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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 15, 2009 -> 01:46 PM) FlaSoxxJim...who you crappin? Gawd's truth, we were a very cool dorky bunch.

Erudite? I'll give you erudite. I once played a music gig on a June 16th and for that night we billed the group as Buck Mulligan and the Stately Plumps.

Xerxes had no reason to be vindictive, as his succession to the Persian throne after the passing of King Darius was largely unchallenged.

Unsurprisingly, somebody muffed that rule back on page 1 I think, and then all bets were off.

Ooohhh, I remember when we used to stay up to watch the May Pageant Princess come back from the ball in her magic pumpkin carriage, back in the spring of Nineteen-Ought-Six. . . . What was the question? I'm cranky and I like Matlock and creamed corn.

Ham is one of five things on the shopping list my wife just phoned me with. Cheese, lettuce, a tomato, and deli chicken nuggets make up te rest of the list. Writing these things here may help me remember when I get to the store in an hour because I never actually write these lists down.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Sep 14, 2009 -> 04:21 PM) Happy Birthday Boys! I always said Australia and Minnesota were similar.... They both have something strange going on Down Under?

The sun is shining and the birds are singing and I'm not watching a losing ballgame. Yea off days in 2009!

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 14, 2009 -> 02:04 PM) yeah, not sure I can find the bitters down here. Here's Ted "Dr. Cocktail" Haigh's Whiskey Sour recipe that requires only whiskey, lemon juice, sugar, and orange juice if you like.

Dementia has set in over here, because I can't place the Seinfeld Zagnut reference. Now, Junior Mints and Chuckles and Clark Bars on the other hand. . . Erasing the above post.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 14, 2009 -> 03:34 PM) Another Seinfeld reference? By accident if it is. I just likes me some Zagnut bar.

Zagnut is an entirely underrated candy bar, imo.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 14, 2009 -> 01:06 PM) I was about to ask if anyone in Chicago knows of the best liquor store for choice. I'll ask this again when I get back in months/year. In the mean time, Flaxx give me a nice american cocktail I can make with whiskey, likely johnny walker red (available everywhere here) for 3 young Brazilian ladies. Well. . . Old Fashioned, Whiskey Manhattan (if you can get vermouth), Whiskey sour (use lemon juice and simple syrup rather than pre-misex sour mix if you can). . . . all of those work. Go to a good online booze blog like Kaiser Penguin or Ted haigh's CocktailDB and see what kind of recipes you can find.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Sep 14, 2009 -> 01:59 AM) ...but I have listened to a lot of Beatles music and I'm preeeeeetty sure that's ^ not the case. Don't self-diagnose, it is dangerous.

True Blood season finale came on before the end of the game.

The Ommegang trip sounds phenomenal. That and Cooperstown/HOF remain on my life's to-do list. Other than rum and single malt scotch, with maybe a little tequila, small batch bourbon and rye whiskey thrown in, I'm actually not a huge spirits person. That may be due to the fact that with 20-30 different bottles of rum in the cabinet I just can't fit anything else. Sipping spirits are simply those that the drinker finds palatable enough to sip on their own, straight, served neat with water, or with a bit of ice and maybe a squeeze of lime if it's rum. Most of these have been mellowed out and rounded with some wood aging, and that kicks their price up compared to the more run of the mill "mixer" spirits. You have to try a few things and decide what you like, if anything. Being well up on the beer learning curve, I don't have to tell you to be open-minded, and to go back to something if it really didn't catch your attention the first time around. A very small splash of still water and some time sitting in a snifter often wake up flavors that are not apparent the first time around, but some spirits are enhanced this way and some are not. As always it comes down to individual preference. Pay attention to veteran sipper and their suggestions, but in the end you are going to decide what you like. For single malt, for example, I respet the opinions of those that really go in for the Highland malts, but for me they are not what I seek out. Give me a bold, smokey-peaty Islay malt instead, and I'm in heaven. I'll talk your ear off about rums, but what makes a good sipping rum depends on what flavors you are looking for. Some of my favorite sippers are more scotch-like than rum-like, and others like Zacapa 23 and Zaya are full of wonderful flavors but are devoid of some of the basic flavors typical of most rums. Order a Laphroaig single malt neat with a glass of water if you find yourself out at a decent bar. Enjoy that adventure and get back with your thoughts. Happy travels!

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Sep 13, 2009 -> 01:02 AM) I'm a HUGE music fan and I'll admit that I have never put on a Beatles record and listened to all of it, straight through, from beginning to end. In fact, I never owned a Beatles record. Does '#1" count? Uh, sorry. Yes, this is terrible. And likely it is the reason you are a HUGE music fan — you have been trying your whole life to compensate for the big hole left by the lack of Beatles music and nothing is cutting it.

Happy belated birthdays to both of you. Congrats on making another year.

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Sep 11, 2009 -> 04:02 PM) Boggled at what your reasoning could be to hate on these two social clubs. Huh? No, no. . . I mean I just hate those six letters of the Greek alphabet.

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Sep 11, 2009 -> 03:31 PM) Zeta Beta Tau had a formal dinner dance with Alpha Epsilon Phi. Azzholes, all of them.

Very excited to see these fishy facts about an interesting Acanthurid, even if you muffed the alphabet.

QUOTE (ChWRoCk2 @ Sep 11, 2009 -> 01:12 PM) The good thing is football is here so we can stop suffering from watching the Sox. Unless you don't give a rats arse about football.

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Sep 11, 2009 -> 12:04 PM) Really, I'm serious. The subject must be changed. Semelparity is a "spawn and die" strategy common to several salmonid fishes as well and certain eels in the family Anguilidae. Sox out west makes late nights for me staying awake for the games.

QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Sep 11, 2009 -> 12:01 PM) Ouch...I hit a nerve, didn't I? Sorry about that. I stand by it though, he was pretty much worthless as far as members of The Beatles are concerned. Easily the one member you could have replaced. His songs may have been "classic", but in the ways that "Purple People Eater" are, and other classic tunes to be on Dr. Demento. It has been said that the Beatles had two-and-a-half geniuses in the band — John and Paul and sometimes George. While not among the genius ranks, he was very much a part of the band chemistry which was important. Faces fan that you are, you may think highly of Kenny Jones as a drummer (I thought he was fine, but replaceable like you say), but you can also appreciate that he had zero chemistry as part of the who. Daltrey never liked his drumming with the band, and ultimately that's what led to his ouster from the band. Of course, Kenny himself pretty much concurred, saying "There will never be a right Who drummer, it'll only ever be Keith."

Quisquilius hipoliti is the rusty goby, found on reef and rock bottoms in south Florida and the Bahamas. It is not even remotely dangerous.