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1. about 5 hours ago on Reality Check

   It was first used as a pejorative by customers of White Castle; it spread to other uses from there, and just fairly recently White Castle started using it themselves, trying to substitute their manufactured, fake-cutesy meaning of “so small it slides right down” for the original, much more accurate “they slide right through you”.

   I heard the term used in the pejorative-for-WC sense decades before it was applied to anything else. That includes hearing it thus used by former sailors from before your service.

2. about 6 hours ago on Reality Check

   But it was applied to White Castle’s vile fare long before that; I recall it from the early ’60s.

3. about 6 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   The 1950s were not only the period of the highest rate of unionization, but also had a top tax bracket of over 90%.

   And it was the period of the strongest economy in US history, and saw the creation of the middle class as we know it (or at least knew it, before Bill Clinton sold the Democratic Party to Wall Street, leaving the 1% with about 99% representation in government, and the 99% with 1%).

4. about 6 hours ago on One Big Happy

   And then thank unions for the changes.

5. about 6 hours ago on Frazz

   Here in IL as well.

6. about 6 hours ago on Frazz

   Where (and when) I was, most of the daddies supported that mindset 100%. I blew town 50 years ago, but I suspect they still do.

7. about 6 hours ago on Reality Check

   While it has in recent years been appropriated as term meaning “really small sandwich”, it properly refers only to White Castle “hamburgers”; the etymology is that they were so dubbed because they slide right through you.

8. about 6 hours ago on Frazz

   Then yours was more progressive than mine; a girl could go if she wanted, but the absence wasn’t excused.

9. about 6 hours ago on Daddy's Home

   I have eaten alligator, rattlesnake, and (I’m pretty sure) cat*; all were delicious.

   *It was a taco from a street cart in Nogales, Mexico – not in the 3 blocks of tourist crap; back where no one spoke English any more than I spoke Español, so no IDing it wasn’t possible. It was a meat I’d never had before, nor have I since. Though I suppose iguana is a possibility, too.

10. about 6 hours ago on Cornered

    As a youth, my baby brother would put the dog’s collar around his own neck, put the other end of the leash in the dog’s mouth, and go for a run.