Gil Scott-Heron Visualized: ‘Where Did The Night Go’
A powerful lyric by the late jazz poet, set to video
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EdDantes Thu, Jan 12, 2012 5:48:38pm |
I haven’t thought of Gil Scott-Heron for 35 years. Great lyrics.
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EdDantes Thu, Jan 12, 2012 5:53:32pm |
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Charles Johnson Thu, Jan 12, 2012 5:58:18pm |
He was a genius, and a very driven soul. His recordings had a huge influence on me as a baby musician in the 70s.
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goddamnedfrank Thu, Jan 12, 2012 5:58:39pm |
Gil’s fantastic 2002 collaboration with Blackalicious, First in Flight:
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Stanley Sea Thu, Jan 12, 2012 5:59:11pm |
Santorum Calls Romney ‘Just a Paler Shade of What We Have’
The candidate, according to The Caucus,
urged voters to dismiss the conventional wisdom that Mitt Romney has an upper hand in the nominating contest. He said the party can win back the White House only by offering a “clear contrast” with President Obama. “We need contrasts,” Mr. Santorum said, “not just a paler shade of what we have.”
Fer real. The good thing is Santorum has not chance. The bad thing is that this is what we deal with.
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Charles Johnson Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:03:36pm |
Gil Scott-Heron was also a prototype for the “angry black man” fear-mongering stereotype so beloved of today’s right wing.
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Political Atheist Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:10:02pm |
Just to share some good news with my friends here, my short sci fi film treatment is now registered with the Writers Guild. So I can get on with raising some cash and studio resources and discuss the storyline openly. I may wear out my shutter on the 7D with all the time lapse I plan on. Heh, shooting in 3.6k makes for some really crisp sequences.
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darthstar Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:12:25pm |
Got my new Motorola Droid 3 today…not that I normally care about gadgets, but the office pays for it, I was able to sync my Google settings (so I don’t need my old android anymore), and I was able to download Touchdown (a MS Exchange app) to set up my corporate email—and they found my license key from a few years ago so I’m fully registered. That feels pretty fuckin’ good…oh, and the important thing…got facebook and “Words with Friends” installed.
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Kragar Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:12:37pm |
For those of you who missed it,
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EdDantes Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:14:06pm |
Gil Scott Heron’s best in my opinion.
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Charles Johnson Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:24:52pm |
LGF Irrelevance Watch — linked at Chicago Now:
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EdDantes Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:32:07pm |
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Petero1818 Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:42:42pm |
re: #9 darthstar
Touchdown is fine, but there is no reason Android should not handle Exchange servers natively in a proper fashion. I went back to my iphone because of it.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:43:44pm |
re: #15 Varek Raith
Goodbye Google.
Hello Bing.
If you do mind my asking, why? For all it’s foibles, I still find Google preferable.
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darthstar Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:44:53pm |
re: #18 Petero1818
Touchdown is fine, but there is no reason Android should not handle Exchange servers natively in a proper fashion. I went back to my iphone because of it.
The native app works, but since I had a Touchdown license, and liked it, I figured what the hell.
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:45:35pm |
re: #19 wlewisiii
If you do mind my asking, why? For all it’s foibles, I still find Google preferable.
Nonsense like this.
blog.90octane.com
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darthstar Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:47:36pm |
re: #21 Varek Raith
Nonsense like this.
[Link: blog.90octane.com…]
Yeah…they’ll all do that eventually. That’s why we stopped storing nuclear launch codes on google-docs after Bush left office.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:48:06pm |
So I found out that my wife’s friend (mother of one of our son’s best friends) reads this blog. She apparently never posts but reads it along with several other political blogs. That’s cool.
However, I’ve been told that she pays attention to what I post - eek! Permanent probation! Hopefully she’s not around late at night or I’ll really be in trouble … //
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:48:42pm |
re: #23 wlewisiii
So I found out that my wife’s friend (mother of one of our son’s best friends) reads this blog. She apparently never posts but reads it along with several other political blogs. That’s cool.
However, I’ve been told that she pays attention to what I post - eek! Permanent probation! Hopefully she’s not around late at night or I’ll really be in trouble … //
Lol, busted!
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:50:22pm |
re: #21 Varek Raith
Nonsense like this.
[Link: blog.90octane.com…]
So? I’d still trust Google far more than I’d trust Microsoft. All I have to remember is “DOS isn’t done till Lotus won’t run”. And that was when they were considered “good guys”. It’s been all downhill since.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:50:31pm |
re: #23 wlewisiii
Seriously? People just read blogs?
I thought people participated in blogs.
I am totally serious.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:51:18pm |
re: #27 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Seriously? People just read blogs?
I thought people participated in blogs.
I am totally serious.
Yeah, I never read the comments until I could register. Too much talking at the screen.
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darthstar Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:51:23pm |
re: #23 wlewisiii
However, I’ve been told that she pays attention to what I post - eek! Permanent probation! Hopefully she’s not around late at night or I’ll really be in trouble … //
I’m friends with my wife’s mother-in-law on facebook. I found out last summer she often reads my status updates to my wife’s father (who isn’t on facebook)…usually stuff like me running around outside at night butt-naked trying to get the dogs to stop barking at a skunk before realizing my neighbors can see me…stuff like that.
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:52:46pm |
re: #26 wlewisiii
So? I’d still trust Google far more than I’d trust Microsoft. All I have to remember is “DOS isn’t done till Lotus won’t run”. And that was when they were considered “good guys”. It’s been all downhill since.
You can’t explain that!
:P
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darthstar Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:52:54pm |
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:53:17pm |
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:53:22pm |
re: #21 Varek Raith
Nonsense like this.
[Link: blog.90octane.com…]
I already have the problem that Google will “log me in” if I’m logged in on youtube and vice versa. I have one non-personal email I have access to for a group and it will log me in as that entity.
Grrrr.
I didn’t ask for this.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:54:16pm |
re: #28 EmmmieG
Exactly. I read LGF trying to figure out how to register.
The idea of just reading without posting my stupid thoughts is entirely alien.
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darthstar Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:55:11pm |
re: #33 EmmmieG
I already have the problem that Google will “log me in” if I’m logged in on youtube and vice versa. I have one non-personal email I have access to for a group and it will log me in as that entity.
Grrr.
I didn’t ask for this.
That’s why it’s called a hostile takeover. Looking for that missing sock? Google knows where it is.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:55:32pm |
BIAB gotta get the little one to bed.
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BigPapa Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:55:37pm |
I thought the entire world is interested in my thoughts. Is it possible this is not true?
Oh wow.
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:56:28pm |
re: #37 BigPapa
I thought the entire world is interested in my thoughts. Is it possible this is not true?
Oh wow.
All you need is a suplerlaser.
Then people will care about whatever the hell you want them to.
;)
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darthstar Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:56:38pm |
re: #37 BigPapa
I thought the entire world is interested in my thoughts. Is it possible this is not true?
Oh wow.
We care…really, we do. Feel free to tell us more about your—is that lint on my toe? I’ll be damned…yes, it is…
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Walking Spanish Down the Hall Thu, Jan 12, 2012 6:57:36pm |
re: #37 BigPapa
I thought the entire world is interested in my thoughts. Is it possible this is not true?
Oh wow.
I’m sorry, what did you say? I wasn’t listening.
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BigPapa Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:01:00pm |
That’s it. Lasers. After I get my beer I’m going to melt all of you.
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Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:01:36pm |
re: #38 Varek Raith
All you need is a suplerlaser.
Then people will care about whatever the hell you want them to.
;)
Until some nerfherder in a small starfighter lobs a couple of bombs down the auxilary heat exhaust of your reactor. D’oh!
And then you get all the paperwork, red tape, delay, and obstruction with the insurance claim.
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Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:02:22pm |
re: #41 BigPapa
That’s it. Lasers. After I get my beer I’m going to melt all of you.
Make the giant JiffyPop first. We need popcorn for the next GOP debate.
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darthstar Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:06:27pm |
re: #43 oaktree
Make the giant JiffyPop first. We need popcorn for the next GOP debate.
Val Kilmer as lovable geek? Please!
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Kragar Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:09:11pm |
re: #38 Varek Raith
All you need is a suplerlaser.
Then people will care about whatever the hell you want them to.
;)
And an accurate targeting system helps.
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jaunte Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:14:36pm |
Infographic Of The Day: How Much Money Makes You Rich?
Predictably, answers—based on Gallup polls—split along demographic fault lines, like gender, age, and geography.
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okonkolo Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:19:57pm |
The video is intense, particularly the rhythmic edits. I really dug the original video, which featured Heron mostly in the studio. Where Did The Night Go?
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:35:08pm |
Evening lizards!
What are the chances of UVA coming back to beat Duke? They Re down by 7 with 7 minutes left.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:36:16pm |
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:39:51pm |
IDF tanks target Gaza terrorists; 2 hurt
DF tanks opened fire on a terror cell operating east of the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza late Thursday night, Palestinian sources said.
I wonder if my friend’s son was in one of those tanks.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:40:52pm |
Louis C.K., On Demand, EPIX HD.
Hells yeah!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:43:08pm |
North Korea Reportedly Punishing Insincere Mourners
North Korean authorities are punishing mourners who failed to exhibit sincere sadness and despair after the death of Kim Jong Il on Dec. 17, the Daily NK reported Wednesday.
The online North Korean newspaper, which is published by opponents of the governing regime, said a source in North Hamkyung Province revealed the information. The source told the paper “authorities are handing down at least six months in a labor-training camp to anybody who didn’t participate in the organized gatherings during the mourning period, or who did participate but didn’t cry and didn’t seem genuine,” according to the Daily NK.
Of course. But I call “24 hour rule”.
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:44:21pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:46:42pm |
And my gawt-damned XBox 360 stopped working again, already.
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Kragar Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:47:58pm |
James O’Keefe May Face Jail Time for Heroic Journalism Prank
[Nashua City Clerk Paul] Bergeron said this morning he believes the filmmakers may have committed a federal crime, as well, if they crossed state lines to record the undercover video, and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
…
Oh, really, Mr. Nashua City Clerk? I wonder what your tone would be if it turned out that the voter fraud was done to help lesbian communists train black children to be terrorists for Mexican drug cartels?Your double standards sicken me!
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:49:28pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:54:01pm |
re: #57 NJDhockeyfan
My stand up freezer stopped working this week. We just found out this morning. I checked on how much a compressor would cost. It’s cheaper to buy a new freezer.
Nearly the same for Xbox repairs, which is why I tried to DIY it. Got it working for a day and a half. I’ll tackle that bitch again tomorrow, maybe. I’ve got nothing to lose at this point.
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aagcobb Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:55:37pm |
re: #53 Slumbering Behemoth
North Korea Reportedly Punishing Insincere Mourners
Of course. But I call “24 hour rule”.
How do you even fake tears to stay out of prison? Some of us just don’t cry.
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HoosierHoops Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:56:56pm |
re: #59 aagcobb
How do you even fake tears to stay out of prison? Some of us just don’t cry.
If I lived in North Korea I’d be crying every night
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aagcobb Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:56:58pm |
re: #56 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Have you ever tried to be a comedy writer? Because you’re good.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 7:59:23pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:00:06pm |
re: #54 Killgore Trout
My grandma used to tell a story about a missionary group, way back in the day, that had these prayer request cards that they would have people fill out. Upon collecting them, one of the missionaries got a little angry ‘cuz he was sure some joker out there was mocking their faith, as many cards had the word “Jesus” written where one was supposed to write their name.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:01:11pm |
re: #59 aagcobb
How do you even fake tears to stay out of prison? Some of us just don’t cry.
“We have … ways… of making you … cry…
heh… heh… heh… “
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Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:01:13pm |
re: #59 aagcobb
How do you even fake tears to stay out of prison? Some of us just don’t cry.
Hire Jim and Tammy Faye to show you how?
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:01:19pm |
re: #60 HoosierHoops
Watching the UVA Duke game?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:02:21pm |
re: #59 aagcobb
How do you even fake tears to stay out of prison? Some of us just don’t cry.
In my case, I have malformed tear ducts. You’d pretty much have to sock me in my nose to make my eyes water.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:03:58pm |
re: #62 wlewisiii
Just buy a nice Nintendo DS already ;)
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IF I FUCKING HAD “NEW NINTENDO” MONEY, DO YOU THINK I’D BE TRYING TO DIY FIX MY GAWT-DAMNED XBOX!!!
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HoosierHoops Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:05:16pm |
re: #66 NJDhockeyfan
Watching the UVA Duke game?
It’s not on here dang it! I’m going between Zags - St. Mary and Golden State - Magic…
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Interesting Times Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:09:30pm |
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:09:34pm |
re: #70 HoosierHoops
It’s not on here dang it! I’m going between Zags - St. Mary and Golden State - Magic…
It was a close game. UVA is really good this year.
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HoosierHoops Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:11:27pm |
re: #72 NJDhockeyfan
It was a close game. UVA is really good this year.
I’ll check them out for the big dance.. Indiana is rocking the College world this year…Go Hoosiers!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:11:53pm |
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:13:00pm |
re: #69 Slumbering Behemoth
IF I FUCKING HAD “NEW NINTENDO” MONEY, DO YOU THINK I’D BE TRYING TO DIY FIX MY GAWT-DAMNED XBOX!!!
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Being slightly serious - Who buys new? All of mine are from Pre-Played, Game-Spot or the local Pawn America :D Saw a 3DS for $129 the other day but didn’t have the cash. My son recently got a refurbed DSlite for $80. My own 1st gen was $50 at the pawn shop. I sold my dead ones to a local refub guy who uses the functional parts bringing my real cost down even further. Just a thought.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:15:12pm |
re: #73 HoosierHoops
I’ll check them out for the big dance.. Indiana is rocking the College world this year…Go Hoosiers!
