From scratch is an idiom meaning “from the start” (as in a starting line scratched in the dirt for a footrace)

And in the context of food it means “cooked by myself from basic ingredients.” I don’t think OP means they grew the wheat, maybe not the jam berries, but they made the English muffin from dough using flour and yeast etc, not a mix and not store bought. They boiled up the jam from fresh fruit, and made the pectin to thicken it rather than buying pectin powder. They didn’t do all that tonight, in fact the elderberry mead started 6 years ago. And I bet it’s damn good!

In 1929 someone celebrated “Kill a Colonizer Day” by gunning down seven of Bugs Malone’s gang that had been colonizing Capone’s turf.

You know, I actually have one of those pull-out ones and I almost never use it! It came with the home but it’s so big it doesn’t fit well in the sink to clean it.

Trying to hew closer to the original grammar rather than preserve the poetry:

You know also that the forms of speech can change within a thousand years.

And words too, which at the time were prized, but now, shockingly foolish and weird we think them.

And yet they spoke them so, and succeeded as well in love as we.

A thousand years? That’s so 1380 of you, Jeff! I can think of cringey '80s pick-up lines that fit this standard.

They should be in jail, they’re a threat to the community.

I think they’re cheese waxes like from Laughing Cow. They’re saying “melt down old cheese waxes to make romantic red tea-light candles for your Valentine.”

Edit to add, “you may fascinate a woman with a piece of cheese.” So bring some more Babybels to eat in the Jacuzzi by candlelight.

With pull tabs you’d still need to hold the can down anyway.

White people willing and able to do construction work in Texas cost more, if they can be found at all.

My first thought: how’d you open the cans? But I guess you must have an electric can opener.

Skip rock. Throw stick for dog.

Equivalent of “stuffed to the gills”

The best way to help Cheeto get fit is to play actively with him.

Honored, you mean. 😸

Grab a head of romaine next time, slice it up and rinse it and have it in the fridge so you can grab a handful to add to your sandwich or bed under your hot chicken to catch the juices. Maybe grab an apple while you’re in the produce section.

Unfair to Linus, who is a kind and caring individual. For instance young Snoopy often stole his blanket and he never shot the puppy.

ESPECIALLY for toddlers!!

Personally I prefer to say, “What a beautiful toy you have! May I admire it?” and hand it back with “Thank you for the honor of holding your magnificent toy!” Or “seeing” if they didn’t let go of it.

Personally I prefer to say, “What a beautiful toy you have! May I admire it?” and hand it back with “Thank you for the honor of holding your magnificent toy!” Or “seeing” if they didn’t let go of it.

For those of you with MAGA family members, and who might live in states which require ID to vote: most people might pat a pocket to check that they have their wallet but aren’t likely to check their driver’s license is actually in there. Getting stuck without it at the polls might not completely stop them voting but we all have seen conservatives change their tune when something impacts them. The license could turn up at someplace like their grocery store…

I once did a project with my 3rd graders where we looked at a bunch of poems and cartoons from The New Yorker and then they tried to do one of each. It seemed like almost all of the adult poems had death as a major theme, so I specifically told them something like “that’s a topic for old people, try to write about Life instead.” I sent them outside to look at something in “Nature” (well, a suburban school playground) and come up with a metaphor for their poem. The only rules for the cartoon were, one picture, one line, and both should be necessary. Humor preferred but optional, same for social commentary. They came out surprisingly well as a whole, and I bound them as “The Third Grader” for the class library.

Yes I don’t know what happened there, fixing it!