I always thought they were haas and pronounced [has] but apparently it's supposed to be [hæs].
You can't find them in South America and instead it's the giant green varieties. Those definitely don't have as much flavor but they're huge. I'm missing Phoenix avocado prices though in South Carolina where they are basically prohibitively expensive. One day last year in Phoenix they were .10c each at our kroger (which is Frys there).
What makes you think mandela timing is suspect? How do your memories line up with the movie lines discussed/Mr Rogers/Jif vs Jiffy or whatever else?

We can discuss my memory of Mr Rogers again if that helps. Was pretty specific, though I understand that an alternative reality makes a lot more sense for some. Also, that Jiffy thing is weird - it was always Jif to me (though I was more brought up on Perter Pan at the time). Now Smokley the Bear - that one I may drink the kool aid on (a little )

All the best.

We don't need to discuss it. I understand that your memory is pretty specific and I believe you. I don't have an explanation either for why your memory is specific in this instance.
I'm certain that I always heard and sung the song as "the neighborhood" though as are a bunch of people, and it'll continue to be one examples of mandela effect stuff that I believe in going forward.
Yeah..Smokey the Bear for me as well. Smokey Bear is hilarious.
There are examples of smokey the bear being used--could just be everyone was mistaken and the usfs has set us straight

We don't need to delve into this whole effect much, as we discussed it earlier and I did appreciate you being honest about it, but a quick look at who came up with it and why does not help it - as it seems a bit of a nutjob created it with a very weird "shared" memory of Mandela when Mandela has pictures with Obama's family and died during his second term at nearly 100 years old instead of in prison when Reagan was President. Mandela was also President of South Africa for many years in the 90s. What a really weird choice.

I get the movie of another well known apartheid figure at the time is likely the reason that geezers old enough to have seen it share that memory, but it is such a weird/bad example of it that it cannot do anything but hurt the much better examples of it like Smokey the Bear! The Mr Rogers thing - realistically it will be unlikely you find another person with the weird specific memory like I have on that (though again - I suggest asking a person like Marilu Henner it - her memory is crazy weird - you would find people like that interesting until they disagree with you, then you would just shrug it off and continue believing what you need to believe).

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You know that's all a joke right?

I don't understand what you are saying.

Are you saying this is not accurate?

Top White House aide shares cartoon mocking Fauci

Top White House aide Dan Scavino publicly mocked Anthony Fauci late Sunday, sharing a cartoon of the top U.S. infectious disease expert depicted as a faucet on social media...

...In a message accompanying the cartoon, Scavino promised to “publicly” disagree with Fauci while suggesting the top public health official had voiced disagreement “cowardly” through leaks to the media.

“Sorry, Dr. Faucet! At least you know if I’m going to disagree with a colleague, such as yourself, it’s done publicly – and not cowardly, behind journalists with leaks,” Scavino wrote. “See you tomorrow!”

The cartoon shared by Scavino is signed by conservative political cartoonist Ben Garrison. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a vocal critic of Fauci who has confronted him at Senate hearings on the coronavirus, is also depicted on the side of the faucet, yelling, “shut him off!”...

The idea of there being some Trump vs Fauci thing is a joke designed for mass consumption

Ya, no.

Trump has his people starting to undermine Fauci and spreading the Deep State threat within the CDC messaging.

That is very deliberate.

Should Florida and Texas keep getting worse and we see a repeat of NYS at its worst with Dr's making calls on who lives and dies, and Trump sees the people of those States anger he is preparing to say 'It is all Fauci and the CDC's fault. They are Deep State agents who were working from the inside to undermine Trump'.


He knows he cannot say China and W.H.O are still to blame this far in so he needs a new fall person to point at.

He is setting that stage now buy building this undercurrent of doubt and resentment against Fauci.

The "undercurrent of doubt and resentment" against Fauci has been going on since the beginning of Fauci's appearance on the national stage. It isn't anything new. Neither is the the whole 'deep state vs Trump' narrative. It's all a part of that.

Cuepee,
The funny thing is that I'm saying it's all a joke and your response is pretty much "no, you're wrong. It is all a joke". Agree or disagree?

You didn't say that it was new. You said that it was a joke. I took that to mean that you meant it wasn't real. Are you saying that it isn't real? Are you saying that it open hostilities aren't happening or new?

What exactly is it that you're trying to say?

Yes. Open hostilities not authentic. At the end of the day Trump and Fauci go bowl some frames on the Whitehouse lanes or something. I suppose Cuepee is saying it's all deliberate but that the Trump team is serious about it, and I think that's lol but to each their own.

As you see with Masks wearing, when Trump and his team show support for something it changes things for a large part of his most devoted base. Others can call for mask wearing all they want but until Trump does it many of his devotees won't follow.


Same for the Fauci undercurrent. Yes it was there but Trump and his admin avoided showing any public support for his undermining. It almost took off when Trump retweeted 'fire Fauci' but there was no admin push to support that idea and it tailed off.

Now Trump and Co have switched 180 degrees. They are authoring the Fauci disinformation and sending it out to reporters. His base knows this and this is blood in the water for them.


You will see i am right (you can save this post for later) that if Florida and Texas end up as bad as NY at its peek or near to that, that Trump and Co will go all in on the 'Blame Fauci and the CDC Deep State', and it will be echoed likely by you, happy to mischaracterize Fauci mistakes as if relevant to what we face today.

Well help me out.

I need to see how you process things. If you have reading comprehension skills of any kind?


Quote for me what, in my posts, what you read as me admitting or acknowledging, directly or indirectly, 'it is all a joke'?

So you don't think it's openly hostile to tweet to your tens of thousands of followers that Fauci is wrong?

Even if that's all for show, the show is the reality at some point.

Right here Cuepee

You think Fauci's life is in danger? I'm not sure what this argument is.
Yes. The show is the reality. It's a reality show. They have writers and producers.

I think Trump is attacking Fauci's credibility for several reasons. He needs to undercut someone who has more authority who is suggesting things he doesn't want to do. He also needs a fall guy.

You seem clueless.

You think trump pitched Fauci on a good cop/bad cop routine and he said yes? What about all the other longtime Rs that have gotten crushed under the trump train? I think maybe some were utilized that way I guess but definitely not all. But it's not like trump isn't capable of malice.

Nope. No doubt my understanding is much greater than yours. Not that we've interacted much or ever but if you're buying into the reality show presidency then that's apparent.

Which Republicans were crushed under the Trump train? McCain and Bush's?

You have highlighted some things I wrote there.

Are those the things you read as saying I am saying it is also a joke?

Am I making the right assessment of your ability to comprehend what you read?


If so, explain what in that quoted suggest I think it is all a joke?

I mean I was thinking of the big board for Survivor WH but there are others.

You are saying that Trump is going after Fauci intentionally for political purposes, correct? In order to turn him into some sort of scapegoat deep-state patsy for the Trumpkins to hate on?

Can anyone else translate this into something that makes any sense at all?