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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:18:25pm |
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BryanS Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:19:35pm |
OT, but has there been a significant increase in earthquake activity around the Pacific ring of fire, or is it just the news coverage thereof that has increased. Just saw an alert on a modest 6.1 quake in Taiwan.
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BryanS Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:23:13pm |
The last wail in the Onion clip is a nice send off :)
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Summer Seale Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:23:22pm |
Absolutely brilliant.
Nobody does satire and parodies American life like The Onion. Even Jon Stewart pales in comparison. =)
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Flyers1974 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:23:57pm |
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William of Orange Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:26:36pm |
Oops. Laura getting it. Hahaha! Have to admit though. A president with two drunks for daughters was more entertaining.
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Dr. Shalit Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:27:09pm |
Everyone, needed a good laugh - this served well. Thanks Charles.
-S-
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William of Orange Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:28:58pm |
Obama and a dentist? Hope it’s not a nirther…
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philosophus invidius Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:29:31pm |
re: #7 Summer
What do you mean “even” John Stewart. Stewart’s self-righteousness takes him out of the running in my book.
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Flyers1974 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:30:02pm |
re: #7 Summer
Absolutely brilliant.
Nobody does satire and parodies American life like The Onion. Even Jon Stewart pales in comparison. =)
I think the best part is how they nail the false drama used by the actual newscasters.
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tradewind Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:30:08pm |
re: #9 William of Orange
Nice generalization/ slur, even if it’s not true. If every college kid who has a fake ID and gets nailed trying to buy a margarita for their friends at a bar is a drunk,
we’re way worse off than Russia.
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Summer Seale Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:31:46pm |
re: #12 philosophus invidius
What do you mean “even” John Stewart. Stewart’s self-righteousness takes him out of the running in my book.
I agree for the most part. But a lot of people like him and say otherwise. He has done some really funny stuff, though. Then again, I only watch him when people post clips. =)
What I was referring to, though, was that brand of satire on TV as news. There aren’t that many that do it. Colbert, Stewart, and The Onion are the only few that come to mind. The Onion is definitely the best. Colbert has his moments. Stewart a bit less, but he does get it right from time to time. =)
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William of Orange Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:33:10pm |
re: #14 tradewind
Nice generalization/ slur, even if it’s not true. If every college kid who has a fake ID and gets nailed trying to buy a margarita for their friends at a bar is a drunk,
we’re way worse off than Russia.
Okay, I was young too. But my dad was not the president of the US. I know they were young but even then they should have realized their father was not Joe Average. Every (mis-)step they made was bound to be fudder for the press.
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Summer Seale Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:33:14pm |
re: #13 Flyers1974
I think the best part is how they nail the false drama used by the actual newscasters.
Yea, I read in a long article about their new “TV Casting” that they require everyone to read it as if it were real news. I emailed Bobbi Battista about it when she first was on and she told me what a blast it was and she will do as many as they want her to do. =)
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William of Orange Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:36:38pm |
re: #15 Summer
I agree for the most part. But a lot of people like him and say otherwise. He has done some really funny stuff, though. Then again, I only watch him when people post clips. =)
What I was referring to, though, was that brand of satire on TV as news. There aren’t that many that do it. Colbert, Stewart, and The Onion are the only few that come to mind. The Onion is definitely the best. Colbert has his moments. Stewart a bit less, but he does get it right from time to time. =)
SNL does it sometimes, but that isn’t their core activity. Agree with you that the other examples you give are more or less fake “newscasts” . And sometimes, or many times (differs from which perspective you watch) they make more sense than the mainstream media.
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tradewind Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:39:17pm |
re: #16 William of Orange
Fine, but it doesn’t mean either one of them deserves to be called a drunk.
Maybe the press will have had their fill of fudder fodder by the time Sasha and Malia reach the age of rebellion… for their sakes, I do hope so.
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philosophus invidius Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:40:29pm |
Colbert is way better than Stewart, but still too partisan.
Hitchens has an interesting take on these guys (doesn’t mention Onion), even though I think he infairly lumps Colbert together with Stewart.
[Link: www.theatlantic.com…]
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:44:27pm |
re: #19 tradewind
Fine, but it doesn’t mean either one of them deserves to be called a drunk.
Maybe the press will have had their fill offudderfodder by the time Sasha and Malia reach the age of rebellion… for their sakes, I do hope so.
Gotta agree - leave the kids alone.
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bratwurst Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:45:32pm |
re: #20 philosophus invidius
Colbert is way better than Stewart, but still too partisan.
Nothing stopping conservatives from starting a comedy news program…unless they are worried about competition from Beck, O’Reilly and Hannity.
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Kosh's Shadow Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:45:56pm |
re: #5 BryanS
OT, but has there been a significant increase in earthquake activity around the Pacific ring of fire, or is it just the news coverage thereof that has increased. Just saw an alert on a modest 6.1 quake in Taiwan.
R’leh ascends!
Save yourselves from Cthulu!
Repeat after me:
ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!
///Do I need to?
(And I will be heading out in a few minutes)
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redshirt Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:46:01pm |
Author “Family: The Screaming Backbone of America”
Heh.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:50:35pm |
On this topic, I do wonder just how wretchedly miserable everybody in this country seems to think everybody else is? I notice that folk will tell you all’s well with them and theirs, and then go on to say that everybody else, though, is having a hard time of it. maybe it’s a cheap form of superiority disguised as concern for others.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:50:52pm |
Y’know, gang, what it’s really doing is sending up the rest of us.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:51:16pm |
Ed Morrisey posted a video of a woman named Tracy Walsh talking about the evils of socialism and how the joys of private insurance.
Could this be the same Tracy Walsh?
a few years, a few pounds and a new haircut. Could be?
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:51:58pm |
I do know that the only thing my family and I hated more than each other was people who were having too good a time of it. We always figured they were insincere and phoney, and that they were, in truth, every bit as miserable as we were, but lacked the integrity to own it.
You can see why my wife has such a hard time dealing with me.
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peterb Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:52:23pm |
I wonder if the Onion writers themselves are weirded out by the seeming faithfulness with which the straight media imitates them.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:52:38pm |
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:53:35pm |
re: #31 pre-Boomer Marine brat
I certainly do hope things are going better with you today.
… :D … *duck*
I’m all right, but poor old Spacejesus…
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webevintage Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:55:29pm |
Brilliant!
I know I am in the minority here, but I heart me some Jon Stewart and would have his internet babies if I could.
(as an aside I hate to see politician’s kids held up to a higher standard then the rest of our kids because of what their parents do for a living. College students go out and get drunk, messy, messy drunk sometimes, but that does not mean they are drunks. The Bush twins acted like most college kids. Why I can remember riding the elevator in my dorm up and down all night…)
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MJ Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:56:45pm |
What not to do when your time comes:
Ted Williams’ frozen head for batting practice at cryogenics lab: book
Read more: [Link: www.nydailynews.com…]
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davinvalkri Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:57:03pm |
Who here thinks the Onion could dominate traditional mainstream media sources if they chose to?
*raises hand*
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reine.de.tout Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:57:03pm |
re: #16 William of Orange
Okay, I was young too. But my dad was not the president of the US. I know they were young but even then they should have realized their father was not Joe Average. Every (mis-)step they made was bound to be fudder for the press.
There are some of us who think a politician’s dependent children should be left alone. And that applies to whoever it is who is President.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:58:22pm |
re: #35 davinvalkri
Who here thinks the Onion could dominate traditional mainstream media NEWS sources if they chose to?
*raises hand*
And with that editorial change, I raise my hand too.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:58:32pm |
re: #33 webevintage
Brilliant!
Why I can remember riding the elevator in my dorm up and down all night…)
Then you weren’t that drunk. I recall the time, at a party, where I just sorta crumpled. Folk helped themselves to my Dunhills, and one thoughtful passerby loosened my tie a bit, but I was left alone until some pre-med kids came by.
“Dude! he’s cold!” (checks my pulse in the wrong frigging place) “Dude! He’s dead!”
