Hanging With My Peeps!

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I love peeps! I like them stale and I prefer the flat bunnies to the rounded chicks.  That’s probably more than you wanted to know…lol…but read on for more weird facts about peeps!

The first Peeps took a long time to make…  

Today, Peeps chicks are produced at a breakneck speed of six minutes each. If six minutes for one marshmallow doesn’t sound all that impressive, it’s because you don’t know how long the process used to take.

In 1953, Just Born, the candy company who made Peeps a household name, was looking to acquire the Rodda Candy Company, mostly because of its jelly bean technology. But on a tour of that factory, the Born family noticed something that piqued their interest that had nothing to do with jelly beans. Just Born vice president Matt Pye told USA Today, “… while the family was touring the Rodda Candy Company, in the back part of the factory were these women with pastry tubes squirting these marshmallow chicks by hand.” But this was no quick process — it took 27 hours from start to finish to make these marshmallow chicks, thanks to the very lengthy cooling time required before the candy could be packaged.

Once Just Born acquired the company, they immediately set about automating the Peeps-making process, which included a faster dry time, and have managed to shave 21 hours off the operation. Now that you have all the facts, six minutes seems party darn fast, doesn’t it?

Is there really car wax in Peeps?

You may have heard a rumor that carnauba wax, an ingredient in some candy, is the very same ingredient used in car wax — and it is, indeed. However, it’s probably not as bad as it sounds.

Not only is carnauba wax approved by the FDA for human consumption, but according to Snopes, the amount used in candy is so minuscule that it simply cannot be likened to taking down a spoonful of Turtle Wax. And because of its high melting point, it’s actually not even absorbed by our bodies. Which leads us to one slightly creepy point…

Carnauba wax is typically used to give candy a sheen or a hard shiny surface, and in Peeps it’s what makes those brown eyes so shiny. When a pair of Emory scientists put the candy through a barrage of tests to determine its indestructibility, they stumbled onto something disconcerting about those eyes. After taking an hour-long bath in Phenol, a protein-dissolving solvent, the marshmallow was all but gone. The only thing that remained? A pair of wax eyes, bobbing in the Phenol, intact. The same eyes that will travel through your digestive system, intact. If that’s not nightmare fuel, we don’t know what is.

It would take this many Peeps to…    

Have you ever laid in bed at night wondering how many Peeps it would take to span the Golden Gate Bridge? You’re in luck. The good folks at USA Today determined just how many marshmallow chicks and bunnies it would take to measure up against some of the world’s most famous landmarks, and the numbers will blow your mind.

Wrap your head around this one: Houston’s NRG Park (aka the Astrodome) can seat up to 70,000 fans in its 1 million square feet. But to fill that stadium with Peeps? It would take an astonishing 1.7 trillion (trillion!) chicks.

The Hoover Dam built out of marshmallow? Probably wouldn’t be too effective, but it would take 1.3 billion Peeps to do it.

Stack Peeps bunnies up on top of each other ears to tail, and it would take 1,464 to measure up to the Statue of Liberty, 8,300 to reach the top of Chicago’s Willis Tower (aka the Sears Tower), and 2,664 to line up with the Washington Monument.

And that piece of Golden Gate Bridge trivia you’ve been waiting for… It would take more than 43,000 bunnies lined up side to side to complete the span.

Some actually prefer them stale!

Believe it or not, fresh-from-the-package Peeps aren’t for everyone — and no, we don’t mean that in the obvious way.

There are more fans of stale Peeps out there than you might think, according to Just Born VP Matthew Pye, who told HuffPost, “Everyone thinks they’re the only ones who like [them],” but confirmed that about 25 to 30 percent of consumers actually prefer Peeps — as he so eloquently puts it — “aged, like a fine wine.” With those kinds of numbers, should we expect aged marshmallows to hit shelves soon?  Nope, says Pye. They can’t afford to disappoint that 70 to 75 percent of customers who prefer them fresh. “If we were to produce a stale Peep, we couldn’t satisfy what the people want,” he explains. “We let the consumer do it themselves.” Let’s be honest, “making” stale Peeps at home is pretty easy.

