Weekend open thread
I’ve got to make another trip to Winchester, Virginia so I’ll be off the network for a bit, so here you go – a thread to discuss what you want, a place to drop off links and talk about your Christmas presents and your recipes.
Category: Administrative
Good mroning, TAH! We are having a heat wave right now, which will last until Sunday night, and then Mom Nature will do another cold snap and make us all wish we were some place else.
Jonn: Wave as you pass Exit 5 on 81.
What does the fox say?
36 deg here in SE Michigan. Slurping breakfast, hitting the weights (praying that they won’t hit ME), then heading to a lunch meeting about our Thunder Over Michigan airshow coming up in August (www.yankeeairmuseum.org). Should be interesting…we’ve hosted the Blue Angels three times (plus a show we did in Utah in 2012), this will be our first with the Thunderbirds. I love the smell of jet fuel and avgas in the morning!
If you get hungry, hit a place on N. Loudon called Brewbaker’s. Great food and a killer beer selection.
Mike
I’m dropping a big fat Giduck as I type this on my laptop. “Terror At Bathroom” CAN happen!!
30 degrees and black ice here in Southeast Washington. Hi all you dickweeds! Jonn’s name not mine, and it does NOT apply to my girl Ex-PH2. @4 We are not a big community. At our annual air show we get a C-130 and an F-18. Haven’t seen the Angels or Thunderbirds in years. Up here you have to go to the Fairchild AFB airshow to see them. First time I saw them was at Donaldson AFB Greenville, SC. They were F-100s. The best show I ever saw I think were the F-4 Phantoms at Keesler AFB. But nothing at all like the real thing in Vietnam, in action and dropping there stuff. I love it when they kicked on the afterburners and you don’t see that stateside very often. I am on my new Christmas laptop. Sorry for the long post. I am feeling like “Curt”. Hope I made more sense. @1 Ex-PH2…I think I love you! 😀
If you’re trying to figure out how to stretch the pound of bacon, cut the rashers in half before you cook them. When you put them on the plate, it looks like you have more than you actually do. Fools the eye, every time.
@Sparks, you made my day. Right back at you.
@9 Ex I don’t care about the Marines. In my heart you can always do ten pull ups! 😀
Ex, that is considered heresy and you shall be flogged for suggesting that bacon be used in an optical illusion.
@10Sparks, I know you have a lot of frustrations, but under that, you’re a damned decent, nice guy.
I’m going to be in and out of here this weekend. I have laundry to do, kitchen to clean up, just stuff like that.
I think next year will be even better than this one.
@11Flagwaver, have you ever had to deal with four squabbling children over who has the most bacon on his plate?
It makes it last longer, too.
@12 You said the L word. Laundry. I do have to agree with Flagwaver, you cannot have too much bacon…ever.
@ #7: Remind me some time to tell you the story of having the T-birds blocking my car at an airshow. Pretty funny, except for the JP spilled on me part of it and them having to move two of those birds to let me out.
@14, Sorry, didn’t mean to spoil the mood.
Agreed – no such thing as too much bacon.
I went down town to have a beer yesterday ands saw a couple of winos passed out on the sidewalk. I thought of Paul (of the Ballsack).
As I looked down in the toilet this morning before I flushed I thought of Phildo.
Odd how that works.
Needless to say that Phildo is still avoiding calls seeking clarification of his military, Native American and LE claims.
I made my holiday turkey gumbo.
Best roux ever this year!
@18 It is not everyone who can make a proper roux. Here’s to you!
Ex, when is the new book coming out?
As far as presents go, besides art supplies my wife got me two crossbows. That and Indianapolis Colts stuff, F Tom Brady (I’m talking to you TSO).
Sparks—
Turns out you shouldn’t just do an antiseptic 1 cup of vegetable oil and 1 cup of flour.
Using 1 cup of mixed vegetable oil and the leavings from browning the anduille made the difference. It was a beautiful dark reddish brown when I added the vegetables.
Also, I added lemon juice to the gumbo while it was cooking and it cut through the usual oiliness…made for a really great taste.
@22 Sounds great! I love andouille sausage.
@Twist, re: B&B #2, Tina’s in Kyrgyzstan investigating suspected fraud and Rondo is going over to Doobie’s new townhouse to inspect him — er, it.
The team has so far rescued a mommy bear with two cubs and her last year’s bearlet from poachers and left them at the Great Dismal Swamp. They are making preparations for the tank triathlon and a joint force recon exercise re: going to Kyrzakistan.
Oh, yeah, the Beeg Honcho at FOB Camp Spartacus in Kyrgyzstan is Phelps Affenteil. He’s kind of like phildo, only fatter, lots of tats, lies like a rug. And Woz is breaking up with his boyfriend, who wants to turn into a girl, and Hardware is looking at entering an eating contest that has pies and another one that has hotdogs.
