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Congrats!!!Quote:
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A few wisdom teeth out today, so living on smoothies all day. Dreaming of the reverse-sear filet mignon from last night.
Ugh! You ok? Not surprisingly I have all of my wisdom teeth comfortably fitting inside my mouth.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Pudding?Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Veggie smoothie (green)
Cottage cheese and applesauce
Lazy malted milk shake (put mostly milk, some vanilla ice cream and a big dollop of barley malt syrup and just stirred it smoothing)
Fruit yogurt smoothie (banana, blueberries, applesauce).
Lots of cold water.
Makes me yearn for turkey. And beer.
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Dear lord he's delirious!!!
He’s just crazy about caruncle (aka he got that snood fever).Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
It's worse than we thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Should have had pudding...
https://youtu.be/n5diMImYIIA
Or bacon. Consequences be damned.
Thinking I’ll go with a bacon smoothie for breakfast.
This one actually doesn’t look too bad:
https://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/ba...c-a020e2bd28ed
(except that creamy peanut butter is the Devil’s food. But I’ve covered that topic before).
Well, the devil did go down to GA.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
I won't make you revisit, just looking for context. Are you a crunchy over creamy PB man?Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Eh, the only acceptable reason to present bacon like that is as adornment for a Bloody Mary...a fatty, porky Protestant about to be sacrificed at the alter of vodka for delicious heresy.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Sometimes you buy the creamy by mistake!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
No. No, you don’t.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Sure, if you are a sociopath who doesn't care about such important things.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
So I am a creamy over crunchy, but I like crunchy. As someone who eats probably a half a pound of peanuts, pistachios, cashews, pumpkin seeds every week I do have strong feelings about nuts and nut butters, but this is one of those things where there actually are good people on both sides.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
We cannot be friends anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I accept this punishment. It started with turkey but my hot take on smooth nut butters was too much for our relationship to handle. This pandemic has been a crucible and our relationship couldn't survive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
We flew too close to the sun.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
“So let's leave it alone
'cause we can't see eye to eye
There ain't no good guy,
there ain't no bad guy
There's only you and me
and we just disagree
Ooh ooh ooh,
oh oh oh”
— Dave Mason
(and smooth peanut butter is an abomination against all that is holy and natural.)
This is how bar fights and wars get started. Let’s just calm down, people. Just come together in our hatred for all things evil . . . centered in Chapel Hill.
one of the very prettiest pieces of vinyl ever pressed, no?Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
One thing is for sure. If we can’t agree about peanut butter, I don’t think we’re ready for that jelly.
Absolutely agree. Mason wrote and recorded a number of great songs, I think this stands with the best of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
Jam. Or preserves.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
(Wait — has that war started yet?)
Billy Dean did a fantastic cover in the 90s. Great song. As far as jellies go, grape is easily the best. But jellies are not as delicious as preserves. Prove me wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Words of wisdom for the day!Quote:
Originally Posted by TruBlu
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#gthc #9fQuote:
Originally Posted by dukieinkansas
This is such a weird day for all of my college buddies from UNC. We love each other, so we are treacly kind to each other the days of the UNC/Duke games. And we always send each other extremely nice texts following the game while the winner pretends to be magnanimous and the loser feigns generosity of spirit. It's a whole thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Grape?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Grape???
Are you serious, grape?
Do you go to 31 Flavors and order a scoop of vanilla too?
The best grape jelly comes in those little plastic cups you get at a diner. That way, you can just throw them out easily.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
I agree that grape jelly is the equivalent of vanilla ice cream. It's good. Tastes fine. But you aren't calling all of your friends to brag about it. My point was that jelly is the most pedestrian of all spreadable fruit options. Marmalade, Jam and preserves are all better options and anyone who likes jelly over any of those has condemned their soul to hell.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
*Squints*Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
This is a marginally acceptable answer. We can be virtual friends again.
Wow. This is really awkward. So I'm virtually seeing other people already.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
You move fast.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Here I thought we had something special.
You’ll always have bacon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
I got Bros... In different area codes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Someone please spork this poster, for a Ludacris reference cannot be ignored and I regret that I cannot spork.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
We are besties again.