One takes my hands, one takes my feet, and they were carrying me out to the back stairs, to deposit me in the snowbank outside before one of my friends noticed me missing and intervened.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:58:59pm |
re: #10 Dr. Shalit
Everyone, needed a good laugh - this served well. Thanks Charles.
-S-
Yes it served very well.
I laughed out loud, esp at the replacement wife and family! LOL.
Not something I do all that often.
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webevintage Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:58:59pm |
re: #23 bratwurst
Didn’t FOX try once with a nightly or weekly fake news show that failed in a big way?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:59:21pm |
re: #36 reine.de.tout
How many potentially great leaders have refused to run for office out of true concern and love for their families?…
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arethusa Sat, Oct 3, 2009 2:59:59pm |
re: #36 reine.de.tout
There are some of us who think a politician’s dependent children should be left alone. And that applies to whoever it is who is President.
Absolutely. And no politician’s child should have 911 called on them because of underage drinking (which is what happened to the Bush twins).
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BryanS Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:00:23pm |
re: #40 webevintage
Didn’t FOX try once with a nightly or weekly fake news show that failed in a big way?
Beck’s ratings aren’t bad, are they?
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bratwurst Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:00:52pm |
re: #40 webevintage
Didn’t FOX try once with a nightly or weekly fake news show that failed in a big way?
No idea…I was overseas for many years though.
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arethusa Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:01:22pm |
re: #41 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
How many potentially great leaders have refused to run for office out of true concern and love for their families?…
Wasn’t that one of Colin Powell’s reasons for not running for President back in the 1990’s?
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Killgore Trout Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:01:41pm |
re: #28 Killgore Trout
Ah, probably not the same person. She’s in S. Carolina.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:01:59pm |
re: #45 arethusa
Wasn’t that one of Colin Powell’s reasons for not running for President back in the 1990’s?
I recall his wife was concerned for his safety. And she was right, as events have shown.
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davinvalkri Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:02:01pm |
re: #37 pre-Boomer Marine brat
And with that editorial change, I raise my hand too.
So I dropped a word…it’s not that important, is it?
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:04:06pm |
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reine.de.tout Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:04:43pm |
re: #41 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
How many potentially great leaders have refused to run for office out of true concern and love for their families?…
I would wager there are a lot of people who avoid public office for just that reason.
I saw a news story the other day - the President and Mrs. Obama had a photo taken with Spain’s Prime Minister Zapatero and his family, and published it.
Apparently in Spain, photos of the children are never published. There was a bit of an “oops” moment, and a bit of snickering, when it was noticed that the Prime Minister’s two daughters were clothed and made up in a most unattractive “goth” style.
As far as I’m concerrned - how the Prime Minister and his wife raise their kids is their business, and if they are allowing their kids the luxury of taking part in whatever style is “in” right now, then I don’t understand what the big deal is. It’s got to be hard as heck to be the private family of a public person.
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arethusa Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:05:39pm |
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BryanS Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:05:41pm |
re: #41 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
How many potentially great leaders have refused to run for office out of true concern and love for their families?…
Not sure that such an individual could be a great leader. Who among our great leaders ranked high on family life?
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:06:11pm |
re: #41 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
How many potentially great leaders have refused to run for office out of true concern and love for their families?…
me, for one
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:07:25pm |
re: #52 BryanS
Not sure that such an individual could be a great leader. Who among our great leaders ranked high on family life?
TR
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:07:31pm |
re: #51 arethusa
Yes, that’s right. I also have a vague memory that she had been ill, and did not want media attention focused on that, but I don’t remember more details.
I believe she had suffered at least one major depressive episode. That would certainly draw most unwelcome attention from his detractors.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:07:37pm |
re: #52 BryanS
Not sure that such an individual could be a great leader. Who among our great leaders ranked high on family life?
Ronald Reagan
/
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wrenchwench Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:08:23pm |
re: #33 webevintage
Why I can remember riding the elevator in my dorm up and down all night…
I would have done that, but we had stairs…
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:08:55pm |
re: #59 wrenchwench
I would have done that, but we had stairs…
I fell down them many, many times in pursuit of my degree.
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MandyManners Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:10:45pm |
re: #33 webevintage
Brilliant!
I know I am in the minority here, but I heart me some Jon Stewart and would have his internet babies if I could.
(as an aside I hate to see politician’s kids held up to a higher standard then the rest of our kids because of what their parents do for a living. College students go out and get drunk, messy, messy drunk sometimes, but that does not mean they are drunks. The Bush twins acted like most college kids. Why I can remember riding the elevator in my dorm up and down all night…)
I got stoned on the UW campus and chased the ducks.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:11:08pm |
re: #62 MandyManners
I got stoned on the UW campus and chased the ducks.
Commies always were a little odd like that.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:12:15pm |
re: #62 MandyManners
I got stoned on the UW campus and chased the ducks.
We Muscovy that incident in greater detail sometimg.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:12:42pm |
re: #26 Guanxi88
Not cheap superiority for me; just arrogance.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:13:23pm |
re: #62 MandyManners
I got stoned on the UW campus and chased the ducks.
Were you heavier than a duck? Is that why you got stoned?
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:13:30pm |
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MandyManners Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:13:47pm |
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SixDegrees Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:14:24pm |
re: #40 webevintage
Didn’t FOX try once with a nightly or weekly fake news show that failed in a big way?
The Half Hour News Hour.
It was pathetically, embarrassingly awful. In case Fox News is reading this, first rule of comedy: be funny.
It wasn’t.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:14:59pm |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:16:35pm |
re: #67 albusteve
Thought you were in rehab to get over your Stone’s Jones.
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BryanS Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:16:47pm |
re: #55 albusteve
TR
TR was truly an amazing figure. Even more so, he didn’t have greatness thrust upon him by events, yet managed to become great on his own accord.
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:17:55pm |
re: #71 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Thought you were in rehab to get over your Stone’s Jones.
rehab?…I don’t think so…my body is a temple
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:19:17pm |
re: #72 BryanS
TR was truly an amazing figure. Even more so, he didn’t have greatness thrust upon him by events, yet managed to become great on his own accord.
Lincoln was also very fond of his family…even his ditzy wife
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:19:55pm |
re: #73 albusteve
rehab?…I don’t think so…my body is a temple
They tried to make me go to rehab. I said “No, no no.”
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HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:22:26pm |
re: #75 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
They tried to make me go to rehab. I said “No, no no.”
I wish Amy would go straight..She is an amazing talent…I’m afraid her time isn’t long on this earth if she continues on this path…
/Veggie…Just had a great fruit salad…
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:23:28pm |
re: #77 HoosierHoops
nom nom nom nom nom nom nom
I just had two “Little Debbies” and a bag of hot barbecue chips.
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Liberally Conservative Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:25:08pm |
re: #24 Kosh’s Shadow
R’leh ascends!
Save yourselves from Cthulu!
Repeat after me:
ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!///Do I need to?
(And I will be heading out in a few minutes)
Cthulhu fhtagn!
(note my icon)
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BryanS Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:25:41pm |
re: #78 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
nom nom nom nom nom nom nom
I just had two “Little Debbies” and a bag of hot barbecue chips.
I was wondering how a vegetarian becomes a “Fat Bastard” vegetarian. I guess the secret is “Little Debbies” and chips :)
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:26:13pm |
re: #68 MandyManners
Got stoned on Red Square, too.
Sweet! See, THAT’S what it’s all about, folks. That shows character, real, live, interesting humanity. A commie who can do that, well, that’s a Commie I could get along with.
“Believe me when I say to you,
I hope the Russians love their ganja, too.”
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HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:26:17pm |
re: #78 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
nom nom nom nom nom nom nom
I just had two “Little Debbies” and a bag of hot barbecue chips.
Little Debbies? Pure sugar…I am so going to kick your butt! *wink*
Hope today finds you well
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arethusa Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:29:19pm |
re: #78 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
nom nom nom nom nom nom nom
I just had two “Little Debbies” and a bag of hot barbecue chips.