Hoosiers/Hoos 2012!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:19:55pm |
re: #75 wlewisiii
Being slightly serious - Who buys new? All of mine are from Pre-Played, Game-Spot or the local Pawn America :D Saw a 3DS for $129 the other day but didn’t have the cash. My son recently got a refurbed DSlite for $80. My own 1st gen was $50 at the pawn shop. I sold my dead ones to a local refub guy who uses the functional parts bringing my real cost down even further. Just a thought.
Yeah, I considered that, but I’d still have to sell more stuff to afford a working one. I could dump cash on a new one, but the last time I did that (early ’90s for a new car stereo) I ended up eating nothing but egg noodles and corned beef hash for a month. Fuck that.
And the neighbor’s son pretty much asked that same question: “Why not just buy a new XBox”?
“Because I ain’t got “New XBox” money, stupid. Why else would I be taking this fucking thing apart myself”?
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Kragar Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:21:13pm |
So my 8 year old is recovering from the dentist and can’t eat anything hard, so I’m obnoxiously eating an Oreo right in front of her singing “You can’t have it song” when she slaps it, it flies across the room and hits my wife in the head. My daughter looks at me, “We should be running now.”
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:23:54pm |
re: #77 Slumbering Behemoth
Yeah, I considered that, but I’d still have to sell more stuff to afford a working one. I could dump cash on a new one, but the last time I did that (early ’90s for a new car stereo) I ended up eating nothing but egg noodles and corned beef hash for a month. Fuck that.
And the neighbor’s son pretty much asked that same question: “Why not just buy a new XBox”?
“Because I ain’t got “New XBox” money, stupid. Why else would I be taking this fucking thing apart myself”?
I understand, my own game budget is basically non-existant. So that’s why I wanted to suggest what we did. I don’t know what the specs on Xboxen are like but could you buy a cheap barebones model from the Pawn shop and then stick ram, disk & etc from your dying one into it to hold down the replacement costs?
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Dancing along the light of day Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:26:16pm |
Dear baby, how are you?
Is not a bad start to a letter.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:27:13pm |
re: #79 wlewisiii
There are some refurb dudes around here that my neighbor’s son knows. Worth looking into, I suppose.
There’s one game store that charges an average of $60 for repairs, and pathetic as it sounds, I ain’t even got fade on that.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:27:56pm |
re: #59 aagcobb
How do you even fake tears to stay out of prison? Some of us just don’t cry.
Pull nose hairs. Seriously.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:28:42pm |
*Wondering how many lizards are going to try it*
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:30:20pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:31:46pm |
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SpaceJesus Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:32:14pm |
re: #86 Slumbering Behemoth
that’s what i get for going to happy hour instead of the internet today
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:32:38pm |
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jaunte Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:32:58pm |
Roger Ebert @ebertchicago
Newt accuses Mitt of being able to speak French.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:33:26pm |
re: #89 NJDhockeyfan
Slice onions.
Yeah, well, the problem there that the NK’s have is that you would need an onion. If they had one, they’d have eaten it already.
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Single-handed sailor Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:33:34pm |
re: #87 Slumbering Behemoth
I pulled all the ones that stuck out far enough to grab before I reached 40. They got smart and quit growing that long.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:33:42pm |
re: #82 Slumbering Behemoth
There are some refurb dudes around here that my neighbor’s son knows. Worth looking into, I suppose.
There’s one game store that charges an average of $60 for repairs, and pathetic as it sounds, I ain’t even got fade on that.
Yeah, that sucks. Been there, done that, wore the T-shirt out.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:34:38pm |
re: #6 Charles
Gil Scott-Heron was also a prototype for the “angry black man” fear-mongering stereotype so beloved of today’s right wing.
Yeah but so was MLK, Malcolm X, DuBois, Booker T, Ralph Bunche, Paul Robeson..Colin Powell got put in that boat*, along with anyone else who doesn’t/didn’t step into the gutter when they passed on the sidewalk.
*Never takes much with those assholes.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:34:45pm |
re: #88 SpaceJesus
You went to Happy Hour, and the internet. I guess that counts as a win. Sort of.
/Happy Hour then seedy motel is more win…
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aagcobb Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:35:38pm |
re: #90 jaunte
Roger Ebert @ebertchicago
Newt accuses Mitt of being able to speak French.
The Right hates the French and loves the founding fathers, but without the French alliance, the founding fathers would’ve been strung up, and we’d be singing “God Save the Queen.”
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:36:19pm |
re: #91 EmmmieG
Yeah, well, the problem there that the NK’s have is that you would need an onion. If they had one, they’d have eaten it already.
Yup. Bugs and tree bark don’t work as good as onions.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:37:30pm |
re: #96 aagcobb
And without borrowing money from foreign lenders, we never would have got this thing started.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:37:33pm |
re: #96 aagcobb
The Right hates the French and loves the founding fathers, but without the French alliance, the founding fathers would’ve been strung up, and we’d be singing “God Save the Queen.”
Mitt and Jon don’t like to talk about this for obvious reasons, but Mitt speaks French, and Jon speaks Mandarin, because the LDS church told them to go and live in those countries for two years.
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jaunte Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:37:34pm |
re: #96 aagcobb
“We don’t cotton to the French here in Lafayette county.”
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:37:39pm |
re: #96 aagcobb
The Right hates the French?
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:38:07pm |
re: #96 aagcobb
The real winner of the American Revolution?
François Joseph Paul de Grasse. Admiral of the French fleet at Yorktown.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:39:03pm |
re: #101 NJDhockeyfan
Freedom Fries with your order, Sir?
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jaunte Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:39:04pm |
re: #100 jaunte
“We don’t cotton to the French here in Lafayette county.”
*actual quote from one of my Mississippi in-laws.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:41:33pm |
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aagcobb Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:43:08pm |
re: #101 NJDhockeyfan
The Right hates the French?
You haven’t noticed? To them, France represents everything they hate: secularism, socialism, intellectual snobbery and a lack of appreciation for American exceptionalism.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:46:00pm |
re: #106 aagcobb
You haven’t noticed? To them, France represents everything they hate: secularism, socialism, intellectual snobbery and a lack of appreciation for American exceptionalism.
I’m sorry, I don’t follow. Hate is a strong word. Where is the hate?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:46:22pm |
re: #106 aagcobb
It goes both ways. I recall watching a PBS documentary on car manufactures, with a French board of directors not wanting to use the word “Air Bags” for, well, air bags, because that phrase is an “American Invention”.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:51:19pm |
re: #107 NJDhockeyfan
You really don’t remember the barrage of frothing hate towards the French because they weren’t willing to be Dubya’s lapdog like Tony Blair’s England? I doubt that somehow.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:51:19pm |
re: #101 NJDhockeyfan
The Right hates the French?
The right hates everything, starting with themselves.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:51:55pm |
re: #108 Slumbering Behemoth
It goes both ways. I recall watching a PBS documentary on car manufactures, with a French board of directors not wanting to use the word “Air Bags” for, well, air bags, because that phrase is an “American Invention”.
It’s no secret that the French don’t like Americans visiting France, at least in Paris from what I’m told. The ones in the country like us and the ones living near the WWII historic battle areas love us.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:53:47pm |
re: #109 wlewisiii
You really don’t remember the barrage of frothing hate towards the French because they weren’t willing to be Dubya’s lapdog like Tony Blair’s England? I doubt that somehow.
No. Please refresh my memory.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:55:47pm |
re: #110 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
The right hates everything, starting with themselves.
Yes, the right should be more loving, caring, and all around positive like the left always is. Thanks for clearing that up.
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aagcobb Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:56:08pm |
re: #107 NJDhockeyfan
I’m sorry, I don’t follow. Hate is a strong word. Where is the hate?
Here’s a wikipedia blurb about the freedom fries brouhaha. And of course in “Talladega Nights”, Ricky Bobby’s nemesis was a gay Frenchman, the polar opposite of what a southern Nascar Driver should be.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:56:10pm |
re: #111 NJDhockeyfan
It’s no secret that the French don’t like Americans visiting France, at least in Paris from what I’m told. The ones in the country like us and the ones living near the WWII historic battle areas love us.
Lol!
How would you know?
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:56:26pm |
re: #112 NJDhockeyfan
Start here: en.wikipedia.org
Then take the trolling home. It’s really weak sauce tonight.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:56:58pm |
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:57:25pm |
re: #116 wlewisiii
Start here: [Link: en.wikipedia.org…]
Then take the trolling home. It’s really weak sauce tonight.
Dumb, stupid, and ignorant as ever.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:59:31pm |
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reine.de.tout Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:59:41pm |
re: #108 Slumbering Behemoth
It goes both ways. I recall watching a PBS documentary on car manufactures, with a French board of directors not wanting to use the word “Air Bags” for, well, air bags, because that phrase is an “American Invention”.
The French are very careful to try to preserve their language. They really do not like it when Anglais makes its way into the language.
There is an institution in France, L’Academie Francaise, which tries to prevent English from creeping into the language. They do other things, too, but this is one of the things they look at.
Conservatism
As French culture has come under increasing pressure with the widespread use of English in media and technology, the Académie has tried to prevent the Anglicization of the French language. For example, the Académie has recommended, with mixed success, that some loanwords from English (such as walkman, software and email) be avoided, in favour of words derived from French (baladeur, logiciel, and courriel respectively). Moreover, the Académie has worked to modernize French orthography. The body, however, has sometimes been criticized for behaving in an excessively conservative fashion.
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jaunte Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:00:17pm |
re: #101 NJDhockeyfan
The Right hates the French?
If Newt was trying to use it against Romney, that’s a good sign.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:00:21pm |
re: #120 reine.de.tout
The French are very careful to try to preserve their language. They really do not like it when Anglais makes its way into the language.
There is an institution in France, L’Academie Francaise, which tries to prevent English from creeping into the language. They do other things, too, but this is one of the things they look at.
As opposed to English, which takes a “more is more” attitude towards vocabulary.
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BigPapa Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:00:24pm |
re: #113 NJDhockeyfan
Yes, the right should be more loving, caring, and all around positive
like the left always is. Thanks for clearing that up.
You were on a roll until the MBFFail.
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freetoken Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:00:49pm |
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:02:08pm |
re: #120 reine.de.tout
The French are very careful to try to preserve their language. They really do not like it when Anglais makes its way into the language.
There is an institution in France, L’Academie Francaise, which tries to prevent English from creeping into the language. They do other things, too, but this is one of the things they look at.
Which, seriously, points out some of the most significant differences in culture between the two languages. English will borg anything. It is a mugger that smacks a word over the head and steals it wholesale into the language while French attempts to remain chaste; pure.
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reine.de.tout Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:03:36pm |
re: #122 EmmmieG
As opposed to English, which takes a “more is more” attitude towards vocabulary.
It’s odd to me that it seems to be mostly English the French are worried about. Not so much borrowing from other languages. This isn’t new - I learned about this in high school French class 40 years ago.
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jaunte Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:03:40pm |
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:05:01pm |
re: #115 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Lol!
How would you know?
I shall base my PMA toward you..hows that?
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reine.de.tout Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:05:05pm |
re: #126 reine.de.tout
It’s odd to me that it seems to be mostly English the French are worried about. Not so much borrowing from other languages. This isn’t new - I learned about this in high school French class 40 years ago.
Of course, we have our own organization in La. to try to preserve French spoken here: CODOFIL.
The Council for the Development of French in Louisiana was created in 1968 by the Louisiana state legislature. According to Legislative Act No. 409, the Governor of Louisiana is “…authorized to establish the Council for the Development of Louisiana- French, said agency to consist of no more than fifty (50) members and including a chairman…”. CODOFIL is furthermore empowered to “do any and all things necessary to accomplish the development, utilization, and preservation of the French language as found in Louisiana for the cultural, economic and touristic benefit of the state. The name was subsequently changed to the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana.”
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:05:51pm |
re: #111 NJDhockeyfan
Which reminds me of a story I read, about a grandson looking for his grandfather’s grave in rural France. Grandpa crashed and died in his fighter plane while defending this French town from Nazi fighter pilots.
He tracked down his grandpa’s resting place, and found that the people of this small French town still kept his grave stone clean, and still left flowers and other items to honor him.
The idea that “The French hate Americans”, or that “Americans hate the French” are media driven memes.
There is no question that there are ignorant haters on either side, but the overall gist of either meme is nothing more than bigoted broad brushing.
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:05:54pm |
re: #128 NJDhockeyfan
Freedom Fries…the new HATE!
LOL!
I call them tyranny taters because they oppress me with their deliciousness.
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reine.de.tout Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:09:15pm |
re: #127 jaunte
Quebec too; I was just reading about Loi 101, which has this interesting exception to the general requirement for the use of French language:
I’ve got a funny story told to me by a Cajun friend who taught French for awhile at LSU.
Being interested in French, he and some other teachers took a study trip to Canada. They got a lot of ribbing about the Anglicization of Cajun French, particularly for the phrase “passer du bon temps” (to pass a good time) - which the Canadians felt was English-oriented. The Canadian phrase? “Avoir fun”. LOL.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:09:34pm |
re: #126 reine.de.tout
It’s odd to me that it seems to be mostly English the French are worried about. Not so much borrowing from other languages. This isn’t new - I learned about this in high school French class 40 years ago.
The English and French are like Calvin and Susie in the comic “Calvin and Hobbes” - obviously deeply in love and showing it as 6 year olds tend to … ///
More seriously, a quick look at the last 1200 or so years or English/French history will remind one that 1) the current friendship hasn’t lasted long & 2) we only are free because it was the French had loved giving the English heartache for 1000 years.
1066 And All That.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:09:38pm |
re: #131 Slumbering Behemoth
Which reminds me of a story I read, about a grandson looking for his grandfather’s grave in rural France. Grandpa crashed and died in his fighter plane while defending this French town from Nazi fighter pilots.
