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QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Dec 7, 2009 -> 04:00 PM) Y'know, you coulda waited until you got to "Z" in the other thread. Now, I'm looking for closure. X is still a hard letter to cover, forwards or backwards. Best strategy is still to talk about X in a sentence that starts with X.

Zaya Gran Reserva was the sipping rum of choice last night. Sadly, the bottle has been polished off.

Go ahead and pretend you're Benjamin Button and it's really just you going backwards.

I Drank What?!!?

Knowing when to drink and when not to drink is half the battle. Maximizing the former and minimizing the latter is the other half.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 7, 2009 -> 01:12 PM) Plus if you ever get pulled over for DUI, you can refer to this thread to help you get through the sobriety tests! Or you can blame this thread for driving you to drink. . . and drive.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 7, 2009 -> 01:09 PM) Really not diggin the vibe in this thread. Quite interesting, seeing as we're already such a backwards group here on the best of days.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 7, 2009 -> 12:11 PM) In the midst of all of the tributes and commemorations for Pearl Harbor day, I came across this event for the first time. It is known as the Other Pearl Harbor. I had never heard of this before. Apparently it was classified until basically 1960, so no one really has talked about it. http://battle.netgate.net/westloch/westloch.htm That's a new one on me too. I understand keeping it under wraps during the war, but it's odd it hasn't received wider attention more recently.

Very early jump on the X-rated references in this thread, I see.

X-rated homophobic post did the trick, I believe.

My folks are down in Florida for their Snowbird Season, about 75 minutes from me. They didn't make the trip last year because my Mom was receiving breast cancer treatment all last year and didn't want to leave her Chicago doctors. We're going to go hang out with them this coming weekend and a while ago Mom noted that she quite liked the British apéritif Pimm's #1, so I told her I'd round up everything and make her authentic English-style Pimm's Cups this weekend. The Pimm's was easy to procure, and oranges, lemons, mint, and cucumbers (the secret ingredient garnish that must not be skipped) are no problem. Now, for the mixer, ginger ale of English-style lemonade are the traditional choices. Ginger ale was easy enough to get of course, but I practically killed myself hunting for authentic English lemonade. I tried using Jamaican Ting grapefruit soda in test runs, and it wasn't bad. I tried using Italian lemon soda which is fizzy like English lemonade but is cloudy yellow like American lemonade, and the drink just didn't come together. The drink works nicely with plane-jane ginger ale, but I was determined to find English lemonade as well. Several specialty markets and import stores later I had success in a neat little English import shop in the quaint old downtown of my home town. I snatched up the only 4 cans of R Whites Premium Lemonade, and am now ready to make up some Pimm's Cups.

Make it a good one!

QUOTE (Disco72 @ Dec 5, 2009 -> 01:12 PM) Does anyone have any experience with any of these "beer of the month" clubs? My brother is a beer lover and does some homebrewing as well. He lives in the Chicago area and has access to some very good selections of beers at local beer/liquor stores. I'm not sure if he'll get anything that special in the "beer of the month" club that he can't find either in Chicago (or that I can get here in GA if he can't get it in the midwest). Any thoughts? Thanks! These days I tend to agree with you, the clubs are of limited use. I used to belong to a few of them 15+ years ago when Florida was still a total beer wasteland and they were great. Now, especially in a big city, I think you have enough variety that the clubs are not needed. If you want to get him a nice beer-related gift, you might think about a subscription to a quality magazine called All About Beer, or a homebrewing magazine like Zymurgy or Brew Your Own.

Dr. Tennessee Humbug in the house.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 4, 2009 -> 10:48 PM) El Nino tends to make everything a bit weird. Followed invariable by his nasty sister La Niña. And then we're really in trouble, because how many hispanic families do you know that stop at just two kids.

I finally had a chance today to have lunch at an out of the way Korean restaurant I've had my sights on for months. Hot and cold kimchi and pork with lots of nice sesame veggie sides. Best meal I've had in a long time. And now as a bonus I'm burping all the flavors of the rainbow!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 4, 2009 -> 03:11 PM) Potter is actually the Great-Great-Great Grandfather of Harry. Quidditch did not look like the Elder Potter's forte.

QUOTE (Tex @ Dec 4, 2009 -> 01:48 PM) nice lesson in Wonderful Life, when life deals you lemons, get drunk and try to kill yourself Old Grouches like Potter Scrooge and Tex get a bad rap this time of the year.

Kris Kringelnator!

Hope it's a good one!

QUOTE (Tex @ Dec 3, 2009 -> 06:03 PM) Already I have completed withdrawal from soxtalk.I can live without posting all day. However, I do sometimes wonder what y'all are talking about Hell, you wish we were talking about you.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Dec 3, 2009 -> 04:40 PM) Denmark doesnt appear to be recognized. Marcellus knew what he was talking about when he told us something was rotten there.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Dec 2, 2009 -> 06:00 PM) The Trapped Inside My Home Shuffle: Cheap Trick - Just Got Back The Kings - Switching To Glide Peter Frampton - Show Me The Way Anti-Nowhere League - I Hate People Husker Du - Hardly Getting Over It Led Zeppelin - In The Evening Face To Face - Merry Christmas Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son Supers*** 666 - Wire Out Secret Machines - Nowhere Again And the Ow My Goddamned Foot bonus track: Megadeth - 1,320 This shuffle was dominated by older bands, huh? Please tell me you did not listen to Switchin' to Glide without playing This Beat Goes On. . . That would be an affront that the Canadian Power Pop Gods could smite you for.

XLR microphone connections come in a variety of different configuration, and not just the standard 3-prong versions you usually encounter. I find this fact semi-interesting and so I'm sharing it here. Yet again, I get scooped by mere seconds.

Somewhere there's a former gym teacher clutching a copy of Tropic of Capricorn and mumbling "Cantstandyaaa!" and thinking of you.