Little Debbies? I love those. Alas I have none. Eat some for me!
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Pianobuff Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:29:49pm |
OT: My Life This Weekend
My wife went with the MIL down to San Diego to visit a cousin for the weekend.
Great for me, because I have some cues I need to finish for a Sunday night review so I can work undisturbed… that is except for my two little girls (chihuahua and Toy Manchester) who are no problem at all.
Mother-in-Law gets here last night. Turns out she brings her male min-pin (Mr. Burns) with her. Wants to know if I can watch the dog until her son picks him up this afternoon. What do you say, he’s already here, right? So..yeah…fine.
Wife and MIL leave early this morning. Dogs are out at 7:00 and 11:00. I’m chugging along… things are going great - but I’m getting tired so I decided to take an hour-long nap. Phone rings about an hour. Son is on his way up from Long Beach to pick up Mr. Burns - will be here in an hour or so. I get up, go to use the restroom, and Mr. Burns is spreading diarrhea all around the bathroom floor. Every piece of carpet, mat, has something on it. I’m a little annoyed. Clean up what I can and gingerly take an armful down the hall to the washer/dryer in our building. Come back and…no Mr. Burns. I’m legally blind and miss a lot of things, so he must have snuck out the door somehow.
I find him at the far end of the building around a couple of corners. People are ticked. Turns out he’s pissed little squirts on everyone’s door. Back to get cleaning stuff. I go door to door cleaning. Finish up and get back to the washer and move the stuff to the dryer. Son-in-law is here and takes the dog. I’m thinking thank God that’s over. Go to use the bathroom and he left a new pee puddle on the bathroom floor. Clean that up and go to the bedroom to change my shirt. Piles of Mr. Burns diarrhea in the bedroom. Parting gifts, I guess.
It never ends. Ever have one of those days?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:30:02pm |
re: #80 BryanS
“Vegetarian came up to me and said, ‘I haven’t eaten meat in over three years.’ I said, ‘So what? I haven’t had a banana in a month…”
-Jim Gaffigan
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MandyManners Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:30:22pm |
re: #81 Guanxi88
Sweet! See, THAT’S what it’s all about, folks. That shows character, real, live, interesting humanity. A commie who can do that, well, that’s a Commie I could get along with.
“Believe me when I say to you,
I hope the Russians love their ganja, too.”
UW has a Red Square. It’s bordered by the undergraduate library, the graduate library, a lecture building and stunning views of Mt. Ranier on a clear day.
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HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:31:32pm |
re: #85 arethusa
Little Debbies? I love those. Alas I have none. Eat some for me!
Do not encourage him..He is in training to play Street Basketball…
Veggie..Put down the little Debbie..LOL
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:31:58pm |
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BryanS Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:32:02pm |
re: #88 MandyManners
UW has a Red Square. It’s bordered by the undergraduate library, the graduate library, a lecture building and stunning views of Mt. Ranier on a clear day.
So named in honor of the Chinese one?
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:32:11pm |
re: #87 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
“Vegetarian came up to me and said, ‘I haven’t eaten meat in over three years.’ I said, ‘So what? I haven’t had a banana in a month…”
-Jim Gaffigan
I don’t get it..what is the purpose of a meatless diet?…does it have to do with digestion or ethics or what?
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:32:51pm |
re: #88 MandyManners
UW has a Red Square. It’s bordered by the undergraduate library, the graduate library, a lecture building and stunning views of Mt. Ranier on a clear day.
Well, that doesn’t count! I want to hear how you sparked up in the line at Lenin’s Tomb!
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reine.de.tout Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:33:17pm |
re: #86 Pianobuff
OT: My Life This Weekend
My wife went with the MIL down to San Diego to visit a cousin for the weekend.
Great for me, because I have some cues I need to finish for a Sunday night review so I can work undisturbed… that is except for my two little girls (chihuahua and Toy Manchester) who are no problem at all.
Mother-in-Law gets here last night. Turns out she brings her male min-pin (Mr. Burns) with her. Wants to know if I can watch the dog until her son picks him up this afternoon. What do you say, he’s already here, right? So..yeah…fine.
Wife and MIL leave early this morning. Dogs are out at 7:00 and 11:00. I’m chugging along… things are going great - but I’m getting tired so I decided to take an hour-long nap. Phone rings about an hour. Son is on his way up from Long Beach to pick up Mr. Burns - will be here in an hour or so. I get up, go to use the restroom, and Mr. Burns is spreading diarrhea all around the bathroom floor. Every piece of carpet, mat, has something on it. I’m a little annoyed. Clean up what I can and gingerly take an armful down the hall to the washer/dryer in our building. Come back and…no Mr. Burns. I’m legally blind and miss a lot of things, so he must have snuck out the door somehow.
I find him at the far end of the building around a couple of corners. People are ticked. Turns out he’s pissed little squirts on everyone’s door. Back to get cleaning stuff. I go door to door cleaning. Finish up and get back to the washer and move the stuff to the dryer. Son-in-law is here and takes the dog. I’m thinking thank God that’s over. Go to use the bathroom and he left a new pee puddle on the bathroom floor. Clean that up and go to the bedroom to change my shirt. Piles of Mr. Burns diarrhea in the bedroom. Parting gifts, I guess.
It never ends. Ever have one of those days?
Oh, sorry!
Yes, I’ve had several of those days.
Usually, it would start as soon as I got up at 5 a.m. and would be faced with a scenario like the one you described. Before having to leave for school carpool and then work.
You’re not alone. Some days are just not worth getting up for.
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debutaunt Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:33:24pm |
re: #62 MandyManners
I got stoned on the UW campus and chased the ducks.
Did that really happen or is it just a flashback after ingesting some drugs only identified by letters?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:33:42pm |
re: #92 albusteve
Not a big deal. Just don’t want to kill nuthin.
Stranded on cow island with only hay to eat? I could eat me some meat.
If it’s gotta be me or them… gonna be them.
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BryanS Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:33:56pm |
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HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:34:01pm |
re: #92 albusteve
I don’t get it..what is the purpose of a meatless diet?…does it have to do with digestion or ethics or what?
Health…
/Whoops..People hate me here about food…I am the worst..
I still love you guys!
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Pianobuff Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:34:08pm |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:34:36pm |
re: #89 HoosierHoops
I’ll put it down tomorrow.
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debutaunt Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:34:55pm |
re: #78 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
nom nom nom nom nom nom nom
I just had two “Little Debbies” and a bag of hot barbecue chips.
You did not.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:35:28pm |
re: #100 Pianobuff
I would too. Were it not me I’d be rolling.
“Tragedy is when I get a paper cut. Comedy is when you fall down an elevator shaft.”
-Mel Brooks
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:37:11pm |
re: #104 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Oh, yes I did…
so you will kill yourself with junk food, but not eat a chicken?…you cannot be serious
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:37:26pm |
re: #94 Guanxi88
Well, that doesn’t count! I want to hear how you sparked up in the line at Lenin’s Tomb!
Make it up, if you have to! It’s too good a story NOT to be true, even if it didn’t happen to you.
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BryanS Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:38:49pm |
re: #105 albusteve
so you will kill yourself with junk food, but not eat a chicken?…you cannot be serious
Heh…though it sounds like FBV goes meatless more for ethics reasons than health.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:39:09pm |
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debutaunt Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:39:38pm |
re: #103 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
“Tragedy is when I get a paper cut. Comedy is when you fall down an elevator shaft.”
-Mel Brooks
…and die.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:40:08pm |
re: #96 debutaunt
Did that really happen or is it just a flashback after ingesting some drugs only identified by letters?
No, the flashbacks are where the ducks get stones and chase her.
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debutaunt Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:40:21pm |
re: #105 albusteve
so you will kill yourself with junk food, but not eat a chicken?…you cannot be serious
Did John McEnroe really say that?
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arethusa Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:41:02pm |
re: #112 debutaunt
Did John McEnroe really say that?