Everything in my life can be connected to old rap and hip-hop lyrics, Classic Country lyrics and American literature. We have a work hotline and I'm either famous or infamous for quoting Young Jeezy when doctors call me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Yeah I'm back in. I wish I knew how to quit you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Common ground, I agree grape is easily the best of the jellies.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Do you also agree Jelly is the most plebian of spreadable fruit options?Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Define old and classic in these scenarios? While I like Ludacris I'm not sure I would put him in the old rap and hip-hop category. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, certainly. But then I don't have kids so not up to date on the current stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I lived up the street from Johnny Cash in Hendersonville,TN at the end of the 90s and Glen Campbell used to pull into full service at a friend's father's Exxon in Phoenix, AZ in the mid to late 80s.* For me they represent classic country...
*I bagged Alice Cooper's groceries on multiple occasions when I worked at Smitty's at Tatum and Shea during that era. Ahhh, the joys of after school jobs at minimum wage.
This whole thing is revealing my age. No one has heard of these folks these days.
I reserve marmalade for when I have Eggs Benedict. Jelly goes on the toast when I'm having scrambled eggs.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I assume everyone concurs on maple syrup.
The best of country music includes Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
That the best comes from Vermont and not Quebec?Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
I would say Ludacris is "informed" by old school rap. Therefore I find him old school adjacent. I define old school rap/hip hop as pre-2000(ish). For classic country I would say 1970s (50s and 60s were great, but country grew out of those eras rather than achieving it's zenith during those years) through about 1995. I was a HUGE Garth fan when he first came onto the scene, but I blame him for the crapulent "pop country" era we are in today. It's an abomination. Jelly is fine on toast (the most base of all bread options), but biscuits are the Lord's bread and deserve more.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Peach Jam!
Just that there are no acceptable alternatives...our Quebec brethren do a pretty good job I'll say (maintaining the world's maple syrup cartel)...except for https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016...le-syrup-heistQuote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
the "Lufthansa heist of the syrup world." That was a doozy. Tabernac!
Hot take. Maple syrup is overrated.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
🔥🍁
Classic Country is Hank Thompson, Hank Williams, Patsy Cine, and Loretta Lynn. You could maybe, just maybe, talk me into including George Jones. Maybe.
Crunchy peanut butter is better, but, when I'm eating peanut butter on celery stalks, I prefer to use creamy. Also, potato candy requires creamy peanut butter.
I have issued a personal 30 day ban on myself from twitter. I got into a twitter battle over affordable housing, of all things, and realized that the pandemic has gotten to me. I am not inviting comments so as not to get PPB, but I don't view turning a single family row house into 8 "affordable" studio apartments as creating new housing, I view it as turning one type of housing into another type of housing even if a few more people can live in the 8 studio apartment than lived in the row house. (I also object to the term "affordable", I think "affordable" really mean "cheap enough to attract young professionals who haven't gotten their first pay raise just yet", but that's really getting PPB so I'll stop.
I would go Old Possum, Waylon, Willie (and the boys), Oak Ridge Boys, Alabama, The Judds (my country hot take) and my personal favorite: Don Williams. Listening to Das Efx as we speak. If I were a book report, I would be a study in contrasts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
Pistols at dawn!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Meanwhile, I'm glad I saw that big goat before I hit him, he was a lunker.
Are you allowed to appeal the ban?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
Not to get into details, but two years ago a neighbor of ours decided he wanted to build a four unit apartment building on our road which is zoned for only one family units...took two years and tons of acrimony to have the state Supreme Court decide the matter, it got ugly. So I understand the passions that can be aroused, I truly do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
Yes, but my mental health advocate (otherwise known as my inner voice) is urging me to respect the ban.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
My inner voice once told me it was okay to wear plaid. It has been downhill ever since.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
Wait, are you trying to get me to go back on twitter just to keep fighting with millennials?Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I hope so!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
Yeah, no. I'm not enough of a boomer to take that on and too much of a Gen Xer to care.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Someone has to do it, why not you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
Ok, fine, in 30 days.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Same. I have never given in to peer pressure. But I've sure as hell applied it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
Woohoo!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
The downside with Curbside? Sometimes you end up with chuck instead of top round.
