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1:16 AM

Q: How do I ask a waitress to "wrap the rest of the food up" to bring home?

I went to a restaurant for a meal and didn't manage to finish it, so there was some food leftover. How do you politely ask a server/waiter/waitress to wrap the food up? And is the expression "wrap up" correct?

Really?

How about, "Will you wrap this up for us?"

This has 23,000 views.

And a Stradivarius violin will make an adequate paperweight, won't it?

Ah, and here's why it was bumped to the top:

A: How do I ask a waitress to "wrap the rest of the food up" to bring home?

I have a friend who is unable to get out at present , & would like very much to order an idem from your menu. Is this possiable?

I think it is "possiable" ... may we have your credit card number, please?

EL&U also takes bitcoin, I hear.

Robusto

1:36 AM

tchrist

2:05 AM

The fallac‹ɪj› of schwee.

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Cerberus

4:25 AM

@Robusto Correct!

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KannE

5:41 AM

@Mitch It's my hubby's USACE laptop...I misappropriated it a little. This piss color is probably a federal crime. Pretend I was never here.

@Robusto Yes...I said old piss, but that's probably not relatable. Maybe Glidden's Water Chestnut...in a sunny room...or old, canned mushrooms. This would go great with my friend's hunter green carpet from the 80s. She vacuums too much.

KannE

6:10 AM

@Mitch My little cuz just misspelled "plaiting" at a spelling bee. She's still like 20 years ahead of the rest of us. I think she'll misspell "peed" next; it just doesn't look right.

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user8718165

2:04 PM

Hello people! Could you please tell me if this sentence makes sense? If I had gone there after you had left, I'd have been surely fired. Thank you so much for the help :)

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus alsnog gefeliciteerd. Oepsie-Daisy.

Robusto

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Q: Bored with the dowdy colors, I seek solace in drink

Blessings on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan! Yeah, that's how it starts. The John Greenleaf Whittier poem, that is. From 1855. Last time I looked, it was 158 years later. We don't write poetry like that anymore, and we sure don't talk the way they did back then. Hell, th...

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That was my comment on this site's colors. Not exactly old piss, but musty and boring.

Cerberus

2:50 PM

@RegDwigнt Mercy.

user8718165

Hello @Cerberus Are you there?

Matt E. Эллен

@user8718165 that sentence makes sense

Cerberus

@user8718165 Hello, why?

user8718165

3:21 PM

@MattE.Эллен hello. Thank you very much for your reply. I was very worried about this sentence ;)

Matt E. Эллен

no worries

user8718165

@Cerberus Hello. How are you? I just pinged you :)

@MattE.Эллен thanks a lot for the help :)

Matt E. Эллен

you're welcome

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KannE

7:32 PM

@Robusto LOL! "I have done an" AAS in computer science in order to not deal with this color ever again. Is it just me, or do we not do degrees here? Anyway, thanks for the link to the comment. I have no idea why my old laptop wasn't processing these awful colors. As I said, I had only done an AAS. Somebody correct those people...or me, whatevs.

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It's Over

8:55 PM

Q: Some improvements to blockquotes

We’re making a few changes to blockquotes soon. Historically, we had a bit of feedback that the yellow backgrounds were overpowering, reducing the contrast of the quote itself. The yellow border also lacks contrast with the background. Others have indicated that there should be more visible diffe...