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Apologies for so few posts; it’s a little difficult to maintain internet access when driving a cube-shaped baby Pontiac (I think the model type is Zion—a Pontiac Zion) through interstate snow drifts. Especially when the car involved offers no evidence of an engine, apart from requiring fuel.
Classic rock FM radio fact: Gimme Three Steps was played four times today, narrowly defeating Sweet Home Alabama (3 repetitions) as the Lynyrd Skynard classic rock selection of the day. It even beat out Piano Man, the opening notes of which were detected just twice. Once, in fact, as three youngsters driving in front of me were nearly pitched into a snowbank in response to a trucker’s impatient honking. Snow driving is fun; make any incorrect move and you’re all ditch-dwelling or tree-thumping. Thing is, almost any move is wrong. Driving on impacted snow is like performing heart surgery on a hummingbird.
Through sheer driving genius (and the lack of snow post-Chicago) I’m now at the Minnesota compound of James Lileks, who tomorrow will try to establish a local tradition of turkey consumption. It could catch on; he’s very influential.
More soon. Must add wine to that turkey idea.
And Happy Thanksgiving to everybody. We all of us have a whole bunch to be thankful for.
Keef voted for Maggie Thatcher! The opium poppy ain’t growed whut’d take him down!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 11 27 at 09:08 PM • permalink#44 For Wron…
jeraboam is a very important grog measure
Half Bottle - 375ml
Standard Size Bottle - 750ml
Magnum - 1.5L
Jeraboam - 3L
Methuselah - 6L
(for scale, a pint is 600ml)
seppo mates = American friendschiko roll = [/url=http://www.simplot.com.au/Hosting/corp/SimSite.nsf/0/88DE91E4E68F257CCA256F27000D2C01]fried item sold at take-away food joints[/url] (I used to like them as a kid, but they’ve degenerated flavour-wise (or have my tastebuds matured?)
#44
seppo mates = American friendsjeraboam = unit of wine measure
Half Bottle - 375ml
Standard Size Bottle - 750ml
Magnum - 1.5L
Jeraboam - 3L
Methuselah - 6L
(note: a pint is 600ml (ml = mililitres), a Litre (L) is 1,000ml)chiko roll = take away food item (not sure of it’s edibility)see also Wikipedia
Chiko rolls = yum
Jeraboam = right and proper measure
Posted by wronwright on 2005 11 28 at 12:36 AM • permalink8. Maaate (have you noticed we are starting from 1 again???)
chiko rolls used to taste good, but I think that my tastebuds have matured.
given my ‘drathers, I’d take the Methuselah, meself! A Methuselah of, oh, cab-sav, merlot, shiraz or combinations of these. mmmmmmmmm *hic*
and are you lot SURE that Keith Richards isn’t dead? (if not he’s very well preserved!)
Heyyy, Wron or anyone, what’s a good recipe for eggnog?
VfangsV
“You mean, turn the lasers around? You couldn’t bring that up during the design phase? Besides, I’m pretty sure that would violate our treaty with the reptoids…”
Gorn says we can do that. At least I think that’s what he said. Now that I think about it, he’s the one that helped me with the Antartic subsurface lake, which, er, didn’t work quite up to expectations. Maybe I should check with the green guy with the helmet.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 11 28 at 12:42 AM • permalinkkae, my recipe is comprised of driving to the supermarket, buying a half gallon of that super sweet concoction, and shoving it to the back of the refrigerator. When the evil MIL wants to fill her and Karl’s flutes, they can push around the leftovers to find it.
Damn, now I’m having a craving for a Chinese spring roll.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 11 28 at 12:47 AM • permalinkTalking of films earlier did anyone catch this? :
Willis film to show diehard GIs ‘fighting for freedom’
Sarah Baxter, Washington
November 28, 2005ANGERED by negative portrayals of the Iraq conflict, actor Bruce Willis is to make a pro-war film in which US soldiers will be depicted as brave fighters for freedom and democracy.
[...]
“I am baffled to understand why the things I saw happening in Iraq are not being reported,” he told MSNBC, the US news channel.
