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QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Sep 18, 2009 -> 12:42 AM) Im already excited for tomorrow night. Going to a "no-pants" party, I seriously cannot wait! You're gonna be Porky Pigin' it?? Dude never ever wore pants and nobody had a problem with it.

Drunk and reasonable are adjectives that rarely occur together in this thread.

Every time we go into extras I cringe, because I know what happens next.

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 17, 2009 -> 05:23 PM) They're no "Dumb and Dumber". This is true. Dumb and Dumber did have something neither of the others had thou, and that was a cool Todd Rundgren original soundtrack.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Sep 17, 2009 -> 03:54 PM) I watched Citizen Kane for the first time last night. Granted I was tired, but the movie didn't do much for me. It's considered one of the greatest films of all time. Can someone go into some detail on why it is so good? Hopefully it was just you being tired. I think "great film" is a tremendous understatement in regard to Kane, and I think it remains the closest thing to a perfect film we have in American cinema. I could watch that film and Casablanca repeatedly and never get tired of either.

Your reputation for lameness precedes you.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 17, 2009 -> 11:42 AM) A friend bastard roommate of mine went to Jamaica and came back with appleton estate rum. Being poor and in college we drank it straight. Kind of soured me on the whole thing. quitter.

Why I Oughtta . . !

QUOTE (Tex @ Sep 17, 2009 -> 02:33 PM) tomorrow it is back to SOuth Padre for Seafood and Song, plus a big Scout event. Unbelievable what passes for work down in TexWorld.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 17, 2009 -> 10:55 AM) I didn't know snakes had spines. Of course they do. They're reptiles, not worms.

I don't think Devo was ever considered a particularly good live band — theatrical aspects aside. I think Mark Mothersbaugh is pretty brilliant, though.

My granola bar was unsatisfying.

In all likelihood you'll have to Amazon Sipin Safari. Tiki Bosko online had a stash of Grog Logs and Intoxicas long after most places were sold out, but your bet bet is to preorder the Remixed edition and get it when it comes out in November. Honestly, most of the Beachbum recipes have 8-12 ingredients in them and some of them are hard or impossible to find so you have to make your own or substitute the best you can*. These are literally the lost recipes served up in tiki bars 50 years ago, and back then it was all about the quality of the drink and not bar flair or how fast a bartender can whip up a 3-ingredient glass of crap. If you want authenticity, this is where you go. That said, it takes time and $$ to stock a bar to the degree you need to to make many Beachbum cocktails. There are lots of simpler "gateway" drinks to cut your teeth on as you work up your mixologist skilz. I'll be happy to send some of these your way while you decide what sorts of things you like. * Mai tais are an exception, requiring only 6 ingredients including your rums. Made right it is a sublime drink and it is rightly as famous as it is even if almost no commercial establishment makes them the way they are supposed to. If you experience one of these, chance are you'll e hoked. That is assuming you can set aside preconceptions about what you think this drink aught to be. Nothing against a well-constructed Hawaiian mai tai (made one last night actually), but the real deal isn't full of pineapple juice. It may taste to strong the first time out — and after all it is only a 4 oz. drink and half of that volume is rum. But that's what makes this such an amazing drink, and why the rum selection is so critical. The rums are the star of the drink, and the lime, curacao, orgeat and syrup are there for balance and counterpoint. I'll give you a good juice-filled mai tai recipe as well if you want it and you can compare the two.

80 pounds?? That is awesome. I'm back to trying better and I'm down some, but still 20 pounds from where I want to be. Way to go!