He tracked down his grandpa’s resting place, and found that the people of this small French town still kept his grave stone clean, and still left flowers and other items to honor him.
The idea that “The French hate Americans”, or that “Americans hate the French” are media driven memes.
There is no question that there are ignorant haters on either side, but the overall gist of either meme is nothing more than bigoted broad brushing.
That can’t be true, remember Freedom Fries?!?!
//
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:12:06pm |
re: #135 NJDhockeyfan
That can’t be true, remember Freedom Fries?!?!
//
That was a real thing, and rather silly. Lasted all of what? A few months.
/Though I would have totally been on board with “Freedom Kissing” if that were a thing freely given at the time.
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reine.de.tout Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:13:43pm |
re: #125 wlewisiii
Which, seriously, points out some of the most significant differences in culture between the two languages. English will borg anything. It is a mugger that smacks a word over the head and steals it wholesale into the language while French attempts to remain chaste; pure.
Well yeah - except again, they don’t seem to have concerns about languages other than English poisoning the French. L’Academie has mixed results with their efforts - most folks are just going to use whatever is easiest to say. And there are French dialects all over the place which would never meet the standards of L’Academie.
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BigPapa Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:13:45pm |
The right doesn’t hate the French as much because Sarkozy is ‘conservative.’
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Kragar Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:14:48pm |
re: #132 Killgore Trout
I call them tyranny taters because they oppress me with their deliciousness.
Those are tots.
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reine.de.tout Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:16:35pm |
re: #140 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Those are tots.
There’s tater tots? I love tater tots.
Almost as much as FBV loves cake. And pie.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:16:59pm |
Reasons the French hate us:
- Our Freedom
- Superior Californian Wine
Reasons we hate the French:
- Their awesome cheese
- Their instance that their stupid wine is superior
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goddamnedfrank Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:17:03pm |
This condom ad is why the American right wing hates France.
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reine.de.tout Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:18:02pm |
re: #141 BigPapa
McDonald’s fries = guilty pleasure.
Boy, are they ever. When I was a young ‘un and doing young people stuff, there were times when I would crave those french fries, nothing else would do.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:18:04pm |
re: #141 BigPapa
McDonald’s fries = guilty pleasure.
They used to be much better. When they switched to vegetable oil all the deliciousness disappeared.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:18:32pm |
re: #102 wlewisiii
The real winner of the American Revolution?
François Joseph Paul de Grasse. Admiral of the French fleet at Yorktown.
But he is not celebrated, even in France. Mostly because his defeat of the indecisive Rear Admiral Thomas Graves also served to have the British send the ferocious Admiral Rodney to sea to deal with him. Less than a year after de Grasse’s victory at the Battle of the Chesapeake Capes, his fleet fought the Royal Navy under Rodney at the Battle of the Saintes in the Caribbean. Rodney, unlike Graves, formed no line of battle and sent his ships charging in before the French fleet could fully alight itself. Rodney’s doing what Graves refused to do won the UK a smashing victory. As the peace treaty ending the Revolutionary War had not been signed, this allowed the UK to say it had won the last major battle of the war.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:19:02pm |
re: #141 BigPapa
McDonald’s fries = guilty pleasure.
I hate you. I hate you like I’m supposed to hate the French.
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Four More Tears Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:19:08pm |
re: #144 goddamnedfrank
Okay, that was really fuckin’ weird.
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Four More Tears Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:19:48pm |
Please, everyone knows that Five Guys has the best fries.
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reine.de.tout Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:20:30pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:20:34pm |
re: #150 JasonA
Fries are for fat, vegetarian bastards.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:20:43pm |
re: #150 JasonA
local pub’s garlic fries > any chain restaurant’s fries
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:20:47pm |
re: #143 Slumbering Behemoth
Reasons the French hate us:
- Our Freedom
- Superior Californian WineReasons we hate the French:
- Their awesome cheese
- Their instance that their stupid wine is superior
I wonder how they made eating snails popular? Who was the first Frenchman that picked one up and said “Now this looks delicious.”
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Four More Tears Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:21:03pm |
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Four More Tears Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:22:14pm |
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:22:33pm |
re: #150 JasonA
Please, everyone knows that Five Guys has the best fries.
They use fresh potatoes. There is no better way to make fries.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:22:54pm |
re: #147 Dark_Falcon
True enough.
But tell me, what’s better? To win the battle that matters or loose the one that’s irrelevant?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:23:06pm |
re: #154 NJDhockeyfan
Hungry Cave-Dwelling Frenchman.
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jaunte Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:23:34pm |
re: #154 NJDhockeyfan
I wonder how they made eating snails popular? Who was the first Frenchman that picked one up and said “Now this looks delicious.”
Probably the only meat around that didn’t come with a penalty:
Only Lords and Nobles were allowed to hunt deer, boar, hares and rabbits. The punishment for poaching could result in death or having hands cut off - these types of meat were therefore not available to the poor.middle-ages.org.uk
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:23:36pm |
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reine.de.tout Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:23:43pm |
re: #154 NJDhockeyfan
I wonder how they made eating snails popular? Who was the first Frenchman that picked one up and said “Now this looks delicious.”
I had the same question about these, the 6 most terrifying foods in the world.
Double-dog dare anybody to read that to the end.
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BigPapa Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:24:57pm |
re: #154 NJDhockeyfan
I wonder how they made eating snails popular? Who was the first Frenchman that picked one up and said “Now this looks delicious.”
Still far from explaining haggis.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:25:28pm |
re: #118 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Dumb, stupid, and ignorant as ever.
Bitchy, ugly, and hostile like always.
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jaunte Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:28:22pm |
re: #162 reine.de.tout
The escamoles don’t sound too bad:
Escamoles have a surprisingly pleasant taste: buttery and slightly nutty. This hugely increases the chances that, while in Mexico, you could eat them without realizing you are eating a taco full of fucking ant eggs.
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:29:29pm |
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:29:48pm |
re: #163 BigPapa
Still far from explaining haggis.
Someone watched a cat or dog at a fresh kill. The stomach is often one of the first things eaten, IIRC.
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Four More Tears Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:29:54pm |
re: #162 reine.de.tout
Casu Marzu was way too high on that list.
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Dancing along the light of day Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:30:12pm |
re: #150 JasonA
Please, everyone knows that Five Guys has the best fries.
Um, No.
The BEST fries are from In & Out Burger.
in-n-out.com
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austin_blue Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:30:30pm |
I remember GSH from college, and again when I saw him in live in Austin in 1992.
More poet and visionary than a singer, he still produced “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” and the the incredibly hardcore “Angel Dust” on his albums.
RIP, my man.
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BigPapa Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:30:33pm |
re: #162 reine.de.tout
I had the same question about these, the 6 most terrifying foods in the world.
Double-dog dare anybody to read that to the end.
I did it and I can’t finish my fries now.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:31:04pm |
re: #162 reine.de.tout
Horrible. But I’d eat any of that if I had no other choice.
/Except that casu marzu. If you and I were stranded in the wilderness with nothing but that to eat, you would be well advised to sneak off with that nasty cheese while I’m sleeping, and put great distance between me and your long-shanks.
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Four More Tears Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:31:22pm |
re: #169 Floral Giraffe
Um, No.
The BEST fries are from In & Out Burger.
[Link: www.in-n-out.com…]
See, now we’re starting up an East Coast, West Coast rivalry thing.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:31:23pm |
re: #162 reine.de.tout
I had the same question about these, the 6 most terrifying foods in the world.
Double-dog dare anybody to read that to the end.
That makes the snails look as good as steak right now. I’m going to have nightmares tonight.
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Dancing along the light of day Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:33:00pm |
re: #173 JasonA
They are so very very tasty!
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jaunte Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:33:01pm |
Go ahead, eat McDonald’s. Nobody will ever know.
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:33:22pm |
*Amusingly recalls all the boycott France nonsense from 2003*
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reine.de.tout Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:34:09pm |
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:34:28pm |
Going to bed now…I hope my dreams aren’t full of ant eggs and Maggot cheese.
Cheers!
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reine.de.tout Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:35:07pm |
re: #171 BigPapa
I did it and I can’t finish my fries now.
I felt like I wouldn’t eat again for a week.
Great diet aid.
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Political Atheist Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:35:19pm |
re: #162 reine.de.tout
I had the same question about these, the 6 most terrifying foods in the world.
Double-dog dare anybody to read that to the end.
I’m in.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:36:24pm |
re: #169 Floral Giraffe
Um, No.
The BEST fries are from In & Out Burger.
[Link: www.in-n-out.com…]
I’m not a fan of fries, French or Freedom, nor am I a fan of fast food, but I have to agree with you there.
Fresh potatoes, cleaned, peeled, cut and fried on site. No excessive salt or sugar, nor any other kind of “glaze”. Just fresh chopped taters deep fried “as is”.
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:36:55pm |
re: #154 NJDhockeyfan
I wonder how they made eating snails popular? Who was the first Frenchman that picked one up and said “Now this looks delicious.”
I have no idea, but I do know that I’m grateful that when a friend and I had lunch in Calais, she let me off the snails because they weren’t kosher.
She ate several.
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:37:18pm |
re: #171 BigPapa
I did it and I can’t finish my fries now.
Wuss.
Have some mice wine with your maggot cheese.
:P
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reine.de.tout Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:37:36pm |
re: #184 SanFranciscoZionist
I have no idea, but I do know that I’m grateful that when a friend and I had lunch in Calais, she let me off the snails because they weren’t kosher.
She ate several.
shhhh. They are actually quite good.
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Dancing along the light of day Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:37:55pm |
re: #183 Slumbering Behemoth
I am SO wanting their fries right now.
You people are EVIL!
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Political Atheist Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:39:03pm |
re: #162 reine.de.tout
I had the same question about these, the 6 most terrifying foods in the world.
Double-dog dare anybody to read that to the end.
Oh lordy. I’m gonna fast.
// ;-)
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jaunte Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:39:33pm |
re: #179 reine.de.tout
On average, ants monopolize 15–20% of the terrestrial animal biomass, and in tropical regions where ants are especially abundant, they monopolize 25% or more.
Escamole: it’s what’s for dinner!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:40:11pm |
re: #180 NJDhockeyfan
Going to bed now…I hope my dreams aren’t full of ant eggs and Maggot cheese.
Cheers!
They will be. Plus, zombies. Meth fueled zombies.
NOW WHAT?!?!
///
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reine.de.tout Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:40:25pm |
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:40:28pm |
re: #189 jaunte
Escamole: it’s what’s for dinner!
If you ground it properly, it’d be a darn sight better than Soylent Green.
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reine.de.tout Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:41:17pm |
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Dancing along the light of day Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:41:34pm |
re: #188 Rightwingconspirator
OK, I looked.
And would have barfed, if I’d been eating.
Just saying…
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reine.de.tout Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:41:35pm |
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Dancing along the light of day Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:42:16pm |
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:42:39pm |
re: #196 Floral Giraffe
OK, I looked.
And would have barfed, if I’d been eating.
Just saying…
Heh, now I have an extra weapon against some here.
/:P
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Lidane Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:43:05pm |
re: #198 Floral Giraffe
Where is the nugget on a chicken?
Do you really want the answer to that question?
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Political Atheist Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:43:31pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:43:33pm |
re: #187 Floral Giraffe
I’ve been off fast food for so many years now. So long that a Mickey D’s burger tastes like nothing less than shit to me.
But In & Out is a guilty pleasure. Though only occasionally.
There’s a huge difference between “Fresh”, and “Manufactured Frozen”.
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engineer cat Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:43:39pm |
US sends top Iran leader warning on Hormuz threat
beware! this whore will moo very soon!
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Dancing along the light of day Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:43:51pm |
re: #200 Lidane
Do you really want the answer to that question?
Maybe? It could be on it’s thigh, right?
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Dancing along the light of day Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:45:00pm |
re: #202 Slumbering Behemoth
In & Out isn’t REALLY fast food, although, if you look at the calorie count on their menu, you won’t eat there often. Still, it’s a nice treat!
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Four More Tears Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:45:14pm |
I really need to know who first had the idea to put mice fetuses and sake together. I lack whatever they had that made them say “Hey, this could work…”
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jaunte Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:45:36pm |
re: #198 Floral Giraffe
I’m pretty sure the answer is something like ‘mesothelium.’
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:47:21pm |
re: #205 Floral Giraffe
In & Out isn’t REALLY fast food, although, if you look at the calorie count on their menu, you won’t eat there often. Still, it’s a nice treat!
Sounds like Culver’s around here. Good food, but don’t eat there every day.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:48:50pm |
re: #193 jaunte
At Macdonald’s it’s just a “nugget.”
Last time I ate “McDonald’s”? I was starving and on short time getting back to work. Late 90’s.
Now, when I say I’m starving… I have blood sugar issues, and am now two hours from becoming a cannibal.
I got back to work with a stash of McNuggets, half chewed the first one and spit it out. I’d rather risk the offense of cannibalism than eat that garbage.
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jaunte Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:49:31pm |
re: #210 Slumbering Behemoth
The ant eggs would probably be an improvement.
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:50:15pm |
re: #210 Slumbering Behemoth
Last time I ate “McDonald’s”? I was starving and on short time getting back to work. Late 90’s.
Now, when I say I’m starving… I have blood sugar issues, and am now two hours from becoming a cannibal.
I got back to work with a stash of McNuggets, half chewed the first one and spit it out. I’d rather risk the offense of cannibalism than eat that garbage.
Eat foliage.
It’s abundant and free!
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:51:10pm |
re: #158 wlewisiii
True enough.
But tell me, what’s better? To win the battle that matters or loose the one that’s irrelevant?
The crippling of de Grasse’s fleet wasn’t irrelevant, though. France still wanted to seize some of the UK’s Caribbean possessions, and had de Grasse won they might well have done so. Rodney’s victory did not prevent American independence, but it did avoid further British loss of territory and it restored the Royal Navy’s pride after Yorktown.
