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QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Apr 25, 2008 -> 10:48 AM) http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/24/snipes...cing/index.html It's amazing, you have to pay your taxes!!! If I ever generate significant income I will make a number one priority that my taxes are in order. The U.S. government will nail anyone, big or small, for not paying their taxes. there's no tricks to get around it There are plenty of tricks, shelters, loopholes, etc., to legally minimize the tax nut, but no, not filing is not one of them. Dang, guy has more money than I can even comprehend and can't figure out that if he doesn't pay his income tax it's going to catch up with him.

Well, that dude sipping mojitos on the beach on that weblink ain't cycling no 560 miles. I kid. I signed on the line for ya, now the hard stuff is up to you. Rock On, RKA! :headbang

QUOTE (shipps @ Apr 25, 2008 -> 09:01 AM) Is cougar a new term for the old hot chix?It seems like people use it all the time now. Urban Dictionary on "Cougars"

:cheers Make 'em good, y'all!

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 24, 2008 -> 10:22 PM) wine coolers are part wine, part malt. Hmm, all of them, or just the Seagram's cr@p? Shows how much I know/care about wine coolers.

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 24, 2008 -> 10:09 PM) Smirnoff Ice, Zima, Wine Coolers.. all malt liquor beverages. Wine coolers shouldn't be. . . in light of the fact that the alcohol is coming from fermented fruit and not malted grain. But, state and regional alcoholic beverage designations being as whacky as they are, I can see some places stamping wine coolers as malt liquor I guess.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Apr 24, 2008 -> 05:33 PM) "Malt Liquor" is beer with higher alcohol. Correct. In some US markets, I've seen imports like Oberdorfer weiss and Spaten Optimator stamped as malt liquors, so that use of the term represents a broad alcohol-based designation. American malt liquor, however, is a recognized beer style – for better or worse. BJCP style guidelines place it as a stye in the catch-all "specialty beer" category, and the ABG (The Great American Beer Festival people) place it in its own judging category. It's almost universally brewed with lager yeast abd it has a ridiculously high percentage of adjunct fermentables – not just corn and rice, but often plain dextrose sugar as well. Additional amylase enzymes are often added to the mash to maximize conversion of cereal starch to fermentable sugar Lager yeasts used are high-attenuating strains, meaning they ferment almost all of the fermentable sugars resulting in a high alcohol/low body product. Fermentation of all that adjunct sugar to a high alcohol often results in the formation of an appreciable amount of fusel alcohols, which can give the beer a harsh solvent-like aroma. The "charcoal filtering" proudly noted on the label of Olde English 800 is actually used to remove the harsh fusels. Mmm mmm yummy, eh?

QUOTE (daa84 @ Apr 24, 2008 -> 08:45 PM) was just flipping through the channels and saw One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest On....not sure if thats considered a comedy, but I feel like if the graduate is, it should be...i didnt consider it for my list, but it woulda been high if considered a comedy.....if its not a comedy it certainly has its moments Cuckoo's Nest is a top 10 all-time film for me, and it does have its comedic moments. But I never think of it as a comedy even though I certainly consider Graduate to be one. I don't know if that's a fair assessment or not.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Apr 24, 2008 -> 10:21 AM) I'm raising the and thinking urban legend. It would be a good one. Nothing on Snopes about it though.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 24, 2008 -> 10:10 AM) Rattlesnakes can get awfully big - some can be 5 feet long. Heck, just look at the picture I took, that snake is bigger than the one in Tex's picture, and its definitely a rattler of one kind or another. QUOTE (Texsox @ Apr 24, 2008 -> 11:11 AM) I've seen bigger. The size was well within the range. No, what Steve means is that at that size the snake would have had a well-developed rattle. It didn't have a rattle according to Tex's friend, ergo, not a rattlesnake.

I wish I knew my snakes better, they are crazy cool animals. Same with bats, I think I could have been happy being a bat biologist. Until they all started dying from this awful white nose syndrome thing, that is just wiping out colony after colony in the northeast.

Make it a good one! :cheers

They live in a ho-ho-ho-hole hole that is usually empty (tiny too). They live by a co-co-co-code that is probably SMPTE Well, maybe I think that is what keeps 'em in sync.

Damn. :angry:

QUOTE (Soxy @ Apr 23, 2008 -> 09:59 PM) I don't know--I don't mind a python in mine from time to time. Oh, Behave! Or, maybe you are professing your secret love for John Cleese and Michael Palin?

It doesn't seem all that controversial to me to say it in Spanish as part of Spanish class. . . unless the teacher makes you include that "under God" afterthought bit that got inserted 61 years after the Pledge was written.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 23, 2008 -> 09:06 PM) Gila Wilderness in southwest New Mexico, at about 8000' ASL, on a closed forest service road reverting to a trail. I'm pretty sure its not a Baja rattler. And I don't know of a rattlesnake in that part of the country other than a d-back that looks like that. If it's from southern NM, then no, probably not a Baja. But, knowing that, I do think that's an image of a Mojave rattlesnake, and not a western diamondback. Here's a Mojave (Crotalus scutulatus): All that aside, the snake from the shot Tex posted is certainly long enough that it would have had rattles if it was a rattlesnake. Bull snake is still my best guess for a rattler mimic, even with the pit-viperish head.

