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Every use of a gong in a rock recording is unnecessary and gratuitous with a single exception: Bonham's gong five measures into the "What Is and What Should Never Be" outro is totally appropriate and makes that track the transcendent rock anthem it is. Gongs at the end of Bohemian Rhapsody and Dream on? Meh. Discuss.

Great gobs of goo are gross

Either that or Chicago didn't turn out the Zombie Vote.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 2, 2009 -> 01:20 PM) Thank you, I forgot about WalMart. Another item, I was thinking of sending her a few gift cards, what chains are close by campus? Any ice cream, cookie, coffee, etc? I assume Starbucks, any others? If Labamba is still there get her a gift card worth $100 of chorizo burritos.

Chicago loses

Yarrow root may or may not thrive there.

Wahini are nice.

Knowing the various insect orders so rarely comes in handy I couldn't let it go to waste.

I refuse to delete the above late post. HA!!

QUOTE (NIUSox @ Oct 2, 2009 -> 11:06 AM) Guys, why does there have to be so many damn insect orders that I have to keep straight? Hymenoptera are E.O. Wilson's favorite. Coleoptera are mine and God's (Yes, that is a JBS Haldane reference). I LOVE INSECTS!

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 2, 2009 -> 10:29 AM) I thought it was well known that Letterman liked his interns of the female nature Sure, but you figure that's stuff you leave behind once you finally get married and start a family.

Follow the crowd, Sheep Boy!

Blow it off and go drinkin'

Zero-level courses is what I usually dream about. Cakewalk humanities-type things that I'd have breezed through if I only remembered I had signed up for the class before the end of the semester.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 2, 2009 -> 08:47 AM) keep it in your pants Dave Of course, Dave's Pants are Worldwide.

Awww Dave, Dave, Dave. . . If it becomes public which staffers he had affairs with it could either be very damaging for all involved, or it could become Dave's Edgiest Top Ten List Ever.

What course? Did I miss the final? Did I even go to class?!? Been out of school for 12 years now and I still have that horrifying dream.

Happy Day! My beer peddler did manage to get a couple cases of the Sierra Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale so I picked one of those up at the bargain-basement price of $6 and I'll be enjoying that tonight. She (yep, my enabler is a she) also advised me that there are going to be only three cases of the upcoming Sierra Estate Harvest Ale shipping to the east coast and she will be receiving one of them!!! It definitely pays for the shopkeepers to form good relationships with their distributors. I also procured two pumpkin beers to sample this weekend, The Dogfish Punkin Ale already mentioned here and also Post Road Pumpkin Ale out of the Brooklyn Brewery. I know I had that one last year but can't recall much about it. I think it was part of a pumpkin food orgy, had alongside of Flaxx' Famous Butternut Squash Soup (This soup will get your girlfriend pregnant it's that good), pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie, more pumpkin beer, etc. If I recall correctly, that one tasted sort of like pumpkin. Also picked up a bottle of Woodchuck oak-aged cider that is really good stuff. We got down into the 60s the last few nights (a veritable arctic blast for September/early October down here), so it's time to break out the fall brews in earnest.

Not the Michelob, but certainly I can drink any of the others you mentioned. But going by your broad definition of a mega, I'm quite happy with lots of the Sam Adams offerings. Now if you want to limit yourself to Big 2 or Big 3 it's a tougher matter. There isn't a single Miller product I care for. From Coors, I can choke down a Killians and I can tolerate Blue Moon if a real witbier is unavailable. From Anhauser, not including their 50% stakeholder claim to Red Hook (which I find enjoyable if not stellar), I think the only AB offering I would consider willingly drinking is the Bare Knuckle Stout. If I'm really slumming I will choke down a Mich Amber Bock for the purposes of fitting in with the rest of the ham-and-eggers.

QUOTE (G&T @ Oct 1, 2009 -> 01:49 PM) I've not had it, but I'll take a look for it. This got me thinking, I don't spend a lot of time looking through the English and Scottish beer sections at the bottle shop even through traditional English ales are very good. I'll have to make some changes. Although, Fullers ESB is a favorite with steaks or burgers. Fuller's ESB is my wife's favorite bottled British ale that we get here. I'm a London Pride person but I like the ESB as well. I adore English ale and only wish we had the cask real ale here. Two weeks pub crawling around the UK was pretty much beer Nirvana for me. As far as draught keg ale here in the states, there's a handful of pubs that try to approximate the carbonation level of cask ale by serving the keg beers from a beer engine (hand pump) under blanket carbonation. It goes a long way to softening the character of the beer but it's still not the real deal.

Ahhhh. fµck it, here we go again.

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Oct 1, 2009 -> 02:31 PM) Agreed - best animated film this year. STEVE! I thought up was better and Monsters versus Aliens was just as good. And for sheer artistic vision, Ponyo blows them all away. Very solid film though.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 1, 2009 -> 01:18 PM) Just the regular stuff, cristal I believe. The most popular beer there, Medella Light, is pretty awful. I've seen very mixed reviews of Medella, but my taste buds would likely agree with yours if i ever get a chance to try it. AZ pox on me for having not yet made the trip to PR.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 1, 2009 -> 01:01 PM) They were also intentionally unfunny, unoriginal and unentertaining. Not a winning strategy.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 1, 2009 -> 12:59 PM) We're about to finish off our bottle from PR but don't want to until we've another source. It was $10/L or something ridiculously cheap like that at the airport. The Añejo or something else? Don Q actually outsells Bacardi in PR.