Take this Instagrammer, for instance, who has perfected her aged Peeps process: “It’s crunchy bunny season!!!!! I only buy Peeps at Easter. I prefer the bunny shape, and I like them CRUNCHY on the outside. I usually open the package, split them apart and let them sit for a couple of days. Peep Perfection!!!” Crunchy bunny season does have a certain ring to it, doesn’t it?

What in the world is Peepza?

What do you get when you throw some Peeps onto an unsuspecting pizza? Peepza, otherwise known as the pizza absolutely nobody asked for ever.

It seems like every Easter someone on the internet “discovers” Peepza, but to properly lay the blame… er, give credit where credit is due, we have to go back to 2010, when Serious Eats columnist Adam Kuban debuted his springtime mashup (via Eater). The Peepza is exactly what it looks like: A plain cheese pizza, cooked almost completely, then topped with Peeps and cooked for another minute to get the marshmallows nice and melty. If we’re to believe Kuban, “it actually doesn’t taste as bad as you might think.” “You know that whole salty-sweet dynamic that we all tend to love so much? Peepza has it in spades,” he promised.

What’s good for the goose isn’t always good for the gander, though. In 2017, SBNation’s Charlotte Wilder decided to hop on the Peepza bandwagon, and her review was decidedly less enthusiastic than Kuban’s. “I took a bite of the Peepza, and let me tell you, this is the grossest s**t I’ve ever eaten. And I tried chocolate chip cookies made with cricket flour this week (don’t ask),” she said. “It tasted exactly like you think it would: A Peep on top of pizza, which is disgusting.”

Peeps Oreos came with a strange side effect…

When limited edition Peeps Oreos, complete with neon pink marshmallow-flavored creme, hit the shelves the 2017, fans of the Easter candy were quick to gobble them up. But it didn’t take long before an unsettling trend was noticed.

Turns out the bright pink creme had a surprising side effect: Bright pink poop. Those experiencing this phenomenon took to Twitter to air their dirty laundry, along with others who didn’t have that particular issue, but experienced other side effects, like a stained pink tongue and Pepto-Bismol-hued spit.

Can hot pink Oreos really have this effect on our bodies?

According to LiveScience they can, thanks to the red #3 food dye used in the creme, which gastroenterologist Dr. Ian Lustbader says doesn’t get broken down in the body during digestion. While the colored poop indicates nothing serious health-wise, for someone to actually see this startling side effect, they’d have to eat a lot of cookies. “It’s certainly going to take more than one or two,” Lustbader explained. He further surmised that if you’re eating enough of these cookies to turn your poop pink, you should probably be more worried about the sugar’s and fat’s effect on your health. Touché, doc.

Peeps has infiltrated breakfast (and dessert)…

If having Peeps available anytime during the year and in a plethora of flavors isn’t enough for you Peep-le, then how about Peeps cereal? Yep, it’s a thing. This limited edition cereal is the tasty product of a Peeps and Kelloggs collaboration. This seasonal breakfast cereal (dessert) features rainbow rings and little marshmallows shaped like Peeps bunnies and chicks.

If cereal isn’t your M.O. and you’d prefer to start your day off with pure liquid energy (that’s coffee, by the way), then International Delight has you covered. If you’ve visited the refrigerated creamer section at your local grocery store recently, you might have noticed the plethora of different creamers that are readily available to you — M&M’s creamer anyone? What about Reese’s? International Delight offers seasonal flavors, too, and for spring they bring you Peeps Creamer. And if you want more dessert with your Peeps, Cold Stone Creamery recently introduced Peeps ice cream, which is for springtime only.

There was a Peeps Mobile and a Peeps Fun Bus!

