Content by Mickalino in August, 2026

  1. Random Thoughts

    I honestly thought dwarfs was the new word, after they replaced the midg word. They changed it again ? It aint easy keepin up with the constant language changes. I been busy takin care of my plants. Just when you thought you knew the English language...

  2. Random Thoughts

    There needs to be a World's Strongest Man competition for dwarfs

  3. Random Commanders Thoughts

    I miss Bang's cartoons. Like when we signed Brunell. His throws in camp started out awful And the cartoon had Gibbs bring Brunell to a farm. And put a gigantic target on the broad-side of a barn, from top to bottom, to see if Brunell could hit it. Brunell couldn't even hit the barn at all...

  4. Breakfast Cereals that are Legendary, for good or bad reasons

    Might have lasted longer with a better marketing dept. ;) "Come buy our 'Ok' cereal. Our cereal is Ok"

  5. Breakfast Cereals that are Legendary, for good or bad reasons

    No matter how you prefer to prepare your oats or oatmeal, they will do your body right, if your plumbing is backed up

  6. Breakfast Cereals that are Legendary, for good or bad reasons

    First we gotta get DGF to try my avocado pit drink, using my 5 Horsepower Pit Liquifier

  7. Breakfast Cereals that are Legendary, for good or bad reasons

    Just like the racehorses, raw oats provide me with quick-release energy, phosphorus, protein, fiber, and B vitamins. Could be the reason why some call me the Italian Stallion

  8. Breakfast Cereals that are Legendary, for good or bad reasons

    I wonder how many people besides me, did not know this until recently. It's perfectly fine and safe to eat raw oatmeal. And it's delicious. Now I put it in smoothies, or I put it in a coffee grinder and use it as a topping for all sorts of things, or even a gluten-free breading for frying. In...

  9. Breakfast Cereals that are Legendary, for good or bad reasons

    Genius, targeted marketing, even back then. The parents are always the ones purchasing the cereals ; But do they advertise the sweet cereals during adult TV shows ? NEVER ! They're banking on the households whose kids are able to easily influence parental decisions. So they advertise sugary...

  10. Breakfast Cereals that are Legendary, for good or bad reasons

    Yea, the husband was tryin to conceal his bowl of Nut & Honey Crunch cereal from his wife. The wife was like, "What're eatin there, Bob ?" Husband goes, "uhh....Nuttin, honey." Wife - "Well it looks like ya got somethin there ?!" "I swear ! It's Nuttin, Honey !"

  11. Celebrity Passings

    Big fan of big, lanky Tommy, and the team since I was a kid. Him and Ron Guidry were huge, at the time. Before the internet, I'd grab the Washington Post sports page and dissect the box score stats for every player, before even goin to school. Still remember when Tommy's teammate, catcher...

  12. Breakfast Cereals that are Legendary, for good or bad reasons

    My Top 3 :

  13. Home Vegetable Gardens

    That sounds delish I wonder if Boone is sayin, "We're gonna need a bigger freezer" Maybe like a Walk-In Freezer ;)

  14. Breakfast Cereals that are Legendary, for good or bad reasons

    Not really. My memory is a bit grainy, of Special K's Posts

  15. Stocks, Soups, and Sauces

    I like vegetable soups. But only a lentil bit. Onion other hand, please hold the broccoli, for which I don't carrot all, for

  16. Breakfast Cereals that are Legendary, for good or bad reasons

    My experience with that and my mother, was quite paradoxical. On one hand, my mother was the way you described - she refused to buy any of those sugary-excess cereals. On the other hand, every morning for breakfast, when she brought out the "normal" cereal boxes, she would leave a sugar bowl on...

  17. Random Thoughts

    When AI first came out as a search, I figured it was extracting it's answers & information from scientific journals/research. Then I find out, it's just pulling it from freakin social media. So there could be some dude foraging in the forest for mushrooms to eat, and uses AI to see if it's...

  18. Home Vegetable Gardens

    The pruning shear on the left is from Lowe's and sold for $16. The one on the right is from Dollar Tree, and sold for about a buck. Guess which one cuts better. Actually way better The flimsy-looking, $1 tool from Dollar Tree !

  19. The Happy Birthday Thread

    And I'm still tryin to figure out what RedWolf's F.K.A. is :LOL:

  20. Breakfast Cereals that are Legendary, for good or bad reasons

    Was there not a ES member whose name was the actual name of a breakfast cereal : Special K ?

  21. Random Thoughts

    Could be it's a Counterfeit ID, if it's a White Star and not the Gold Star.

  22. Home Vegetable Gardens

    Your Lychee tree has high hopes for Climate Change to come just in time to produce fruit

  23. Random Thoughts

    RedWolf I apologize for the confusion by the poorly-worded term, "gold circle". But ya'll gotta understanded, I am from Florida, where the DMV has trained us NOT to know what an actual "gold circle" is. For example, years ago they started issuing these REAL-ID driver licenses, and described...

