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You made me dig up that twenty year old 'fortune' program, with its 55000+ lines fortune collection, finding a few season related pearls. Like this one, attributed to Dave Barry:
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it "Christmas" and went to church; the Jews called it "Hanukka" and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say "Merry Christmas!" or "Happy Hanukka!" or (to the atheists) "Look out for the wall!"
I didn't find the one I was sure was there: Again, Dave Barry talking about the perfect gift - the Christmas fruitcake, so heavy that you would need a chopper to cut it. But you don't need to; none ever eats that stuff, but store it until next Christmas for use as a gift to another relative ...
I am sure that was in some Fortune database, but apparently not in the one I saved. If any of you dig up another old fortune base and find it in there, please tell me!
Another food related cookie (some serve it for Christmas):
Yeah, if it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck -- shoot it.
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trønderen wrote: If any of you dig up another old fortune base and find it in there, ple
My table was not dug up. I would periodically go to Google famous people for their quotes and daisy chain from their to other related persona. Each one type in by hand if selected.
I had some (self-imposed) constraints since this was on a page for all employees to view/use/enjoy/ignore:
Nothing political in any partisan sense (comments about politics, in general, OK. The source could be Ronald Reagan or Vladimir Lenin).
Nothing religious in for any particular religion (although sources could be biblical, Talmudic, Vedic, Fortune Cookies, etc).
I had to like it.
Not a fortune cookie, but inspirations and chuckles.
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fortune -m fruitcake says
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You can always tell the Christmas season is here when you start getting
incredibly dense, tinfoil-and-ribbon- wrapped lumps in the mail. Fruitcakes
make ideal gifts because the Postal Service has been unable to find a way to
damage them. They last forever, largely because nobody ever eats them. In
fact, many smart people save the fruitcakes they receive and send them back
to the original givers the next year; some fruitcakes have been passed back
and forth for hundreds of years.
The easiest way to make a fruitcake is to buy a darkish cake, then pound
some old, hard fruit into it with a mallet. Be sure to wear safety glasses.
-- Dave Barry, "Simple, Homespun Gifts"
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Any recent ubuntu, and probably most other linuxes....
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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 and people complain about Windows bloatware... 
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Your description makes me realize just how much I'm not a professional pastry chef.
Using, instead, the scientific method, I inspected a fruitcake and determined they are made by staining block of wood to the desired color and then, when dry, soaking it in brine until it is further preserved, and finally, in warm pond water to make it swell. Then, simply paint the appropriate images of alleged dry fruit to decorate (like decorating a tree, really, but without all the leaves in the way).
Who'd have suspected anything to do with actual cake?
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Sounds like good advice to me, allergies or not.
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Petting a cat's belly - when you can get away with it.
Eating something somebody else made for you
Spending two days writing code on your PC only for it to compile and run without a hitch on an IoT device.
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Clearly, as it's not top of your list, you've not experienced "Trader Joe's Dunkers" and some good hot coffee. One of those things that make your third item truly rise to the occasion, or, alternatively, allows you to reward yourself for the deed.
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We have a local grocer that makes wonderful doughnuts. I like them better than Trader Joe's personally, but YMMV. 
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Trader Joe's Dunkers ARE NOT DONUTS !
They are chocolate chip cookies, oblong in design[^], that have the flavor and crunch of real cookies. They call them "Dunkers" because they are, by their shape, amenable to dunking - something which I personally disapprove of as crunch is a part of the multifaceted perceptual delight.
Before the soft cookies took over.
And before the commercial "big brands" started to taste of machine oil.
You can get regular Dunkers (as I do) or go for an oral orgasm with those that have the chocolate coated back.
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Chocolate chip cookies in coffee is an abomination.
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A chocolate bar sold in Canada, which I've never seen in the US, is called Coffee Crisp. The center contains wafers and creamy coffee filling, which is then covered in chocolate. It was my favorite bar as a kid, which my friends thought was insane. 
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They should sell them in Sweden, where dunking is practically a national pastime.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Eating something somebody else made for you
And cooking a meal someone else enjoys.
I love cooking, my friend comes over several times a week and I end up cooking for her, Tuesday's is also dedicated to dinner and Star Trek (she's a Trekkie!!!) with her - we're on season 3 of Discovery and loving it.
Tonight I'm actually making a meal for another friend, and this is fully catered - I'm going over to her house with a fully cooked dinner (chicken with mushrooms in a brown miso-tahini sauce, greens with toasted sesame oil and Braggs "soy sauce", and wild rice mix with chopped pecans.) Including plates, placemats, and candles.
How did that come about? Well, I also have a weekly "cooking with K." - K. is highly functional Asperger's but needs help with recipes and a quiet focused place to cook her meals for the week. When we brought back one of the large casserole dishes to K's house, my other friend (it's an "artists in residence" house where they live) said "wow, I wish someone would cook me a meal." So today is the day I fulfill her wish!
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That's sweet. I really enjoy cooking, but I wanted to keep the list universal, and the only people that don't like cat bellies don't count. 
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This! My son is a chef. very young chef. But he works chefs hours.
I love having him cook for me and the family. He made thanksgiving gravy etc... with his mom. It was amazing. Best I have ever had and I don't like turkey meal.
I also love to dickens cooking for him. He works chefs hours and is tired of cooking for someone else and will text me on the way home. Dad can you make me some supper, I am super tired and famished. And That is a blast to make some comfort food for him while he drives home and talk to him about his day.
So both sides of this.
My List of things.
Seeing something I wrote years ago still being used by an organization.
Cooking or eating with family and close friends.
playing fetch with the dog.
Just a few of my favorite things.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Just a few parallels, even between us.
I do the cooking for my girlfriend. At this point, my wife of forty-five years and I do all the cooking (an outlet for the chemist in me).
I never cook the same thing twice - most of my friend in college were Chinese (Taiwan, British Hong Kong at that time). I learned to cook properly then (no meal plan- everyone cooked). There's one real lesson I learned from one particular friend (slept on packing bubbles on his floor for a while - quite comfortable but noisy) and that was about ingredients.
What are the correct ingredients for what you are making? Whatever you have available, those are them. Mostly one-pot cooking (if you don't count my ancient rice-cooker).
A last remark - cooking take time and effort and you can be thinking whilst you do it. Doing it for someone in need must inspire some nice things while you cook, and later, while you/they eat.
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Dang, how did you keep it KSS? 
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kss?
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kid sister-safe.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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The sticky[^] at the top used to have a more concise wording for the fifth paragraph. Something along the ways of "don't post anything you don't want your kid sister to read".
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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My kid sister says things that would curl your hair.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Spending two days writing code on your PC only for it to compile and run without a hitch
This one's impossible.
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I try to do six impossible things before breakfast 
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When I got my new job I immediately made a huge difference to the company's productivity. I used to "do three impossible things before breakfast" (actually before lunch) and got widespread praise and admiration.
After a while it was expected... and I got criticized for running out of miracles to perform! Life sucks, sometimes.
In my current job, I get respect because I ration my miracles to whenever I feel like performing them.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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