How does your state work?

[scotchandcigar]

We need the high income, because everything's expensive. Also, there are probably other places with higher pay scales, but here it's more necessary to have 2 high-earning family members.

 

[Aaron]

Without looking it up, does anyone know the word “lagniappe”?

It’s an everyday word here.

 

[HecticArt]

Is it a food?

 

[scotchandcigar]

Is it a food?

Mrs. Scotch makes a great vegetable lagniappe. Otherwise, never heard the word.

 

[Aaron]

Lagniappe is a little something extra, like a baker’s dozen, a small extra gift or something. “Lan-yap”

I saw that coach Sean Payton used that word in a press conference after the Broncos game (because he picked up the word from all the years in New Orleans) and realized probably most people watching or listening wouldn’t know what that meant.

 

[Aaron]

I guess you guys don’t get cake that has a strange plastic naked baby in it.

 

[HecticArt]

The strange plastic babies in my cakes are all fully clothed.
There are no pervy cakes in THIS household!

 

[scotchandcigar]

The guy running for Susan Collins' Maine senate seat is as testosterone-filled and alpha-dog as it gets. His name is Graham Platner, and he's a Marine vet and oyster fisherman. He's got this gruff, gravelly voice, and he always looks like he just got off a Harley. Here he is, crowd surfing at the Dropkick Murphys concert.

 

[Aaron]

Wow I had him pegged as being for the other party.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Wow I had him pegged as being for the other party.

He was actually introduced to politics by Bernie Sanders, so he's in that mold.

 

[HecticArt]

Dropkick sounds good, and Platner didn’t do a bad job with the sing-along.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Happy Patriots Day everyone! They run the Boston Marathon today. At my workplace, they call this day "Monday".

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

It's Monday here too.