FlaSoxxJim

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 04:50 PM) I'm uncertain why you expect me to believe that heading in to the field is a bad thing? Know Let's say it's just going to be a long weekend, and by this time next week I will have worked 24 days without a day off.

grumble. . . I have to work all day tomorrow and THEN lecture for 4 hours tomorrow night, run a lab day in the field all day Saturday, and then do another half-day on Sunday!

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 03:43 PM) Maybe if she'd smile instead of snarl, I'd think she was better looking. If she smile you should worry because then she's thinking, "I could break you in two, Little Man!"

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 04:35 PM) No mocking needed because that was a really good album. However, I owned this CD early on in high school: I should be waterboarded. I have no excuses. What I wanna know, What I really wanna know. . . is WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?!!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 04:25 PM) Ok, Busch gardens kinda makes sense then. The other ones though sound like a company that is profitable deciding what to waste its money on. Not intentionally to waste money on, but to invest and diversify, yes. And now InBev wants to gat back to the core business of brewing $hitty beer.

One thing that will be interesting is what they do with the Busch Gardens name. On the one hand, it is a recognizable and known attraction, and renaming will lose that. On the other hand, without InBev providing some financial consideration, there is little incentive to continue giving the Busch name free marquis publicity. Seeing what they will do with the free beer Hospitality Houses at both parks will also be interesting. I can realistically see InBev giving them a serious deal on AB product in return for brand exclusivity and keeping the Busch name for X number of years. If that were to happen, I'd assume the Hospitality Houses would continue to operate.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 03:38 PM) Are you saying I had an Alanis Morrissette moment? And I agree with you and Tex about the kids...I feel awful for them. Totally. A black fly in my chardonnay isn't ironic, it just sucks. Jagged Little Pill was actually a guilty pleasure of mine. I still think it's a great album and you are now allowed to openly mock me.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 04:01 PM) Why in the world did Anheuser Busch ever own theme parks? It started with Busch Gardens in the late 1950s. Originally it was exactly what it sounds like — gardens adjacent to their Tampa brewery (beautiful brick facility that ceased brewery operations years ago). In time they added animals, and eventually they started adding rides and shows and such to draw more visitors. So that one sort of grew out of a logical beginning into the unlikely mega attraction it is now. Sea World was a portfolio acquisition, and AB had nothing to do with the creation of the park. Private entrapenuers (sp??) founded the Sea World parks in teh mid 1960s. Publishing giants Harcourt Brace Jovanovich bought the parks in the mid 1970s and it wasn't until the late 1980s that AB bought them from HJB, along with a few other parks that they either closed or sold off.

wtf?!?? Link

Useful information. . .Run Tex!!!

You planning a Time Travel Vacation? Whatever your smoking, save some for me.

Shock it is then. I have a 9V battery in front of me and I'll stick my tongue to it each time someone scoops my post.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 03:16 PM) Love me some irony. I think it's not irony so much as it is a statistically striking coincidence that the woman who became a gun rights poster child was killed by a gun. It's not a coincidence, however, that having guns in a household leads to a higher probability that something bad involving said guns will occur in that house. Unsecured guns and unsupervised children. Or in this instance, accessible guns and an emotionally distraught spouse. Those are bad things waiting to happen. My heart goes out to the children who have to live through it.

Quiet embarrassment is sufficient. Or an electrical shock.

Kinda feels like I've doubled my post count just since this monster thread reared its ugly head.

Story Someone on here a few months ago pointed out that it would make sense for Universal to try to acquire the Busch theme parks to try to compete with the multiple Disney parks. Looks like that was a good call.

Hello Mr. 60K+.

federal employee material for sure.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 01:21 PM) But there's no offseason for the alphabetical conversation thread! Copyright that and we'll use it as the official slogan of Timewaster Thread Numero Uno.

Most bottles are in the $40-75 range here, so yeah, probably better to mooch off a pretentious friend.

Watcher lives up there, so we'd better not pi$$ him off.

Possibly the wackiets person I knew, Grandma was.

At the same time. . . there's something so mysterious and ritualistic and seemingly illicit what with the abisinthe fountain and the slotted spoos and whatnot. Also, the louche effect is just plain cool — adding water to the bright clear green to tarnsform it into the cloudy pale green of the done up drink is wicked. When I use Pernod (basically abisinthe without the wormwood) in cocktails I literally add it using an eye dropper — exactly 6 drops in a dark rum cocktail, and any more than that gives it too much licorice flavor for my liking. So you know I'm not a huge licorice fan but still am intrigued enough with the abisinthe to remain open to it.

Not to be outdone, I give you Grandma Flasoxx' sage-old wisdom: When the weather's hot and sticky Ain't the time for dunkin' dicky When the frost is on the pumpkin THAT'S the time for dicky dunkin'!

QUOTE (G&T @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 08:58 AM) I want to try absinthe, but I have some block that makes me believe that something strange will happen. Anyone ever try it? Rex is the closest thing on this site to an afficianado (sp?) . . . had it in Europe when it was still illegal here and enjoyed the experience. The wormwood stuff is all blown waaay out of proportion, and there was not a lot of factual evidence behind its ill effects and it never should have been banned. I've tried a couple of brands since its reintroduction, and done traditional style with sugar and lots of cold still water it is an interesting change of pace. It's a seriously strong licorice flavored drink and I have a very low tolerance threshold for strong licorice flavors, so I need it cut way back with water and sugar.