What would you think if you were waiting at a red light and a bright yellow Volkswagen Bug with a Peep (of comparable size) riding on top of it rolled up beside you? Well, you’d initially want to take a photo (because who wouldn’t?), then you’d probably wonder if this car had been touring the states just as much as the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile.

Well, it happened back in 2003, in honor of Peeps 50th anniversary. And it wasn’t just a Volkswagen Bug. (Why stop with one vehicle when you can have two?) There was a Peeps bus that toured as well.  Inside that revamped school bus was Peepsville: A life-sized diorama that showcased the different Peeps that were in production at that time. (They’ve most definitely expanded on their flavor offerings since then). The bus came complete with a sampling station, so everyone could try a Peep — but who hasn’t tried a Peep before?

Peeps is a Pepsi flavor.      

Returning two years after a quick run as a promotional giveaway, Pepsi has reintroduced its Peeps flavor to beverage shelves across the U.S. Pepsi x Peeps merges the sugary cola sweetness of Pepsi with the marshmallow essence of Peeps to create a vanilla-ish cola combination, available in 7.5-ounce mini-cans and 20-ounce bottles. Customer reactions are as mixed as the candy-in-soda formula. Happy YouTube reviewers call out the balance of sweetness as surprising, noting the Peeps marshmallow essence as being present in the aroma as well as the flavor. Online critics mark the beverage down for the same reasons, hinting that this flavor may be better enjoyed by Peeps fans rather than regular Pepsi drinkers.

If the flavor sounds inspired, it certainly lit up the beverage industry. The original hype over this splash-up mash-up was followed by competitive cola colossus Coca-Cola offering their own marshmallow soda. The company recruited Grammy-winning musician Marshmello for their own marketing blitz. While the expanding line of Peeps flavors and merchandise may suggest the candy is on trend, Peeps-flavored Pepsi is a springtime flavor sensation that will only be available for a limited time.

Read More: https://www.mashed.com/147604/the-untold-truth-of-peeps/

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  1. work requirements for welfare should never have been removed. people have gotten used to receiving $$ for doing nothing and they don’t want to go back to work.
    FTA
    Despite these stunning successes, President Joe Biden eviscerated all work requirements during COVID-19, and they haven’t returned. The House Ways and Means Committee reports that less than half of Americans collecting welfare benefits today are working. The Biden administration opposes work requirements.

    Why? Do they want to make people dependent on the government?

    Getting welfare recipients back into the labor force is good for the economy and will reduce government debt. But a pro-work policy is good for those who escape welfare dependency.

    Every study shows that having a job is highly associated with better health, longer life expectancy, happiness, and improvements in family conditions. Children and spouses of someone who is working are better off.

    There is dignity and a sense of self-worth from working.

    America is a rich nation, and we should absolutely have a safety net so that those who fall on tough times, lose a job or become disabled — and that happens to almost all of us at some point in our lives — do not go hungry or homeless or suffer from deprivation.

    But welfare is supposed to be temporary and a hand-up, not a handout. The goal of welfare was to end poverty, not perpetuate it.

    House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) said that restoring work for welfare requirements is “a top priority” of his panel. It should be a top priority for our country. Let’s make work, not welfare, pay.

    https://www.creators.com/read/stephen-moore/04/23/hey-uncle-sam-stop-paying-people-for-not-working

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  3. Auwtsnae
    April 4, 2023 1:40 pm

    Gillian Turner on Fox News just admitted that Fox News has received leaks “DIRECTLY “ from the court.

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  6. nimrodman
    nimrodman
    April 4, 2023 2:31 pm

    Ha!

    Trump impersonator riding in a limo causes MAYHEM outside Trump Tower as he fools press and MAGA supporters

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  7. FPCHmom
    FPCHmom
    April 4, 2023 2:19 pm

    Stronger statement than almost anyone in congress.