He is expected to base the film on the writings of the independent blogger Michael Yon, a former special forces green beret who was embedded with Deuce Four and sent regular dispatches about their heroics.
wronwright — Now think about this question VERY CAREFULLY — Were you talking to a Reptoid or a Red Leptoid from Planet 10? Big. Difference.
It’s just I remember the time you took that message for the President about partying in Santa Monica and we wound up invading the Dominican Republic to put down a party…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 11 28 at 01:45 AM • permalinkI’ve got a good recipe for an Egg Nog. Even though I’m a deprived Australian. Straight from my First Edition copy of “The How and When” by Hyman Gale and Gerald F Marco. Published by “Marco’s” - Chicago. Printed in U.S.A. by The Hillison & Etton Company - Chicago. Binding by Zonne & Co. - Chicago. September, 1938. All Rights Reserved.
Egg Nog
1/2 spoon Sugar
1 Egg
3/4 jigger Milk
1 jigger Rum or Brandy
Shake well
Strain into Goblet
Grate Nutmeg on topI’ll bet they didn’t buy it by the half gallon in supermarkets then. Progress?
250 Olrence, I’m starting to worry about you.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2005 11 28 at 02:33 AM • permalinkMy dad, who was raised back east in New York, was an expert egg-flip maker. That was also called, I think, a custard. The eggnog we get commercially is too sweet and thickened and stabilised with chemicals. Dad used to tell us it took a long time to make them properly, but he never made them for us. So we just drank the bourbon straight.
#235 Ex Labor Leader Mark Latham (Biff to his friends).....
Re reading old news files,here is a classic from Matt Price Feb 1st,2004.
“HOWARD GETS FRIGHT IN SHINING ARMOUR”...
Some interesting bits..“But Mr Howard will need to savour the moment because life has suddenly become much tougher.“Mark Latham delivered his mighty crusade speech..
“now it’s impossible to imagine anyone else as alternative prime minister.”“the three day conference has sent the new leader into the political stratosphere..”.Labor’s faithful are queuing to be seen with the new leader.People listen to Mr Latham,he’s smart,funny,complex and slippery.”
“Those anticipating that an undisciplined explosion will derail the new leader will almost certainly be disappointed.”
Fortunately for Mr Price he has a dollar each way by reminding himself of Latham’s lack of experience and inferring that families “owing small fortunes on their mortgages and credit cards-(like you Matt?)
may not consider him able to run the economy”.
Well turns out most punters didn’t consider him able to run anything.“Now think about this question VERY CAREFULLY — Were you talking to a Reptoid or a Red Leptoid from Planet 10? Big. Difference.”
There is NO difference mon mentor. As Shakespeare is once heard to have said at a neocon meeting in the Globe, “a toid is a toid”. Or something to that effect.
It’s just I remember the time you took that message for the President about partying in Santa Monica and we wound up invading the Dominican Republic to put down a party…
Oh puleeze, would you please stop bringing that up. Like I told the Elders (visibly shudders at memory), I took the message from an Aussie who apparently drank a keg or two of VB, possibly XXXX. He spoke in very strong stryne and laughed through half of it. I took the conservative route, can’t be took careful.
(mutters under breath: I’ve moved lakes, I’ve faxed fake memos, anybody remembers that? No. Just the unfortunate flubbers).
Posted by wronwright on 2005 11 28 at 08:38 AM • permalinkAnyone else notice Darren’s South Melbourne Swans beanie in The Castle? Saw it on my visit to Sydney in ‘97.
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2005 11 28 at 03:59 PM • permalinkI know how stale classic rock is, and there’s no point living in permanent reruns of Skynyrd and Seger, but better them than the critics’ darlings, as long as one other person on earth thinks so.
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2005 11 28 at 05:59 PM • permalinkDarrell, not Darren, in The Castle. Bothered and bewildered!
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2005 11 28 at 06:01 PM • permalink
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Rebecca and Rinard, lay off Keith Richards. Dude’s not dead - he’s just tough as hell.
Charlie Watts, on the other hand, has been animatronic since the mid ‘80s.