Whew, relieved.
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I saw Lenny DiCaprio on TV the other day, so I'm pretty sure the ship didn't go down...
Batter or frosting?
No carbs but huge eater. I always thought that we had the cake to icing ratio wrong. A cupcake should be a large dallop of icing with a touch of cake sprinkled over the top. I have heard people complain of frosting being too rich. I am disgusted by those people. So frosting.
As is often the case in a church, certain tasks seem to always fall to a set group of people. I had the folks that typically cut any celebratory cakes trained to not only save me a corner piece but to give me extra scrapings from the frosting along the edge of the cake cardboard. :D
I always used to squirm at the office dynamic when we were summoned to a conference room for someone's birthday cake, and the manager who called the meeting would almost always look to a woman to cut the cake...used to drive me nuts. You can manage a multi-million dollar budget, but can't figure out how to slice up a rectangular sheet cake? It's "woman's work?"
Maybe that dynamic has finally changed...
I just had a slice of homemade sweet potato pie.
I can't bear to look. I assume it's bad.
If anyone were to tell me that they like French style green beans rather than southern-style, cook the crap out of them so they taste like fatback rather than green beans, green beans I would support a permanent ban on that person. French style green beans suck because they taste like green beans. In much the same way that boiled brussel sprouts (as opposed to roasted brussels which are the perfect green vegetable) suck because they taste like homeless people's feet.
Are you guys always going to get this defensive when I start spitting facts at you? Don't blame me for the fact that you guys are all incredibly bad at eating. I'm performing the public service of trying to save you all from yourselves.
hot dogs gotta have natural casings so they snap when you nip them.
You take that back right now. It really is probably no exaggeration that I eat 4500 calories a day because I am Keto. My toppings of choice on said hot dog are chili, slaw, onion and mustard. What those of us raised in the South would term "all the way". The bun is not an integral part of a hot dog. It is merely a delivery device. The star of a hotdog is the toppings. This all reflects very badly on you that I have to explain it. I'm willing to overlook it but...it does push me close to the edge (It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under). I will say that Budwom appears to have some eating game. The rest of you I have hope for, but it is waning.
This is at least obliquely related to today's discussion: when I place a to-go order for myself and they give me three or four sets of plastic ware, assuming it's a group order, should I be flattered or offended? It's definitely one of those.
While we're lobbing hot take grenades all over the place...
A hot dog should not have ketchup on it.
A hot dog is also a sandwich.
Fight me.
I'm 5 foot 8 + 170 lb so I would say I am fairly strong for a person of my size. The plan is force eat as much meat as I want and force feed myself green vegetables. I get in 20000 + steps per day and five hundred push-ups per day. Takes a lot of energy. I usually do 2 meals a day and eat only in an 8 hour time block.
There is some kind of female sparrow outside my window right now that is not a house sparrow.
Wow. That is a lot of push ups but not Charles Servizio level.
From wiki:
Charles Servizio (born September 5, 1950, in Lynn, Massachusetts) is a retired teacher who taught Dalen Hargett, best known for setting a world record in push-ups on April 25, 1993: 46,001 pushups in 24 hours.
So - Heinz or Hunts?
If you are reading my most recent post as a thinly veiled attempt at avoiding the food fight, you are correct. ;)
Having conquered bagels, bialys and beer pretzels, I am thinking of trying to make doughnuts in the air fryer this rainy weekend. The range of result quality is wide open.
I don't eat bagels. It has been years since I had one. It's not that I hate them, but ever since I paid attention to how many carbs are in a bagel, I have been able to make that sacrifice. Bagels are simply not worth the carbs IMHO. Doughnuts however, have way less carbs, at least some do, and are worth it. ;)
Having received the highly-amusing invitation to bet from TM (but not having engaged), I'm very interested in the backstory to that new, super-specific POTUS thread that suddenly appeared!
Let's get that new thread locked! It is Jason's fault for not pre-locking it.
Consommé, soup fit for a meal or just thinly flavored water?
Everyone around here sure seems to be spoiling for a fight lately. What's up? Hitting the pandemic wall?
Latest Netflix discovery - The Sinner.
Bill Pullman has retained his hotness. He's in the Paul Newman category of silver foxes.
Fight me.
The Boss was busted.
Did that just happen?
Did he get booted for UNC reasons or POTUS thread reasons?
EarlJam was fun. Reminded me of my favorite video game if all time, ToeJam and Earl.
MattMan is another recent poster.
We should have an in memorium ceremony for booted posters with the thing that finally got them booted.
I thought went without saying!
Maybe I’m dumb about such things but what is to prevent a booted poster from returning under a different name. Like say I get canned, what’s to prevent me from registering as DundabergBevil or you to come back as GobbleGobble4Eva? Y
Wait, mattman was banned!?!
Wheat never bothered me until the pandemic hit. I had to stop reading the coronavirus thread for awhile because of him. Troublemaker went after me personally, so. Other than Troublemaker, the only time I've ever really gotten into it with my fellow DBR posters was during Deflategate. If you think Tom Brady destroyed the integrity of the game more than Rae Carruth or Aaron Hernandez, we vehemently disagree, but I have no desire to rehash that discussion, so, let's not go there, please.
I've driven through all but Alaska already, and at the end of this summer, will have also visited all but Alaska. My wife too.
Barring catastrophe (probably a stupid thing to say these days...), our big Summer 2022 trip will be Alaska and we will succeed in my "50 by 40" project, whereby we have endeavored to visit all 50 states by my 40th birthday (August 2022).