    Today, I PROUDLY stand with my friend @realDonaldTrump The American people should be appalled by this case of political persecution and outraged by the current state of our judicial system. Join me in praying for the future of our nation. pic.twitter.com/vErDRP0eXf

    — Ben & Candy Carson (@RealBenCarson) April 4, 2023

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  8. surprise…

    TheseTruths(@thesetruths)Online
    Wolf
    April 4, 2023 15:03

    Disclose.tv:

    JUST IN – Trump pleads “not guilty” to all charges.

    JUST IN – Trump pleads “not guilty” to all charges.

    — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 4, 2023

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  9. Gail Combs
    Gail Combs(@gailcombs)Online
    Coyote
    Reply to Gail Combs
    April 4, 2023 15:04

    34 supposed charges.

    Silly Wild Ass guess:

    I think those are the RETAINER FEES Trump paid to Cohen. They are trying to say that he was actually reimbursing Cohen.

    What is interesting is the payment was out of a special account with numerous payment into it from slimy characters. I think I saw this discussed more indepth last week on Badlands.

    IRS Intelligence Analyst John Fry Charged With Leaking Cohen Financial Records to Creepy Porn Lawyer…February 21, 2019 | Sundance |

    [quote]

    ….VIA CNN – […] The bank transactions of Cohen became public last May when Avenatti posted a memo online outlining numerous payments to Cohen from a company linked to a Russian oligarch, pharmaceutical giant Novartis, AT&T, which owns CNN, and others.

    Remember Avenatti WARNED there was material that the DA was not aware of and would be very sorry about if it came out. — G.C.
    In prison tweets, Avenatti warns | Just The News

    Tweeting from prison, former Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti has warned that there is considerable evidence in the Trump hush money payment scandal that could benefit the former president if the case reaches the trial stage.

    BACK TO SUNDANCE:

    Fry’s hearing date was pushed back several times as federal prosecutors were engaged with Fry’s attorney on plea negotiations, according to a person familiar with the talks. As of Thursday, Fry declined to plead to felony charges in exchange for probation.

    As a result, prosecutors will seek an indictment of Fry on February 28, this person said, and are expected to seek two additional charges, including misuse of a Social Security number and misuse of a government computer. (link)

    [unquote]

    The professional leftist media is reporting on the story, but there’s just something missing.

    Remember, Avenatti also received the tax records of the wrong Michael Cohen, a random guy in Canada was caught up in the original issue. The affidavit reveals that John C. Fry, placed several phone calls to Avenatti before and after he accessed Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) filed by Cohen’s banks with the Treasury Department.

    [quote]

    [Via Daily Caller] … Avenatti, the attorney of record for Stormy Daniels, had posted a dossier of Cohen’s financial reports on May 8, 2018. Those records showed that Cohen received payments from several companies, including Novartis and AT&T, as well as a company associated with Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian oligarch. (read more)

    [unquote]

    ….

    May 3, 2018
    Rudy Giuliani says Trump re-paid Michael Cohen $130k in Monthly Retainer
    dailymail.co.uk

    Trump now says Stormy Daniels was paid $130,000 out of private monthly retainer to lawyer Cohen as a ‘legal expense’ but NOT from campaign funds – as Giuliani says: ‘Imagine if that came out in the last debate with Hillary’

    Trump lawyer Michael Cohen gave porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in hush money before the 2016 electionDaniels has claimed the money was meant to keep her from revealing an alleged affair she had with Trump over a decade agoGiuliani said Trump reimbursed Cohen by ‘funneling’ the cash through a law firm over the course of ‘months’ The former NY Mayor also dubbed Hillary Clinton a ‘criminal’ and called James Comey a ‘pervert’ and a ‘disgraceful liar’Daniels’ attorney, Michael Avenatti, said Giuliani’s comments were a ‘stunning revelation’ and that Trump ‘evidently participated in a felony’Now Trump has laid out his legal argument, saying on Twitter that Cohen was on a regular retainer and paid Daniels as an ordinary legal expenseAvenatti scoffed: ‘We’ve been playing three dimensional chess, they’ve been playing tic-tac-toe’Giuliani said on ‘Fox & Friends’ that Avenatti is an ‘ambulance chaser’ who’s representing Daniels for the moneyAlso claimed the payment’s purpose was to save the Trump’s marriage, not to save the president’s campaign But he suggested that a bombshell claim from Daniels would have had disastrous consequences for the president’s political prospects

    Donald Trump claimed Thursday morning that a $130,000 hush-money payment to a porn star who claims to have been his mistress was an ordinary legal expense – part of the costs covered by a monthly retainer agreement between him and his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen.