I would react like Honey Bunny in the diner scene in "Pulp Fiction".Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
That made we want to have dinner.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
You've never had my homemade muscadine. Just sayin'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
As for store-bought, I highly recommend Braswell's Meyer Lemon Blood Orange Pepper Jelly. On a bagel with cream cheese.
Jalapeno Poppers for the appetizer.
Spicy! My son wanted Moes so I ate a pork burrito bowl no rice. I think it is good karma to let him choose on such a big day.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
People don't like Bilas it seems. Is that new?
<ins Willie Wonka jpeg "you must be new here">Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Yer gonna get slaughtered on that take on the game thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I agree with you, but we are on an island.
I'm not a Bilas lover but I don't understand all the hate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
I am defending a former player. Ask K if he agrees with me or them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Well, I agree with you. Not that you asked.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Everyone else does not.
Disgraceful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
I forgot to watch the game today.
Crazy talk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
I blame pandemic brain.
Did we play well only to wind up breaking hearts?
Played hard. Shot well from 3. Turned it over too much, gashed on the boards and they made 10-15 3s. Our bigs struggled but in it at the end and turned it over down 2 with 8 seconds leftQuote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
Coach Cutcliffe was on the NFL Honors show. He was part of the group with Peyton Manning when he found out he was going to Canton.
Coach Cut to Canton??? Lol, I know it is Peyton but that would freak a lot of people out.Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
I knew that could be read that way and hit submit reply anyway. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
You are nervous about the SB, huh DinK?Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
Be careful, the phrase never nervous is a trigger for some.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Grape jelly with your Lil' Smokies?
Yeah. I was in Reunion arena for that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I was on the Quad.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Could not look at a crum(b) cake for years without spontaneously cursing.
I was really sad after that one and probably even more sad in 88 because Kevin Strickland was graduating. I was mad in 89 when Bricky got hurt because Duke would (kept) have destroy(ing)ed Seton Hall. In 1990 I was happy that damn game ended. That was a comprehensive beat down. And every bit of that mess went away in 1991. Then, delightfully, I was on campus at UNC when we won in 92! I did a one-man storming of Franklin Street! Then I drove over to Duke to hang out with my friend who was a student there. I am the healthiest kind of fan. There is no "one that got away". I have seen on the basketball page where people have talked about the anguish of 86 and 99 most but other years as well. They don't fly across my radar screen. Winning those five is absolutely perfect. Just like with everything except that face tattoo I got in Mexico, no regrets!Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Ha, Cut has pretty much milked the Peyton Manning cow dry by now, hasn't he?Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
Fox in my front yard carrying something dead through the snow. I missed the best pic. It heard my dog barking and trotted right up to our front porch and looked in the window with whatever snow-caked dead thing it had.
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Is it a dead Capybara? Seems like the most likely answer.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Could be. There's an Amish Capybara farm not far from here. Foxes always be breaking in, much to the fist-shaking lament of the farmers.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I love that they still refer to us as the English. We haven't been around long enough for them to be sure we are going to make it as a country. Baller move by the Amish.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Nostalgia was once thought of as an actual affliction and a uniquely Swiss one at that. In fact, the German's had a word for it: Schweizerheimweh. It means Swiss homesickness.
In my travels, one of my favorite places to visit is Reading Terminal Market in Philly. Just an absolutely amazing place for food lovers. I love to sit and watch the Amish and Mennonite folks come and unload their wares. In my mind the Amish hate the Mennonites and think they dress like hookers.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
So was I!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Does the fratricide continue?
Ummmmmmmm...Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
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I'll take that as a yes and stay away from there.