  24. Random Thoughts

  25. Random Thoughts

    The meaning of the phrase in your "gold circle" under the wolf pic, is beginning to take shape in my mind :)

  26. Home Vegetable Gardens

    Then there's trees on the other extreme, that take up to 20 years to produce fruit. Take the notorious Goat Tree, native to Morocco. From the time of planting, it takes decades to produce the infamous Goatfruit. Some people describe the flesh of the Goatfruit, as having a "meaty-like" taste...

  27. Breakfast Cereals that are Legendary, for good or bad reasons

    Fruity Pebbles seems like a bowl of Pop Rocks candy, in milk

  28. Breakfast Cereals that are Legendary, for good or bad reasons

    Same here. This one stands out

  29. Breakfast Cereals that are Legendary, for good or bad reasons

    Just like Milk-Bone dog biscuits makes dogs' teeth stronger, Grape Nuts cereal does the same for humans

  30. Random NFL Thoughts

    I felt I had to say that, after Will Compton posted, "having played with both of those guys, Cousins would beat the tattoos off of Crosby"

  31. Breakfast Cereals that are Legendary, for good or bad reasons

    Believe it or not, I LOVED Grape Nuts. One of my favorites, despite the coarse texture. It was that malted flavor that came through, I guess from the barley. Come on, you guys drink malt beverages, right ? And malted Whoppers candy ?

  32. Random Thoughts

    Speaking of spiders and dinner, now I'm in the mood for some crab legs

  33. Random NFL Thoughts

    And Maxx Crosby is no slouch at fighting, either. He held his own, sparring against the 2-time & current UFC Middleweight Champion of the world

  34. Random Thoughts

    Wow. And all this time I've been on a mission to "Save the Wasps" once I found out they were literally worth Billions of dollars annually, the way they benefit the agricultural industry

  35. The Happy Birthday Thread

    Hoping they are all good, and just simply Training Camp Holdouts, and show up right before the Opener

  36. Random Thoughts

    Yea, but only to an extent...

  37. Breakfast Cereals that are Legendary, for good or bad reasons

    I take it, you weren't a huge fan of grits either :) Oatmeal with walnuts & maple syrup is amazing Speaking of hot cereals, I used to love Cream of Wheat or Cream of Rice. I'd love it when it was cooked wrong, and created giant hard balls of Cream of Rice/Wheat. I would dig for those, like...

  38. Breakfast Cereals that are Legendary, for good or bad reasons

    I only saw a thread about Breakfast, in general. As for specific Breakfast Cereals over the course of your life, which ones stand out, for any reason ? Remember Cookie Crisp ? What was the point of that ? I mean, even if you're gonna go the sugary route, you might as well buy a box of cookies...

  39. Random Thoughts

    Yea those are the ones I mean. The ones that harm humans may be "beneficial". But I have heard stories of them actually crawling in people's bed and biting them unprovoked. Though I don't know how accurate or exaggerated those stories are. I was hoping to find a reliable way to visually...

  40. Home Vegetable Gardens

    I believe it. I have heard stories about the fig jam. Even the raw fig itself, is often referred to as "nature's jelly doughnut"

  41. Random Thoughts

    What do you guys do when you find a spider in your home ? I wish I knew enough about spiders to know which ones are the beneficial spiders and which ones are the bad guys. I want to advocate for the beneficial spiders' right to live.

  42. Home Vegetable Gardens

    Dig my Fig ? I been feeding this kid for 5 years. If this sucker doesn't start pumpin out fruit, I'm gonna start chargin him rent

  43. Music Recommendation Thread

    Anyone like Harry Connick, Jr ? Such a unique blend of Louisiana cajun, Funk, Soul, Pop, Rock. And I probably left out a few other genre influences

  44. What's for Dinner?

    If you ever travel to Florida, look up Tijuana Flats. They are only in Florida. But they're all over the state. They do killer Flautas, among other things. Then you take your food over to the Sauce Bar, for about 15 sauce pumps to choose from

  45. Random Thoughts

    Hey RedWolf I heard about the horrendous earthquake that just happened in Colombia. You still in Medellin ?

  46. Random Thoughts

    When you find out, maybe you can tell me how the heck do I get mosquito bites on my ass, while sitting on a patio chair the whole time, and wearing 2 layers of denim (long denim jeans, with a pair of denim jean shorts under that)

  47. Random Thoughts

    You sure you're not confusing Charlestown with Charleston, now ? :p

  48. What's for Dinner?

    Bet you woulda tried the Fried Butter if they enticed you with a dipping cup of melted butter, for extra flavor. Then a side of mayo and Ranch. I think it was Ruby Tuesday restaurant where I saw they had Fried Ice Cream on the menu. I said, "I'll try it" And they just bring me out a glass of...

