There is a reason they call it a treasure hunt. And I may or may not be referring to that time I ate a penny.
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Off to Lowe’s to pick up 3 pieces of deck lumber for deck repair. But first, a quick stop to rob a convenience store. Wish me luck.
On second thought, maybe I should hit a bank, since I also have to buy chlorine for the pool.
Interviewing people for my old position today. Sorta weird.
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I bought this shirt for Nephew Alex.
Proposed interview question: How many push-ups can you do in 10 minutes?
Second proposed interview question: Smooth or crunchy?
Behavioral interview question: You have 3 chores, CostCo, the dump, and Lowes. What order do you do them in and why?
Hah, that's great!
Tell us about a particular time turkey has disappointed you.
You walk into a barbecue restaurant and order the three meat combo. Explain why fatty brisket is always option number one. If you feel that brisket is not option number one please collect your belongings and never contact us again.
I'm going to eat an obscene amount of buffalo wings for dinner today. I deserve it.
several decades ago when Eddie was red hot in movies, a local woman wrote to the local paper, saying she hosted a wee Fresh Air (or something similar) young lad named Eddie Murphy some years previously, and wondered if it was the same fellow. It was.
My personal records include 40 plus chicken wings, 17 slices of large Pizza Hut pizza, 2 Subway Footlong Subs, 5 Whoppers. And those are just attempts to eat a lot and keep track of it. I didn't keep track of how much I ate. The chicken wings and the Whoppers wer during college when my buddies bet a table of bigger guys that I could eat more than they could. As I was finishing my fourth Whopper one of the dudes at the other table asked me to stop because I was making him sick. I once went to a Brazilian Steakhouse with buddiess from the University of Vermont and I ate for an hour and a half. Which meant that they all sat there for 45 minutes to an hour just watching. That was my best night but it was unofficial. When my family had Easter dinner a few years ago and we made steaks but I ate at least two and a half 18 Oz steaks. My gastric rapacity knows no satiety.
Maybe Aimo can stitch this on a pillow:
“I will not stop until I reach 70 (hot dogs). This sport isn't about eating. It's about drive and dedication, and at the end of the day, hot dog eating challenges both my body and my mind."
Set to “night fever” but “lunch tacos”.
Poor birdies he said as he ate his salad for lunch.
Ramunto's Brick Over Pizzeria in Williston, Vermont has an eating challenge. I forget exactly what it's called but they serve a giant calzone. If you manage to eat it, by yourself, in one sitting (I think they give you a whole hour) you get your picture posted to their Wall of Fame. If, however, you attempt the challenge and fail, you get your picture posted to the Wall of Shame.
Ramunto's gives out lots of $1 off a large pizza coupons at Vermont Lake Monsters games.
I have eaten at Ramunto's Brick Oven Pizzeria.
I did not attempt the challenge.
I did, however, turn information that could have, and probably should have, been given in one post into 4 posts.
We will regain the crown. "Plots I have laid, inductions dangerous, by drunken prophecies, libels and dreams"
Shakespeare didn't use a whole lot of punctuation. Many modern editors are not fans of the Oxford comma.
In this case, the Oxford comma isn't necessary, so, I'll let it slide.
we need to gather up a bunch of us and eat some dead animals sometime. Maybe this Fall in Derm (football game)?
One of the biggest heartbreaks of the Covid year has been the shutdown of our local store's most excellent wing bar, great place to grab a few fistfuls of wings when you're out and about.
Bostondevil notes a local eating challenge here. I remember about 45 years ago going into a local legendary bar/restaurant call The Black Cat where they had "yards" of beer to chug, enormous tapered glass...and one day I saw a kid take the challenge, down it went, and it was splendid watching his face transform...then it ALL came back up.
I'm not a fan of the Oxford comma either.
Plenty of food for you! This has been one of the changes in our lives caused by the pandemic; we haven't eaten inside a restaurant for 14 months (that could soon change) but we've found that we can splurge on food (e.g. Costco Prime filets) and still save a bunch of money on dining, and we don't have to worry about the limitations of drinking and driving.
We'll still enjoy the social aspects of dining out, but there's something to be said for glorious meals at home, too...
Dogs with lolling tongues: another snapshot of happiness.
I’ll crowd the pan if I want to, thank you very much.
I'm surprised no one around here has made a May the fourth joke. Seems the crowd.
nerds!!!
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Whatever happened to Donald Gibb?
Under 2K again. Wheeeeee....
Does this work?
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Stretching on carpet was more enjoyable than stretching on ceramic tile.
He is one of these two men.
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Incidentally, Greenfields, Barry Gibb’s recent album of collaborative reworks of Bee Gees classics with current country and Americans artists, is very good.
Teams meeting hellscape today.
Today, we've reached the point in my history curriculum where I showed the 1951 "Duck and Cover" instructional video about nuclear attack preparation to my kids. By this point in the year, my students have almost always rounded into some pretty insightful little historians, and they're always bemused by Duck and Cover. Every year, it prompts discussion about the moment by moment, cumulative nature of history, their frustration with our ongoing reliance on violence and "childish leadership" (their words this morning), and how that continues to create problems in our world.
