What makes you laugh?

[joethefoodie]

More funny to me...your GF has a roommate. Did you go to the dorms?

[Wilfrid]

"Oh dear, it has a hole in it."

[voyager]

Our across-the-street neighbor has been renovating for well over a year.   They have essentially replaced the house...several times over.    Today a landscaper has delivered 2 dozen 12ft tall Cypress trees for the back yard.   It looks like the forest of Great Bernam has come again.    I mean. The yard isn’t that big, maybe 25x25.

[Sneakeater]

It’s when Bernam Wood starts moving up the hill that you have to worry. 

[StephanieL]

It's OK--she's nowhere near Dunsinane.

[voyager]

Yesterday afternoon, a crew iof minions carried half these trees (which husband corrected me numbered closer to 30) down the hill to the front of their property.    Now THAT was creepy.

[Sneakeater]

If the trees are moving toward your neighbor's house, it sounds like it's more HIS problem.

[Sneakeater]

Were either you or your husband not born of woman?

[voyager]

Well, this made ME laugh.   The other night I was trying to bring a situation to husband's mind.    We had joined friends for an antique event in north-mid Massachusetts.   All I could remember was that the name of the town was somewhat "off".   I couldn't rattle his memory by describing the friends, the items he was looking for or the hotel or the name of the town.   OK, forget about it.  

But I just pulled up a Google map of MA and, bingo!    Athol.    One of my favorite repeated lines from "Lion, Witch and Wardrobe".

[bloviatrix]

I"m not sure how we got on the topic of durian the other evening at bedtime, but the boy informed me that while it smells like death it tastes delicious.

[voyager]

2 hours ago, bloviatrix said:

I"m not sure how we got on the topic of durian the other evening at bedtime, but the boy informed me that while it smells like death it tastes delicious.

 

Sounds like some cheeses I've met.

[Sneakeater]

I can honestly say that in 50 or so years we shared space on the planet, my mother and I never discussed durian.

[bloviatrix]

1 hour ago, Sneakeater said:

I can honestly say that in 50 or so years we shared space on the planet, my mother and I never discussed durian.

I don't think I've ever discussed it with my mother either. Come to think of it, I'm not even sure she ever heard of the durian.

[Steve R.]

Just about the only food I passed on at a World Tong dim sum ages ago.  Sivan was happy to eat my share.

[beccaboo]

5 hours ago, bloviatrix said:

I don't think I've ever discussed it with my mother either. Come to think of it, I'm not even sure she ever heard of the durian.

My mother and I made durian ice cream! And my daughter and I often go out for avocado-durian smoothies. The smoothie people usually ask if we know what we're getting into.