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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 11, 2010 -> 09:53 PM) Xanthippe's keep creeping round the back door. Ascid mites are difficult to exterminate, but that is no excuse for incorrect use of the possessive word form.

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 11, 2010 -> 09:33 PM) Very good song, and don't be creepin around my back door Well I think you just did enough creepin' for the whole site with all the talk about your back door.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 11, 2010 -> 07:23 PM) Sundown? What band are we talking about? Unbelievable that you don't know the discography of Canadian National Treasure Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr.

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 11, 2010 -> 07:57 AM) Miller Lite may make the list of favorite beers and FlaSoxxjim will weep for those those tastebuds. Victory for Miller to make the world think that s*** is worthy of being called beer.

List submitted. I tried to stick with relatively well-known beers, and definitely would have had an easier time with a list of 100 favorites instead of 20.

Scientists discover unknown lizard species at lunch buffet per CNN. Neat story about a species undescribed by science but well-known enough where it occurs in remote rural Vietnam that it is a regular lunch buffet item.

Lightfoot didn't really pull off heavy other than that song. If You Could Read My Mind and Sundown were most definitely kitschy.

Justly regarded as a tragedy, the Fitzgerald sinking totally redoubled the respect Great Lakes mariners had for how treacherous the winter waters could be.

Harbor Branch Oceanographic is one of the few entities who have been granted access to the Fitz grave site. We are quite proud of our handful of Great Lakes expeditions including the visits to the Fitzgerald.

QUOTE (G&T @ Nov 10, 2010 -> 07:23 PM) I am located in Upstate New York. Unfortunately, that's a different state than real New York. I honestly can't find any really good selection of liquors, but dammit, I will keep trying. Work has really been getting in the way of my drinking lately. It's quite sad. I have to think Albany has an in with some of the downstate distributors. I switched it up and played with Hendrick's Gin and tequila this evening. Hendrick's has a wonderful cucumber essence that compliments the juniper and citrus and I think it would be hard to mess up a drink if it uses Hendrick's as a starting point. Ending the night with a dusky/throaty margarita iteration that I know I'll come back to. 1.5 oz El Jimador reposado tequila 1 oz Rhum Clement Creole Shrub (sitting in for the more typical triple sec or Cointreau) 0.5 oz lime juice 1 tsp. panella brown sugar syrup 1 tsp. light agave syrup 1 tsp. Del Maguay Santo Domingo Mezcal Even at a scant teaspoon, the mezcal smoke comes through nicely but not in an overpowering way. The agave and dark sugar syrup add some depth and the Martinique shrub liqueur brings a slight bit of agricole funk to the drink. I shook on ice and strained this one up, but it would also work well popular style on the rocks with a salted rim. This is a really nice drink that would probably be even better with a premium añejo tequila if only I had one on hand.

"Dodge, duck, dip, dive. . . and dodge!" If you're going to become true dodgeballers, then you've got to learn the Five D's of dodgeball

b****-slap me, I deserve it.

Zymurgy, not Xymurgy. Ach. I kan't spel and I've pulled a Balta in the thread once again.

Vasily Ryabikov would not be amused. Vasily Ryabikov has become my new favorite V entry.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 10, 2010 -> 05:06 PM) Thunder Muscle That's my porn name.

QUOTE (G&T @ Nov 10, 2010 -> 06:03 PM) Thanks for all the coconut recipes! I have to get more pineapple juice. Meanwhile I need to get more rum. I haven't any since my first purchase and my bank account seems unusually fat (relative to my general poorness). I will upgrade the Appleton from the vx and get more Pussers because I need the painkillers. But I want something else to try as well. I have the stores with Cruzan available so o will probably go with something decent from them. Any suggestions? Let me know what you think of some of the coco drinks when you try them. Cruzan's white rum is excellent and affordable — it's been my house white rum for a couple of years. It's not a sipper (few white rums truly are), but it is a great mixer with more top-palate flavors and less alcohol burn than that wretched Bacardi Silver. Cruzan's Blackstrap Navy Rum is totally unlike any other rum. It's outstanding as an assertive cocktail rum but it's too bold to be considered as an all-purpose utility rum. Cruzan's Single Barrel rum is pricier than the others — typically ~$30 — but it is a fine sipping rum and a decadent cocktail rum as well. I try to keep maybe five solid sippers on hand and this one is usually in the rotation. I also keep their 151 on hand for high-octane mixed drinks like rumrunners. It is a lot better than Bacardi yet not as assertive as something like Gosling's 151 or a Demerera 151. It's a niche rum not an all-purpose rum, but if you start getting into flaming tiki drinks it's a good affordable choice. All the other Cruzan products (I've not tried the new trendy fruit flavors other than the coconut) are solid but I don't consider them must-have for the home bar. The Clipper 120 proof I'm actually a little underwhelmed by the 2-year dark rum's lack of character compared to several others in the price range. Their Clipper 120 overproof product is one I like but it doesn't crack my must-have listThe newest product is "9" spiced rum which I haven't worried about picking up yet (spiced rums are a big bandwagon trend and most of them are forgettable with three exceptions I think). The Cruzan product I dearly miss is their Diamond Estate aged rum that they discontinued maybe a year ago. It was affordable at well under $20 and tasted like a much more expensive rum. The fact that they stopped making this one but manage to put out a zillion flavored rums and a trendy spiced rum irks me. If you find one of the last bottles of this on a shelf somewhere definitely snag it. Now, located in New York as you are, you have access to a few rums getting rave reviews that I can't get and am dying to try. Two white rums in particular that I know are distributed in New York are El Dorado's 3 year and a very new product called Bank's Five Island. They are both supposed to be amazing, full-flavored, and very much unlike typical light rums. If you run across either of these, the word from the rum underground is that you should immediately buy and enjoy them.

Catastrophic if the aquarium in question was mine.

A beautiful fish. I have one in the aquarium a room away from me. Acanthuridae is the family, and I could have gone that route as well. Alas.

Yellow you say?

That woman is a keeper for sure! As for amarettos, we mostly stick with Disaronno as well but I bet you could get away with a lesser product as a mixer. Looking for a yummy new amaretto drink? Try this one.

Sputnik 1 orbited Earth 1,440 times in the three months it spent in space.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 10, 2010 -> 01:57 PM) Beat someone! Crap

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 10, 2010 -> 01:56 PM) Actually we could land someone on the sun, its that surviving part that would be difficult Balta Beat Ya!