Word: raisining
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Miss me? Last week was raisin' hell in a handbasket! I "got friendly" with a female hockey player, a biochem major and a junior's mom! And guess what! She was the hockey player's mom! Bet you've never seen the likes of the Captain! But I wasn't too busy to pick up a copy of last week's FM, and you know what I think? I think you printed a bunch of letters about me `cause Norma wants to have breakfast with the Captain! Captain...
...those strands the hair nets just don't catch (and other unsavory human drippage inevitable in a kitchen) aren't ever found in my food. Just pink hearts, yellow diamonds, blue moons, orange stars, green clovers, red balloons, teensy rainbows and the occasional stray raisin...
...praise be, there were bagels in abundance. We joyfully embraced; the fire alarm wasn't real, and the Mealtime Messiah had provided enough raisin bagels for the entire House...
...American politics. North Carolina Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, a baroque declaimer of the Southern school of rural demagogy in the '30s and '40s, was a genius of flavorsome insinuation. "Do y'all know what ((my opponent's)) favorite dish is?" he would ask slowly of his "God-fearin', 'tater-raisin', baby-havin' " constituents. Then in a burst of disgusted indignation: "Caviar!" The word came out caw-vee-yah. "You know what caviar is? It's little black fish eggs, and it comes from Red Russia!" A certain amount of family-values rhetoric is mere caviar denunciation...
...Raisin was too strong for our sensitivepalates, but the fruit was praised for itsplumpness and freshness. Raspberry Peach wascreamy and full of raspberry seeds, which provedthe ice cream was naturally flavored, but gotcaught in some of our teeth...