Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Good point -- on average, we are well fed.

Also, on average, we each have one breast. I'm fondling mine right now.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

mjtrim.com

(heh. "trim")

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

The selection isn't as good as the stores in NYC, but there are several Jo-Ann Fabric stores in CT. If you aren't looking for anything exotic, they should have both ribbon and buttons.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Lot of fat poor people, too, and it's unpossible that they aren't getting sufficient nutrition. Because they're fat. Thus, the hunger statistics must be wrong.

And because of the mere existence of this:

http://www.friendlys.com/media/uploa...30x154_q85.jpg

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Shameless, asymmetrically-fat bastard.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I don't know what hunger statistics he's talking about, but I'm curious about what the definition of "food insecure" is: http://feedingamerica.org/faces-of-h...tatistics.aspx

TM

Incidently
 

Yesterday I ran into one of the paralegals from my old firm who was friends with The Paralegal. She was on vacation with her family (before going to law school if memory serves) and recognized me coming out of a Neolithic site here in Ireland. I didn't really place her until after awaking hands with her dad, Nd didn't remember her name until after parting.

We did not hook up.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Definitions here

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

It's defined by 42 USC §1792 as "(3) Food-insecure.—The term ‘food-insecure’ means inconsistent access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food."

Re: Incidently
 

I don't know what "awaking hands" means, as I am an old suburban monkey not in the know, but it sure sounds like you got some action with the dad. Good on you, Adder, good on you.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I probably should have said that I do not believe how many media outlets report the "food insecurity" statistics. Per that USDA report, 5.7 percent of all U.S. households had very low food security— that is, they
were food insecure to the extent that eating patterns of one or more household members were disrupted and their food intake reduced, at least some time during the year, because they couldn’t afford enough food."

First, that is not the same as hunger in America. Hell, that is every college student who ate Top Ramen at the end of the month. Second, that is once a year. Third, it doesn't address why they went hungry, i.e. was it because they bought cigarettes instead.

Regardless, one doesn't see this quasi-truth in the media. What one sees is:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...a14a66f69c6338

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Yes. These overstatements are clearly a huge problem. What you should be commenting on is the fact that so many people qualify for and take advantage of food stamps. I find those stats absolutely amazing.

TM

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Ebay.

Alternatively, if you want to pull a truck up to our house someday...

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

You're seriously surprised that the media takes a stat that has some nuance to it and reports it in the most attention grabbing manner possible? I had previously thought of you as a reasonably perceptive chap.

And even your quoted meaning of "very low food security" insufficiently conveys the actual data, so what do you expect the chuckleheads who write the news to do to properly convey the real situation, a situation which is still only coarsely measured by the actual data?

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Are you looking for volume or something in particular? Etsy can be a great source for the unusual.