QUOTE (the People's Champ @ Apr 23, 2008 -> 07:03 PM) NOONYNOONYNOOOOO Wizzo the Wizard rocked my childhood

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 23, 2008 -> 05:32 PM) Then see here, a pic I took of a western diamondback: You decide. Where were you when you saw that rattlesnake? It looks almost more like a Baja rattler than a western diamondback.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 23, 2008 -> 09:23 AM) Wow. And um, Tex, I'm not a herpetologist either, but take a close look at that picture. That is a western diamondback, I'd bet on it. Its not just the pattern either, look at its head - its clearly a viper. If it didn't have a rattle yet, that may just be because it was immature. There are a few snakes that are non-vipers that imitate rattlers, but they don't have the triangular viper-type heads like that one does. Your friend is very fortunate. Seems awful big to be so immature as to not have any rattles. There's also a lot of white space in between the dark blotches, more than is typical of a western diamondback. I think it may be a bull snake (aka gopher snake). Not a herpatologist either, though. kyyle is pretty up on his herps though (insert STD joke here. . . ), so maybe he'll wander by and chime in.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Apr 23, 2008 -> 12:19 PM) Oh man, I forgot about Orgy of the Dead. Let's not confuse people, these aren't modern day Las Vegas strippers. These are some rough ladies. Also, don't forget the awesome banter between, if I remember correctly, the Wolfman and the Mummy. Crisswell's classic line "Throw gold at her! MORE GOLD!" That was THE LINE line that had my wife and I laughing for 10 minutes. And, yeah, these were some classy ladies. I have to admit I've never seen all of Glen or Glenda, so I know I better do that or I'll get kicked out of the Edward D. Wood Fan Club.

QUOTE (maggliopipe @ Apr 23, 2008 -> 03:26 PM) That's very interesting. I can't stand High Life but I've always thought MGD was a very drinkable macrobrew. Maybe it's just been a perception issue all these years. Or do the different sterilization techniques have that large an effect on taste? There is a taste difference. Pasteurization kills some of the subtle flavors associated with the perception of a beer's 'freshness', and so the cold-filtering of MGD was supposed to give the packaged versions of that product a fresh taste reminiscent of unpasteurized High Life on draft. On the other hand, microfiltering removes some small molecules the lend themselves to the mouthfeel of a beer, so there are a couple of reasons for very subtle flavor differences between the brands.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Apr 23, 2008 -> 03:16 PM) So why does keg beer get skunky after the keg is tapped and left overnight? There is no light reaching the beer That's oxidization/loss of carbonation, and I guess you can cell it skunkiness but it is a distinctly different flavor from the lightstruck DMS skunkiness. That doesn't happen to kegs that are tapped and dispensed with CO2 or beer gas (a CO2/nitorgen mix), of course, and that's why bars and restaurants can have a keg on tap for weeks without it going bad.

QUOTE (southsidehawkeye @ Apr 23, 2008 -> 02:39 PM) Yeah, I've always heard that skunky smelling beer was caused by light... I actually believe that the technical term for the defection that causes the smell is "light struck beer" - not sure on that one though, so dont quote me on it. Brown bottles are best at avoiding this problem and green/clear or the worst. Personal experience would make me agree with this statement, while I dont typically drink MGD or High Life (more a bud guy) I do run into skunky smells with Corona, Heineken, and Rolling Rock much more than I feel like I should. Edit: Here is an article that I found explaining a study at UNC over this topic http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/200...c-ucf101701.php Seems that light breaks down the hops, them breaking down is responsible for the bad smell/taste. Hops also help control the bacteria levels in beer. Well, dangit son, you beat me to it and I should have read the whole thread. Good on ya.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Apr 23, 2008 -> 10:44 AM) Rolling Rock did the same thing. I used to love that beer, then it sucked. Dont they both come from the Latrobe brewery? QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Apr 23, 2008 -> 10:48 AM) Red Dog is Plank Road Brewery. Yes, and as we all know, the "Plank Road Brewery" is really SABMiller trying to fool people into thinking it's a micro. QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 23, 2008 -> 10:57 AM) Im not a scientist, but I believe part of the reason Rolling Rock gets skunky so easy is because it has a green glass bottle. Green glass supposedly does not reflect light as well as the darker brown. You are exactly right. The UV light passing through the green or clear glass and striking the beer produces a chemical called dimethyl sulfide (DMS). That is the skunky aroma and flavor compound in beer that is technically said to have been "lightstruck". Adjunct beer brewed with a significant amount of corn is particularly susceptible to the phenomenon, and in those cases th emall is very reminiscent of Green Giant niblets corn that has gone horribly wrong somewhere. QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Apr 23, 2008 -> 11:39 AM) So why isnt MGD known for getting skunky quicker, since they have clear bottles? Or Miller High life? I didnt think it was light exposure, I thought it was exposure to air. Hmm, you learn something new every day No, it's light, not oxygen. Oxidized beer has a stale cardboard taste, not DMS. As to why High Life and MGD don't get lightstruck as often, I really think their handlers and drivers do a better job of not exposing the bottles to light. Interesting Miller trivia: MGD and Miller High Life are the exact same recipe formulation (and both are 4.7%), but High Life is heat pasteurized while MGD is microfiltered under refrigeration.