Nice picture! If you have enough property to roam on, have you ever followed the foxes back to their den? We've had a den complex behind our home for decades now, various entry points, and in the winter it's easy to (literally) track their comings and goings...(sometimes the den is not occupied for a year or two, then a new squad of foxes moves in)...our dogs love to sniff the den entrances, free entertainment...Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I am a moron. Always remember that. Except about meat.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
When I was in school there, I'd love going to the market..they had several elderly women there who were said to be the only people in Philly who could cut the somewhat redundant "boneless shad filets." (Shad have so many intricate bones that even the basic filets had bones)...Shad is a real treat if you like fish, as are the roe available in spring...fry 'em up with some prosciutto and capers, big yum on that.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
We have a few acres that back up to a private woods. We have a few woodchuck complexes on the property. Those can get converted but I think the foxes must be back in the woods. We hear their eerie murder love calls a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
that's a scary sound indeed...in the Spring we love when they come out with the young ones...Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Most definitely.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Pulling for your boys! Good luck! It us kind of nice to watch sports with no rooting interest. I grew up a Cowboys fan in the 70s-mid 90s until their owner drove me away. I loathe Jerry Jones. I decided I would become a Panthers fan...didn't happen. I was unable to forge a relationship despite my efforts. It is actually fun to dispassionately watch every season I find.Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
Not surprisingly, Reading is having a tough time at the moment. We lived out of there last January and have tried ordering food through a couple of our spots for delivery out our way (just baked goods).Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
I was just thinking about this. Thanks for sharing and I hope all those folks are going to be okay.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
This has been on my mind since my trip to Ocracoke last November. While on the Springer Point trail, we met a young Amish couple with their baby. On the beach, we saw the whole group. Over a dozen Amish folk, fishing from the shore. Men and women getting soaked. We figured they were probably camping, but my question: How did they get there? Do they allow themselves to drive on a trip? Do they allow horses and buggies on the ferry? I know there is a newer sect of Mennonites who drive two-ton pickups and dress more casually, but I have not heard of Amish who drive. I guess they COULD have been Mennonites, but they were dressed awfully conservatively to be driving. If anyone can offer an explanation, I would love to hear it.
Interesting. When my wife and I were here (Ocracoke) in November, there was what appeared to be an Amish family on island as well. They were working on a house (there's lots of construction going on obviously). Almost certainly the same folks.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Not here at the moment, unless they are lying very low. Imt fairly certain I have seen every person who is on the island right now at least twice already.
Did you see their horses? I am intrigued as to how they got there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Nope. If they weren't working, I would have happily engaged them in conversation.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
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While Amish do not drive cars, they are allowed to ride in them. I actually know a guy that is the equivalent of an Amish uber/taxi as a side gig. Anyway, so that's one option for how they got to the island. There are also special technology allowances with respect to business ventures.
Are you sure they weren't Mennonite? Certain Mennonite sects drive...
Mennonite sects? You perv.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Certain Mennonite sects! Band name! Called it first.
Really? I'd go with Amish Uber, personally.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
They won't drive, but the will get on airplanes. Also, boats. I don't know if they will ride in cars. Ah, I see that question has been answered, they will ride in cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
They won't get vaccines.
Significantly reduced chance they are drunk and puke in your car...Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
With so many cats in the household, my clean laundry is a prime mark for an extended nap.
I am intrigued by your post. How many cats do you have? We had three in my house growing up (1 currently). Really we had two because one of them was just a terrible cat who hated all of us. If she could have worked a can opener she would have killed us all in our sleep. Other two were great.
Four at this time. All named for actors that worked with Cary Grant in films. Grace Kelly in To Catch A Thief, Eva Marie Saint in North By Northwest, Audrey Hepburn in Charade, James Mason in North by Northwest and Mary Brian in The Amazing Adventure. Eva and Mason are no longer with us. All were adopted from rescue groups, I had a significant other at the time whose days were spent mainly doing that.
Fellow Duke fans/alums hear Grant and Mason and think basketball...
Cool! I always like cats. They are nice and calm and decide when and if they would like affection.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I have family in the Shenandoah Valley in VA, so I am familiar with the Mennonites, and yes, I have seen them driving two-ton pickups. These looked waaaay more conservative. As for speaking with them, we nodded hello and said something to the couple on the trail about the muddy parts of it, and they were rather standoffish, so no conversation there. Like I said before, they could have been Mennonite, but they looked very conservative and not the ones to drive.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I pass the horse buggies on the regular, often filled with little children staring at the big cars with wide eyes. I wonder what it must be like growing up in that world. Not a lot of true true defections but there are some. We must look like aliens to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Helps understand the inspiration for M Night’s The Village, which was filmed not far from me.
valid point, but try scraping that shoofly pie off your seats...you'll need a sand blaster!Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I made a giant pile of wings on Saturday evening, which served for very tasty leftovers on Sunday evening.
