This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth - Page 185

cheval de frise · 09-08-2009, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick

be careful. Assonance makes an ass out of onan and ce.

POTY.

CDF

(What's wrong with the capitalization function?)

Replaced_Texan · 09-08-2009, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

There also are a few ginger vodkas, which of course are nothing like creme de menthe, but are ginger-flavored alcoholic items.

I would think it'd be fairly easy, if not time consuming, to make a ginger liqueur. Drop some ginger in a bottle of cheap vodka and let it sit for a month or so, add half the volume of simple sugar, keep in a cool dark place another month, drain through a cheesecloth into bottles and serve a week later.

pussycat · 09-08-2009, 06:49 PM

Mostly lurker, few time poster checking in. Hi!

A few weeks back I caught a re-run of "Decoding the Past: Mayan Doomsday Prophecy", on the History Channel, and became fascinated by and perseverational about the Mayan end times prediction that essentially the end of the world, in some undefined cataclysmic event, will occur on December 12, 2012. I have since read several articles and books on the topic, including most recently The Maya End Times : A spiritual adventure to the heart of the Maya prophecies for 2012 by Patricia Mercier.

So basically, where I fall out here is in the event that the end of the world is going to occur in 2012 (which I calculate as only about 3 years from now), well, then WTF I am doing with my life, most specifically billing and reading crap chatboad sites on the ‘Net all day 24/7/365? WTF r we all doing here??!!? Why ain’t we all out there having the time of our lives? Living life to the fullest? Enjoying it while it lasts for such a short while longer? Partying like its 1999 (again)?!?!?

I’m ready to forget about all the moralists, and hectoring nags, the prophets of Puritanism and prudery, the scolds of diminished expectations, the Glenn Becks, the Roubinis, the Reverend Ted Haggard and Paul Krugman alike. Fuck em. Warren Buffett too! That shitpurse mutherfucker! I challenge someone…..anyone to tell me why we shouldn’t embark on a life changed mission of just being nice to others, enjoying all the sex our respective genitalia can take or give…or both (“Word”! to my hermaphrodite posse), drinking heavily, traveling the world? Anyone?

I’m ready to forget about Obama’s speech to kids, Mark Warners appallachian trial march, Jacko’s murder, Obama's birth certificate, Kate Gosselin’s bitchitude…….put all that crap behind me & just let it all hang out!! Fuck health care, fuck socialism, fuck abortion, fuck guns, fuck taxes, fuck the skanks on the View, and just take some times to smell the roses, drink some Rose Moet, watch the sunsets, torch up some sick ass chron & dance til dawn.

I mean, if the world is going to end in 2012, who cares about billable hours?? How about I be a decent humanbeing and rock some ultimate blow out partays while the myopic masses blunder along to oblivion?
What’s the worst result if this Mayan shit is all fucked up wrong? I had a good time and I send my resume to some headhunters after the New Year in 2013?

Thoughts?

Pussycat

Hank Chinaski · 09-08-2009, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

I would think it'd be fairly easy, if not time consuming, to make a ginger liqueur. Drop some ginger in a bottle of cheap vodka and let it sit for a month or so, add half the volume of simple sugar, keep in a cool dark place another month, drain through a cheesecloth into bottles and serve a week later.

we have used the ginger brandy to cook a cheesecake. I'm fairly sure fringy is looking for dessert recipes.

ltl/fb · 09-08-2009, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by pussycat

Mostly lurker, few time poster checking in.

I challenge someone…..anyone to tell me why [we're not] drinking heavily, traveling the world? Anyone?

Thoughts?

Pussycat

I can't move myself upright so no walking, no unassisted showers, little drinking or prep of food. My world essentially has ended and I kind of want it to restart. Also I would set off metal detectors at airport so I think that, plus lack of any interest whatsoever, rules out world travel. Who cares about the rest of the world and seeing it?

ltl/fb · 09-08-2009, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

we have used the ginger brandy to cook a cheesecake. I'm fairly sure fringy is looking for dessert recipes.

It would be for use in some dessert, yes. At the moment. Some would probably still be around for me to celebrate The End of Days with.

ltl/fb · 09-08-2009, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by ltl/fb

I can't move myself upright so no walking, no unassisted showers, little drinking or prep of food. My world essentially has ended and I kind of want it to restart. Also I would set off metal detectors at airport so I think that, plus lack of any interest whatsoever, rules out world travel. Who cares about the rest of the world and seeing it?

Plus I lack balance and see double without the aid of alcohol.

evenodds · 09-08-2009, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

There also are a few ginger vodkas, which of course are nothing like creme de menthe, but are ginger-flavored alcoholic items.

Most of my bartenders would do a ginger-muddled simple syrup, I believe, when adding ginger to my beverages, rather than adding it to the alcohol.

bold_n_brazen · 09-08-2009, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by pussycat

Mostly lurker, few time poster checking in. Hi!

Thoughts?

Pussycat

I think you should go away.

evenodds · 09-08-2009, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by pussycat

I challenge someone…..anyone to tell me why we shouldn’t embark on a life changed mission of just being nice to others, enjoying all the sex our respective genitalia can take or give…or both (“Word”! to my hermaphrodite posse), drinking heavily, traveling the world? Anyone?
. . . .
I mean, if the world is going to end in 2012, who cares about billable hours?? How about I be a decent humanbeing and rock some ultimate blow out partays while the myopic masses blunder along to oblivion?
What’s the worst result if this Mayan shit is all fucked up wrong? I had a good time and I send my resume to some headhunters after the New Year in 2013?

What's new, Pussycat?

It's safe to assume the Mayan calendar is wrong, just like every other armageddon or prophet predicting the end of the world. When I was a wee Odds, Orson Wells told us that Nostradamus said the world would end in like 1996. Yeah, still here.

I suggest reading Daniel Dennett on this issue.

cheval de frise · 09-08-2009, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen

I think you should go away.

It's just a bored Penske. Which is a very bad thing.

CDF

Adder · 09-08-2009, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Creme de menthe?

It was on the tip of my tongue!

Icky Thump · 09-08-2009, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen

I think you should go away.

With the impending apocalypse and all, maybe now would be a good time for the women to post pictures of their tits?

Adder · 09-08-2009, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Men are also fond of the boots and short skirt look. I have no idea why it's sexy, but it is. Probably some latent dominatrix fetish.

Shirts and boots? No. I'd think the woman was challenged.

But not cowboy boots.

Adder · 09-08-2009, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

There also are a few ginger vodkas, which of course are nothing like creme de menthe, but are ginger-flavored alcoholic items.

I also keep seeing ginger, and candied ginger, turning up as an ingredient in cocktail recipes, particularly in places that suscribe to the "throwback" cocktail pretension that seems to be currently (and by that I mean a year and a half ago in DC, so not too current) in fashion.