Yup. They play the tape pretty much every Wimbledon.
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Pianobuff Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:41:30pm |
re: #103 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
“Tragedy is when I get a paper cut. Comedy is when you fall down an elevator shaft.”
In bed.
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:42:20pm |
re: #108 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Totally.
I eat about five little debbies a month.
I have a weakness for chocolate baked goods…brownies, toll house cookies, my favorite is white cake with chocolate frosting…totally irresistable
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debutaunt Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:43:11pm |
re: #115 albusteve
I have a weakness for chocolate baked goods…brownies, toll house cookies, my favorite is white cake with chocolate frosting…totally irresistable
White cake - c’mon! Chocolate cake and white frosting.
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arethusa Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:43:12pm |
re: #115 albusteve
I have a weakness for chocolate baked goods…brownies, toll house cookies, my favorite is white cake with chocolate frosting…totally irresistable
I’m the total opposite - chocolate cake with white frosting is my weakness.
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HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:43:53pm |
re: #108 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Totally.
I eat about five little debbies a month.
LOL
My parents ( I was adopted ) Taught me Sugar was the devil..Seriously they were food Nazi’s…
A couple of months ago I read somewhere that they did a scan of a mummy.. The 30 something mummy didn’t have one single cavity..Not one..
Oh the modern world..We are so advanced today…*wink*
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:43:59pm |
re: #115 albusteve
I have a weakness for chocolate baked goods…brownies, toll house cookies, my favorite is white cake with chocolate frosting…totally irresistable
blueberry cake donuts. Put a coupla those in a bear trap, and watch me lose a hand.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:44:05pm |
re: #103 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
“Tragedy is when I get a paper cut. Comedy is when you fall down an elevator shaft.”
-Mel Brooks
“Comedy is tragedy, plus time.”
-Carol Burnett
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webevintage Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:44:38pm |
re: #62 MandyManners
I got stoned on the UW campus and chased the ducks.
The things we do as young adults that we really would would think twice about now.
The night in question is a haze of gin and red koolaid, yes red koolaid, along with the scary idea of a 19 year old mostly passed out in public. On an elevator. My father would have died if he had known how little I thought of my safety as a co-ed.
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:45:27pm |
chocolate cake with chocolate frosting…next best
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arethusa Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:45:42pm |
re: #119 Guanxi88
blueberry cake donuts. Put a coupla those in a bear trap, and watch me lose a hand.
Old-fashioned cake donuts with chocolate icing, and I’m in the trap with you.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:46:28pm |
re: #121 webevintage
The night in question is a haze of gin and red koolaid, yes red koolaid,
You really should try the Kosher cocktail: Manischewitz concord grape wine (or their sweet blackberry wine) and gin. Use the traditional 6 parts gin to one part vermouth ratio. Good stuff.
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HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:46:38pm |
God..I love food threads…I’m a happy man tonight
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:46:42pm |
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bratwurst Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:47:18pm |
re: #124 Guanxi88
You really should try the Kosher cocktail: Manischewitz concord grape wine (or their sweet blackberry wine) and gin. Use the traditional 6 parts gin to one part vermouth ratio. Good stuff.
I have a hangover just READING this!
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:47:41pm |
weird…outside of ice cream stuff and baked goods, chocolate means nothing to me…chocolate milk, for example, seems very odd
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debutaunt Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:47:58pm |
re: #123 arethusa
Old-fashioned cake donuts with chocolate icing, and I’m in the trap with you.
Yes, I will lose a hand for chocolate.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:48:20pm |
re: #127 bratwurst
I have a hangover just READING this!
Yeah, it stays with ya. I recall when my wife got plastered on the Manischewitz blackberry wine (and this after I repeatedly warned her never to have more than ONE small glass) and the horrible agony it caused her the next day. I still smile when I think of it.
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Sloppy Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:48:41pm |
I was drunk at the White House once, long ago. No consequences, but I still shudder at the thought of what could have happened.
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debutaunt Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:49:18pm |
re: #128 albusteve
weird…outside of ice cream stuff and baked goods, chocolate means nothing to me…chocolate milk, for example, seems very odd
Hey, I’ve been to Albuquerque and they talk about your quirks.
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arethusa Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:50:02pm |
re: #128 albusteve
weird…outside of ice cream stuff and baked goods, chocolate means nothing to me…chocolate milk, for example, seems very odd
Totally agree - my sister however loves chocolate soy milk.
Likewise, can’t stand chocolate-covered salty things (pretzels, nuts). Anyone here tried chocolate-covered bacon?
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HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:50:33pm |
re: #131 Sloppy
I was drunk at the White House once, long ago. No consequences, but I still shudder at the thought of what could have happened.
You had dinner at the White House? Sweet…
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debutaunt Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:50:53pm |
re: #133 arethusa
Totally agree - my sister however loves chocolate soy milk.
Likewise, can’t stand chocolate-covered salty things (pretzels, nuts). Anyone here tried chocolate-covered bacon?
Have you seen my X-rays?
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arethusa Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:52:06pm |
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debutaunt Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:52:19pm |
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debutaunt Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:52:48pm |
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arethusa Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:53:11pm |
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debutaunt Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:54:01pm |
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:55:18pm |
re: #132 debutaunt
Hey, I’ve been to Albuquerque and they talk about your quirks.
chocolate tacos turn me way off
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wrenchwench Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:55:59pm |
I just printed out this recipe (there’s a link for the Word version in there.) Hat tip, Killgore, from his Garden Pr0n link this morning.
I bet they’d be good covered in chocolate.
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arethusa Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:56:15pm |
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HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:56:44pm |
re: #142 albusteve
chocolate tacos turn me way off
Fish Taco’s in LA are completely gross…I hope Charles doesn’t eat them.
*wink*
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 3:56:58pm |
re: #142 albusteve
chocolate tacos turn me way off
But mole, now that’s a wonderful sauce!
[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]
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wrenchwench Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:00:09pm |
There are two of these in the fridge at home.
Or there were when I left this morning.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:01:04pm |
re: #143 wrenchwench
I just printed out this recipe (there’s a link for the Word version in there.) Hat tip, Killgore, from his Garden Pr0n link this morning.
I bet they’d be good covered in chocolate.
See mole poblano:
[Link: www.mexonline.com…]
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arethusa Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:02:25pm |
re: #149 wrenchwench
There are two of these in the fridge at home.
Or there were when I left this morning.
I’ve been eying those dubiously in the supermarket. Are they any good?
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:02:51pm |
re: #150 Guanxi88
See mole poblano:
[Link: www.mexonline.com…]
handed down from the Aztecs, no doubt
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:03:27pm |
re: #151 arethusa
I’ve been eying those dubiously in the supermarket. Are they any good?
Well, they’re better than the original version, which was chocolate rolled in red pepper flakes.
yeah, it’s great stuff.
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wrenchwench Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:03:51pm |
re: #150 Guanxi88
See mole poblano:
[Link: www.mexonline.com…]
Here are the important words from that link:
All moles are very time consuming, labor intensive and require many ingredients.
And the stuff you buy at the store is not worth eating. But the jar it comes in makes a nice juice glass.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:04:12pm |
re: #143 wrenchwench
I just printed out this recipe (there’s a link for the Word version in there.) Hat tip, Killgore, from his Garden Pr0n link this morning.
I bet they’d be good covered in chocolate.
Restaurant here serves jalapenos stuffed with a shrimp/crabmeat mixture.
Yum.
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wrenchwench Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:04:26pm |
re: #151 arethusa
I’ve been eying those dubiously in the supermarket. Are they any good?
Yes yes yes yes, etc.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:04:44pm |
re: #155 wrenchwench
And the stuff you buy at the store is not worth eating. But the jar it comes in makes a nice juice glass.
Still, if you can get even the jarred stuff, it’s worth a try, if only to give you a hint or suggestion of what the real thing tastes like.
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Canadian Guy Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:05:17pm |
re: #154 HoosierHoops
That LSU Florida game next week will be a classic. Unfortunately I’m going to be at an NHL game.