Moreover, de Grasse beat Graves at the Chesapeake Capes, but most of Graves’ ships withdrew still flying the Union Jack. The Saintes saw most of de Grasse’s ships sunk or captured. So the battle de Grasse lost was a real wound to France, though it did not hurt America.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:51:18pm |
re: #205 Floral Giraffe
In & Out isn’t REALLY fast food, although, if you look at the calorie count on their menu, you won’t eat there often. Still, it’s a nice treat!
Good food served fast. Healthier than a Burger King, but still fatty.
There’s one local burger joint here that doesn’t even serve frozen meat. All local and fresh. Another guilty pleasure that I rarely indulge.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:52:40pm |
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jaunte Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:56:48pm |
re: #212 Varek Raith
Eat foliage.
It’s abundant and free!
Speaking of which: this is cool:
Community Supported Agriculture
…a farmer offers a certain number of “shares” to the public. Typically the share consists of a box of vegetables, but other farm products may be included. Interested consumers purchase a share (aka a “membership” or a “subscription”) and in return receive a box (bag, basket) of seasonal produce each week throughout the farming season.
You can search your zip code for participating farms.
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Lidane Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:57:19pm |
re: #208 wlewisiii
Sounds like Culver’s around here. Good food, but don’t eat there every day.
There’s a Culver’s here in Austin. Love the food, but I just can’t go there much, especially now that I’m trying to lose weight.
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Shiplord Kirel Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:57:21pm |
Getting here late again, as usual.
I’m seriously put out with the wingnut reaction to the video of Marines apparently pissing on dead Taliban. It might be one thing to suggest that leftists and peaceniks are overreacting, something else again to revel in this barbarism and praise these nitwits for their failure of discipline and character.
I was talking to an acquaintance about it this afternoon. He said, “Well, I can’t judge them. Hell, if I were in their shoes, I might do it too.”
That really hit a nerve. I said, “I HAVE been in their shoes, I didn’t do anything remotely like this, and I think they should be thrown in the brig.”
The conversation was over at that point.
I was also struck by the relatively muted reaction so from the Taliban. Part of the reason might be that they don’t grasp the outrage: This would be pretty mild stuff to them. The desecration of enemy bodies is completely routine with them, and it gets far, far uglier than what we saw in the video. Beyond that, it is their standard and stridently repeated narrative that foreign troops engage in all sorts of atrocities and misconduct. An unusual outburst of rage over this incident would tend to undermine the credibility of that narrative.
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Four More Tears Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:59:19pm |
re: #218 Shiplord Kirel
It’s conduct unbecoming an American. Some straight up Mogadishu shit right there.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:00:03pm |
So now I’m eating leftover ham hip and pintos, made from the left over xmas ham. That’s how I roll, bitches.
/and I got five, one quart freezer bags full of turkey stew sitting in the ice box, made from the left over xmas turkey carcass. Fuck waste!!!
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:00:29pm |
re: #218 Shiplord Kirel
Getting here late again, as usual.
I’m seriously put out with the wingnut reaction to the video of Marines apparently pissing on dead Taliban. It might be one thing to suggest that leftists and peaceniks are overreacting, something else again to revel in this barbarism and praise these nitwits for their failure of discipline and character.
I was talking to an acquaintance about it this afternoon. He said, “Well, I can’t judge them. Hell, if I were in their shoes, I might do it too.”
That really hit a nerve. I said, “I HAVE been in their shoes, I didn’t do anything remotely like this, and I think they should be thrown in the brig.”
The conversation was over at that point.I was also struck by the relatively muted reaction so from the Taliban. Part of the reason might be that they don’t grasp the outrage: This would be pretty mild stuff to them. The desecration of enemy bodies is completely routine with them, and it gets far, far uglier than what we saw in the video. Beyond that, it is their standard and stridently repeated narrative that foreign troops engage in all sorts of atrocities and misconduct. An unusual outburst of rage over this incident would tend to undermine the credibility of that narrative.
Good points both, and I agree entirely.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:00:39pm |
re: #217 Lidane
There’s a Culver’s here in Austin. Love the food, but I just can’t go there much, especially now that I’m trying to lose weight.
Yep. Mushroom Swiss Burger with a side of Onion Rings. Major yummies but more calories than I care to think about.
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freetoken Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:02:43pm |
re: #212 Varek Raith
Eat foliage.
It’s abundant and free!
Not so abundant here in the desert, but I will note that the stems (“paddles”) of Opuntia are edible, as well as the fruit.
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Single-handed sailor Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:03:09pm |
I’ve never had to worry about calories. While I was working I ate lots of yummy things. Now it’s simple home cooked food. I miss cheese steaks, Subway melts, Wendy’s Bacon Deluxe…
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:05:38pm |
re: #224 mracb
I miss the Taquerias in the Bay Area. There ain’t nothing here in my part of the Central Valley that can compete.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:07:16pm |
re: #218 Shiplord Kirel
I think you’re closer on the “WTF are they complaining about?” aspect as they would, routinely, do worse. Still we do expect better of our troops and they should be punished. More than an Article 15, to be sure, but is this BCD/DH level? I’d say somewhere in between.
I do remember the Pvt E1 I met once with E8 faded outlines on his collars… diamonds in the centers…
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:13:32pm |
re: #224 mracb
I’ve never had to worry about calories. While I was working I ate lots of yummy things. Now it’s simple home cooked food. I miss cheese steaks, Subway melts, Wendy’s Bacon Deluxe…
I’m a big fan of Wendy’s bacon burgers. The best fries in the Chicago area are to be found at either Michael’s Chicago Style Red Hots in Highland Park or at Edzo’s in Evanston.
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BongCrodny Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:13:34pm |
re: #224 mracb
I’ve never had to worry about calories. While I was working I ate lots of yummy things. Now it’s simple home cooked food. I miss cheese steaks, Subway melts, Wendy’s Bacon Deluxe…
I envy you.
My mom’s maiden name is “Gallant,” and “The Gallant Ass” is a well-known phenomenon in my hometown.
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Single-handed sailor Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:14:30pm |
re: #227 Dark_Falcon
I’m a big fan of Wendy’s bacon burgers. The best fries in the Chicago area are to be found at either Michael’s Chicago Style Red Hots in Highland Park or at Edzo’s in Evanston.
Wendy’s fries suck.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:14:45pm |
re: #226 wlewisiii
I think you’re closer on the “WTF are they complaining about?” aspect as they would, routinely, do worse. Still we do expect better of our troops and they should be punished. More than an Article 15, to be sure, but is this BCD/DH level? I’d say somewhere in between.
I do remember the Pvt E1 I met once with E8 faded outlines on his collars… diamonds in the centers…
It calls for severe punishment, no doubt, but not imprisonment, I think.
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Shiplord Kirel Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:15:35pm |
re: #226 wlewisiii
I think you’re closer on the “WTF are they complaining about?” aspect as they would, routinely, do worse. Still we do expect better of our troops and they should be punished. More than an Article 15, to be sure, but is this BCD/DH level? I’d say somewhere in between.
I do remember the Pvt E1 I met once with E8 faded outlines on his collars… diamonds in the centers…
I think it does rise to the BCD level because of the additional danger it presents to other members of the service and to the mission itself.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:15:55pm |
re: #228 BongCrodny
“The Gallant Ass” is sooo big that when it jumps up in the air, it gets stuck.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:17:16pm |
re: #229 mracb
Wendy’s fries suck.
No argument here. A fast food type place that holds affinity with my family is Portillo’s. In part though, this is because some of their locations serve beer. This only matters to my parents, though.
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Shiplord Kirel Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:18:24pm |
BCD= Bad Conduct Discharge.
Unlike an administrative discharge, a Bad Conduct Discharge (BCD) is a punitive discharge that can only be given by a court-martial (either Special or General) as punishment to an enlisted service-member. Bad conduct discharges are often preceded by a period of confinement in a military prison. The discharge itself is not executed until completion of both confinement and the appellate review process.
Virtually all veterans’ benefits are forfeited by a Bad Conduct Discharge; BCD recipients are eligible for VA disability compensation, as the only discharge that forfeits all VA benefits in full is the Dishonorable Discharge.
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:18:30pm |
re: #228 BongCrodny
I envy you.
My mom’s maiden name is “Gallant,” and “The Gallant Ass” is a well-known phenomenon in my hometown.
I’m now going to use that as a name for a freighter in Star Wars D20.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:19:26pm |
re: #231 Shiplord Kirel
I think it does rise to the BCD level because of the additional danger it presents to other members of the service and to the mission itself.
I can see the argument. This is yet another reason why I never took up the offers to go to OCS. I preferred being an NCO at times like these.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:19:33pm |
re: #235 Varek Raith
“The Gallant Ass” is sooo big that when it launches into outer space, it gets stuck.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:20:25pm |
re: #234 Shiplord Kirel
BCD= Bad Conduct Discharge.
Ah, good idea. That’s an acronym only a handful here would get. Thank you.
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AlexRogan Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:20:39pm |
re: #229 mracb
Wendy’s fries suck.
I liked their old fries…their new “natural-cut” fries pale in comparison.
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Single-handed sailor Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:22:16pm |
re: #239 talon_262
I liked their old fries…their new “natural-cut” fries pale in comparison.
I dunno, around here they are mushy, the newer ones are a little tastier but still mushy.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:23:24pm |
My natural aversion to fast food crap causes some in my family to look at me askance. And I ain’t known for being a granola type health nut, neither.
Drinking, smoking… I indulge more that most.
But I like food that tastes like… food.
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BongCrodny Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:25:29pm |
re: #232 Slumbering Behemoth
“The Gallant Ass” is sooo big that when it jumps up in the air, it gets stuck.
“The Gallant Ass” is so big, it has its own zip code.
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Shiplord Kirel Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:25:36pm |
I’m reminded of something an Israeli colonel is reported to have said to a soldier who had cited the enemy’s atrocities as an excuse for misconduct by Israeli soldiers: “If a dog bites you, I would expect you as a man not to bite him back. You might shoot him, but if you get down on your knees and bite him, you have become a dog too.”
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:25:44pm |
re: #234 Shiplord Kirel
BCD= Bad Conduct Discharge.
Yeah, that sounds like it fits the level of their crime.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:26:30pm |
“The Gallant Ass” is sooo huge that when it hovers around the galaxy, it hovers around the galaxy.
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freetoken Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:27:01pm |
All one has to do is read some of the comments on the numerous threads about the Marines’ piss problem on various right wing blogs to realize just how sick the wingnut community truly is.
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Single-handed sailor Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:27:02pm |
I haven’t worked near an Arbys in over 30 years. There was one in Dublin, CA.
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:28:35pm |
Best Skyrim mod eveh.
Lol.
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BigPapa Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:28:54pm |
re: #248 mracb
I haven’t worked near an Arbys in over 30 years. There was one in Dublin, CA.
I think it’s now a fast food indian joint.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:29:15pm |
re: #244 Shiplord Kirel
I’m reminded of something an Israeli colonel is reported to have said to a soldier who had cited the enemy’s atrocities as an excuse for misconduct by Israeli soldiers: “If a dog bites you, I would expect you as a man not to bite him back.”
Whereupon The Guardian declared that the colonel’s words prove that the IDF sees Palestinians as equivalent to dogs.
/I’m kidding, but I could easily see that paper making that accusation.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:29:28pm |
re: #242 Varek Raith
Arby’sThe Behemoth’sroast beefTri-Tip sandwich or GTFO.
I’ll change your religion, Sith.
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:29:55pm |
re: #252 Slumbering Behemoth
I’ll change your religion, Sith.
Hey, sure, if you’re going to make it.
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freetoken Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:30:51pm |
BTW, I see PaleoPat has a new column out, featured at Townhall, in which he adulates Ron Paul:
[Praise for Paul’s doomer goldbug outlook…]
Aware it is unlikely he will ever be president, the 76-year-old soldiers on in the belief that this cause will one day triumph in a party where he was, not long ago, seen as an odd duck, but a party where today he speaks for a national constituency.
[…]
There is a gnawing fear in the GOP that Paul will quit the party when the primaries are over and run as a third-party candidate on the Libertarian or some other line in the November election.
Not going to happen. Such a decision would sunder the movement Paul has pulled together, bring about his own and his party’s certain defeat in November, and re-elect Barack Obama.
Paul would become a pariah in his party, while his son, Sen. Rand Paul, who would be forced to endorse his father over the GOP nominee, would be ruined as a future Republican leader.
Why would Dr. Paul do this, when the future inside the GOP looks bright not only for him but for his son?
[…]
That’s right, PaleoPat sees Ron Paul (and his son) as the future of the GOP.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:31:31pm |
re: #253 Varek Raith
Any time. If you manage to find me… Free Tri-Tip!!!
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:31:53pm |
MMMM, behemoth steak.
Image: Behemoth_XII.jpg
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BongCrodny Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:33:32pm |
re: #242 Varek Raith
Arby’s roast beef sandwich or GTFO.
We had a “Raff’s” in Portland, Maine — owned and operated by the brothers who founded Arby’s. The story was that after they sold out they weren’t allowed to have a “roast beef” franchise, so Raff’s sold roast beef and fish and burgers. While “Arby’s” meant “America’s Roast Beef, Yes Sir,” the take was that it really meant “Raff Brothers.
Never caught on, however. Drove by the site the other day; it had been rubble-ized.
Woe.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:34:14pm |
re: #254 freetoken
RW talk radio blowhard Mark Levin has vowed, fucking vowed, to destroy Rand’s political career should Ron run third party in this next election. Heh.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:35:21pm |
re: #256 Varek Raith
That? That’s barely an appetizer.
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freetoken Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:36:29pm |
re: #258 Slumbering Behemoth
He should ask Newt about how vows play out.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:38:12pm |
re: #249 Varek Raith
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Dancing along the light of day Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:39:00pm |
re: #261 Slumbering Behemoth
That was a nasty.
