Spitball Army

Diane and Walter, my new travelling companions, are married and live just south of Birmingham. It takes me fifteen to twenty minutes to extract this information from them. Good thing I’ve brought a book with me.

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(photo: spitballarmy.com) I’ll give you one guess why we stopped here and, no, it wasn’t for the ice cubes (aka “turista”).  We heard that Clark Gable was hanging out at a liquor store in Baja, so we went to see for ourselves.  No, really, that’s me. It used to be the easiest thing to hop […]

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Also on the menu at El Mexicano on 20th Street South in Birmingham:
“Fish filets available individually – only $350!”

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With this classmate in mind, I had programmed Mick Jagger’s “Old Habits Die Hard” instead of other possibilities, which could have included ELO’s “Evil Woman” or The Rolling Stones’ “Bitch.”

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At [our company], we pride our selves on prompt responses to customer service issues both in the restaurants and at our corporate office. It appears that we have failed you at both locations.

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Mid-afternoon lunch accessories on the V. Richards patio.

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I read with interest your recipe for blueberry glace pie, and was wondering if you have ever tried that recipe with any other fruits as the main ingredient?

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“Proudly, Dons, how we bathe…!”

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“Fish Taco” (2004) by Caramelize

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Thirty minutes before this picture was taken, it was all “rabbit food,” as my oldest sister used to call it.

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