    ‘Mr. Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA,’ Trump wrote in a series of tweets.

    ‘These agreements are very common among celebrities and people of wealth. In this case it is in full force and effect and will be used in Arbitration for damages against Ms. Clifford (Daniels). The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair.’

    ‘Prior to its violation by Ms. Clifford and her attorney, this was a private agreement. Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll [sic] in this transaction,’ the president concluded.

    ….

    May 25, 2018
    TrumpCohenRetainerFees

    All agree the direct payment to Stormy Daniels was by Trump’s very personal attorney, and self anointed “fixer” Michael Cohen (indictments pending). … The retainer fees were not a repayment to Cohen for his expense of paying off the porn star.

    SUNDANCE: (Last week)

    The 2018 letter states that Michael Cohen made a payment to Stormy Daniels without any consultation with Donald Trump. This undermines the cornerstone of the prosecution’s case.

    (Via Daily Mail) The bombshell document, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, could throw a wrench in the works of prosecutors pursuing criminal charges against Trump over the payments. Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and the star witness in the case over which Trump reportedly faces imminent arrest, claims that Trump got him to pay $130,000 to Daniels to keep her quiet about her alleged affair with the real estate mogul, just days before the 2016 presidential election.

    […] But in a February 8, 2018 letter to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Cohen’s attorney Stephen Ryan wrote: ‘Mr. Cohen used his own personal funds’, and that ‘Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed Mr. Cohen for the payment directly or indirectly.’

    I think this is going to MASSIVELY BACKFIRE ON THE DEMON-RATS!

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  12. Eric
    April 4, 2023 3:04 pm

    BREAKING!!! the 9th Circuit just awarded Trump $121,962.56 in attorney fees from Stormy Daniels. Order just released. This in addition to the roughly $500k she already owes him.

    — Eric Trump (@EricTrump) April 4, 2023

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  13. EXCERPT: “The storm forecast to hit early Tuesday and last into early Thursday could drop 9-15 inches of snow on the capital city, according to the National Weather Service. Bismarck so far this season has received 95.4 inches of snow — the third-snowiest winter on record, and just 6.3 inches from a new high. Records date back 148 years. Bismarck’s all-time mark is 101.6 inches in 1996-97.

    The city is right on the edge between a high potential and medium potential for at least a foot of snow this week. “Major” storm impacts are expected in Bismarck all day Tuesday, intensifying to “extreme” impacts overnight into Wednesday, with “major” impacts again all day Wednesday before the storm weakens to “moderate” impacts overnight into early Thursday.

    “Travel will be impossible, probably, during these major impact times,” said Matt Johnson, a weather service meteorologist in Bismarck.”

    https://strangesounds.org/2023/04/a-blizzard-bearing-down-on-north-dakota-promises-to-push-bismarcks-season-snowfall-total-to-a-record.html

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  14. Shifty shoddy shameless shady sham …..

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  16. Donald J. Trump

    @realDonaldTrump
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    3m
    Alvin Bragg shut down New York City, brought in 38,000 NYPD officers, and will spend an estimated $200,000,000 of NYC funds, for a totally legal $130,000 NDA. On top of all that, the 9th Circuit Court just awarded me $122,000 — over the $500,000 already awarded, from Stormy “Horseface” Daniels!