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:39:32pm |
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:41:55pm |
Well, good night all. I leave you with one thought/prediction/hope:
Feb 5, 2012: Rogers stomps Tebow in Indianapolis.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:48:30pm |
re: #264 wlewisiii
Well, good night all. I leave you with one thought/prediction/hope:
Feb 5, 2012: Rogers stomps Tebow in Indianapolis.
I’d rather it be Eli Manning who Helms the team that stops Tebow, and I think that the city of Indianapolis would prefer that as well.
But I don’t really think the Broncos will get that far. The Patriots will gun them down this weekend.
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BongCrodny Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:54:55pm |
re: #265 Dark_Falcon
I’d rather it be Eli Manning who Helms the team that stops Tebow, and I think that the city of Indianapolis would prefer that as well.
But I don’t really think the Broncos will get that far. The Patriots will gun them down this weekend.
Speaking as a native New Englander who understands that the Patriots have pretty much surpassed Dallas as “THE team you hate,” it would be nice to see them actually win a playoff game. They’re 0-3 in their last three, with losses to both the Ravens and the Jets — at home.
Tom Brady’s a pretty awesome quarterback, but I think they’ve suffered a bit since they became Tom Brady, All The Time.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 10:59:19pm |
re: #260 freetoken
The dude will often contradict himself, on his own show, in the short amount of time it takes me to drive to the liquor store and back. I doubt “reality” is a key value for him.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:00:07pm |
re: #266 BongCrodny
Speaking as a native New Englander who understands that the Patriots have pretty much surpassed Dallas as “THE team you hate,” it would be nice to see them actually win a playoff game. They’re 0-3 in their last three, with losses to both the Ravens and the Jets — at home.
Tom Brady’s a pretty awesome quarterback, but I think they’ve suffered a bit since they became Tom Brady, All The Time.
I think they’ll pull it off this year. Tim Tebow has a bright future in the NFL, but overall the Patriots still have the better offense. This game will be a shootout, a shootout I feel that New England will win.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:01:28pm |
re: #262 Floral Giraffe
True story, bro.
/:P
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:03:36pm |
re: #258 Slumbering Behemoth
RW talk radio blowhard Mark Levin has vowed, fucking vowed, to destroy Rand’s political career should Ron run third party in this next election. Heh.
For once I’m glad to see Levin take this tactic. It is imperative the GOP keep its votes corralled and that means not allowing Ron Paul to stray into a 3rd party. If using his son’s career as leverage is what is needed to prevent that, then so be it.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:04:19pm |
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:04:38pm |
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Single-handed sailor Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:08:40pm |
I’m hoping SF makes it to the Super Bowl. Green Bay is going to be a problem, assuming SF beats New Orleans.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:09:55pm |
re: #270 Dark_Falcon
I doubt Levin has the kind of clout he pretends. At least not the kind that could ruin politicians’ careers.
If he did possess such clout, he would already have demolished “Nasty Pelosi” or “Harry Rude”, or any number of “Repeewbicans” that he so often lambasts. He’s a hot fart in a windstorm, with nothing more than a Fox Radio time slot.
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sagehen Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:10:35pm |
re: #202 Slumbering Behemoth
I’ve been off fast food for so many years now. So long that a Mickey D’s burger tastes like nothing less than shit to me.
But In & Out is a guilty pleasure. Though only occasionally.
There’s a huge difference between “Fresh”, and “Manufactured Frozen”.
How do you feel about The best chili-cheeseburger anywhere ever?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:10:56pm |
re: #272 Dark_Falcon
Or so she would have us believe. Mwahahaha!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:12:27pm |
re: #275 sagehen
Never had one. Never been in the vicinity.
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Single-handed sailor Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:14:03pm |
re: #275 sagehen
How do you feel about The best chili-cheeseburger anywhere ever?
Why are none of these great burger joints in my area? I’ve been waiting for 2 years for In & Out to be built just down the street from my house to sample their product. Diablo Valley is a dead zone for good food.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:15:25pm |
re: #278 mracb
I’ll make you a burger, bro. One that will leave you hating anything else.
/I got skills on the grills, don’t ya know?
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Single-handed sailor Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:17:41pm |
re: #279 Slumbering Behemoth
I’m not too good on the grill but my BBQ is good, I think. I don’t really know for sure because we don’t have good BBQ here to compare with.
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:19:52pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:20:46pm |
re: #280 mracb
Time for a BBQ bro-down! I challenge you Em, Ar, Ey… well, however the hell you pronounce that nic!!!
/
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Dancing along the light of day Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:20:48pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:22:40pm |
re: #283 Floral Giraffe
We’re “bros”, regardless of whatever you got going on in the “pants department”.
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Single-handed sailor Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:23:34pm |
re: #282 Slumbering Behemoth
About my nic, I tried all my favorite nics and they were all refused so I used my initials and wouldn’t you know it, LGF accepted it.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:24:51pm |
re: #285 mracb
You’re not one of those bros with three first names, are you? Can’t trust those bros.
///
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:28:18pm |
It’s a Bropocalypse!!!
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Single-handed sailor Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:30:34pm |
I have yet to master brisket. My one attempt was with a piece that had the fat cap trimmed and it came out 14 hours later like shoe leather. I’m pretty good with pork shoulder and pork ribs.
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Kragar Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:31:37pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:32:53pm |
re: #290 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
You had me at “Oh shit! Fuck!”
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:42:35pm |
“The Gallant Ass” is sooo big, it puts on nail polish with paint rollers.
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Dancing along the light of day Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:49:13pm |
re: #292 Slumbering Behemoth
“The Gallant Ass” is sooo big, it puts on nail polish with paint rollers.
And paints in blood red. All the girls like it!
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Single-handed sailor Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:58:10pm |
One more episode of ST TNG and I’m off to bed. Good night.
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sagehen Fri, Jan 13, 2012 12:02:32am |
re: #289 mracb
I have yet to master brisket. My one attempt was with a piece that had the fat cap trimmed and it came out 14 hours later like shoe leather. I’m pretty good with pork shoulder and pork ribs.
That’s one I can actually do…
You sear the sides and edges first, by holding each side on a hothothot cast-iron piece of cookware, to seal in the melting interior fat. Then simmer it on low, all day, in your properly-spiced liquid mixture. Keep adding water. (If I sounded for a minute like I know something of fine cooking, don’t be fooled. My “properly spiced liquid mixture” includes lipton onion soup mix and a bunch of ketchup)
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Single-handed sailor Fri, Jan 13, 2012 12:06:16am |
re: #296 sagehen
I’m trying it in an crappy offset smoker. I just haven’t wanted to spend 14 hours tending it every 15 minutes to come out with another failure. Pork is easy, forgiving and only takes 5 hours for ribs and 12 for shoulder.
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Single-handed sailor Fri, Jan 13, 2012 12:11:16am |
I wish I was rich and could afford a nice smoker.
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freetoken Fri, Jan 13, 2012 2:57:11am |
Well, gee, hope I’ve not scared everyone off with my funky music.
Here’s some Carmen McRae with Tjader:
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sagehen Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:01:13am |
How did I not realize until the TV reminded me just now that it’s…. dun dun dun….
FRIDAY THE 13TH!!!
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:03:21am |
re: #302 freetoken
Perhaps some Gordon McRae?
Charlotte Rae?
Rae Charles?
Sugar Rae?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:04:27am |
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:06:41am |
re: #304 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Well aren’t you just a fucking Rae of sunshine.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:10:38am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:12:50am |
re: #306 Obdicut
Well aren’t you just a fucking Rae of sunshine.
Speaking of… what the hell am I doing up this early? Oh, yeah. The wife.
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:17:43am |
re: #308 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Speaking of… what the hell am I doing up this early? Oh, yeah. The wife.
You should write a book. It’s therapeutic.
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:21:19am |
re: #309 Obdicut
You should write a book. It’s therapeutic.
Once upon a time there was an end.
-The end.
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:23:42am |
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:28:52am |
re: #311 Sergey Romanov
Any other mods you can recommend for fun?
Disturbingly funny.
skyrimnexus.com
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:32:22am |
re: #309 Obdicut
You should write a book. It’s therapeutic.
On this particular topic, Ray Bradbury had the perfect opening line.
“It was a pleasure to burn.”
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:37:30am |
re: #313 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Well, maybe you could develop an addiction to UK panel shows:
One of my favorites.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:40:57am |
re: #314 Obdicut
That ain’t Murikan. Give me, “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!”
Poundstone’s a freakin’ genius.
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:42:00am |
re: #315 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
The British do panel shows better. Would I Lie To You? and Quite Interesting are brilliant.
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:47:14am |
And Stephen Fry in America is a great show— that’s on Netflix. He’s a little sentimental but it’s a very kind show.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:49:17am |
re: #316 Obdicut
Honestly, my hearing impairment makes heavily accented English very difficult to understand. On top of that? I don’t “get” British humor (or is that “humour?”. I had to make several attempts to get Monty Python’s Movies.
I have to watch Monty Python with closed captioning. MP’s TV show, Fawlty Towers, AbFab? Completely un-watchable to me.
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:54:06am |
re: #318 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Honestly, my hearing impairment makes heavily accented English very difficult to understand. On top of that? I don’t “get” British humor (or is that “humour?”. I had to make several attempts to get Monty Python’s Movies.
I have to watch Monty Python with closed captioning. MP’s TV show, Fawlty Towers, AbFab? Completely un-watchable to me.
That stinks.
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Fri, Jan 13, 2012 3:56:25am |
re: #318 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Yeah, I can see how a hearing problem would interfere with that. You might be able to deal with Fry, as he has the very cultured Oxbridge accent which is similar to our Transatlantic accent found on NPR and stuff like that.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 4:07:18am |
re: #319 Varek Raith
That stinks.
I’m only going to work “so hard” to be entertained.
Eddie Izzard? I completely get him. But he’s greatly Americanized his act over the years.
Mr. Bean was silent, loved him (until it wore thin).
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Fri, Jan 13, 2012 4:09:06am |
re: #321 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Izzard is brilliant, and has a pretty easy accent to grab onto.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 4:12:14am |
re: #322 Obdicut
Izzard is brilliant, and has a pretty easy accent to grab onto.
An Executive Transvestite.
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Flounder Fri, Jan 13, 2012 4:22:43am |
My how the the chosen elite has fallen:
timesunion.com
This may be too much of local politics, but Senator Gillibrand began her career by beating him out of his house seat (in a very repub district). It has been downhill since, two DWI’s, fine upstanding citizen,not, en.wikipedia.org
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Fri, Jan 13, 2012 4:23:20am |
Heh, just found this comment at a Nazi forum:
Sergey’s absurdity is a classic example of the typical hate mongering Jewish supremacist, JDL types at work. They are in way over their heads. And this is just a sample of the laughable ‘scholarship’ that Sergey Romanov has posted on The CODOH Revisionist Forum.
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Fri, Jan 13, 2012 4:25:29am |
re: #325 Sergey Romanov
You’re a Jewish supremacist?
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen you say anything about Jews as a people, really. And I mean that in a good way.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 4:30:04am |
re: #324 Shropshire_Slasher
I’m on the fence.
If you come out of Congress rich, you’re crooked.
If you come out of congress not rich? You’re stupid.
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 13, 2012 4:31:41am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 4:32:12am |
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Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 13, 2012 4:33:31am |
re: #325 Sergey Romanov
Heh, just found this comment at a Nazi forum:
Well, maybe you can be named an honorary Youngster of Zion. :)
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Flounder Fri, Jan 13, 2012 4:52:53am |
A breakaway Amish sect, in between shearing beards in the dead of the night, are rebels without a clue, they don’t want to put the evil orange triangle on their buggies, Oh the humanity!
cbsnews.com
Click on the photos of their life, really neat, like going back in time.
I do admire their tenacity.
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thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:03:30am |
Morning Lizardim. Happy Friday from the frigid and snowy wild north country. Perfect day for a spot of ice racing here in downtown St. Paul.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:07:55am |
re: #331 Shropshire_Slasher
A former Amish girl (who had gone full-blown Hedonist) almost broke me in half once.
It was great.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:13:24am |
Just saw a picture of Don McLean… He’s fatter than I am! Woo hoo!
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Flounder Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:16:27am |
re: #333 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Yeah, I like it when they walk on my spine, pops the vertebrae back in, I usually pick the petite ones tho.
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:17:09am |
re: #333 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I have this image of you getting a suplex with an enormous smile on your face.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:17:55am |
re: #336 Obdicut
I have this image of you getting a suplex with an enormous smile on your face.
You wouldn’t be far off.
Hell yeah.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:20:10am |
re: #337 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I wandered around Lancaster, PA for years after that. Kind of like the dude from “Kung Fu”, but with a boner.
/
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:21:36am |
re: #337 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I briefly dated a girl in college who had been a dancer with the Bolshoi. Freaking amazing what she could make her body do, effortlessly. She was the most incredible athlete I ever met in my life. I never once saw her physically tired. She’d go out for a five mile run and come back just a little pumped up. And anything physical came easy to her. She learned how to deal from the bottom of the deck when I showed her within like five minutes and then dealt me nothing but garbage the next poker game we played in together.
Tough as nails.
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:25:28am |
Nothing like watching your girlfriend punch a cop in the face.
Man, high school was fun.
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thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:28:43am |
re: #340 Varek Raith
Nothing like watching your girlfriend punch a cop in the face.
Man, high school was fun.
You had a girlfriend in high school? I’m already envious.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:30:16am |
re: #339 Obdicut
Was considering making a boner/ballet tights joke, but thought better of it.
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:31:31am |
re: #342 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I never wore her tights, and, strangely enough, she just never had a boner.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:32:43am |
re: #343 Obdicut
I never wore her tights, and, strangely enough, she just never had a boner.