I want to do a good job on this, you know.
I wish I could share with you all something that someone from TAH sent me this morning. It was a forward from someone we all wish we didn’t know and do detest a lot.
There were references to gimpy, mayonnaise, pliers and blowtorches. Oh, and the writer thinks that someone (not me) is only 27 and has a necrophilic disorder. It was completely insane.
We should all be grateful that such things go into the spamcan and we don’t get to see them unless someone wants to let us have a good laugh.
Ex; I Can’t wait until I can read the next book. The last one had me rolling.
I’m on it, Twist.
Well, get snappy (ok, I’m done being bossy).:)
Twist: <3
Tears Morgan getting beaned by a cricket ball. repeatedly
@29 Ex where can I see or get your books? I did not know you were an author as well.
@25 Let me know who it is and I will find them and beat seven shades of shite out of ’em for you! 😀
Sparks, if you click on her name it will take you to her blog. (That’s true for others as well, not just PH. If it’s blue instead of black, they have a website listed. I think.) There is info there.
***WARNING-OFF COLOR JOKE AHEAD***
So this Montana rancher is driving along checking his fences when he sees a hitch hiker. He pulls over and offers the guy a ride. They talk little but the rancher asks where he is from. The guy replies San Francisco.
The rancher all of a sudden slams on the brakes. There is one of his sheep with its head caught in the barbed wire.
The rancher goes over and yanks his pants down and tears the sheep a new one.
He yells over to the truck, hey Frisco, you want some of this? The guy says, well…yea… but do I have to put my head in the barbed wire? 😀
@33 Thanks OWB
Edited the latest in a long line of verbal douchebaggery from vwp.
@36 You know I wished very hard for Christmas that Santa would bring me the present of never hearing from you again. I guess I didn’t get my wish this year. Tell me, just for shits and giggles, what year were you born? Because I don’t think you are old enough to be a real Vietnam protestor. I am sure you will pull up a calendar and post some bullshit anyway, so why am I asking? I think you are hunkered down in your bedroom looking at internet porn when your mom isn’t around and occasionally dropping in here. To answer your question, yes, everyone here has a life and has had a great life in service to our country. Something you will never have the honor of knowing. Please…go play somewhere else.
Sparks, I bet he/it can’t remember his/its birthday, it’s been forgotten due to the many tubes of glue he/it has sniffed!
Hey Vwpissboy, you’re living, breathing proof that diarrhea of the mouth is a side effect of having SHIT FOR BRAINS!!
#36 A Proud Infidel is right. Huffin’ glue will damage your little brain. Well apparently it already has. So just go back to making your model airplanes and tanks and wishing you had served your country…had you had the balls.
Loading up on meatloaf, bullshit, and russian spetsnatz rations to squeeze out another Giduck later tonight. John Giduck has no equal…except when his just as fat representation is swirling down the toilet.
Huh–guess Jonn doesn’t have to be here to give your comments the bitchslaps they deserve, vwp.
Amazing how that works, ain’t it?
And PH2’s cold wave will be here just in time for the new year. Predicted lows below -10 by Wed/Thur. We’ve already been below zero three times this season and it’s not even January yet.
Looked at the price of heating oil today–$3.699 a gallon. Oh yeah, this is gonna be fun filling up the tank twice more this winter. $700-750 a pop, assuming it doesn’t hit $4/gal by March.
Amusing, isn’t it, when someone frequently trolls a website, and then tells the regulars they have no life. Truth is, vwp, it says more about your lack of a life that you’re here.
Sparks, the silly person who sent that to our grizzled old Army sergeant is someone associated with a phildo. You don’t need to go pound him. I figure his wifey is only sticking around until he drops dead at his desk, so that she can get his money.
My wish for 2014 is that obnoxious people like vwpissypants, curtkasten, and the idiot who keeps pestering TSO and JL will find some other subjects to obsess over.
Also, Sparks, everything I do is listed on my blog, and is on Kindle, the Kindle Lending Library for a free checkout and (except for short stories) in print on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E3KL2ZK
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DCCRGQY
@43 Thanks Ex! I look forward to seeing them.
Those are the Kindle links. Those two are also in print.
PH? Which editor are you using? Merry Christmas and Happy New Year too.
Editor? Moi? Street, I can’t afford an editor yet. That’s why I’m taking more time to do it right. Maybe next year.
And Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours, too!
I got my parents two pounds of assorted chocolate-covered bacon for Christmas dinner. My cousins ate all of one of them. Even if they’re teenagers, does this make me part of the problem? Or is there never a problem with bacon?
@48 No problem with you brother. Never doubt yourself when it comes to bacon. There is never a problem with more, more and more and different BACON!!! Meat, real pig meat. Nothing says lovin’ like something from the oven and BACON says it best!
So, what is the status on Phildo’s DUI?