Your Weekly Dose of Gubbins

There was a time -- although for neither love nor money can we definitively remember when it was -- when we were fans of Dr. Pepper. We suspect it was during that four-year intellectual flatline some of you might call "high school," since, at that point, our now-exquisite sense of taste (that you know and love) was not exactly refined.


We even have vague recollections of trying to seduce a girl with the beverage -- after proven success with chocolate chip cookies -- and we're not ashamed to admit the attempt was futile.


And lest you think we've since taken the high road, let me assure you that we have not. We considered, during the most recent Valentine's Day, plying some of the neighborhood gals with peanut M&Ms.


This never got off the ground, thankfully, because it occurred to us that we might not want a woman who'd sleep with us for a packet of candy.


But that's subject to change.