. One reads the nutritionals and figures out that (non-shell) fish has it all. I hate clams, mussels, calamari and all that stuff. OTOH, I can't get enough of the fish that serves up like a slab of steak. In the 80s and 90s, there was a chain in SoCal called "The Seafood Broiler" - reasonably priced, fresh, tasty and it seemed to always have a decent amount of people in there - don't know why it bellied up.

As it should be. Yesterday, it was a friend of mine's b-day and he works a few blocks from me, so I bought him lunch at a non-chain fern bar/microbrewery. I ordered the cod and chips for $12.99. The beer-batter sucked and it interfered with the taste of the fish. I also think that cod should be chalk white. It was white in some fillets and a little darker in others. This place is only good for their tri-tip or chicken sands, and not much else. The $6.99 dive I patronize serves WAY better fish and chips. Still, cod is the way to go...but halibut chips can be decent, too.

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realtor (hate the pronunciation: real-a-tehr)

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