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wrenchwench Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:05:58pm |
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Dante41 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:05:58pm |
re: #154 HoosierHoops
LSU wins! Congrads!
Good. Now I just hope that A&M has learned the Heimlich Maneuver within the past year, and holds their winning streak together.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:07:09pm |
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:07:18pm |
re: #157 reine.de.tout
Restaurant here serves jalapenos stuffed with a shrimp/crabmeat mixture.
Yum.
that does sound tasty…New Mex/Cajun
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reine.de.tout Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:07:34pm |
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wrenchwench Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:07:42pm |
re: #159 Guanxi88
Still, if you can get even the jarred stuff, it’s worth a try, if only to give you a hint or suggestion of what the real thing tastes like.
Maybe I’ll look for another brand. The one we tried was just icky.
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arethusa Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:09:37pm |
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:10:19pm |
re: #166 wrenchwench
Maybe I’ll look for another brand. The one we tried was just icky.
If you’re in an area with a goodish-sized Norteno population (mexican-american) you need only swing by a good grocery store and see what sells well. My wife works with a very nice Tex-mex lady, so we get her homemade from time to time.
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HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:11:41pm |
re: #160 Canadian Guy
That LSU Florida game next week will be a classic. Unfortunately I’m going to be at an NHL game.
As big as a sports nut that I am..I mean serious…
I have never seen a hockey game…I hate hockey…
/OK I have the blindfold on..Hit me as hard as you can!
Ouch! I didn’t mean it!
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:13:18pm |
re: #166 wrenchwench
Maybe I’ll look for another brand. The one we tried was just icky.
Did you put a little oil in the pan, melt down a tablet of Abuelita’s chocolate, then dump in the mole itself to saute, thinned a bit with chicken stock? Right outta the jar, it’s all nasty stuff. Think of it like jarred pasta sauce - it’s just a base.
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The Shadow Do Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:13:27pm |
My first job, a sixteen year old shadow of myself now, I worked 11pm to 4am for the local baker. Two hours on the deep fryer (donuts, twists, long johns, etc) followed by two hours decorating. The vanilla icing never bothered me, but sitting on a low stool with a big bucket of chocolate icing between my knees filling tray after tray - dip hand in chocolate, swipe, swipe, drop on tray, dip, swipe, swipe…
the chocolate aroma filling your mouth, nose, and every pore. Hours of odiferous chocolately hell…
Give me the white cake with the white icing…
I recognize this preference/prejudice is a result of my early chocolate fearing indoctrination into society…
Try as I might I cannot overcome this obvious bigotry…
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Sloppy Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:13:36pm |
Re: #135, Hoosier Hoops
Not a dinner. Cocktail reception for a big bunch of newspaper types, which I was at the time. Size of the crowd probably had a lot to do with my not been detected. At that time (Ford administration) the White House served delicious martinis. P.S. I haven’t had a drink in 26 years.
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wrenchwench Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:16:19pm |
re: #169 Guanxi88
If you’re in an area with a goodish-sized Norteno population (mexican-american) you need only swing by a good grocery store and see what sells well. My wife works with a very nice Tex-mex lady, so we get her homemade from time to time.
There are more Norteños here than any other kind of people, but alas!—no good grocery stores…
I need to befriend a good cook.
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:16:39pm |
re: #172 The Shadow Do
My first job, a sixteen year old shadow of myself now, I worked 11pm to 4am for the local baker. Two hours on the deep fryer (donuts, twists, long johns, etc) followed by two hours decorating. The vanilla icing never bothered me, but sitting on a low stool with a big bucket of chocolate icing between my knees filling tray after tray - dip hand in chocolate, swipe, swipe, drop on tray, dip, swipe, swipe…
the chocolate aroma filling your mouth, nose, and every pore. Hours of odiferous chocolately hell…
Give me the white cake with the white icing…
I recognize this preference/prejudice is a result of my early chocolate fearing indoctrination into society…
Try as I might I cannot overcome this obvious bigotry…
a rich, sweet wedding cake is nearly as good as anything with chocolate…white on white…mmm!
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wrenchwench Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:16:59pm |
re: #171 Guanxi88
Did you put a little oil in the pan, melt down a tablet of Abuelita’s chocolate, then dump in the mole itself to saute, thinned a bit with chicken stock? Right outta the jar, it’s all nasty stuff. Think of it like jarred pasta sauce - it’s just a base.
Now I know the secret! Thank you.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:17:18pm |
re: #174 wrenchwench
There are more Norteños here than any other kind of people, but alas!—no good grocery stores…
I need to befriend a good cook.
Eh, you can make do with Tia’s mole then, just follow the tips about the abuelita chocolate and the chicken stock, and you’ll do fine.
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Gus Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:17:28pm |
Just great. New neighbor thinks it’s OK to play his music so I can hear it in my bed room. As usual it’s forking club BS. I knocked on his door earlier this week and his him kindly to turn it down and he turned around and called the manager and said he didn’t want me knocking on his door but for me to call the manager.
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:17:37pm |
re: #174 wrenchwench
There are more Norteños here than any other kind of people, but alas!—no good grocery stores…
I need to befriend a good cook.
come down to the valley…two or three decent grocerias right in my hood
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:18:47pm |
re: #179 albusteve
come down to the valley…two or three decent grocerias right in my hood
South Texas, are you?
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wrenchwench Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:18:57pm |
re: #179 albusteve
come down to the valley…two or three decent grocerias right in my hood
Dude…you’re a five hour drive from here.
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Canadian Guy Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:19:11pm |
re: #170 HoosierHoops
Watch any NHL playoff game it will convert you.
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:20:06pm |
re: #181 wrenchwench
Dude…you’re a five hour drive from here.
I thought you were in Placitas?…north of ABQ?
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:20:44pm |
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wrenchwench Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:20:54pm |
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:21:29pm |
re: #184 albusteve
Albuquerque
Lucky SOB! My wife is all but threatening me with divorce, death, and dismemberment if I don’t find a way to move the family to New Mexico.
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:22:15pm |
re: #185 wrenchwench
Nope. And that’s all I’m sayin’…
what?…I always wave to you over there when I drive by…I screwed up somewhere…hahaha!…all’s well
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:24:21pm |
re: #186 Guanxi88
Lucky SOB! My wife is all but threatening me with divorce, death, and dismemberment if I don’t find a way to move the family to New Mexico.
lot’s of elbow room down here…bring your RayBans
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:25:55pm |
re: #188 albusteve
lot’s of elbow room down here…bring your RayBans
I’m still here in central Texas. Loved the place, ABQ was quite a nice little town, but really fell for the Cloudcroft area. Love the mountains, and miss them terribly.
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debutaunt Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:26:46pm |
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Randall Gross Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:27:03pm |
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:29:27pm |
re: #189 Guanxi88
I’m still here in central Texas. Loved the place, ABQ was quite a nice little town, but really fell for the Cloudcroft area. Love the mountains, and miss them terribly.
nice down there, but a touristy sort of place…tough to make a living if you have to
| 194 |
wrenchwench Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:30:02pm |
The appropriate kitteh for this thread:
(turn up the volume)
Oh, here he is as a baby!
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:30:49pm |
re: #193 albusteve
nice down there, but a touristy sort of place…tough to make a living if you have to
Yeah, that’s why it’d have to be somewhere else to live. ABQ - I’ve got app’s out there and all through the state, except down in the gosh-awful desert oven areas. Fingers crossed, I can get out of California East, as Central Texas has become.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:31:28pm |
re: #193 albusteve
nice down there, but a touristy sort of place…tough to make a living if you have to
Hell, I’m a bureaucrat - I can find or make work anywhere.
