Never rely on government for information on smoke inhalation? Shirley you jest…
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Don’t call me Shirley, Dammit.
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Good point. I wear contact lenses. We had pretty heavy smoke blow in from mountains hundreds of miles North of us about 10 years ago (luckily, first/only time in the near 30 years we’ve lived here, and it lasted only about 8 days IIRC).
It was very irritating to the eyes and I think maybe more so with contact lenses. I wear the 30-day, 24 hour-a-day (sleep-in) type, and I think the particles preferentially adhere to the surfaces. I had to pull them out several times during the smoke, scrub and run them through the cleaning solution.
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The next correct response is “Don’t call me Dammit, Shirley.”
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You West Coasters shouldn’t minimize what we’re going thru in NYC with this smoke. It’s so bad that the pizza rats here are wearing masks. 
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I went outside and waved a salmon around, and now I have lox.
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… the Lord works in mysterious ways 
We had to break out coats yesterday
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Snow in Glacier Park yesterday. Thank goodness for no smoke!
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Apparently, a smoked lox joke is more appreciated around here than a pizza rat joke.
I will remember who liked your post and not mine 
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I liked your post in order to stay off your shit list. I hope I’m not too late!
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It was great. I searched for rat in a mask pic but the good ones were all licensed 
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I’m going to sound like a PITA, but will go ahead. I appreciated the humor in small h’s post but will point out that lox is cured but not smoked salmon. Hence called lox. Salmon that is smoked is called, wait for it, smoked salmon. I will now leave…
Oh, I am aware. But I am also aware that “smoked salmon” is not as funny a punchline as “lox,” and my goal was 60% humor, 40% accuracy.
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She sticks the landing!
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The “k” sound the x makes in lox is what makes it funnier. Here’s an article on “k” sounds and joke writing:
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Because this is the sort of thing I retain, I was very confused by a bit on Welcome Back Kotter in which Gabe Kaplan makes this exact same point about the letter K, and as an example says that a chicken is not funny, whereas a duck is. And I was like 
. Both words have a K in them.
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But please note that I absolutely respect your pedantry. I am the person who decided to point out to a CH poster that she should not call her invention “Mexican sushi” (it was chopped raw tuna stuffed into a jalapeno), because “sushi” means “vinegar rice” and there was no rice in her dish. She was very grateful for the correction!
Hahahaha. She was not.
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