As we settled in, my wife said, "Well, we're eating wings, we may as well watch the Super Bowl for a minute, right?"
I was quickly bored and distracted. We changed the channel. Tail tepidly wags dog.
Everything about this post makes me think you should have watched the Puppy Bowl.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
KC felt the same way
We actually watched WandaVision, and now I need help.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
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Originally Posted by wilson
It's a rabbit hole you may never escape.
ocean fresh swordfish looms
I am driving 9 hours to Tampa from North Carolina today. It's going to be 80 and I am impossibly excited to eat outside.i see about a dozen lettuce wrap tacos from a cool place called Bartaco in my future. I have some friends who are Neonatologists down here who are taking me to eat seafood on the water tomorrow night.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
I know this belongs in another thread, but I discovered last night that Sweet Baby Ray's Buffalo Sauce ROCKS! I truly believe I could swig it straight from the bottle.
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Originally Posted by aimo
Does it have a discernible vinegar flavor?
That would be hard for me to answer b/c I love vinegar and wouldn't necessarily notice if it was discernible. Without going to the fridge right now and tasting, I will say no. Just a good buffalo taste.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Cooking of meat belongs on the other thread but eating meat and things that make the eating of meat more enjoyable belong here. Welcome home. We've created a safe space for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Brilliant.Quote:
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I love SBR products of all stripes...have had good results with quite a few of their BBQ sauces, and their teriyaki is also quite good (I made some teriyaki wings over the weekend).Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
I also made a homemade buffalo sauce over the weekend with which I was quite pleased:
-1.5 cups Frank's hot sauce
-3/4 stick of butter
-somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4 cup of cider vinegar
-healthy splash of worcestershire sauce
-3 tbsp brown sugar
Yummy.
What streaming service is showing Wandavision?
The MouseQuote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
Let us never speak of Paramount+ again.
WandaVision looks cool to me so I asked the guys on the thread what I needed to do to have enough background information understand what's going on. They explained if you want to look through that thread.
Couldn't you just summarize?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Yes. I could.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I asked too, having not noticed that you'd already asked. Got the answer I was kind of afraid of...that if I really want to understand things to my desired extent, I gotta watch 5 or 6 movies to the tune of like 15 hours. My wife isn't going to be thrilled about that.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
The service or the commercials?Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
I’m on record as giggling at B and BH but they are of my time.
Dude. We got nothing but time.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
I feel like no one talks about spontaneous human combustion any more.
Heh, good point.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
But my wife, as a moviegoer, is perpetually in need of convincing that she might enjoy something, so this is gonna be a tough sell. I will likely do much of the viewing on her behalf and then fill her in as we go.
So, is she more of a reluctant moviegoers? Or a skeptical moviegoer?Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
I feel that way about the Bermuda Triangle.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Are you looking for nominations?Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Ohmygod so you are the "other guy:?!?! She speaks highly of you.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
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Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Yeah, I feel like we've barely scratched the surface of topics.Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
Reluctant, due to her skepticism..."I don't want to invest time or attention in this because I don't think I'll actually like it."Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
To her credit, she is currently trying to give more things a chance...she recently watched 'Big' and 'Coming to America' for the first time (yes, seriously) and enjoyed both. I'm trying to broaden her horizons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HGMIbA0L1AQuote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Have there been advances in not spontaneously catching on fire that we don't know about? Now do we just avoid the Bermuda Triangle? What in the hell happened?Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
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Originally Posted by wilson
No rivalry here. I'm glad someone else gets to hear "You ain't doing that right" and "Ow! You're on my hair" from time to time.