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:32:26pm |
re: #191 Thanos
Don’t they have that balloon thing going on right now?
started today…early this morning a wayward balloon skimmed right over my bunkhouse, crashed into the top of a tree, continued on and crashed through another tree on the next property over…bunch of limbs and sticks fell onto my work truck out back…damned thing was only 50ft above me
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:32:59pm |
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debutaunt Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:34:03pm |
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Bloodnok Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:34:09pm |
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:34:44pm |
re: #196 Guanxi88
Hell, I’m a bureaucrat - I can find or make work anywhere.
there is no place like Albuquerque, anywhere, that I’ve ever been
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:35:52pm |
re: #199 debutaunt
Damn, I was stalking the wrong steve.
stalk me baby
stalk me baby
all night long…
the Doors
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Achilles Tang Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:39:29pm |
re: #5 BryanS
OT, but has there been a significant increase in earthquake activity around the Pacific ring of fire, or is it just the news coverage thereof that has increased. Just saw an alert on a modest 6.1 quake in Taiwan.
It is punishment for not being Christians, mostly.
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Sloppy Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:40:03pm |
Albusteve —
I’ve driven through New Mexico and thought it was nice. I probably could live in Albuquerque, but at my age and with my roots so deeply entwined in cornstalks, it probably would take federal marshals to move me out of Husker Nation.
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debutaunt Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:40:44pm |
re: #203 Naso Tang
It is punishment for not being Christians, mostly.
A 6.1 earthquake isn’t all that modest, unless it’s on a different scale.
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albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:42:14pm |
re: #204 Sloppy
Albusteve —
I’ve driven through New Mexico and thought it was nice. I probably could live in Albuquerque, but at my age and with my roots so deeply entwined in cornstalks, it probably would take federal marshals to move me out of Husker Nation.
I go up to Michigan to visit my kin, and there are entirely too many trees…jus sayin
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Achilles Tang Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:42:21pm |
re: #178 Gus 802
Just great. New neighbor thinks it’s OK to play his music so I can hear it in my bed room. As usual it’s forking club BS. I knocked on his door earlier this week and his him kindly to turn it down and he turned around and called the manager and said he didn’t want me knocking on his door but for me to call the manager.
Uh oh. Shit happens, and keeps happening. Don’t wait for it.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:42:25pm |
Scientists Say Oldest Human Ancestor Had Sex With Intern
Just days after discovering a skeleton that belonged to the oldest human ancestor, paleoanthropologists say they now believe that this early human had the first recorded affair with an intern.“This is an amazing discovery,” said Professor Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota. “It suggests that having sex with interns goes back a lot further than any of us thought.”
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Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:42:37pm |
I am assigned to engage the services of Dr. Benway for Islam, Inc.
Dr. Benway had been called in as advisor to the Freeland Republic, a place given over to free love and continual bathing. The citizens are well adjusted, co-operative, honest, tolerant and above all clean. But the invoking of Benway indicates all is not well behind that hygienic facade: Benway is a manipulator and coordinator of symbol systems, an expert on all phases of interrogation, brainwashing, and control. I have not seen Benway since his precipitate departure from Annexia, where his assignment had been T.D. — Total Demoralization. Benway’s first act was to abolish concentration camps, mass arrest, and, except under certain limited and special circumstances, the use of torture.
“I deplore brutality,” he said. “It’s not efficient. On the other hand, prolonged mistreatment, short of physical violence, gives rise, when skillfully applied, to anxiety and a feeling of special guilt. A few rules or rather guiding principles are to be borne in mind. The subject must not realize that the mistreatment is a deliberate attack of an anti-human enemy on his personal identity. He must be made to feel that he deserves any treatment he receives because there is something (never specified) horribly wrong with him. The naked need of the control addicts must be decently covered by an arbitrary and intricate bureaucracy so that the subject cannot contact his enemy direct.”
Every citizen of Annexia was required to apply for and carry on his person at all times a whole portfolio of documents. Citizens were subject to be stopped in the street at any time; and the Examiner, who might be in plain clothes, often in a bathing suit or pyjamas, sometimes sometimes stark naked except for a badge pinned to his left nipple, after checking each paper would stamp it. […CUT…]
Documents issued in vanishing ink faded into old pawn tickets. New documents were constantly required. The citizens rushed from one bureau to another in a frenzied attempt to meet impossible deadlines.
All benches were removed from the city, all fountains turned off, all flowers and trees destroyed. Huge electric buzzers on top of every apartment house (everyone lived in apartments) rang the quarter hour. Often the vibrations would throw people out of bed. Searchlights played over the town all night (no one was permitted to use curtains, shutters or blinds). […CUT…]
After a few months of this the citizens cowered in corners like neurotic cats.
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Jimmah Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:43:06pm |
re: #141 debutaunt
I hate to mess up a joke. Wah!
I thought ‘messed up’ jokes were right up your street debutaunt. Especially when they involved stuff about shooting me and iceweasel.
Given that Charles has been good enough to reverse your banning following that incident, perhaps you’d like to clear the air between us now by apologising to both myself and iceweasel for that?
| 211 |
albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:44:16pm |
re: #210 Jimmah
I thought ‘messed up’ jokes were right up your street debutaunt. Especially when they involved stuff about shooting me and iceweasel.
Given that Charles has been good enough to reverse your banning following that incident, perhaps you’d like to clear the air between us now by apologising to both myself and iceweasel for that?
get on your knees and beg, why don’t you
| 213 |
Achilles Tang Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:46:00pm |
re: #208 Killgore Trout
I’m surprised that if this the same Browitz I think, he will take money from the Huffpo.
| 214 |
Jimmah Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:47:20pm |
re: #211 albusteve
get on your knees and beg, why don’t you
No, this is about clearing some very smelly air. And it doesn’t involve you, Steve.
| 215 |
marwan's daughter Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:48:07pm |
re: #209 Guanxi88
I am assigned to engage the services of Dr. Benway for Islam, Inc.
Dr. Benway had been called in as advisor to the Freeland Republic, a place given over to free love and continual bathing. The citizens are well adjusted, co-operative, honest, tolerant and above all clean. But the invoking of Benway indicates all is not well behind that hygienic facade: Benway is a manipulator and coordinator of symbol systems, an expert on all phases of interrogation, brainwashing, and control. I have not seen Benway since his precipitate departure from Annexia, where his assignment had been T.D. — Total Demoralization. Benway’s first act was to abolish concentration camps, mass arrest, and, except under certain limited and special circumstances, the use of torture.
“I deplore brutality,” he said. “It’s not efficient. On the other hand, prolonged mistreatment, short of physical violence, gives rise, when skillfully applied, to anxiety and a feeling of special guilt. A few rules or rather guiding principles are to be borne in mind. The subject must not realize that the mistreatment is a deliberate attack of an anti-human enemy on his personal identity. He must be made to feel that he deserves any treatment he receives because there is something (never specified) horribly wrong with him. The naked need of the control addicts must be decently covered by an arbitrary and intricate bureaucracy so that the subject cannot contact his enemy direct.”
Every citizen of Annexia was required to apply for and carry on his person at all times a whole portfolio of documents. Citizens were subject to be stopped in the street at any time; and the Examiner, who might be in plain clothes, often in a bathing suit or pyjamas, sometimes sometimes stark naked except for a badge pinned to his left nipple, after checking each paper would stamp it. […CUT…]
Documents issued in vanishing ink faded into old pawn tickets. New documents were constantly required. The citizens rushed from one bureau to another in a frenzied attempt to meet impossible deadlines.
All benches were removed from the city, all fountains turned off, all flowers and trees destroyed. Huge electric buzzers on top of every apartment house (everyone lived in apartments) rang the quarter hour. Often the vibrations would throw people out of bed. Searchlights played over the town all night (no one was permitted to use curtains, shutters or blinds). […CUT…]
After a few months of this the citizens cowered in corners like neurotic cats.
You’re writing a book?
| 216 |
albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:48:46pm |
re: #214 Jimmah
No, this is about clearing some very smelly air. And it doesn’t involve you, Steve.
it’s a public forum…why would you post something like that?
| 218 |
Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:49:14pm |
re: #215 marwan’s daughter
You’re writing a book?