I'm missing ND, too. Also Wisconsin and HI. I think all of my 47 I've also literally driven too and through (versus flying to and driving around in).
I figure I'll hit ND and WI at the same time next time I'm up that way. I actually have family in HI so no idea why we haven't gone. We did a family reunion there 25 years ago that I missed so there's that.
So...what does that make PA, DE and NJ for? That's where you get the pyrethrin mousse?
Ooooooooohhhhh. I like it! 50 x 40. I'm not going to get there. I turn 40 later this year and we ain't going anywhere any time soon. Sigh.
North Dakota and Hawaii are both spectacular places and interesting drives. I have really strong and fond memories behind the wheel in both places.
We've felt really lucky this past year to have adopted RVing like three years ago. That's the only way we've been anywhere. Been really nice to travel completely self-contained and maintain our same level of caution as when we're at home.
You can't claim to have driven KS if you never got off I-70.
Fight me. *
*seems to be today's version of good bye/see you/aloha. :D
The "what qualifies as having been to a place" discussion is a good one. I'm definitely a 'the airport doesn't count' kind of guy. I do think driving a state qualifies as having been there BUUUuuutttt, I can see your point. Taking a highway through a place almost never does it justice.
When should I use garlic powder over fresh garlic?
So, dogs answer dogs? Mind blown.
As someone who has driven the entirety of I-40 on multiple occasions, comparing 40 to 95 isn't even justice. 95 runs some of the most congested stretches in our country and is always a hot mess with little or no eye candy. 40 has some truly beautiful panoramas in both the southeast through the Smokies and in the southwest through parts of NM and Arizona.
So — I guess no one is gonna start the “RIP Larry Flynt” thread?
People re-litigating the BBQ and meat discussion after we established the facts here on the LTE is exhausting to me. Jason need to shut that thread down right now. People should not be allowed to argue with established meat facts. These meat truthers are a plague on society and it wouldn't surprise me if they were adherents of BBQanon.
Here's my Larry Flynt story:
I moved to DC a few months after graduating college. A friend told me you HAD to have Hill experience to get anywhere in the city and that the best way to get an internship was not to send your resume in with the hundreds of others an office receives but to just show up at your Congressman's office and ask for one. So that's what I did. I went to my Congressman's office and told them I was a constituent and wanted an internship. They didn't have availability but said to go down the hall to another state congressman's office because they were looking. So, I did that too. That office said, "Great, can you start Monday." And that's how I interned for one of the most socially conservative politician's on the planet at the time.
ANYWAY, fast forward a few months and I was in the office essentially by myself because the paid staff was at a team building circle j...um, retreat. I was sifting through the mail and a magazine-sized envelop addressed to the Congressman from Larry Flynt had arrived. "Oh my," I thought. I opened it and sure enough was a short note from Larry Flynt and a copy of Hustler magazine. It had the Barbie twins on the Hustler. I was young and dumb and convinced that I'd stumbled into some real life sex scandal stuff. My socially conservative firebrand liked smut. I sent a panicked email to the Chief of Staff who sent an email that was the closest thing to an eye roll emoji as they had at the time. He told the Scheduler to 'take care of this'. The Scheduler told me what was what, that Larry Flynt sent copies of Hustler to a lot of politicians, and to get rid of it.
I smuggled that copy of Hustler out of the Canon HOB and still have it, sheathed as it were in an envelope addressed to the Congressman.
Also true story: I have been in a Capitol Hill lockdown.
A friend of mine interned for Sam Nunn back in the day (D-Ga). My fiend was on an elevator alone, and as the doors closed newly-elected representative Fred Grandy (R-Ia) — “Gopher” from The Love Boat — got on. My friend was at the elevator button panel, tuned to Rep.. Grandy, and deadpanned — “Lido Deck, Sir?”
Grandy was pissed and complained to Nunn. Sam thought the whole thing was funny and just chuckled.
It's a cold day in h...South Central Texas.
Proud to say that when I was in law school, my Congressman was Ben "Cooter" Jones from The Dukes of Hazzard.
And by "proud" I mean, um, that it happened.
Mr. Grandy should have remembered the Gopher singing episode. He did a great lounge singer impression but he was serious. When he heard people laughing at the impression, he was upset and wasn't going to sing again. They talked him into it and he was rolled out in a claw foot tub with a shower curtain and did singing in the shower the next night.
1. I never even wondered about how they came up with the tub.
2. Yes, I just admitted I remembered this episode.
3. I may, or may not, now go hang my head in shame.
So Springsteen was apparently arrested for a DWI and only blew a .02. I feel like you could take a swig of mouthwash and blow .02.
Ha, close but no cigar! In fact a close friend of mine grew up in Chicago...after Ted Kaczynski got busted, either Time or Newsweek (can't remember which, of course) ran a picture on the cover of wee child Ted playing in a front yard with my pal and his brother, just as normal kids play...
p.s. but not having electricity got me into grad school!
This morning's news indicated he was someplace alcohol wasn't allowed.
More research finds reports saying he pulled over to take pictures with fans. Someone offered him a shot of tequila, which he accepted. He was sitting on his motorcycle in full view of police. When he started to drive off, they pulled him over. Charges are DWI, reckless driving, and consuming alcohol in a xloswx area.
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The in-laws are here. First people been in the house in 6 months. Baby is confused that 'not parents' exist.
Oh, yeah. They're having fun. The baby was definitely confused about the presence of people in the house though! He saw 'em, looked at us and grunted, looked back and pointed and grunted like, "who are these clowns?!?"
At least that's what I imagined in my head...