On Monday, October 13, 2014 9:38:10 AM UTC-4, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 23:29:52 -0700, "Julie Bove"
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> >"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> >> On 10/12/2014 6:33 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
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> >>> I confess. As much as I love my wife dearly, I wish she would stay out
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> >>> of the kitchen when I am cooking. I cooked up some ox tails for supper
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> >>> tonight. I started them yesterday, braised them for a while and then
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> >>> let then cool overnight, skimmed off the fat and put them back in the
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> >>> oven at 300 for a couple hours today.
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> >>> I took out the tails to let them cool so I could strip off the meat and
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> >>> reduce the juice. Megatron came into the kitchen while I was doing
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> >>> that. I was distracted for a moment. Then I reached over and pulled the
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> >>> top off the pot.... forgetting it had just come out of the oven. I now
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> >>> have a set of burn blisters on my thumb and forefinger.
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> >> You call your wife Megatron?
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> >> I don't know about you but I'd have already had the pot holders right
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> >> there from just having taken the pot out of the oven. It's sort of
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> >> automatic to also grab one to take the lid off the hot pan. Don't blame
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> >> your wife. I don't care for people in the kitchen when I'm cooking,
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> >> either, but I don't blame them if I do something stupid.
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> >What does Megatron even mean? I tried to look it up and only got something
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> >about Transformers which I know very little about.
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> Break it down into its parts....
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> Mega: synonyms...
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> colossal, elephantine, enormous, galactic, gargantuan, giant,
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> gigantesque, gigantic, humongous, immense, jumbo, king-size,
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> leviathan, mammoth, massive, huge, monstrous, monumental, mountainous,
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> supersized, titanic, tremendous
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> Tron: a public weighing machine, as for trucks
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> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tron
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> Somehow I get the feeling this was not the first time Dave has refered
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> to his wife as Megatron.

I'm not sure I'd consider it a compliment. Maybe they are at the point in the marriage where every peccadillo becomes harder to tolerate. I suggest a separate vacation for each of them.

I wonder what she'd call HIM if she were lodging a beef about his ways.

I burned myself by placing a metal lid on an off but still-hot burner, then picked it up - YEEOWWW. But had no one to blame but the self.