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    1. trumpismine(@trumpismine)Offline
      Coyote
      April 4, 2023 17:32

      Donald J. Trump

      @realDonaldTrump
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      4m
      Just lifted off for Palm Beach, Florida. Will be delivering remarks tonight at Mar-a-Lago at 8:15 P.M., EASTERN. The hearing was shocking to many in that they had no “surprises,” and therefore, no case. Virtually every legal pundit has said that there is no case here. There was nothing done illegally!

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      1. trumpismine(@trumpismine)Offline
        Coyote
        April 4, 2023 17:35

        Mark Levin

        @marklevinshow
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        26m
        1. Having read the list of charges, there’s a big problem: no actual crime has actually been charged. That’s right.
        If a crime is committed when the defendant acts to conceal another crime, the question is what is the underlying crime that has been committed? There is literally no underlying crime even referenced. Furthermore, President Trump has not been charged or convicted of any underlying crime.

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  17. Eric
    April 4, 2023 3:59 pm

    Key fact to #TrumpIndicment — ALL charges are for conduct while Trump was President. The Constitution only authorizes indictment or trial for such conduct AFTER both impeachment and conviction by the Senate. Trump was already Acquitted by the Senate. Unconstitutional indictment!

    — Robert Barnes (@barnes_law) April 4, 2023

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    1. woohoowee
      woohoowee
      April 4, 2023 4:12 pm

      He was inaugurated on January 20, 2017 and his business operations were transferred into a trust

      Every “crime” takes place after 1/20/17 when he was no longer running the company

      Is this indictment an actual joke?

      — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 4, 2023

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  21. “Democrats Throw Biggest-Ever Fundraiser For Trump Campaign”
    POLITICS · Apr 4, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

    “NEW YORK, NY — Donald Trump’s campaign fundraising is breaking records thanks to a lavish fundraiser hosted by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and the Democrat Party.

    Sources say that as Trump arrived at a New York courthouse for the fundraiser this morning, his campaign raised millions from energized citizens eager to support the only presidential candidate indicted by a Soros-funded DA.

    “At this point, if someone hasn’t been indicted by a corrupt Soros DA, can you even trust that person?” said local Trump voter Bubba Gruggs, while clicking the “donate” button on the latest email from the Trump campaign.

    Experts say that the Trump indictment will firm up his base of supporters who believe the country is run by corrupt, out-of-touch bureaucrats who also happen to be Satanic pedophiles and alienate him with kooky conspiracy theorists who think that America’s leaders can be trusted.

    At publishing time, it had been revealed that half the donations to the Trump campaign came from Democrat activists who are desperately hoping he runs again.”

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  23. “Scientists At Budweiser Attempt To Discover How Many Beers It Would Take For Dylan Mulvaney To Pass As A Woman”
    WORLDVIEWS · Apr 4, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

    “ST. LOUIS, MO — Beer scientists at Budweiser headquarters are reportedly hard at work researching how many cans of Bud Light it would take for Dylan Mulvaney to pass as a woman.

    According to sources, Mulvaney, who recently became a spokesman for the alcoholic beverage, was personally recruited by CEO Phillip Bud while he was inebriated — now human resources need to know how this could have happened.

    One. No. Two. No, Dr. Pedro Morganstein noted in the test log. Three? Ugh, no.

    Dr. Morganstein reportedly passed out twenty beers later, still believing Dylan Mulvaney was a man. However, he did note that his female colleagues were at least three points more attractive.

    Alcoholic intake studies are nothing new for the Budweiser corporation, but experiments typically measure the rate of cognitive decline. Determining how many drinks it takes for a man to look like a woman is new territory for the team.

    At publishing time, scientists had determined it takes the equivalent of 37 Bud Lights to make Dylan Mulvaney passable as a woman, or just 3 Ballast Point Sculpins.”

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  24. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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        1. oh kea!!!
          they become slightly crunchy on the outside with the soft delicate marshmallow on the inside!
          can you tell I gave up candy for Lent?
          LOL
          4 more days to go!

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