Always makes me really remember why I do what I do and give thanks for the opportunity to do it.
snow tires are off for the first time in 18 months (our flagship vehicle)...
Listen to "The Improvement Association" podcast. It is about the vote harvesting in Bladen County that resulted in an election being thrown out because of fraud for the only time in modern American history. It is a very even handed spelling out of the structural underpinnings that led to the fraud. It is utterly fascinating.
always a good day to wow and amaze your friends by asking them (without Googlage) to tell you who the Mexicans whupped on Cinco de Mayo...very few get this right.
One more teams to go but it should be a fun one. First board meeting for a new “junior board” I joined for a conservation organization.
I put together a super cool series of assignments to finish the year about 20th century politics and culture: one about pan-Africanism via the South African revolution of 1994 and Bob Marley's music; one about the influence of Cuba's 1959 revolution on Cuban culture through arts and a look at the Cuban diaspora; one about the Khmer Rouge's attempt to recapture the glory of Angkor in 1970s/80s Cambodia as a response to the damages of colonialism in Cambodia and the rise of global Communism; and the last about the revolutions of 1989, spurred by backlash moments against Communism like the fall of Berlin Wall and Tiananmen Square, as well as old ethno-national conflicts like those in Yugoslavia. Each student will pick one and review a bunch of multimedia material before writing their last weekly essay of the year.
El Guapo?
Warm cookies. Reward for too many brady bunch meetings.
Inferiors or subordinates?
Pai Gow!
I actually keep saying I am here to work with and for them. And I do believe this. They're not buying it. I actually had one of them go to the CEO and say it was remarkable that I was able to be successful despite the fact that I didn't operate the same way all of the rest of them do.
Are they successful too... albeit with a differing approach?
As their supervisor, are you responsible for their success? Accountable - i.e. graded yourself on their performance?
I threw myself a one man pity party last night. Attendees were less than enthused.
It's new day!
I am, in fact, too sexy for my shirt.
Same here. I also have a handful of really strong associations with the first time I heard certain songs that are now in heavy rotation. For example, I distinctly recall the first time I heard the Allman Brothers and was like, "What is THAT and where can I get more?"
I have been called a walking iMDb. I can watch a movie and tell you in which episode of Law & Order a background actor appeared. I also once recognized an overweight, balding Jeopardy contestant as a former child actor (the fact that he was a former child actor did NOT come up in the chat with Alex).
There are varying degrees of success using the same approach. There are 5 territories and the other 4 were all hired at the same time and this is the only job in industry any of them have ever had. There is a TON of ideological purity among the group. The Northeast territory has performed almost as well as mine has. He was the person I emulated when I came on board because his territory was the highest producing. I operated the same exact way that they do for the first two years and finished behind him, but in second both of my first two years. This said to me that I had the binary choice of being happy with that or changing it up to see if that made a difference. I completely changed my approach and I have trounced him soundly three of the last four years and finished slightly behind him the other year. And I'm well ahead this year although I will be transitioning soon. I do think they are a bit bewildered by the fact that I changed my approach. They have expressed this to my boss on numerous occasions.
Heading to finally get my first vaccine shot.
I've always been amused by the 40 second banter between game show hosts and the contestants. It's the most banal thing on the planet, and requires the host to feign interest in the most dull things. Examples (completely made up, but almost certainly real);
So, it says here you have two dogs? What's that like?
My card here says you work in a school? Tell us more about that!
You grew up in Des Moines? Tell me what that was like.
Yeah. I have meetings today I assume I can keep.
I’ve blocked my calendar after the second one.
They’re doing a steady business here in SE PA.
I’m pretty low on the priority list so relieved to start process. Got ever so gently emotional, TBH. We’re still not getting crystal clear guidance for my pregnant wife since the trials were t specifically conducted on that population. So, no behavior changes in sight for us.
Interesting that you should mention the country music part. On the day I got my first Covid shot, I got back in my truck and fired up my "feel good" playlist...the one I turn to when I'm feeling happy/relaxed/celebratory/etc. Out of like 9 hours of music, shuffled completely at random, this song came up and I just went to pieces:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAJVH7RfwkM
...and then I listened to that song while watching my 7th graders play kickball on the field and make sidewalk chalk art on the sidewalk on an achingly beautiful Georgia May day, and there went the waterworks again.
I always get a little leaky at this time of year, but it's particularly pronounced this time around.
Aimo could take the BBT approach (S6, Ep. 19 The Closet Reconfiguration) to revealing the contents of a letter from one character's estranged parent:
"Sheldon continues that if each person present him with an account of the letter with only one being true, he will forever be in a state of epistemic ambivalence."
Aimo could make up 4 stories and then tell the true no matter which route the host goes. Something like that. It made sense in my head. Less so now.
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REK and Lyle, in town for a Halloween 2019 show.
(REK said he was dressed as “William Shakespur”)
Road goes on forever is playing on Pandora right now!
