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Can't believe we're 200 pages into this game of the day. damn

Zap! Pow! Sokko! There's going to be a Batman-style fight if I'm not the 3,000th post.

X more posts (as the Romans would right), and we'll be over 3K.

Veritas veritatis.

Goosebumps still. Best thing is remembering back to that time and recalling that Paulie's wife had just had their baby, and Paulie put it all in perspective by asking how many people in the world can say that hitting a grand slam in the World Series was the second best thing that happened to him that week. :headbang

tru story

Godless Killing Machines.

Red tomato ketchup, I kid you not, is part of many award wining sauces.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Oct 23, 2009 -> 10:07 AM) Well, here's an interesting question. If you take out a loan to buy your indulgences - and then you default on your loan, are you back to square one? Actually, in reading the fine print, it turns out your first-born child soul will be garnished and held in escrow (or Limbo) until someone pays the (Peter) Piper.

Ketchup is actually a "secret" ingredient in many excellent home-made BBQ sauces.

Uvula is an interesting body part, as is the body part that sounds like it.

Quite the contrary. . . you just can't tell anyone about it.

Well, the intriguing flavor hops I was tasting in the Punk IPA were not simcoes after all, but it was bugging me because I knew it was a similar tasting hop variety I had just tasted in something else recently. It has New Zealand hops in it so I thought it might be the same hops I was tasting in the Sierra Southern Hemisphere Harvest, but they turned out to be a different variety (or at least a different name). Then I finally went to the Brew Dog website and I see that there are chinook hops in the mix and that's what I'm tasting. Chinooks are a textbook "high alpha" hop that has been popular for several years that usually is used as a bittering hop because of its high bittering potential (more bitterness per bushel basically). But when it is used as a late addition hop, it really adds some intriguing notes to hoppy pale ales, and I think that's the predominant hop flavor I got out of this one. I'm entirely unfamiliar with teh other two hop varieties (Ahtanum, Nelson Sauvin), but they all play nice in this beer which is a noce moderately hopped, moderate strength (6%) modern pale ale. The exclusive of Maris Otter pale malt is about the only thing that is solidly UK about this one and it has an excellent light malt flavor. The complete lack of any caramel malt leaves this beer notably paler than typical red-hued British ales that often also use Maris Otter as the bulk of the grain bill. I think this could have benefited from a bit of caramel or crystal malt, but maybe that's just me wanting this UK ale to taste a little more like a UK ale. Taken on it's own as a modern interpretation of a classic style, it's well made and drinkable. I'll certainly try the other offerings from this newly available brewery.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 23, 2009 -> 12:22 PM) I may have to move to Colorado. Nice break, but $42K might as well be $110K. . . still out of my price range.

On the whole, writing a thesis is a whole lot like giving birth to a big, fat kid. . . albeit one you can just shove in a box and forget about after the birth.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 23, 2009 -> 10:02 AM) Oh damn that s*** would be hilarious if someone thought they were buying her book, and ended up with that instead. I can't find this on Amazon... I can't see that not happening. A lot.

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 23, 2009 -> 02:37 AM) Soupy Sales The last of the kids teevee program pioneers. RIP. And give God a big pie in the face when you see him, he'll get a chuckle out of it. The ABC obit piece notes that his sons Hunt and Tony Sales are musicians and were 2/3 of Bowie's of Tin Machine. Leww well-known but more important (to me), they were the rhythm section on Todd Rundgren's debut album Runt and were part of Todd's touring band of the same name.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 05:40 PM) Many Christian faiths do, in fact, allow for that. Catholicism, for example, offers you the chance to confess and atone for your sins - literally giving you a clean slate. Others state that you can atone for your sins by accepting God into your heart. That's all too hard. What ever happened to buying your way into heaven with good old-fashioned indulgences?

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 11:24 PM) So does Judaism with Yom Kippur. Fast for one day and atone for your sins of the last year. The difference is that Catholicism drills it into your head EVERY DAY! I just don't understand how some people can deal with that. I mean, basically, you walk out of the confessional...and you've sinned again. Ugh. Ach, it's lifetimes of guilt either way you slice it. For the Catholics it comes from the religion. For the Jews, it comes from your Mother.

QUOTE (G&T @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 09:44 PM) For the longest time I thought Vertical Epics were IPA's, which I don't care for. Turns out they are Belgians, which I love. That's a lot of beers that I didn't try and are now retired. Damn. I meant Vertical Epic, not Epic Vertical. And this is the 09/09/09, so far from retired, this one just hit the streets.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 07:37 PM) go with Apple. you won't regret it. Eve fell for that old line too.

Isolation vis Dissertation, I've been there.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 08:52 PM) about halfway through this post I started to wonder which LSD you were talking about. Halfway through I started humming Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah to myself. But that's because I'm old.

Try the Woodchuck Granny Smith cider, that is far from too sweet. Their Dark and Dry also has an attenuated sweetness and quite a bit of character. Magner's is not particularly sweet either, compared to others. Crisp, light, refreshing, but by no means cloying. Back to beer. . . I picked up about a half-dozen interesting new beers this evening. First and foremost among them is the Sierra Estate Harvest which I'll probably split with the Mrs. tomorrow. Also got Summit's festbier, Wolaver's organic Pumpkin ale, and Stone Epic Vertical Belgian-style stout (which I just had on draft earlier this week and enjoyed). Right now I'm sipping my first beer from a relatively new Scottish brewery called Brew Dog, — Punk IPA Postmodern Classic Pale Ale. Liking it so far, and I think I'm even tasting some simcoe in the hop profile. Very American for a UK brewer, but based on the name that's obviously the point. I'll contemplate this one a little more and then give as rundown.

Gary Moore may ring a bell, he took over Thin Lizzy guitar chores. . . after Bell.