I chuckled at the refreshments one. I like that one best. Since I record all the shows I watch and fast-forward through the commercials, I hadn't seen any of these, so I appreciate your sharing!

That's pretty funny, maybe they didn't think we'd notice. We are DIY and I had the opposite version going for a while. BB island, laminate perimeter. We also had that BB laminate and I thought it was pretty special back in 1985! My TKO moment over the weekend was watching One True Thing and comparing the kitchen with It's Complicated.

A similar product here in Spain is Nocilla and according to Wikipedia it sells better here than Nutella. My girls used to have it on bread when they were small. Some folks here spread it on crepes. It was sold in a reusable drinking glass. Here is an old advert: Here is a list of Nocilla ingredients: Sugar, palm oil, sunflower oil, reduced fat cocoa, skimmed milk, hazelnuts, whey powder, soy lecithin: An Emulsifier, Artificial flavors. Serving size 2 tsp ( 37g). Servings per container 9. Calories 200, Fat calories 110, Total fat 12g (19%), Saturated fat 4g (22%), Trans fat 0%, Cholesterol 0mg ( 0%), Sodium 0%, Total carbohydrate 20g ( 6%), dietary fiber (4%), Sugars 20g, protein 2g. Vitamin A and C 0%, Calcium 4%, Iron 4%. * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. That list doesn't give the quantities of each ingredient but here are a couple of Spanish recipes that I've seen online for making it at home, so you can see the proportions: Recipe #1 - (sorry they are in metric) 100 grams chocolate for melting 100 grams hazelnuts 200 grams sugar 60 grams powdered milk 100 grams milk or liquid cream 40 grams butter Recipe#2 1 small tin sweetened condensed milk 250 grams margarine or butter 150 grams best quality pure cocoa 150 grams ground hazelnuts Instructions for making this 2nd recipe just say to mix it all well. SharonCb Here is a link that might be useful: Nocilla in Spain at La Tienda

Regarding the bear and the toilet paper ... ... remember a couple of years ago that someone showed a comic illustration of a bear and a bunny, where we saw a rear view of both while they were going poo ... ... and the bear asks the bunny whether it bothers him (I imagine they're both "him"s) when he gets poo on his fur, and but bunny says, "No" ... ... so the bear grabs the bunny and uses him the fulfill the toilet paper function?? I think that it may have been Moni who posted it, for I came on a couple of days later when I wanted to print it to say that it had disappeared, so the original poster sent a copy directly to me. If you read this, original poster, ... thanks again: I enjoyed that one and passed it around ... even sprung for the 15 cents to have it done colourfully. What mainly gets to me about the inane commercials is that they can't wait ten minutes to play the same one over again. Plus ... I agree: when you find one *really* annoying ... write the sponsor to share your thoughts with them. ole joyfuelled ... with a bit o' help occasionally from funny cartoons