In the 80’s I lived in LA and convinced my ex to answer an ad for Jokers Wild. She went in, took the test but wasn’t selected. A month or two later we get a call and the person says she had scored too high for Jokers Wild but would she be interested in being a contestant on Tic-Tac-Dough? For those of you too young to remember the game was hosted by Wink Martindale and worked exactly like Tic-Tac-Toe: mark 3 boxes in a row, column, diagonal you win. Questions were approx Jeopardy difficulty.
So wife packs up several outfits and we go to the taping where they shoot 5 episodes a day. My wife is told she is up for third episode. First two, the 6 time champion cruises to victory.
She goes up, chit chats, then goes first. Against my prior advice she picks a corner question (she liked category) instead of the center square. Bad mistake - strategically taking center first gives you a freeroll. :confused: But anyway she gets it right, yay. The champion goes 2nd and ... misses!?! That means my wife can force a win if she gets next two. And then we are all surprised - the show breaks for dinner! The champion is sweating the whole break since he has lost control of the board.
We come back, she picks the center square and gets a question about a British actor in a movie. She’s knows all the actors in the movie but none of them are British? So she misses. From there on neither misses but he is able to force a win. :mad:
TV cameras pan to me and our two sons in audience. I put a comforting hand on my oldest’s head, he slaps it off angrily, he’s mad that we just missed out on thousands of dollars and a chance to win the “Brand new car!” they had us practice cheering about in the audience warmups.
Our consolation prizes? An ugly yellow coffee maker and a “years supply” of Peppermint Patty’s. The British actor? Cary Grant. Wife knew he was actor in the movie but never thought of him as British.
They don’t tell you when the episode will air so I’ve never seen it. However years later after we moved to Durham and I was coaching a youth soccer team one of the dads came up to me and said he had just seen my wife on Tic-Tac-Dough! I forgot to ask if they showed my sons angry shove away. But at least I know we didn’t dream it!
I don't know how to find one. I guessed wrong going for $32,000. I was not in the right frame of mind to go on a game show, I found it nerve-wracking and kinda depressing. If I had gotten the next person's questions instead of mine, I would have won $250,000 (maybe more cause I knew the question that caused him to walk away). Luck matters in life more than we like to admit. Luck got me on the show, luck got me in the chair, not quite lucky enough to win a bunch of money. Darn it. Bottom line though, I was just embarrassed that I was wrong on national tv and also embarrassed that I cared so much. If I could have just enjoyed the experience, it would have been a lot better.
The original air date was, I think March 27, 2001, definitely late March.
Deeber?
I find Crazietalk, Deeber, and this site to each complement the other nicely.
I’m an and/all guy and not an either/or guy.
Different flavors.
So Deeber is a thing? OK, thought it might be a joke.
The DBR has a a longstanding policy not to allow postings that promote other websites, except on rare occasions for charitable or public interest purposes. We allowed the Deeber thread to persist for a while because of the general goodwill that some of the Deeber folks had earned here. However, now that the thread has been around for a bit, the mod team decided that it was time to be consistent in our rules and treat it as we have treated others who have also attempted to use the DBR to promote themselves.
Today is Friday.
I think it is amazing that you made it on to the show. Same with Boston devil and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. That is fantastic and you don't have to be Ken Jennings to walk around with a Swagger after that kind of performance. I am super impressed with both of you.
1-I did not know Cary Grant was British, either. Or I forgot. I would have missed that, too.
2 - I remember watching Tic-Tac-Dough! They always had the category Beatle-mania!
3 - Remember when Duke would host those food tasting things in the spring, with a bunch of companies sharing their wares in hopes of selling in the food halls? Well one group, no idea what they were selling, did an 80s trivia thing were you could win prizes. I won a denim shirt with a jalapeno embroidered on it by answering What 80s game show host was named after a soft drink? The students were clueless as to 80s trivia, and I could only win one prize, so I stood to the side for a while and told students the answers so they could win.
4 - How long did the peppermint patties last? I would have eaten them all in a week!
Every one check out early?
Don’t go Jason waterfalls...
Lunch time!!!!
first meal in a restaurant in the last 15 months, got some sushi...it brought back memories...I at there 20+ years ago when it first opened, spoke at length with the Chinese owner at the bar while my sushi to go was made...and several days later he went to the restaurant he used to co-own and shot and killed his former partner and that guys wife... https://www.timesargus.com/news/man-...ness%20partner.
No- it was a very REALLY ugly yellow - not exaggerating. Stuffed in a cabinet and probably thrown away when we moved. We did eat the boxes of Peppermint Pattys (Patty’s, Patty?) they sent. Well my family did - I’m one of those rare people who don’t like mint flavor.
Yeah the Cary Grant question bordered on unfair since he had been acting in America forever (I think?).
My family shared your taste - the patties were gone in 1 - 2 weeks. IIRC the “year supply” they sent us was one medium box worth (approx 1’ x 1’ x 1’) with several smaller plastic wrapped boxes inside.
Bad Moon Rising is one of my karaoke go-tos. I always slip in directions to the bathroom during at least one of the choruses.