QUOTE (SockMe @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 10:50 PM) Im working on this worksheet and there are a few questins I cant find. Pond>becomes_______>________ continues to fill in bottom> a ________ community eventaully forms>animal commmunities become more________. As temp. increases, body temp of animals______>metabolic rate_______> O2 demand______. as temp. increase, effect of toxic chemicals______> damage to organisms________bottom conditions of ponds: lots of decomposition = lots of _______ but not much ______ or _______. The trunover of the layering of the pond occurs seasonally and is called_____. Fun stuff. Do your own work. Seriously, the first problem question is about pond ecological succession as it silts over. Question two, everything increases with temperature. Q10 rule, baby, which is a double whammy in aquatic systems because as water temperature increases metabolism and respiration speed up but oxygen levels in the water go down because warm water holds less DO at saturation than cold water. Question three, first half is more of the same, and the second half I honestly don't know what they are getting at without seeing the context of the readings. If the context involves summer pond thermal stratification (see below), then the second part of the question may be referring to the seeming paradox of high nutrient availability (due to organics breakdown) in the bottom strata but very litle primary production because phytoplankton are in the the upper strata. a condition which persists in temperate ponds and lakes until turnover occurs (see below). Seasonal pond turnover is destratification — at which time the nutrients that have been locked away in denser, cooler bottom strata mix with warm, less dense upper strata. So, basically, Do Your Own Work!

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 10:27 PM) Bicycle. Pants. ...and he owns no bicycle. Baz Luhrmann. . . good or GREAT??

So. . . I've been scrimping a little bit in the past year buying Appleton Reserve instead of Appleton Extra 12 year, and the Reserve makes a very good mai tai and tastes good in just about anything calling for a gold Jamaican rum. Ran out of Reserve and found a bottle of Extra at a good price so I picked it up tonight. Wow. Extra is the hands-down winner in a mai tai. Pick your favorite rhum agricole as the compliment (back to the St, James Ambre tonight), but Appleton 12 year HAS to be one of the rums you use if you are serious about your mai tai. The trouble now is I don't want to "waste" the 12 year in anything else, whereas with the Reserve I pretty much put it in whatever I wanted to. Might have to stock both labels now, or maybe Extra and V/X if it holds up is some of the cocktails the Reserve has worked so well in. [/Appleton commercial]

Honey on bread makes me happy.

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 08:16 PM) Its amazing how they think the more songs they make the more chance they have of hitting on a few songs that people will like...but it is just 4 times the more suck that they are putting out. They were a big part of my life going through high school but those days are far behind me. I dunno. . . I didn't care for most of Zeitgeist other than Chamberlin's drumming, but for free albums, I thought Machina I and II were solid. I don't know if I buy this incarnation as the Pumpkins but I'm interested in hearing the stuff as it comes out.

QUOTE (G&T @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 09:11 PM) On demand is comparatively expensive. Only if you call up first run titles. Give everything three months and it's on the free on-demand channels.

Eggo Waffles Please!

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 05:12 PM) If both parties are deceased it is no longer necrophilia. Just zombie porn. If the corpses are not reanimated I think it's just a pair of plastinated bodies arranged in an unfortunate manner.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 04:59 PM) Please no busterizing non-Buster threads. Haha, Buster-ed!!

Seems nobody wanted to chime in on a thread involving necrophilia. Weird. . . Two thoughts: 1) I don't think the exhibits are technically depicting necrophilia since both parties to the depicted sex acts are deceased. 2) I really like the plastination body exhibits (I've seen exhibits by both major companies doing the installations), but very much dislike the decision to depict bodies having sex if this means that more museums will decide not to book the exhibit. I took both my kids to see the BODIES exhibit when it came to the MOSI in Tampa. It was outstanding, it prompted healthy debate about the ethics and educational pros and cons of an exhibit like this, and it brought in enough of us morbid folks that the engagement was held over for several months and admission fees pretty much paid for the addition of an entire new wing of the museum. My kids were fairly young — five and seven, or around there — and they asked all kinds of great questions about what they were seeing, including naughty bits questions, naturally. But, I would not have taken them to the exhibit had it depicted outright intercourse, as that was not the proper venue to initiate those discussions in addition to the ones already being had. I guess I'm just old fashioned and I think sex is best learned about at the primate house at the zoo!