  49. Random Thoughts

    Abbreviated the dudes name who posted right above him, and lives in Charlotte as well. And remembered Redskin4ever was looking for a Sunday place to go.

  50. What's for Dinner?

    Chicken-Fried Steak sounds like something you'd get at the State Fair, right before you grab a Funnel Cake, and Cotton Candy. And I can easily imagine in my head, those hens pecking at the meat, behind the food truck, in a fenced-in area at the Fair. I was pretty sure Boone was joking. But at...

  51. Random Thoughts

    Maybe DTMB could help give you leads on your search for Washington-fan-friendly places to watch games in Charlotte ?

  52. Random Commanders Thoughts

    This was fun to watch (from a year ago). Riggo's daughter makin fun of Dad's old videos. Did the math, and Riggo had her when he was about 56, I think

  53. Random Thoughts

    Ricky Bobby !

  54. TV Chefs (or Cooks) - Favorite and Most Hated

    What's the secret to properly poached eggs ? I found this method works okay... Add a tablespoon of vinegar to the pot of water. Bring to boil. Swirl the water in circles with a spoon to make like a whirlpool with the boiling water & vinegar. While it's swirling, crack the eggs into the side of...

  55. What's for Dinner?

    That's like when I watched Popeye's cartoons, and he'd pop a can of spinach, and suddenly grow huge muscles, and then beat the crap out of that huge bully. I never had it before that time, so I would then earnestly beg...beg my mom to buy spinach for my dinner. Finally, after hearing this a...

  56. Random Thoughts

    I wonder if I'm the only adult person who still hears my mother's voice inside of my head, from when I was a kid. All my life, in certain situations, my brain will trigger her voice from decades ago. When I was a kid, whenever my mom would tell me something to do, like a chore or something -...

  57. What's for Dinner?

    It only gets worse. Chicken-Fried Steak has no chicken in it. And Grape Nuts cereal has no grapes. And no nuts.

  58. TV Chefs (or Cooks) - Favorite and Most Hated

    I'd be happy if RedWolf cooked me some Eggs Benny, because I hear he has deeply studied all Mother Sauces including Hollandaise

  59. Home Vegetable Gardens

    That, or Eustace Boone. ;)

  60. Home Vegetable Gardens

    It would probably work in 7B, with a similar winterizing like this one. This setup has withstood temps in the teens, with zero casualties. Right before it's expected to go below the plants' tolerance, I wrap with insulation, duct taped together. Then a car cover. And then with tarp for a 3rd...

  61. Health & Physical Fitness/Training Thread

    But SFR (Safe For Retirees)

  62. Home Vegetable Gardens

    I started out small and humble with a greenhouse I constructed. Some may laugh at this creation. But it gets the job done. Made with scraps. I'm more of a scrappy scrapper, as opposed to the crafty craftsmen in this thread. For several years, and multiple winters, this has sustained some very...

  63. Music Recommendation Thread

    It was good to see Sevendust posted in this thread. Man, this song jumped out and grabbed me when I first heard it

  64. Home Vegetable Gardens

    Boone you ever erect your own greenhouse, or plan to ?

  65. Random Thoughts

    But you may have been the fortunate one. After you quit, those execs may have ended up with injuries much worse than a jammed toe. So count it a blessing.

  66. Random Thoughts

    I'll 2nd this "negative" for anyone considering and asking whether that routine is a good idea. Just my 2 Cent experience. Besides jamming your toe, too many other severe things can easily go wrong from this activity, whether it's your shoulder, neck or back etc. For one thing, when working...

  67. Home Vegetable Gardens

    That totally makes sense, and brings assurance. Not only to the plant structure, but I think it also explains those brown spots on the tomatoes. I guess it's their version of sunburn. Thanks very much !

  68. Home Vegetable Gardens

    So I asked A.I. how to determine whether it's Fungal Wilt Disease. It said to scrape the very base of the stem. And if it's light green, which it is, then it doesn''t have that. I'm starting to think I may have caused it with an overdose of Calcium, by sprinkling too much egg shell powder...

  69. Home Vegetable Gardens

    My first time growing tomatoes so I don't know whether to eat these or not ? Couple weeks ago, had a bunch of green tomatoes with one just beginning to redden. Then leaves slowly & gradually started dying. First I pruned it as the leaves died, and picked off 2 red ones...til all the leaves went...

  70. Random Thoughts

    Hmm...interesting story...made me curious, you wouldn't happen to be formerly known as the old ES poster, with the handle "Toe Jam", would you ?
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