It involved you wandering about the Bolshoi like that guy from Kung Fu…
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:33:00am |
re: #341 thedopefishlives
You had a girlfriend in high school? I’m already envious.
Yeah, well, she’s likely in jail.
Haven’t seen her in 9 years.
Been pretty much alone since.
Works for me.
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:33:41am |
re: #345 Varek Raith
And that’s how you became a super-villain.
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:33:54am |
re: #333 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
A former Amish girl (who had gone full-blown Hedonist) almost broke me in half once.
It was great.
Ah, Rumspringa.
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:34:21am |
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thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:34:30am |
re: #345 Varek Raith
Yeah, well, she’s likely in jail.
Haven’t seen her in 9 years.
Been pretty much alone since.
Works for me.
Heh, yeah. I was just a very lonely person growing up. Dated a girl in college, but when we broke up she decided that I had inflicted her with a mental disorder and we never spoke since. Then I met the woman who would be the Mrs. Fish. That’s the extent of my dating experience.
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BongCrodny Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:35:21am |
re: #334 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Just saw a picture of Don McLean… He’s fatter than I am! Woo hoo!
Waaaaaay too much American Pie.
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:41:22am |
re: #346 Obdicut
And that’s how you became a super-villain.
If I’m in a crowd or with just one person I’m very uneasy.
OOGABOOGASCARYLONEWOLF!
:P
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:07:57am |
re: #351 Varek Raith
If I’m in a crowd or with just one person I’m very uneasy.
OOGABOOGASCARYLONEWOLF!
:P
If all your neighbors said that you were a quiet and restrained guy that would never do anything I’d be worried. But with all the Force-choking and cooked Ewoks about it’s obvious you’re just as normal as everyone else.
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:09:54am |
re: #352 oaktree
If all your neighbors said that you were a quiet and restrained guy that would never do anything I’d be worried. But with all the Force-choking and cooked Ewoks about it’s obvious you’re just as normal as everyone else.
That makes me sane?!?!
/
:P
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:10:45am |
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sagehen Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:11:23am |
re: #353 Varek Raith
That makes me sane?!?!
/
:P
Only in comparison to the guys about whom they say “he was always so quiet, kept to himself, I hardly knew him at all. He certainly didn’t seem like the type who would do such a thing.”
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:19:27am |
re: #355 sagehen
Only in comparison to the guys about whom they say “he was always so quiet, kept to himself, I hardly knew him at all. He certainly didn’t seem like the type who would do such a thing.”
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:21:05am |
re: #326 Obdicut
You’re a Jewish supremacist?
For some guys saying that the Nazis were bad would qualify.
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:23:34am |
re: #356 Varek Raith
And I’m sure that without much digging you can find someone having done “Darth Vader as the neighbor from Hell”.
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:27:07am |
Election Officials, Experts: O’Keefe Implicated In Another Illegal Stunt
Those experts and officials are questioning whether the conservative videographers may have violated laws banning individuals from falsely identifying themselves at the polling place and requiring both parties to consent to be videotaped.
Lol.
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Political Atheist Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:31:39am |
Happy Friday everyone. First thing, I’m buying extra Girl Scout Cookies. This boycott thing is just dumb and homophobic. So my friends can expect some surprise gifts.
Today AT&T will cut off my Elite DSL service. On Friday.
Of course they will only then schedule the guy to come out add a box to my phone line next week. That way by Monday (or??) I’ll be back up and running on Uverse at 12mbps. I guess getting one guy to do both at the same time was too much for the “Your World Delivered” mega corp. I do hope to talk them into something for me for service in the meantime.
So I’ll likely have no internet over the whole weekend. May experience withdrawal symptoms…
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sattv4u2 Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:34:20am |
re: #360 Rightwingconspirator
So I’ll have no internet over the whole weekend. May experience withdrawal symptoms…
I vaguely recall having a life prior to the internet, cell phones and the like.
How did we ever survive? We actually went out an (whats the phrase for it),,oh yeah,, talked to people ,, face to face !!
//
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:34:20am |
re: #360 Rightwingconspirator
Happy Friday everyone. First thing, I’m buying extra Girl Scout Cookies. This boycott thing is just dumb and homophobic. So my friends can expect some surprise gifts.
Today AT&T will cut off my Elite DSL service. On Friday.
Of course they will only then schedule the guy to come out add a box to my phone line next week. That way by Monday (or??) I’ll be back up and running on Uverse at 12mbps. I guess getting one guy to do both at the same time was too much for the “Your World Delivered” mega corp. I do hope to talk them into something for me for service in the meantime.
So I’ll have no internet over the whole weekend. May experience withdrawal symptoms…
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William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:37:46am |
re: #360 Rightwingconspirator
Happy Friday everyone. First thing, I’m buying extra Girl Scout Cookies. This boycott thing is just dumb and homophobic. So my friends can expect some surprise gifts.
Today AT&T will cut off my Elite DSL service. On Friday.
Of course they will only then schedule the guy to come out add a box to my phone line next week. That way by Monday (or??) I’ll be back up and running on Uverse at 12mbps. I guess getting one guy to do both at the same time was too much for the “Your World Delivered” mega corp. I do hope to talk them into something for me for service in the meantime.
So I’ll likely have no internet over the whole weekend. May experience withdrawal symptoms…
Spend the weekend at the range :)
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Political Atheist Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:37:51am |
re: #362 Varek Raith
LOL. Brilliant.
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Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:38:38am |
re: #361 sattv4u2
So I’ll have no internet over the whole weekend. May experience withdrawal symptoms…
I vaguely recall having a life prior to the internet, cell phones and the like.
How did we ever survive? We actually went out an (whats the phrase for it),,oh yeah,, talked to people ,, face to face !!
//
I used to carry on regular transcontinental correspondence with friends by snail mail. Don’t think I have wirteen anyone a letter now in at least a decade.
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Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:40:48am |
re: #361 sattv4u2
So I’ll have no internet over the whole weekend. May experience withdrawal symptoms…
I vaguely recall having a life prior to the internet, cell phones and the like.
How did we ever survive? We actually went out an (whats the phrase for it),,oh yeah,, talked to people ,, face to face !!
//
We wrote letters and sent them in the mail.
I used a typewriter! IBM Selectric. It couldn’t do any fancy shmancy stuff like kerned fonts or superscript. If you wanted to do superscript you had to manually turn the platen a half-return, and it didn’t diminish the size of the type. There was also only one type face, unless you used those little golf-ball font caps which were super expensive.
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thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:42:38am |
re: #367 Alouette
We wrote letters and sent them in the mail.
I used a typewriter! IBM Selectric. It couldn’t do any fancy shmancy stuff like kerned fonts or superscript. If you wanted to do superscript you had to manually turn the platen a half-return, and it didn’t diminish the size of the type. There was also only one type face, unless you used those little golf-ball font caps which were super expensive.
Random note of trivia: The Selectric was the typewriter model claimed to have written the Throbbing Memotm.
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Political Atheist Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:43:11am |
re: #367 Alouette
We wrote letters and sent them in the mail.
I used a typewriter! IBM Selectric. It couldn’t do any fancy shmancy stuff like kerned fonts or superscript. If you wanted to do superscript you had to manually turn the platen a half-return, and it didn’t diminish the size of the type. There was also only one type face, unless you used those little golf-ball font caps which were super expensive.
Dragon_Lady asks “what is this typewriter thing you mention?”
///
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:44:06am |
(Pssst, folks. Neolithic people in the room!)
///
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:44:29am |
Hmm. Speaking of guns I can get another opinion!
My brother has 80 acres of land in western NY state. Part of a farm that was split up and sold off. He has 2-3 fields and also the former woodlot (with still intact hardwoods including some very nice old oak trees*.)
He plans to house build there eventually. He is also going to need a varmit rifle since he will be keeping chickens and possibly some other small livestock. Said rifle will need to deal with stuff up to coyote size. Any suggestions on caliber/type of weapon he should look for?
* - Downside of well-established untended hardwood area and that it has very well-established poison ivy with it. 3” think vines running up and down the tree trunks.
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Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:44:36am |
re: #368 thedopefishlives
Random note of trivia: The Selectric was the typewriter model claimed to have written the Throbbing Memotm.
Ludicrously impossible.
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sattv4u2 Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:45:19am |
Typewriter?
I was thinking more in my timeframe
you know ,, cuneiform ,,,chisels,,, grunts ,,,
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BigPapa Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:45:28am |
re: #343 Obdicut
I never wore her tights, and, strangely enough, she just never had a boner.
I heard a brilliant quip the other night. Woman says ‘It gives me lady wood.’
Killed me.
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thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:45:39am |
re: #372 Alouette
Ludicrously impossible.
You know that, I know that, and Charles certainly knows that. Try convincing Dan Rather, though.
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:47:10am |
re: #373 sattv4u2
Typewriter?
I was thinking more in my timeframe
you know ,, cuneiform ,,,chisels,,, grunts ,,,
Ah, before those Egyptian upstarts and their papyrus on scrolls turned up. Our stuff could survive a fire. Theirs? Just ask the Library of Alexandria!
;)
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William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:55:29am |
re: #371 oaktree
Hmm. Speaking of guns I can get another opinion!
My brother has 80 acres of land in western NY state. Part of a farm that was split up and sold off. He has 2-3 fields and also the former woodlot (with still intact hardwoods including some very nice old oak trees*.)
He plans to house build there eventually. He is also going to need a varmit rifle since he will be keeping chickens and possibly some other small livestock. Said rifle will need to deal with stuff up to coyote size. Any suggestions on caliber/type of weapon he should look for?
* - Downside of well-established untended hardwood area and that it has very well-established poison ivy with it. 3” think vines running up and down the tree trunks.
Traditional options are a bolt action. I like .257 Roberts for an all around cartridge that’s an excellent varmint cartridge that can still be used for deer or hogs. Another good all around rifle would be a lever action in .30-30. Last but not least is the modern option - a good quality AR type rifle in the classic .223. Smith & Wesson makes a nice one.
I tend to be a fudd & prefer the older types to the AR’s I carried in the Army but there are people that like them.
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Donna Ballard Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:59:34am |
Good Morning my friends! Happy Friday to you all! This is just a quick pop in and out visitation. So whats new with you all?
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thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:59:36am |
re: #371 oaktree
Hmm. Speaking of guns I can get another opinion!
My brother has 80 acres of land in western NY state. Part of a farm that was split up and sold off. He has 2-3 fields and also the former woodlot (with still intact hardwoods including some very nice old oak trees*.)
He plans to house build there eventually. He is also going to need a varmit rifle since he will be keeping chickens and possibly some other small livestock. Said rifle will need to deal with stuff up to coyote size. Any suggestions on caliber/type of weapon he should look for?
* - Downside of well-established untended hardwood area and that it has very well-established poison ivy with it. 3” think vines running up and down the tree trunks.
You can go two ways with this. My dad has a semi-automatic .22 Long Rifle for small critters like rabbits. Larger pests, he rocks the .30-06 (okay, maybe just a tad bit of overkill) in a bolt-action rifle. It more depends on how many animals he’s anticipating having to shoot at once (larger numbers favor a faster action) and picking the right cartridge for range and size of animal.
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Flounder Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:02:28am |
re: #371 oaktree
.223 cheap ammo available
.17 hmr fast and flat trajectory
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darthstar Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:02:34am |
re: #371 oaktree
He plans to house build there eventually. He is also going to need a varmit rifle since he will be keeping chickens and possibly some other small livestock. Said rifle will need to deal with stuff up to coyote size. Any suggestions on caliber/type of weapon he should look for?
* - Downside of well-established untended hardwood area and that it has very well-established poison ivy with it. 3” think vines running up and down the tree trunks.
.22 long rifle…doesn’t make lots of noise and the coyotes can run off and die in someone else’s yard, so you don’t have to dispose of them. Coyotes are smart…once they get the message they stay away.
As for the ivy and other crap like blackberries…get some goats, let ‘em do what goats do best, then braise the fuckers like sheep.
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Talking Point Detective Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:04:35am |
Don’t know if it has previously been linked.
An interesting counterpoint to Romney’s rhetoric:
Mitt Romney no stranger to tax breaks, subsidies
Bain Capital profited from a steel company that got them, and he used them to attract business when he governed MassachusettsReporting from Washington—
As Mitt Romney defends his record running a private equity firm, he frequently points to a fast-growing Indiana steel company, financed in part by Bain Capital, that now employs 6,000 workers.What Romney doesn’t mention is that Steel Dynamics also received generous tax breaks and other subsidies provided by the state of Indiana and the residents of DeKalb County, where the company’s first mill was built.
The story of Bain and Steel Dynamics illustrates how Romney, during his business career, made avid use of public-private partnerships, something that many conservatives consider to be “corporate welfare.” It is a commitment that carried over into his term as governor of Massachusetts, when he offered similar incentives to lure businesses to his state.
Yet as he seeks the GOP presidential nomination, he emphasizes government’s adverse effects on economic growth.
If Republican voters actually care about the principles they espouse (as opposed to suffering from ODS), then something like this would be a big hit for Romney - causing them to not vote for him if he gets the nomination.
Excuse me if I don’t hold my breath waiting for that to happen.
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William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:05:27am |
re: #382 darthstar
+1 for the goat idea. But I would not use any rim fire for anything other than if he got into squirrel or rabbit hunting.
Now a good 12 gauge is always appropriate too. I like side by sides but you can find pumps dirt cheap.
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:06:30am |
re: #380 thedopefishlives
You can go two ways with this. My dad has a semi-automatic .22 Long Rifle for small critters like rabbits. Larger pests, he rocks the .30-06 (okay, maybe just a tad bit of overkill) in a bolt-action rifle. It more depends on how many animals he’s anticipating having to shoot at once (larger numbers favor a faster action) and picking the right cartridge for range and size of animal.
