Those tall ships

[Tanzoria]

really lifted the nation's spirits after watergate

[Donnee]

You could feel the difference in the voting booth.

[Liberdon]

One bad egg doesn’t mean the whole batch is rotten.

[Donnee]

What about two?

[Jabberwocky]

That could be either coincidence or the start of a trend.

[Donnee]

How do you explain three?

[Liberdon]

I could really ask you the same question.

[Donnee]

I'm constrained by my honesty to agree with you.

[Jabberwocky]

Three bad eggs is an omelet I'm happy to miss.

[Donnee]

Yeah. Sometimes I halfway wish we could send about the last 60 years of history back to the cook.

[Liberdon]

I don’t know. Roughly 40 years ago was a pretty good time egg-wise for the US.

[Jabberwocky]

Was there an egg boom 40 years ago?

[Liberdon]

Not sure. All I know is that one hen laid a very good egg that hatched into a very good rooster. I also think that the egg metaphor is being stretched pretty thin at this point.

[Jabberwocky]

And nobody likes thin eggs.

[Donnee]

Eggsactly

[Jabberwocky]

And then there's that old debate about which end to crack an egg: the big end or little end.

[Liberdon]

I always go for the middle.

[Jabberwocky]

Isn't that cheating?

[Comfed]

Not if you do it with a hammer.

[Liberdon]

Personally, though, I prefer my eggs without the shell.

[Jabberwocky]

Sunny side up?

[Liberdon]

Scrambled but not crunchy

[Jabberwocky]

How about a quiche?

[Liberdon]

Acceptable, but only if there’s bacon

[Aersoldorf]

Century egg?

[Liberdon]

Never

[Aersoldorf]

Scotch eggs?

[Liberdon]

Perhaps…

[Aersoldorf]

Caviar?

[Liberdon]

No thank you.