Texas (and the South in general) is a whole lot like Australia in that the creeping horrors of the insect world were born here, so we've got -- well, lets just say that you keep your food kept safely away, especially in the summer.
God, yes - I'm barely below the Mason-Dixon line and I learned fast to freeze new flour for a week before leaving it out in the pantry.
God, yes - I'm barely below the Mason-Dixon line and I learned fast to freeze new flour for a week before leaving it out in the pantry.
Exactly. It's just better for everyone, but most especially for the next person who goes into the pantry after a hot, humid day and gets a nasty little surprise.
We have a species of cricket here in South Texas that eats house siding. There are no words to describe what this creature looks like, only that it springs directly from your worst nightmares. The first time I saw one I screamed so loudly that the neighbors next door came running to help whoever was getting murdered.
Yep, sounds true *g* Additionally, in every American school students rank themselves from most to least popular and somehow everyone takes this seriously.
Hubster heard an author who typically used the old form (attribute dialogue to each speaker once, then everyone will be able to tell who is speaking in each turn) but they stopped doing that because people didn't get it anymore.
I recently reread a childhood favorite by an old German author (Karl May), and found a few passages where ten-year-old me had penciled little Ks on every second like of dialogue, because he'd attribute once and then just alternate, for three pages of dialogue, and at some point it was really easy to lose track of who was saying what.
A friend of mine got the shovel speech from his father-in-law at the reception after the wedding. F-I-L explained. When J. first came around S., he was part of a group. By the time FIL realized that J. and S. were actually dating FIL actually liked J. and it was too late for the speech. So, he waited until after the ceremony and during the toast. '(Hurt my baby and) I have a .45 and a shovel. No one will miss you.'
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God, yes - I'm barely below the Mason-Dixon line and I learned fast to freeze new flour for a week before leaving it out in the pantry.
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Exactly. It's just better for everyone, but most especially for the next person who goes into the pantry after a hot, humid day and gets a nasty little surprise.
We have a species of cricket here in South Texas that eats house siding. There are no words to describe what this creature looks like, only that it springs directly from your worst nightmares. The first time I saw one I screamed so loudly that the neighbors next door came running to help whoever was getting murdered.
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Additionally, in every American school students rank themselves from most to least popular and somehow everyone takes this seriously.
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I recently reread a childhood favorite by an old German author (Karl May), and found a few passages where ten-year-old me had penciled little Ks on every second like of dialogue, because he'd attribute once and then just alternate, for three pages of dialogue, and at some point it was really easy to lose track of who was saying what.
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Which, come to think of it, was also a line from 10 Things I Hate About You.
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