No, Burroughs did that. Sorta a riff on my observation that I’m a bureaucrat by training and profession. No thrilled with it, but I’m good at it.
| 219 |
David Simon Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:49:15pm |
I don’t agree with everything he says, but I have to admit, the more I get to know Whole Foods’ CEO John Mackey, the more I like him:
I ask Mr. Mackey why he doesn’t collect a paycheck. “I’m an owner. I have the exact same motivation any shareholder would have in the Whole Foods Market because I’m not drawing a salary from the company. How much money does anybody need?” More to the point, he says, “If the business prospers, I prosper. If the business struggles, I struggle. It’s good for morale.” He hastens to add that “I’m not saying anybody else should do what I do.”
[Link: online.wsj.com…]
He took a lot of shit for his medical care op-ed, and yet, he stuck to his guns. Good for him. And he’s right; health savings accounts work well and are a wonderful tool for reforming what’s wrong with our medical care system (which, notwithstanding claims to the contrary, isn’t a “crisis”).
| 222 |
iceweasel Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:50:21pm |
re: #216 albusteve
it’s a public forum…why would you post something like that?
Perhaps a better question would be, why does this issue arise in the first place?
I suggest you ask your pal debutant.
| 223 |
Achilles Tang Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:51:08pm |
re: #221 Guanxi88
Islam Inc., one of the factions at work in Naked Lunch.
Is that a sequel to Breakfast of Champions?
| 224 |
Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:51:21pm |
re: #220 iceweasel
I love that book. Must read again, soon.
Benway, in that bit, is the absolute apotheosis of the technocrat. A wonderful parody/satire of the bureaucratic mindframe - as one who lives and works in it, I always get a giggle out of it. If we were to try to do what Benway did, it wouldn’t require much of a change in procedure, just intent.
| 225 |
albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:52:01pm |
re: #222 iceweasel
Perhaps a better question would be, why does this issue arise in the first place?
I suggest you ask your pal debutant.
sure…stir up some shit…try rising above your problem, whatever it is and let it go
| 226 |
Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:53:43pm |
re: #221 Guanxi88
Islam Inc., one of the factions at work in Naked Lunch.
“The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.”
| 227 |
Jimmah Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:53:51pm |
re: #216 albusteve
it’s a public forum…why would you post something like that?
Why not? If someone thought that a post - on a PUBLIC FORUM - which jokes about someone tracking YOU down and shooting YOU was so hilarious they simply had to post a congratulatory “hahahahahahaha!” in response, I’m pretty sure you’d ask them for an apology too.
| 228 |
Achilles Tang Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:54:18pm |
re: #225 albusteve
sure…stir up some shit…try rising above your problem, whatever it is and let it go
Ask, What Would Mandy Do?
(Hi, Mandy. Love trying to get your attention)
| 229 |
albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:56:25pm |
re: #227 Jimmah
Why not? If someone thought that a post - on a PUBLIC FORUM - which jokes about someone tracking YOU down and shooting YOU was so hilarious they simply had to post a congratulatory “hahahahahahaha!” in response, I’m pretty sure you’d ask them for an apology too.
no, I would simply blow off the nonsense
| 230 |
HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:56:38pm |
re: #228 Naso Tang
Ask, What Would Mandy Do?
(Hi, Mandy. Love trying to get your attention)
I think Mandy is one of the coolest posters I have ever met…
| 231 |
Achilles Tang Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:58:21pm |
re: #230 HoosierHoops
I think Mandy is one of the coolest posters I have ever met…
Brevity is next to … (censored)
| 232 |
Charles Johnson Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:58:52pm |
‘Debutaunt’ apologized to me for her behavior in that thread.
But I do think it might be a good idea to also apologize to the people you were fighting with, that caused you to be banned, Debutaunt. Just to clear the air.
| 233 |
iceweasel Sat, Oct 3, 2009 4:59:32pm |
re: #229 albusteve
no, I would simply blow off the nonsense
Well good for you. We don’t agree with you. Deal.
| 234 |
Jimmah Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:00:49pm |
re: #229 albusteve
no, I would simply blow off the nonsense
Fine, but that’s not how I roll, especially as this was far from a one-off.
Don’t you think an apology would be appropriate?
| 235 |
albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:02:00pm |
re: #234 Jimmah
Fine, but that’s not how I roll, especially as this was far from a one-off.
Don’t you think an apology would be appropriate?
I know nothing about it…I just don’t like the vibe and I hope it gets cleared up…sorry for butting in
| 236 |
iceweasel Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:02:13pm |
re: #224 Guanxi88
Benway, in that bit, is the absolute apotheosis of the technocrat. A wonderful parody/satire of the bureaucratic mindframe - as one who lives and works in it, I always get a giggle out of it. If we were to try to do what Benway did, it wouldn’t require much of a change in procedure, just intent.
It’s been years since I read it. I’ll have to do so again. Maybe Project Gutenburg has it. No idea where my old copy has gotten to, alas.
| 237 |
Cato the Elder Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:02:47pm |
Here I thought I was reading a joke thread and was going to contribute my latest off-color one-liner. Oh well.
| 238 |
HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:02:49pm |
re: #231 Naso Tang
Brevity is next to … (censored)
Not following you Naso..I rarely post on a Saturday night…
Mandy is a great woman..I really respect her..
| 239 |
Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:03:30pm |
re: #236 iceweasel
It’s been years since I read it. I’ll have to do so again. Maybe Project Gutenburg has it. No idea where my old copy has gotten to, alas.
It’s not yet old enough to be public domain, so you’ll have to buy one, sad to say.
| 240 |
Achilles Tang Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:03:49pm |
re: #235 albusteve
I know nothing about it…I just don’t like the vibe and I hope it gets cleared up…sorry for butting in
ditto.
| 241 |
Guanxi88 Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:03:50pm |
re: #237 Cato the Elder
Here I thought I was reading a joke thread and was going to contribute my latest off-color one-liner. Oh well.
By all means, please, let’s have it.
| 242 |
HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:03:56pm |
re: #237 Cato the Elder
Here I thought I was reading a joke thread and was going to contribute my latest off-color one-liner. Oh well.
I have one liners…*wink*
| 243 |
Mostly sane, most of the time. Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:05:23pm |
I was reminded today of a saying I once heard:
Baseball is no longer the national pastime. Shopping at Costco is the new national pastime.
Felt like it.
| 244 |
Crimsonfisted Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:06:41pm |
re: #237 Cato the Elder
I thought it was food thread. Jumped to youtube and stumbled on some Buddy Rich and Harry James. Came back to WTF?
the vid:
| 245 |
Cathypop Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:07:03pm |
re: #242 HoosierHoops
I have one liners…*wink*
So what does your wife have to say about your one liners?
| 246 |
HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:07:33pm |
re: #243 Emmmieg
I was reminded today of a saying I once heard:
Baseball is no longer the national pastime. Shopping at Costco is the new national pastime.
Felt like it.
Hey you..Basketball player are the best Athletes in the world…
Mess with Kobe in the Lane…It isn’t play school.. He is a stud..
| 247 |
Jimmah Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:08:39pm |
re: #235 albusteve
I know nothing about it…I just don’t like the vibe and I hope it gets cleared up…sorry for butting in
I hope so, too.
A little music now - I think you may recognise the strings here…
| 248 |
HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:08:57pm |
re: #245 Cathypop
So what does your wife have to say about your one liners?
I’m still breathing…That’s a good thing…
Hi Cathy!
| 249 |
Cathypop Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:09:05pm |
re: #244 Crimsonfisted
THANK YOU!
I was raised on this shit. Love it!
| 250 |
Mostly sane, most of the time. Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:09:20pm |
re: #246 HoosierHoops
Hey you..Basketball player are the best Athletes in the world…
Mess with Kobe in the Lane…It isn’t play school.. He is a stud..
Actually, I just ordered my boys a flag football set, after watching them play with some friends and enjoy it. They probably will get hurt, at least a little, at least at some point. They’re boys.
| 251 |
albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:09:25pm |
re: #246 HoosierHoops
Hey you..Basketball player are the best Athletes in the world…
Mess with Kobe in the Lane…It isn’t play school.. He is a stud..
