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QUOTE (Soxy @ Nov 22, 2008 -> 11:10 AM) It wasn't proven. Corroborating support was simply given to that theory. You can't prove anything in science--and if you think you have you don't understand the scientific process. Oh yea. . . ? Prove It! B)

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Nov 21, 2008 -> 05:48 PM) I've finally gotten around to making the rum runner. F'in A, that's delicious. Cool. . . did you go rocks or fozen?

QUOTE (Texsox @ Nov 21, 2008 -> 03:33 PM) Have you ever done a trash can turkey? I have not, and I've done 'em a bunch of ways. Deep fried, smoked, paper bagged, brined, and roasted over a campfire. Hip me to the trash can turkey.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Nov 21, 2008 -> 03:10 PM) Partially debone a turkey, stuff that with a deboned duck, then stuff that with a deboned chicken. From there, you can add a nice stuffing. I threaten to do a turducken every year but I have yet to follow through on it. We will be tent camping in north Florida as we do every Thanksgiving. But we don't scrimp on the food and we've gotten very good at slow roasting a turkey over a campfire. I plan on being drunk and happy for a good portion of the long holiday weekend.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Nov 21, 2008 -> 12:02 PM) We're basically staying on Hemenway Street right near Fenway in the Back Bay area. I imagine we'll probably want to stick pretty close to that area. So will definitely check out the places on Lansdowne Road. EDIT: Anywhere that you can recommend to eat for dinner round that area also? Boston Beer Works has decent food and will be right around the corner from you. If you are heading Faneuil Hall just get food from the Market Place stalls. And although it's somewhat more upscale than some college-type bars, I cannot emphasize what a disservice you will do yourself as a drinker of good beer if you do not get to Anam Cara.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 19, 2008 -> 06:01 PM) I TOO LIKE GARRET'S POPCORN Mmmm mmm, nothing beats a bag of warm cheddar and caramel corn mix on a cold Chicago day.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Nov 19, 2008 -> 04:02 PM) You. Are. A. Huge. Nerd. It's a fair cop, as far as the original Dune series is concerned. I loved those books and think Frank Herbert at his best was a brilliant author. Other than Tolkein, I don't think there has been a sci-fi/fantasy author who has fleshed out a fictional universe as thoroughly or thoughtfully as the one from the Dune books.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Nov 19, 2008 -> 12:19 PM) It was coke-related too, which is kinda ironic. . . . or prophetic

QUOTE (YASNY @ Nov 19, 2008 -> 02:06 PM) No. I mean maybe, but I remember this straight from Dune. Absolutely right from Dune. The stilsuits that the Arakkis fremen wore used energy generated from the wearer's movements to reclaim moisture from urine and feces. Years later the concept for a urine-to-water still turned up again in Waterworld.

Luxuriating in the silky depths of the Duval Cruzer. . . Somebody out in TikiLand created a brilliant mai tai variant he called the "Rabid Mongoose" that substituted key limes for persian limes and then added Cruzan Blackstrap rum to stand up to the key lime. I've been tweaking that recipe to showcase the blackstrap and the key lime, but to also keep the drink solidly in the mai tai family. The result is the Duval Cruzer, a gorgeous, hardcore ubertiki drink that will kill 1/3 of you on contact, leave another 1/3 blind and deaf in one ear, and elevate the remaining 1/3 of you to a higher level of consciousness. For anyone who dares, I gives you the Duval Cruzer: • 1 oz fresh-squeezed key lime juice (juice from a bottle will NOT cut it. juice from key limes stolen from your elderly neighbor's tree under cover of darkness is worth extra points) • 1.5 oz Cruzan Blackstrap Navy Rum (Fan-frigging-tastic stuff - not for the faint of heart) • 1.5 oz white rum (Cruzan or Appleton if you have it, Bacardi if you must) • 0.75 oz sour mix of choice (make your own or splurge on the Roskin's Bob Esmino mix for bonus tiki style points) • 0.75 oz orgeat syrup (next to the rum and lime, this is the heart of the mai tai) • 2 dash Angoustoura bitters • sprig mint garnish Shake all ingredients with crushed ice and pour into a double old-fashioned glass, rocks glass, or other appropriate vessel. Spin up ypur favorite Lex Baxter or Martin Denny exotica, and join the Luau For those that survive the initiation Rituale, this drink is liquid religion. As to the question of whether I'm drunk enough to post in this thread. . . If I'm drunk enough to give away the secrets of Tikivana, then I'm fairly well lit. [sadly, it's pro'lly only Tiki Acolyte Tex who would give this drink a whirl, but he's all busy with work and school and cr@p and won't have time to build this monument to decadence. Alas, I drink alone in the Quiet Village by the Sea] *hic!*

I credit this recent turn of the thread for giving me the urge over the past two hours to dust off and spin some old Replacements records (Hootenanny and Let It Be). Solid stuff right there.

QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 08:04 PM) Well, since it says "singers", doesn't the exclusion of Ronnie James Dio and Rob Halford pretty much make the entire list null and void??? Seriously, you might not like Metal, but few people on the face of this earth could sing like those guys in their prime, and Dio is STILL pretty damn good. I agree on both counts. Being the tamer/lamer non-metalhead I am, I'm also incensed by the omission of Todd Rundgren, a great, soulful, powerful and very technically proficient vocalist.

And no Brad Delp either. My Boston tolerance threshold is pretty low, but that guy sure could sing.

QUOTE (shipps @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 10:13 AM) Yep and I really dont understand why,they sound sooo good. They sound good in the right place, but they are less versatile than a lot of people think. You can do bends on them because on of the paired strings will be bent relatively less than the other and thus the strings are out of tune with one another. The fretboards are also not particularly fast since they have to be somewhat wider than a typical 6-string fretboard. Finally, restringing 12 strings is just a pain in the ass! That said, I have 25-year old Yamaha 12-string that i bought back in high school that I love to pieces, so don't mind me.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 09:58 AM) I know we've only known each other 4 weeks and 3 days, but to me it seems like 9 weeks and 5 days. "Pay to the order of 'Iron Balls' McGinty, one dollar. . . and NINE CENTS!"

You want to try something new, you should look into being a fisheries observer on an Alaskan fishing fleet vessel.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 04:49 PM) Now that I agree with... like I said, a man sitting on the toilet, straining, while taking a s***... all the while a studio mike is hanging above his toilet stall... BOOOOOOOORN IN THE USAAAA I was BORRRRRRRRRN IN THE USAAAAAA (ahhhhhhhh)... Ach, so much of that album is sellout pop anyway. For being his biggest commercial success, it's such a creative low-water mark imho. Give me Thunder Road or Rosalita over that stuff any day.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 04:33 PM) Bruce Springsteen even making the list is a joke. The man sounds like he's constantly straining while taking a s*** and singing at the same time for almost every song he sings. His voice fits his music. I'd keep him on the list before some of the others on there.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 04:28 PM) I'm not a huge Beatles fan, but didn't Lennon sing all the harmony parts on their early stuff? Vocally, that stuff is amazing. No, of the Lennon/McCartney compositions from the early days, it's about 50/50 who sang lead and who sang harmony. And some of the best/most intricate harmony parts were George's close harmonies. Not disagreeing with you at all about that stuff being amazing vocally, mind you. I grew up loving the later-era Beatles stuff most and not giving the early recordings much credit. Now I absolutely love the old stuff and think it best encapsulates the magic of the band.

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 04:21 PM) Yeah, they stopped doing that one down here too. No you can get 5 Arby melts for $5. They are palatable as long as you tell them to hold the cheeze-whiz crap they try to pass off as cheddar cheese.

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 03:14 PM) Junior Bacon Cheeseburger - Wendy's ^^^ Unfortunately they took the small Frosty off the value menu here, because the Jr. bacon Cheeseburger, small chili, and small Frosty off the value menu always hit the spot.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 03:11 PM) And I am trying to think of a criteria that would place Lennon ahead of McCartney in singing?? Mostly, that's Rolling Stone throwing in behind the badboy Beatle rrather than the cutesy Beatle.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 11:01 AM) I don't agree, at least not through Pleased To Meet Me. I listen to a lot of their stuff to this day, and it still holds up well to my ears. Of course I'm biased because the Replacements have a near and dear place in my heart. I loved the Mats, and they put on one of the most entertaining shows I've ever seen. They were kind of sloppy live, but I've rarely had more fun at a concert. I'm a more casual fan, but I like their a lot of their stuff and i also think it holds up well. And great live shows too, if a bit rough around the edges. QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 02:18 PM) See THAT"S exactly it. They built a rep on being a drunk, sloppy mess on stage. I think that had a lot to do with their popularity. Not to say that their fans don't enjoy their music, but there's some weird fascination that people have about watching musicians drinking themselves to death. ...and why the hell are they called the Mats? For me, the fact that they had such longevity as a club band when most of their contemporaries ascended to play larger venues and stadiums only to disappear from map soon after was always refreshing and endearing. I think if NRBQ the same way, and they are a group I'm a much more devoted fan of. Maybe the drunkenness/sloppiness of Westerberg or Terry Adams et al. kept both bands from really hitting the big time I'm not sure. But the bands remained really accessible for fans which is not often the case. my random thoughts on it at any rate.

I don't get too bent out of shape over these lists, but yeah, the ranking on some of these is crazy. I'm not a huge Journey fan (White Sox-related soft spot for them aside), but from a technical standpoint Steve Perry should be weay the hell higher than #76. Paul Rodgers should be moved up as well, and Freddie Mercury should have cracked the top 10. Also not the biggest Van Halen fan, but David Lee Roth doesn't even make the top 100?!?

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