Odds and Ends

Americans who like fast food might be used to ordering a Quarter Pounder, Big Mac, or a Filet-O-Fish from McDonald's, but the chain offers a variety of different items on their menus around the world to suit local tastes. With more than 36,000 restaurants in over 100 countries, McDonald's has become... Sign in to see full entry.

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Last Christmas, grandpa was feeling his age and found that shopping for Christmas gifts had become too difficult. So he decided to send checks to everyone instead. In each card he wrote, "Buy your own present!" and mailed them early. He enjoyed the usual flurry of family festivities, and it was only... Sign in to see full entry.

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Ancient Greece is the earliest known culture to honor and worship mistletoe. The Greeks referred to the kissing plant with its white berries as “oak sperm,” and they considered it to be a strong symbol of male fertility. Oak is considered male, and mistletoe female. Together, these two represent a... Sign in to see full entry.

The tallest tree in Wales had been damaged by a storm and was supposed to be cut down, but chainsaw artist Simon O'Rourke found a better solution to symbolize the tree's last attempt to reach the sky. Sign in to see full entry.

There was an old married couple that had happily lived together for nearly forty years. The only friction in their marriage was caused by the husband’s habit of breaking wind nearly every morning as he awoke. The noise would always wake up his wife and the smell would cause her eyes to water as she... Sign in to see full entry.

Similar to eggnog, Tom & Jerry was a favored holiday drink that my mother made during Christmas parties when I was a kid in the late 70s. It is popular in the midwest, so I am wondering how it made its way to our Oregon table. I guess that when something is really good, word travels fast. The... Sign in to see full entry.