Ray Lewis may see it differently…maybe Kobe could be a tight end eh?
| 252 |
Racer X Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:12:51pm |
re: #246 HoosierHoops
Hey you..Basketball player are the best Athletes in the world…
Mess with Kobe in the Lane…It isn’t play school.. He is a stud..
Cue scary face.
| 253 |
albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:13:17pm |
re: #247 Jimmah
I hope so, too.
A little music now - I think you may recognise the strings here…
stylish, but it’s not Joe Bonamassa
| 254 |
Crimsonfisted Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:13:28pm |
re: #249 Cathypop You are welcome. I was searching on Desi Arnaz, found Harry James and Buddy Rich.
| 255 |
Big Steve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:14:08pm |
re: #246 HoosierHoops
Hey you..Basketball player are the best Athletes in the world…
Mess with Kobe in the Lane…It isn’t play school.. He is a stud..
I used to think that minute for minute one saw the best athleticism of all sports in basketball. That was, however, until I saw a LaCrosse game live.
| 256 |
Achilles Tang Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:15:19pm |
re: #238 HoosierHoops
What did I say that made you think I don’t? I just like giving her opportunity to entertain us. Besides, she remind me of my wife, who is just as strong.
| 257 |
Bloodnok Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:15:52pm |
re: #247 Jimmah
I hope so, too.
A little music now - I think you may recognise the strings here…
[Video]
Ah! Came from an orchestrated Rolling Stones record (I think George Martin or Andrew Oldham produced it, though I could be mistaken). “The Last Time” I think?
| 258 |
albusteve Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:16:12pm |
re: #255 Big Steve
I used to think that minute for minute one saw the best athleticism of all sports in basketball. That was, however, until I saw a LaCrosse game live.
basketball with contact…brutal
| 259 |
HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:19:24pm |
re: #251 albusteve
Ray Lewis may see it differently…maybe Kobe could be a tight end eh?
oh please steve…I could out shoot Ray…Do you really thing Ray could stand up for 48 minutes against Kobe? Speed, Skill, Shooting, Passing skills…
Sure Ray will knock you out.. Try that on a court…It’s a different game.
/I’m pretty sure I would never drive a Lane against Ray Lewis and live to tell about it…I’m damn sure as a college point guard I’d fuck his world up passing to the open man…Big guys never impressed me…That’s why he is in the NFL and not the NBA…*wink*
| 260 |
Jimmah Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:20:18pm |
re: #253 albusteve
stylish, but it’s not Joe Bonamassa
I never thought I’d hear you say that about a Jagger/Richards song…
| 261 |
HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:21:22pm |
re: #256 Naso Tang
What did I say that made you think I don’t? I just like giving her opportunity to entertain us. Besides, she remind me of my wife, who is just as strong.
I’m teasing you my friend..It’s Saturday night
| 262 |
Jimmah Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:22:02pm |
re: #257 Bloodnok
Ah! Came from an orchestrated Rolling Stones record (I think George Martin or Andrew Oldham produced it, though I could be mistaken). “The Last Time” I think?
Yes - I was wrong about the string melody though, apprantly that was Ashcrofts - buliding on the chord progression from the Rolling Stones song you mentioned:
[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]
Song credits
Although the song’s lyrics were written by Verve vocalist Richard Ashcroft, it has been credited to Keith Richards and Mick Jagger after charges by the original copyright owners that the song was plagiarized from the Andrew Oldham Orchestra recording of The Rolling Stones’ 1965 song “The Last Time”.
Originally, The Verve had negotiated a licence to use a sample from the Oldham recording, but it was successfully argued that the Verve had used ‘too much’ of the sample.[5] Despite having original lyrics, the music of “Bitter Sweet Symphony” is partially based on the Oldham track (the song uses the sample as its foundation and builds layers upon it, though the prominent violin melody is Ashcroft’s creation),[citation needed] which led to a lawsuit with ABKCO Records, Allen Klein’s company that owns the rights to the Rolling Stones material of the 1960s. The matter was eventually settled, with copyright of the song reverting to ABKCO and songwriting credits to Jagger and Richards.
“We were told it was going to be a 50/50 split, and then they saw how well the record was doing,” says band member Simon Jones. “They rung up and said ‘we want 100 per cent or take it out of the shops’, you don’t have much choice.”[6]
After losing the composer credits to the song, Richard Ashcroft commented, “This is the best song Jagger and Richards have written in 20 years.”[7]
| 263 |
Bloodnok Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:24:54pm |
re: #262 Jimmah
Wow. I never knew that. I figured it had to be that melody. And they got songwriting credit for backing strings? Well played, Allen Klein. your reputation was well deserved.
| 264 |
Achilles Tang Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:27:10pm |
re: #261 HoosierHoops
I’m teasing you my friend..It’s Saturday night
And Mandy is otherwise engaged but, enough of this flattery..
| 265 |
HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:36:49pm |
re: #264 Naso Tang
And Mandy is otherwise engaged but, enough of this flattery..
I’m not following your thoughts…
I’m not here to defend Mandy..Although I think she is a awesome poster
Do we have an issue here?
| 266 |
Achilles Tang Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:23:15pm |
re: #265 HoosierHoops
I’m not following your thoughts…
I’m not here to defend Mandy..Although I think she is a awesome poster
Do we have an issue here?
I was joshing. Like you earlier. No issues, just the limitations of internet posts and assuming everybody is a mind reader. We are are all cool. Love and kisses.
| 267 |
SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Oct 3, 2009 11:41:09pm |
re: #50 reine.de.tout
I would wager there are a lot of people who avoid public office for just that reason.
I saw a news story the other day - the President and Mrs. Obama had a photo taken with Spain’s Prime Minister Zapatero and his family, and published it.
Apparently in Spain, photos of the children are never published. There was a bit of an “oops” moment, and a bit of snickering, when it was noticed that the Prime Minister’s two daughters were clothed and made up in a most unattractive “goth” style.
As far as I’m concerrned - how the Prime Minister and his wife raise their kids is their business, and if they are allowing their kids the luxury of taking part in whatever style is “in” right now, then I don’t understand what the big deal is. It’s got to be hard as heck to be the private family of a public person.
Very true. Think how hard it would have been if Chelsea Clinton had decided to go goth, or punk, or something. I think it’s going to be very hard for Sasha and Malia, especially if their dad serves a second term. All it’s going to take is Malia trying to look a little bit hip-hop in her teens, and there’s going to be a mad feeding frenzy.
Luckily, the Obamas are doing pretty good keeping the kids out of the way, but boy, I would not want my teen years in the public eye.
| 268 |
SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Oct 3, 2009 11:43:01pm |
re: #52 BryanS
Not sure that such an individual could be a great leader. Who among our great leaders ranked high on family life?
Washington?
| 270 |
debutaunt Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:59:54am |
re: #232 Charles
‘Debutaunt’ apologized to me for her behavior in that thread.
But I do think it might be a good idea to also apologize to the people you were fighting with, that caused you to be banned, Debutaunt. Just to clear the air.
I agree Charles. Is this the proper place to do it?
I would like to address an issue that came up late last Saturday afternoon. A number of lizards were offended and angered by what they saw as my laughter at and seeming agreement with what another lizard said. I refer to a now banned lizard who wrote with a humorous, heavy Russian accent. I came into a thread without knowing what had preceded and I laughed at the way this lizard said things and didn’t even notice what he was talking about. I laughed and shut down my computer to have dinner and enjoy the evening.
On the next day I was unable to log in and discovered my account had been blocked. I looked back to see that had happened and discovered that I had been accused of agreeing and laughing about the idea of shooting other lizards. This just isn’t true. I laughed at the way he said things. I’m sorry that people believed I would agree to anything like that and want everyone to know I never would do that. I regret any troll-like comments I have made. Please accept my apology.
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