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Horn Draoi

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  1. 1 hour ago, BlueGreySky said:

    No problem.  Your affinity for pickled things is like my hot sauce addiction.  The entire door of my fridge (except the egg shelf on top) is hot sauce.  Probably close to 40 different brands. 

    Pro tip: my hot sauces are all in the pantry—the majority don’t need refrigeration.  Lots of pickles don’t either, but I like the extra crunch!

  2. Just inventoried the refrigerator: I have Bubbies kosher dills (brined, no vinegar), Mrs Klein’s dills, Mrs Kleins sweet gherkins, Whole Foods/365 kosher dills (wife, no pics), Mezetta capers, Mezetta cocktail onions (my Gibsons!), Sanniti gardinera, sweet pickle relish, dill pickle relish, Vlasic kosher dills, Vlasic bread and butter chips, Dixieland hot chowchow, Claussen sauerkraut, and my home made pickled onion “relish”.  Surly collective:  do I have a problem here?

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  3. 16 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    I have, and the movies capture the feeling, and themes in a more visceral way than the books, especially Deliverance (IMO).  

    Pssst the great American novel is The Great Gatsby of course.

     

    16 hours ago, ztejas said:

    I thought it was To Kill a Mockingbird. 

    Written by Kurt Cobain, of course. 

    All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren in second place, ahead of “Gatsby;”  Southern writers just do better.  “Mockingbird” for honorable mention.  Why do I love headcase, alcoholic Southern writers so? (Now avoiding mirrors........)

  4. 12 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    99 times out of a hundred the book is better.  Exceptions:

    Deliverance.

    The old man and the sea

    Horseshit. Deliverance is quite possibly THE Great American Novel. The Old Man and the Sea won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Read ‘em again, man!

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  5. So far in the ToC (Time of Covid), I have pickled:

    Onions-excellent! A revelation in usefulness, and I already drink Gibsons.  I never thought of this........

    Okra-fine, but better ways to enjoy okra

    Green beans-best way on earth to eat those dirt-tasting bastards And you can still fry ‘em after pickling.

    Turnips-OK, but may as well be tofu; do turnips even have a flavor?

    Eggs-didn’t really like my attempt.  Maybe the only way I actually like pickled eggs is 2.5 beers deep in some cinderblock roadhouse with neon beer signs for lighting.

    Cauliflower-great crunch, a zingy little surprise package.

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  6. 12 hours ago, ztejas said:

    Slices. Anyone that prefers spears is a commie neer do well. Probably Irish. 

    But I’m Irish all the way back to County Clare and I prefer chips!  Also, jalapeño chips are better—but easy to overdo.

  7. 17 hours ago, happyhookem said:

    Don't know. That's why I'm asking. But it seems perfectly reasonable to me. When something goes wrong, "Well, aggy" has about the same connotation (sp?) as "Well, fuck."

    Fantastic!  I’ll stop saying “fuck” in public and just use “aggy” instead.  My wife and kids will be so pleased.  I’ll report back on how this goes............

  8. 20 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

    I don’t think they can fill it up this year to capacity if there was free admission.  Just saying.

    I live in a small Central Texas town infested with aggie.    I think that statement is wrong.  Hell, they’re looking for great deals on apartment rentals in Collie Station, cause, you know-fake virus and 2 night hotel minimums for games.................

  9. On 7/31/2020 at 11:47 PM, Valmy77 said:

    12 games? But against who? Even Lake Travis High School might not be available.

    Odd that the school presidents have to decide this.

    Really?  Doesn’t the buck pretty much stop on the university president’s desk?  Whom would you suggests gets to decide?  AD?  Head coach?  Legal affairs staff?  Get your popcorn futures now guys, this season could turn into a truly epic shitshow. I just hope it’s all televised.

  10. 10 hours ago, orangecat92 said:

    Rural Alaska. Am a teacher traveling back to the bush.    The flight left DFW at 5:45 p.m. Had an overnight layover in Anchorage, can blame Alaska Airlines for that.  The layover was from about 10 p.m. to 1:25 p.m. next day.  The 2nd whopper lasted until I arrived in Anchorage late that night, and the apple pie lasted all of the way until about 9:00 a.m. the next morning.  Only had to eat out one meal on the trip, the last meal in modern civilization for maybe a whole year, depending upon the COVID.  That meal was an overpriced but delicious cheeseburger in the Anchorage Airport at about 11:30 a.m.  Took my own plastic fork for the pie.  Next time am thinking more along the lines of more protein.   I like Kroger's and Anchorage has their own version of Kroger's, FredMeyer.  I am thinking Rotisserie chicken, maybe two.  I am cheap, no doubt.  The pie and two whoppers combined to cost about $10 plus tax for the whoppers in Euless, TX.  The cheeseburger, fries, and coke in Anchorage airport cost about $20.  

    Thanks for the info, and thanks for your dedication to helping educate a way underserved population. OTOH, I’m a little taken aback by the thought of someone tearing into a rotisserie chicken in the window seat!  Flights are approaching Guatemalan bus rides in demeanor and behavior anyway, so I’m gonna remember your approach...........every time I’m in the Miami airport, I kinda expect people to come on board with crates of live chickens.  Nobody on board knows me, anyway.

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  11. That’s outstanding!  Were you flying to Paris?  Amsterdam?  Frankfurt?  That much food would hold me to Moscow, at least.  Did you bring your own spoon for the pie or will airlines still loan/give you one?  Did you get booze on the plane?  Have they changed the rules to let you bring your own onboard (liquor, that is-).  I’m thinking of vacation. Plans...............

  12. 10 hours ago, LTbear said:

    Has our ability to treat the virus improved over the past four months? Is it therefore reasonable to assume, vaccine or not, that our ability to treat it will improve again within the next 6 months?

    Our ability to treat symptoms has vastly improved in a few months, i doubt that trend will continue—not really how treatment of viral infections works.  So, no, probably not reasonable.  Wishing it were so-   Also, don’t get your hopes all up for “herd immunity,” either, nothing much indicates that will ever be a real thing.  I’d love to see some football this fall, but I’m planning solo fishing trips instead.....

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  13. Have done New Year’s Eve in both Paris and London in the last 15 years.  I thought the fireworks were better in Paris.  Our kids were 12 and 19, and I almost had an anxiety attack trying to keep track of them—the crush of the crowds is mind-bottling, but I’m now a small town guy.............

  14. 3 hours ago, 927 E. 41st said:

    I agree, and I'm disappointed that more folks don't understand that this is a moving target. I have to be very flexible with my decisions at work or a lot of people could get hurt or die. I really don't have time to sulk over "that's not what I was told before" when the situation is changing, sometimes by the second. But it's easy for me to forget most people don't do things like that at all, much less on a daily basis.

    927 is quite right; the majority have no idea of the fluidity of good/bad knowledge advance and treatment/mitigation decisions in a situation such as this; I wish it were magic: it’s not.  Incidentally, the people determining open/not open don’t give a shit about people dying, it’s all about their cronies and supporters and re-election.  Don’t kid yourselves.

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