He has a .22 LR semi-auto already. (Plus a few older bolt action ones.) That should cover small critter.
Deer hunting in the area is shotgun only (using pumpkin ball or sabot rounds.) He has a 20 g Mossberg 500 for that (including a newly acquired rifled barrel.) There’s also a 8mm Mauser in the house (my father’s old deer rifle which I used when I deer hunted in PA.)
Neighbors are all 1/4 mile or farther away except for one direction. He also wants something that is farily low noise so as not to cause much disturbance. And I think he would favor something traditional looking as compared to something looking like an AR.
.223 is the favorite right now given the need to handle something as large as a coyote. I think .17 (?) was the other load in consideration. .257 Roberts was mentioned in another comment - I have no knowledge whatsoever about that one.
My guess is limited targets at once. Presumably groundhog, coyote, and possibly fox I guess. So relatively high velocity for flat-shooting and lower noise profile if possible.
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:08:47am |
re: #382 darthstar
.22 long rifle…doesn’t make lots of noise and the coyotes can run off and die in someone else’s yard, so you don’t have to dispose of them. Coyotes are smart…once they get the message they stay away.
As for the ivy and other crap like blackberries…get some goats, let ‘em do what goats do best, then braise the fuckers like sheep.
He is aware of the goat solution to poison ivy and that is being considered.
The “let them die in someone else’s yard” is something he wants to avoid.
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thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:08:51am |
re: #385 oaktree
For that kind of workout, the .223 is an excellent load and you can find a fairly good variety of actions that will run that cartridge.
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Flounder Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:09:13am |
re: #385 oaktree
.17 caliber HMR is basically a necked down .22. Quiet. Very accurate except in high wind situations. There are quite a few used bolt action rifles on the market. en.wikipedia.org
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darthstar Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:11:08am |
Experts like Perry keep a .38 with laser sights for jogging. Then you have the big-game varmint hunters who won’t risk naming a caliber because they know they have no fuckin’ clue what they’re saying:
I’ve always been a kind of varmint hunter…started when I was 15 or so…and did it more than two times in my life.
Some lies make you look foolish. Other lies make you look like a varmint.
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sattv4u2 Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:13:32am |
re: #383 Talking Point Detective
Speaking of which
I just want to go on record now
When President Ronmey issues the Executive Order mandating polygamy, I have dibs on Sophia Vergara, Julie Bowen, Erin Andrews, and 4 more to be named later!
//
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darthstar Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:13:40am |
re: #384 wlewisiii
+1 for the goat idea. But I would not use any rim fire for anything other than if he got into squirrel or rabbit hunting.
Now a good 12 gauge is always appropriate too. I like side by sides but you can find pumps dirt cheap.
My brother and I dropped deer with a single-shot .22 when we were teens…(we kind of made up our own hunting season a few times…mom complained, then helped butcher the deer).
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William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:13:54am |
re: #385 oaktree
Given this I’d suggest the .223 or possibly .243 Winchester. Both are easily found in good quality inexpensive bolt actions & ammo is easy to find. The .17 is expensive and a PITA to reload.
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darthstar Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:15:00am |
re: #390 sattv4u2
Speaking of which
I just want to go on record now
When President Ronmey issues the Executive Order mandating polygamy, I have dibs on Sophia Vergara, Julie Bowen, Erin Andrews, and 4 more to be named later!
//
Sorry…but you only qualify for Cyndi Lauper and Eric Estrada.
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William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:16:58am |
re: #391 darthstar
My brother and I dropped deer with a single-shot .22 when we were teens…(we kind of made up our own hunting season a few times…mom complained, then helped butcher the deer).
I’ve known others who needed to do that too. But, that said, I don’t consider it an ethical choice if you have any other option.
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William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:18:09am |
re: #394 Shropshire_Slasher
I didn’t know you could reload rimfire.
There are centerfire .17s as well. I thought that was being discussed.
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William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:20:31am |
I need to stop procrastinating and go clean the house. The little guy’s B-day party is tomorrow afternoon & The Boss needs things cleaned up.
Later all!
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darthstar Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:21:21am |
re: #395 wlewisiii
I’ve known others who needed to do that too. But, that said, I don’t consider it an ethical choice if you have any other option.
Fortunately, it wasn’t a matter of need…we just lived in the country and hunting and shooting was entertainment. Dad said don’t kill anything unless you plan on eating it. So when my brother popped the deer, we took it home. Mostly we shot large bullfrogs at the pond behind our house and collected their legs. And I was known to kill a wild turkey and make it for dinner but mom hated that as she considered them her “pets”…
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Flounder Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:21:27am |
I can’t post it, but there is video of a guy with a .17 HMR gatling gun, pretty neat. Sounds like a billion angry bees.
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:24:17am |
re: #396 wlewisiii
There are centerfire .17s as well. I thought that was being discussed.
.17 Remington probably. That’s a center-fire .17 and is essentially a necked down .223 round. Designed specifically as a varmit round.
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Talking Point Detective Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:26:21am |
re: #390 sattv4u2
Speaking of which
I just want to go on record now
When President Ronmey issues the Executive Order mandating polygamy, I have dibs on Sophia Vergara, Julie Bowen, Erin Andrews, and 4 more to be named later!
//
Of course, immediately after signing that executive order, he will sign the executive order that enables humans to wed farm animals and domestic pets.
Because if you allow polygamy, you’re in favor of dog/human weddings.
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thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:27:33am |
re: #401 Talking Point Detective
Hey, dogs are people too, y’know./
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sattv4u2 Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:28:10am |
re: #401 Talking Point Detective
Of course, immediately after signing that executive order, he will sign the executive order that enables humans to wed farm animals and domestic pets.
Because if you allow polygamy, you’re in favor of dog/human weddings.
In that case, one of my 4 to be named later is google.com
mmmmmm,,,,bacon!!
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BigPapa Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:28:48am |
re: #401 Talking Point Detective
Of course, immediately after signing that executive order, he will sign the executive order that enables humans to wed farm animals and domestic pets.
Because if you allow polygamy, you’re in favor of dog/human weddings.
And the bottom of that slippery slope when people marry lawn furniture and Cheetos.
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:28:51am |
re: #402 thedopefishlives
Hey, dogs are people too, y’know./
Quote from a friend of mine the other day:
“All dogs go to heaven. All cats are bastards!”
Having Feline Overlord issues I suspect.
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:33:41am |
re: #403 sattv4u2
In that case, one of my 4 to be named later is [Link: www.google.com…]
mmm,,,bacon!!
Mmmmmmm…bacon!
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Talking Point Detective Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:35:39am |
re: #403 sattv4u2
In that case, one of my 4 to be named later is [Link: www.google.com…]
mmm,,,bacon!!
The best vegetarian recipes always involved cooking vegetables with bacon.
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:42:32am |
re: #407 Talking Point Detective
The best vegetarian recipes always involved cooking vegetables with bacon.
My favorite is the bacon coffee served at a vegan cafe in SF.
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:42:46am |
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Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:46:32am |
re: #409 oaktree
A lot of good meat and seafood recipes involve cooking things with bacon as well.
[Link: www.cooks.com…]
(bacon wrapped scallops)
My family were good Catholics back in the days when we weren’t allowed to eat meat on Fridays. But my mom kept a can of bacon grease on the stove which she used to fry the fish on Fridays.
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reine.de.tout Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:46:54am |
re: #407 Talking Point Detective
The best vegetarian recipes always involved cooking vegetables with bacon.
Every vegetable I ever had growing up was cooked with bacon - or saved bacon grease. Wonderful.
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reine.de.tout Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:50:44am |
A follow-up to the bad acting in North Korea:
North Korea Reportedly Punishing Insincere Mourners
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:51:01am |
re: #411 reine.de.tout
Every vegetable I ever had growing up was cooked with bacon - or saved bacon grease. Wonderful.
The cats curse me every time I use that for cooking eggs. I save the bacon grease in a can and keep it in the fridge, and then use it for breakfast cooking. I make the apartment smell like bacon and then don’t give them any of my precious fried eggs.
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:52:32am |
Pulled Pork Blues
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:53:33am |
re: #414 oaktree
The cats curse me every time I use that for cooking eggs. I save the bacon grease in a can and keep it in the fridge, and then use it for breakfast cooking. I make the apartment smell like bacon and then don’t give them any of my precious fried eggs.
I hope you at least let them lick the plate.
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reine.de.tout Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:54:07am |
re: #414 oaktree
The cats curse me every time I use that for cooking eggs. I save the bacon grease in a can and keep it in the fridge, and then use it for breakfast cooking. I make the apartment smell like bacon and then don’t give them any of my precious fried eggs.
You should cook another egg! Good grief, cats remember these things! And hold grudges!
Our cats get dry food; but once a day I split a can of Friskies pate among the cats for a treat. They love it. And I feel obligated to split it perfectly EVENLY among the four cats. Because they know.
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lawhawk Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:54:12am |
re: #409 oaktree
It’s all about the smoky flavor/fat to keep the other meat/food moist. But since I don’t dig on swine, we’ve got alternatives (schmaltz for example), or turkey bacon. Serves the same general purpose but keeping things kosher.
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:57:22am |
re: #416 NJDhockeyfan
I hope you at least let them lick the plate.
Yes. They do have plate/bowl privileges. Chicken corn chowder and anything where I have melted cheese gets a great deal of attention. And if I’ve done fried eggs there are definitely some grease and yolk bits still about.
The main reason I’m protective of the eggs is usually I only get a dozen from my brother when I come home from visiting. Nice, very fresh, free-range chicken eggs.
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Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:58:12am |
re: #413 reine.de.tout
A follow-up to the bad acting in North Korea:
North Korea Reportedly Punishing Insincere Mourners
They could be banished to Monty Python’s Happy Valley:
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lawhawk Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:59:52am |
re: #413 reine.de.tout
Chipper video accompanying the story that ends with a variation of “…it’s up to the North Korean government to know which tears are real or crocodile”. Yeah, and they get to decide who goes to the labor camps never to be seen again.
That’s the real story here - that the government is going to decide who isn’t mourning sufficiently to pass their cult of personality test, and if they fail, they’re toast. It’s similar to when Kim Il Song died.
Oh, and speaking of Kim Il Song, the North Koreans will display Kim Jong Il’s remains alongside his dad (despite the fact that the country is pretty much broke and can’t bother to feed itself).
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:04:22am |
re: #417 reine.de.tout
You should cook another egg! Good grief, cats remember these things! And hold grudges!
Our cats get dry food; but once a day I split a can of Friskies pate among the cats for a treat. They love it. And I feel obligated to split it perfectly EVENLY among the four cats. Because they know.
The cats do pretty well. Wet food 3-4 times a day where they split a small can*, and dry food is always on-hand in a bowl. If I cook meat (chicken, pork, fish) some gets put aside and shredded for them before I spice it with something they don’t like or start adding onion/garlic. And besides regular cat food a can of tuna get opened for them once a week**.
* - And Pro-plan has a turkey in gravy with cheese bits that they both love. All the wet food helps keep them hydrated, and younger cat has bad teeth and doesn’t like chewing as compared to licking up gravy. Thus favoring giving them pate’ style cat food.
** - Well, one of them. Elder cat likes canned tuna while younger cat actually prefers cat food to it.
“Younger” cat is 13 and having health issues. “Elder” cat just hit 20 and is a crank-fest when he is not sleeping. Very much the Feline Overlord.
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FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:08:08am |
French Fries cooked with bacon grease.
So good you could kill someone with them.
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thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:08:53am |
re: #422 oaktree
You guys sure do spoil your feline overlords. My three only get dry food and the occasional (~2x a year) treat of meat scraps, potatoes, or whatever it is that each kitty is particularly fond of.
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:14:48am |
re: #425 thedopefishlives
You guys sure do spoil your feline overlords. My three only get dry food and the occasional (~2x a year) treat of meat scraps, potatoes, or whatever it is that each kitty is particularly fond of.
Mine subsisted on dry food and occasional scraps for years with wet food being a treat as well. With age and especially thyroid and/or kidney issues wet food becomes a preferred method to help keep them hydrated and as a medium to slip medicine in. I slipped over to that format about 5-6 years ago when I had elder cat and his brother and the brother had dehydration issues due to on-going loss of kidney function.
I also keep finding different foods they like. The younger cat considered an attack last night when I was eating a mix of chicken strips and roasted corn with cheese in a burrito wrap. All things she likes a great deal. The only thing that put her off was the hot sauce I had added as well.
And then there are biscuits. If I don’t guard those they are dragged onto the floor, slain, and consumed with gusto.
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Talking Point Detective Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:17:56am |
re: #408 NJDhockeyfan
My favorite is the bacon coffee served at a vegan cafe in SF.
[Video]
You might like this place also.
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thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:19:51am |
re: #426 oaktree
I suppose that is true. My feline overlords are only 6 years old, after all. They’ve got some time to enjoy youth and crunch on their dry food.
My feline overlord is the meat eater of the family. He has acquired a particularly annoying habit of finding the Mrs. Fish’s box of chicken wings, opening it, and cleaning the leftover bones. He also likes cheese, and looks at me hungrily whenever I am snacking on string cheese or cheese curds. Basement Cat (the Mrs. Fish’s black, long-haired feline overlord) is all about potatoes. As for our outdoor furry companion, we haven’t really found anything yet that she considers a treat.
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:21:52am |
re: #427 Talking Point Detective
You might like this place also.
[Link: twitter.com…]
[Link: mobile.laist.com…]
That’s fantastic. Bring them here!
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:24:40am |
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lawhawk Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:26:04am |
Obama proposes consolidation authority to merge government agencies, putting the onus on GOPers to show why they’d be against proposals that would result in a leaner and more streamlined federal government.
The President would require Congress to grant him the authority, and Congress would then have to approve the measure in an up/down vote.