Just to be clear - I was wondering about nominations for those that should spontaneously combust. But nominations for discussion topics works, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Not to be pedantic, but if you nominate them would it be spontaneous?Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
It would for them - just not for those voting on the nominations.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Oh. Cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
You new here?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
It happens sometimes people just explode.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
/Plate of shrimp
//Let's go do some crimes
Does it help that I didn't mean it? It just sounded nicer than "Imma be pedantic as hell!"Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Lol, well, I didn't want to say Jay B.Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
Sporks!Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
You could always rewatch "This Is Spinal Tap".Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
The only movies you have to talk me into watching are movies with a lot of gory stuff, so, horror movies and war pictures. I've still never watched the first 15 minutes of "Saving Private Ryan" and I had to fast forward through some of "Hacksaw Ridge". (I will never watch "Saw", don't even ask.) If it's not gory though, I'll watch anything. When a movie is really bad, I start getting all analytical as to why. (It's usually the script. You gotta tell a story. All the bells and whistles can be cool and fun, but watching stuff get blowed up good is not enough to sustain a movie. Tell a story. And if you have to blow stuff up to tell the story, go ahead and work your technical magic, but tell the story!)
I've never watched the first 15 minutes of "Saving Private Ryan" because my younger brother told me I couldn't handle it. I've never known him to be wrong about what I can handle in movies. "Saving Private Ryan" without the first 15 minutes is a well acted movie with a merely average story to tell. "Shakespeare in Love" is a much better movie and deserved the Oscar. (I think I've voiced that particular opinion before around here.)
Actually, I was referring to the spicy food thread. I'm not one to get into discussions about grilling.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
"Shakespeare in Love" is actually a backstage comedy pretending to be a love story. All the theater people I know love that movie. And it gets so much right about backstage life. And how inspiration works. It's brilliant.
Every tech week someone will panic, and someone else will say, "All will be well" and then someone cries, "How?" and then pretty much everybody says "It's a mystery!" in unison.
I do all the cooking in our house because my wife works 60 hours a week and she hates to cook. I love to cook. I love to grill as well. I'm much better at cooking than I am at grilling.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Assuming we don't all die, next time I'm in Boston I am going to catch one of your Productions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
I get what you’re saying here and of course respect your preferences, but “Saving Private Ryan” without the first 15 minutes is like “Titanic” without the shipwreck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
That opening scene at Normandy is some of the greatest moviemaking of any kind, ever.
Sure, but neither "Saving Private Ryan" nor "Titanic" were the Best Pictures of their respective years even though "Titanic" managed to win.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Dude! Spoilers! I haven't seen Titanic yet!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
The sequel is better, fwiw.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Again, I respect your opinion, but I was speaking not of overall film quality, but of seminal events in those films without which one can’t in my opinion comprehensively assess them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
Respecting someone’s opinion when they disagree with you on a trivial matter is a sign of weakness. Have the last few years taught you nothing?!?!Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Finish him! Er...her!Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I also respect your opinion, but I disagree. The Titanic sinking isn't the seminal event in that movie, it's the climax (although not the critical point.) And while D-Day is the seminal event of SPR, the rest of the movie-making is not worthy of that set-up. The story outside of the first 15 minutes of SPR isn't bad, but it's nothing special, full of holes, and overall a very average war movie. Titanic is a below average story with a 22 year-old Leonardo DiCaprio and great special effects. To be fair, Kate and Leo had incredible chemistry, he owes a fair bit of the Leo phenomenon of the late '90s to that chemistry.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
And I was speaking about overall film quality in regards to whether or not these movies should have won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Both are movies worth watching for a variety of reasons, neither were the best films of their respective years.
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Don't read this post, ClemmonsDevil - it has more details so Spoiler Alert!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
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And that is why I never saw Titanic. I knew how it ended - ship hits iceberg, ship sinks, people die, some survive.
I have, however, seen The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
This absolutely killed me for some reason! Strong work DinK!Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
Neither have I and no interest.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Agree with this statement.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Nooooooooo!!!!!! Don't tell me she sank?Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
No. Molly landed firmly on her feet.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Dinner was an appetizer of crispy pork belly with a main of seared scallops and I ate outside in a t-shirt! I mean, I wore pants too. But short sleeves!
Our Artic blast starts Wednesday night.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I will be driving back in to North Carolina in time for that. But right now I am walking around Ybor City and smoking a cigar in shorts and a t-shirt.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
That's close to Cigar City Brewing. I'd go there.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Been plenty of timea. I love Maduro Brown!Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil