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MILK AND BREAD OMG BREAD AND MILK OMG MILK AND BREAD AND MILK AND BREAD AND MILK

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What?

Huh?

i love you so hard right now. :D

Is this a NOTE TO SELF: GET THEM kind of post, or one mocking everyone who is all IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD, WE'LL NEED BREAD AND MILK?

Like I said, I'm hoping for stormy, but not damagingly so.

Hey. How do you get it to scroll like that?

the marquee tag will scroll text.

like this!

Use [marquee]fill in text here[/marquee] only with pointy-brackets instead of square ones.

Mocking, directed at the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

What to stock for a hurricane

The milk and bread fetish that RI gets before storms started here.

Heee! *twirls you*

Edited 2010-09-03 03:33 (UTC)

It's a Rhode Island obsession; everyone goes out and buys milk and bread before a storm (or in the case of snow, before a possibility of a flurry).

The bread is so if the powah goes out, ya can make sangwiches. Not for nuttin, but, I dunno what milk'll do 'cept sowwah.

(I mean, if you're visiting, it's one thing, but if you lived here, your obsession with milk and bread would come back; you'd do what you had to do. And the wife says, "Hey, you know what? This coffee milk's too strong".)

Why is this just a Rhody thing? I think Mass does this too. I mean seriously, my wacky coworker wanted to board up her house, and she's in West Roxbury.

/hurricane-victim-fail

Oh, and which one is the marquee symbol? I flunked keyboard-symbols 101.

:D

*holds you down incase of wind*

Ahhh, fascinating!

(Also: HEE! :-D)

There are pockets of it all over the country, but RI's milk-and-bread thing is directly related to the Blizzard of '78. Maybe MA's, too. I was in Wilmington during that storm. Hella big piles of snow.

just do [marquee]fill in text[/marquee], only use the < > tabs instead of the [] ones. You write out the "marquee", there's no keyboard symbol AFAIK.

Edited 2010-09-02 21:26 (UTC)

Add eggs to that list and you have my town readying for Big Snow (which really is very rarely that big).

Best as i can figure it, we must all have a Snow = make French Toast thing.

I'll take "Obscure Musical References" for a thousand, Alex. ;)

Ahahahaha. This made me laugh and laugh when I saw it!

During the first blizzard of my mom's first winter in Indiana, she went to the store expecting a similar effect. Only she lived in a college town, so in fact there was plenty of milk and bread, but no beer or chips...

:D :D :D

Now see beer, I actually BOUGHT beer. ;)

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