For instance, the President is looking to consolidate six trade/commerce related agencies into one. That would result in a more efficient and streamlined process, so the GOP will have to either go along with the deal, or explain to constituents why they’re opposing such a move in an election year:
Obama’s first project would be to combine six major operations of the government that focus on business and trade.
They are: the Commerce Department’s core business and trade functions; the Small Business Administration; the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; the Export-Import Bank; the Overseas Private Investment Corporation; and the Trade and Development Agency. The goal would be one agency designed to help businesses thrive.The official said 1,000 to 2,000 jobs would be cut, but the administration would do so through attrition; that is, as people routinely leave their jobs over time.
The administration said the merger would save $3 billion over 10 years by getting rid of duplicative overhead costs, human resources divisions and programs.
I’d say that’s good politics and good policy from the Obama Administration. It’s a start and could go much further but bureaucracies (and their political patrons) are stubborn to any kind of change and become too entrenched in the way things are done.
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:28:02am |
re: #428 thedopefishlives
I suppose that is true. My feline overlords are only 6 years old, after all. They’ve got some time to enjoy youth and crunch on their dry food.
My feline overlord is the meat eater of the family. He has acquired a particularly annoying habit of finding the Mrs. Fish’s box of chicken wings, opening it, and cleaning the leftover bones. He also likes cheese, and looks at me hungrily whenever I am snacking on string cheese or cheese curds. Basement Cat (the Mrs. Fish’s black, long-haired feline overlord) is all about potatoes. As for our outdoor furry companion, we haven’t really found anything yet that she considers a treat.
With younger cats I had issues with trash can raiding for chicken bones a few times as well. Potatoes and cheese are popular, as is cottage cheese. Younger cat likes corn and peas, especially if there is a little butter added (but I have seen unbuttered eaten as well).
Odder was the issue with bread (or rolls) in plastic bags. A few times I found bags of hamburger buns that had been dragged off of counters or tables and buns consumed by the bag being chewed/clawed open.
Not an issue now since neither cat has very good jumping ability. I’ll have to do some cat-proofing in the apartment once I bring in the next generation of FOs.
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thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:32:44am |
re: #432 oaktree
Particularly entertaining is when I bring home pizza. My poor feline overlord cannot decide whether to attack me, with the cheesy bread product, or the Mrs. Fish, who always orders chicken wings when we get pizza.
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:36:30am |
re: #433 thedopefishlives
Particularly entertaining is when I bring home pizza. My poor feline overlord cannot decide whether to attack me, with the cheesy bread product, or the Mrs. Fish, who always orders chicken wings when we get pizza.
My general solution is to feed the cats before I start cooking, or while the pizza (well, calzone and garlic bread) is still enroute. That tends to take the edge off their enthusiasm.
Backup plan is laying a minefield of freshly picked catnip leaves.
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thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:37:27am |
re: #434 oaktree
My general solution is to feed the cats before I start cooking, or while the pizza (well, calzone and garlic bread) is still enroute. That tends to take the edge off their enthusiasm.
Backup plan is laying a minefield of freshly picked catnip leaves.
Well, the cats are usually fed first, to get them off my back. But after they have eaten their food, they decide that they just might be persuaded to have some extra room to nom on the people food.
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:40:50am |
re: #435 thedopefishlives
Well, the cats are usually fed first, to get them off my back. But after they have eaten their food, they decide that they just might be persuaded to have some extra room to nom on the people food.
There’s always room for people food!
:D
(I read once that cats, with their shorter digestive tracts, are basically designed to eat 7-8 small meals; e.g. mouse, rather than the 3-4 larger meals per day us omnivores go for.)
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albusteve Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:48:31am |
looks like the Marine pissers are going to be charged soon…might be interesting
dailymail.co.uk
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:51:25am |
re: #431 lawhawk
In the end, the only politician who I actually have faith in almost always wanting to get stuff done in the US today, rather than posing or making some obscure point, it’s Obama.
I think it’s his flaw, in that it makes him easy to blackmail. I think it’s, however, a very admirable quality, and if others had that quality— regardless of their political orientation— we’d be in much better shape.
He believes in government and tries to make it work.
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:51:33am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:53:14am |
re: #431 lawhawk
This can be done on so many levels.
I made a joke the other day about states consolidating… I wasn’t really joking. As an example; CT,MA, and RI should have about 80% of their Government services consolidated between each other…
But, who’d be in charge? therein lies the rub.
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FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:56:45am |
re: #431 lawhawk
Obama proposes consolidation authority to merge government agencies, putting the onus on GOPers to show why they’d be against proposals that would result in a leaner and more streamlined federal government.
The President would require Congress to grant him the authority, and Congress would then have to approve the measure in an up/down vote.
For instance, the President is looking to consolidate six trade/commerce related agencies into one. That would result in a more efficient and streamlined process, so the GOP will have to either go along with the deal, or explain to constituents why they’re opposing such a move in an election year:
I’d say that’s good politics and good policy from the Obama Administration. It’s a start and could go much further but bureaucracies (and their political patrons) are stubborn to any kind of change and become too entrenched in the way things are done.
Those who fear a Communist-Style central government will say he is trying to create just that.
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albusteve Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:57:11am |
re: #439 Obdicut
In the end, the only politician who I actually have faith in almost always wanting to get stuff done in the US today, rather than posing or making some obscure point, it’s Obama.
I think it’s his flaw, in that it makes him easy to blackmail. I think it’s, however, a very admirable quality, and if others had that quality— regardless of their political orientation— we’d be in much better shape.
He believes in government and tries to make it work.
Chris Christie respects BO…
politico.com
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lawhawk Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:59:45am |
re: #441 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
NJ has been talking municipal consolidations for generations, and what happens? We go in the other direction with more of them, and despite the fact that some cosolidations make sense (like eliminating the Bergen County Sheriff and/or consolidating dozens of local police departments into a countywide position), nothing will happen because of the fiefdoms established aren’t going to go away and people think that their services will suffer.
If the Bergen County sheriff office closed, the service could be rolled into the existing services (most often, you’ll find them supplementing Paramus cops around Garden State Plaza or patrolling the Bergen county parks - Van Saun or Overpeck, as well as the Bergen County jail). Annual savings could be considerable, without any loss of service. Will it happen? Not likely.
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FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:01:06am |
re: #440 NJDhockeyfan
Seem to be a lot of disembodied hands.
Must be a common mistake.
It could be a new game for kids in the car. Like the license plate game. Buy a stack of magazines and offer them a quarter for every disembodied hand they find.
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lawhawk Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:03:21am |
re: #439 Obdicut
Cuomo in NY and Christie in NJ have managed to get a lot of reforms done in their first two years in completely different styles. Christie’s far more combative publicly, but has managed to get property tax reforms and pension reforms done (though we’ll see how the sudden death of Assembly GOP Leader Decroce this past week will affect things going forward). Cuomo’s far less combative in his approach - but bordering on secretive to the extreme. The budgetary situation in NY is far worse, but they’ve managed to get the gay marriage bill passed and that’s just one part of his larger agenda to reform Albany.
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Talking Point Detective Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:03:55am |
re: #439 Obdicut
In the end, the only politician who I actually have faith in almost always wanting to get stuff done in the US today, rather than posing or making some obscure point, it’s Obama.
I think it’s his flaw, in that it makes him easy to blackmail. I think it’s, however, a very admirable quality, and if others had that quality— regardless of their political orientation— we’d be in much better shape.
He believes in government and tries to make it work.
I’ve been trying to figure that one out.
Some of his positions are, IMO, real head-scratchers (most notably, his empowerment of people like Summers in economic policy development, some of the foreign policy stuff). But there is something about his demeanor and philosophical approach that I tend to view favorably, pushing me towards a kind of trust I rarely, if ever, accord politicians.
I’m trying to reconcile that contradiction: what is the role of bias, wishful thinking, vulnerability to identity politics, etc.?
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albusteve Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:15:36am |
Philly mayor goes off on gangsters parents…reminds me of Bill Cosby
philadelphia.cbslocal.com
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:18:38am |
re: #449 albusteve
Good luck with that, Mr. Mayor.
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albusteve Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:19:47am |
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:20:35am |
Red wine-heart research slammed with fraud charges
(Reuters Health) - A University of Connecticut researcher who studied the link between aging and a substance found in red wine has committed more than 100 acts of data fabrication and falsification, the university said Wednesday, throwing much of his work into doubt.
Dipak K. Das, who directed the university’s Cardiovascular Research Center, studied resveratrol, touted by a number of scientists and companies as a way to slow aging or remain healthy as people get older. Among his findings, according to a work promoted by the University of Connecticut in 2007, was that “the pulp of grapes is as heart-healthy as the skin, even though the antioxidant properties differ.”
“We have a responsibility to correct the scientific record and inform peer researchers across the country,” Philip Austin, the university’s interim vice president for health affairs, said in a statement.
The university said an anonymous tip led to an investigation that began in 2008. A 60,000-page report — the summary of which is available at bit.ly/xkyS4A — resulted, outlining 145 counts of fabrication and falsification of data. Other members of Das’ laboratory may have been involved, and are being investigated, the report continues.
I’m sticking with beer.
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albusteve Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:21:50am |
re: #452 NJDhockeyfan
Red wine-heart research slammed with fraud charges
I’m sticking with beer.
vodka makes me feel younger than ever
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albusteve Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:25:07am |
a quick inside look at not ready for prime time Mahmoud Abbas…
commentarymagazine.com
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:27:09am |
re: #446 ggt
Seem to be a lot of disembodied hands.
Must be a common mistake.
It could be a new game for kids in the car. Like the license plate game. Buy a stack of magazines and offer them a quarter for every disembodied hand they find.
It’s not really a photoshop mistake. People who are photographed for magazines live in an alternate dimension in which heads turn like owls, hands float through the air and latch onto people randomly, skin is the color and consistency of plastic, cellulite (and bellybuttons and sometimes entire parts of limbs) disappears like magic, and kneecaps are optional.
One must be special to live in this world.
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FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:27:48am |
re: #455 EmmmieG
It’s not really a photoshop mistake. People who are photographed for magazines live in an alternate dimension in which heads turn like owls, hands float through the air and latch onto people randomly, skin is the color and consistency of plastic, cellulite (and bellybuttons and sometimes entire parts of limbs) disappears like magic, and kneecaps are optional.
One must be special to live in this world.
ah!
I forgot.
:)
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Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:31:12am |
re: #455 EmmmieG
It’s not really a photoshop mistake. People who are photographed for magazines live in an alternate dimension in which heads turn like owls, hands float through the air and latch onto people randomly, skin is the color and consistency of plastic, cellulite (and bellybuttons and sometimes entire parts of limbs) disappears like magic, and kneecaps are optional.
One must be special to live in this world.
You forgot: where already anorexic models have their hips and waists whittled off because they are not “skinny” enough.
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:31:33am |
Michael Moore is the most famous filmmaker in Iran, according to one of that nation’s most acclaimed directors. At a screening of Asghar Farhadi’s critically lauded “A Separation” at Sony’s screening room, the Iranian director spotted the “Fahrenheit 9/11” filmmaker in the audience. Farhadi quipped, “Michael Moore is the most famous director in Iran,” and said everyone knows his movies because they’re shown on national TV there. “[Farhadi] then joked how difficult it was for his own films to be seen in Iran,” our source added. Also there were CBS’s Bob Simon, Kristin Gore, producer Celine Rattray, “Boardwalk Empire” star Michael Stuhlbarg and James Toback. Farhadi has been the toast of New York this week, winning best foreign film awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review. “A Separation” is also getting Oscar buzz and has a flawless 100 percent “fresh rating” on review site Rotten Tomatoes. Moore didn’t respond to a request for comment.
He must be so proud. Heh.
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:32:05am |
re: #441 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
This can be done on so many levels.
I made a joke the other day about states consolidating… I wasn’t really joking. As an example; CT,MA, and RI should have about 80% of their Government services consolidated between each other…
But, who’d be in charge? therein lies the rub.
Also not wanting to give up the influence factor of four US Senators. And the Electoral College votes as well.
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:32:47am |
re: #442 ggt
Those who fear a Communist-Style central government will say he is trying to create just that.
And they’ll say he’s just lying low if he doesn’t attempt to create it.
/
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:33:12am |
re: #449 albusteve
Philly mayor goes off on gangsters parents…reminds me of Bill Cosby
[Link: philadelphia.cbslocal.com…]
That whilte Bill Cosby nonsense was hilarious to me. He had been doing that same schtick for years at HBCUs - was never news until some ignorant reporter, and thus the rest of America, thought they’d heard something new.
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:34:26am |
re: #450 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Good luck with that, Mr. Mayor.
But he’s a Nutter, and everybody knows and admits it.
;)
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albusteve Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:34:43am |
re: #461 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
That whilte Bill Cosby nonsense was hilarious to me. He had been doing that same schtick for years at HBCUs - was never news until some ignorant reporter, and thus the rest of America, thought they’d heard something new.
the reporter was ignorant?…oh my
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:36:31am |
re: #457 Alouette
You forgot: where already anorexic models have their hips and waists whittled off because they are not “skinny” enough.
The fashion world, where a young woman must look like a survivor of Andersonville to be acceptable.
Did you know they are starting “plus” sized models at size 6 now?
I haven’t seen size 6 since early high school.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:37:08am |
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albusteve Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:38:57am |
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:50:53am |
re: #466 albusteve
there were two?…jeezus!
Imagine that!
People in America, ignorant about ‘the black community’! e_e
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Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 13, 2012 10:21:35am |
re: #440 NJDhockeyfan
I worked in a graphics agency, and most of it was piecework, delivered at the end of the day and needed immediately, if not yesterday. it was most always handed to someone who happened to still be sitting there, no matter how unskilled or fried from overwork.
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