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QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Jan 6, 2010 -> 12:13 PM) Yep and I hated Elmhurst. I remember those teevee ads for Long Chevrolet. . . IN ELMHURST!

Add King Kong and Kung Fu Panda to the Jack Black keeper list, I think. I also liked School of Rock.

K is the next letter here in Bizzarro World, yes? Rats. I'm stumped.

Remember when "penny candy" actually cost something at least close to a penny?

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Jan 6, 2010 -> 02:11 AM) Respect George Gershwin and the reverse alphabet. Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin'. And the cotton is high.

Hard to beat the classic original drink I agree. But I'm intrighed by the theme and variations, and I have to respect the Brazilian perspective since it's their drink and all. I'm apparently on yet another new year resolution diet (courtesy of the Mrs.), and I fear it's really going to cut into my libations for a while.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 09:49 PM) so much caiparinhas with so many cachaças. Fav. so far is Cachaça Select. Post some recipes for your favorites, I'm thirsty!

QUOTE (The Gooch @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 03:44 PM) Does anyone here brew their own beer. I just got a beginners kit for Christmas. I am about to start brewing a German Light beer! I still need to get a brew pot, bottles, and caps however. Does anyone else here brew at home and know where to get the best deals on these/have any good advice for someone trying this their first time? I'm semi-retired (too busy with work and family), but before that I'd been a hardcore homebrewer for years, starting with kits on hotplates in my college dorm room and eventually graduating to all-grain full mash 20 gallon boils using sawed off kegs as brewpots. Someone else here — daSox24 I think is out there brewing up a storm as well. As far as advice, I'd say go ahead and brew your kit to specifications, but don't beat yourself up if it comes out iffy. Truthfully, those lager kits do a terrible injustice to budding brewers who should not be trying to brew lagers. True lagers need controlled cold fermentations and long conditioning that is beyond not just new brewers but probably 75% of all homebrewers. Eventually, if you enjoy the process and want to stick with it, you'll want to brew ales. Ale yeast is much more forgiving of higher temperature fermentations, and ales are ready to drink in a couple of weeks rather than a couple of months. You'll also want to switch from cheap dry yeast to the more expensive but infinitely better liquid yeast cultures. And, you'll want to start using real hops and a little bit of specialty grain in your brews even if you are using malt extract (which allows yu to make perfectly food beer — most homebrewers remain content to use extract and specialty grains for a few years before making the jump to all-grain mashes. I know in all likelihood I just confused the hell out of you. Don't sweat it and brew the kit. While you're waiting for the beer to ferment and then bottle condition, pick up a copy of Charlie Papazian's New Complete Joy of Homebrewing and dig in (Tex bought it for his son for Christmas I think!). This is the starting point for the vast majority of homebrewers who ever get anyshere with the hobby, and Papazian is pretty much the reason that homebrewing ever took off in the US. "Don't Worry, Relax, Have a Homebrew"

QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 05:42 PM) Faygo has a good dark cherry soda. I suspect my high school art teacher was Faygo, but never knew for sure.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 05:31 PM) Paris Hilton's friend, heiress Casey Johnson RW Jr.'s side of the J&J family always seemed a bit more stable than Seward's (a couple tragedies in the 70s notwithstanding), but go figure with Casey. RW never willed his fortune away to his housekeeper in his last days like Seward did though, so she stood to inherit some major money. If you ever want to get an inside look at the dysfunctional young and privileged, the film Born Rich by Jamie Johnson, (Casey's cousin on Seward's side). It really makes you wonder if having all the money in the world and no responsibilities is a blessing or a curse.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 02:22 PM) This is my 15 minutes of fame. Friends of our family put in for the tickets years and years back and let me and my cousin come along. I got picked for the grand prize game. Got to the 4th bucket before I missed it. Once I got past the 3rd bucket I got false hope that I was going to win the whole damn thing. I won some small items like a family board game. I walked out of there with some cool stuff, but in reality I didn't respect it because I was bummed I didnt win the grand prize which was a bike. I remember thinking that it would be on the next week on TV but it look like 6 months for it to show up on TV. This thread is cool just to jog some old memories. I need to locate the VHS tape at my dads house of this so I can convert it to DVD for my kids to see. The bike was the big prize, but don't forget about the silver dollars — one more added to the bucket each day "until someone wins them all!!"

Tell it like it is. Don't be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide.

What would you do if I sang out of tune?

My grandma sent for Bozo tickets pretty much when my younger brother was born and we finally got them eight years later. Imagine my surprise when the audience "cast of thousands" was actually only about two hundred people. My brother was picked to play a team relay race game but his team ended up losing because one of the kids (in a cub scout uniform) stopped to pick his pants out of his ass and gave up the lead.

Just finished Pride and Prejudice and Zombies the other night. Good fun.

Well, if we're not playing this year, then Abe Vigoda can live another 1,000 years for all I care.

Crocodile Rockin' is something shocking when your feet just can't keep still.

QUOTE (hogan873 @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 08:40 AM) Remember WebTV? I got that free for several years in return for agreeing to take regular consumer surveys via the system. Cumbersome and clunky as hell, but the at-home interactivity on the Jeopardy game show was cool.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 08:09 AM) I've had minimal interest and a decent amount of revulsion. Yeah, some people consider there to be a morbid side to it. I prefer to see it as a celebration on a fundamental facet of the human condition — our ability to ponder our own mortality. . . and then to make ourselves feel better because we're fairly certain we'll outlive the people on our list. For the record, you can emphasize to would-be players that it is poor form to do anything to actually hasten the demise of anyone on your list. Alas, the 2010 Soxtalk Dead Pool appears itself to be dead.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 12:47 AM) The mini golf was the kind with the annoying windmill, but the real fun was taking novices and having them reach in the hole on the 18th and try to retrieve the ball. The 18th hole was usually the only hole-in-one you could count on.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 3, 2010 -> 05:34 PM) It's a new year, is there any interest by anyone? QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 4, 2010 -> 11:02 AM) I'm in So, are we going to do this or what? My list is ready and I'd hate to have some of these geezers kick it before the game commenced. My strategy is not going to be for the drug overdose longshots this year, and instead I'll try to stay the course with the oldsters who have somehow managed to give the Grim Reaper th slip for far too long.

Volcanic activity in the long-ago of what is now Texas — whodathunkit!

xenoliths are more commonly found in Texas than Zachary-free women.

Zachary disease is an epidemic among Texas women.

Damn, there isn't a single open drive-in within 25 miles of where I grew up. What a lost bit of Americana.