This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Speaking of Ewoks, I just learned that there is a shoe website called shoebacca.com.

This makes me happy.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

I'm guessing you don't cook or bake much.

I don't like baked goods, but I cook a lot. Rarely, however, do I use butter. I find almost anything I could make with butter I can make with olive oil, which I use like water. Peanut and sesame oils are also fantastic for cooking.*

But as to eating bread in restaurants before dinner, I of course enjoy butter. The salted variety. Putting butter on bread and biting into it only to discover it's unsalted is a cruel tease.

*I've been shaving garlic and liquefying it into olive oil lately, with lemon, salt and cayenne pepper. Try cooking rainbow trout in that mixture. Excellent. Doesn't work so well with salmon or tuna. I've also found cheap zinfandel is a better base than chardonnay. It gives a richer flavor.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick

It's pretty common. And according to Wikipedia, both Dan Ackroyd and Tricia Helfer have it, so maybe it is more common in Canadians. I don't know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webbed_toes

Also Joseph Stalin and Ashton Kutcher have it. So it looks as if it is common to Canadians, Soviet dictators and cougar bait.

Me too, and I'm not Canadian. Or Ashton Kutcher. I like to think it helps me swim faster.

[dtb]

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick

hmm. My feet are webbed, so those would not work for me. But I am thinking about changing my shoes. For some reason, even though I bought exactly the same size and the same model (although 2009 instead of 2008) shoe as the ones I previously had, the ones I bought now feel a lot bigger so my foot feels like it's sliding around. I don't like it.

My running coach advocates running sort of on the ball of your foot, but it's really more kind of shuffling on the ball of your foot, but definitely not striking with the heel first. You kind of shuffle to the front of your foot, but put your heel down after that.

When I run on the track for speed (or in my case, "speed"), my calves always hurt the next day because I run only on the balls of my feet. I don't think I could run 4 miles only on the balls of my feet. Ouch.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Me too, and I'm not Canadian. Or Ashton Kutcher. I like to think it helps me swim faster.

You're only supporting Hank's "Stalin Board" point with this post.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

This makes me happy.

This also makes me happy.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by evenodds

This is why God created fleur de sel.

Come on -- land o lakes definitely uses that in their salted butter.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

You're only supporting Hank's "Stalin Board" point with this post.

I'm not Georgian, either. But if it makes him happy, let him have his fun.

[John Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I'm not Georgian, either. But if it makes him happy, let him have his fun.

Which one?




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[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by John Phoenix

Which one?




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Shouldn't that get a whiff fail?

[Not Bob]

Originally Posted by Not Bob's Id

You've clearly never had a Tom Collins, my boy, made by a Mount Holyoke Renaissance Studies major from Cos Cob who is trying to annoy her fiance and her father. There's something delightful about the combination of sunburn, jealousy, August, parental rage, fresh lemon juice and Bombay Saphire.

Apologies. My Id has an overactive imagination.

However, he is right about the joys of a Tom Collins on a warm day. The local paper ran a feature on "the drinks of summer" (or some such nonsense) a few weeks ago and I decided to make a batch. Yum. I don't recall the exact recipe they ran, but you'll need to tinker with the proportions anyway. Here's how I make them:

(1) Juice one lemon
(2) Add two tablespoons of simple syrup (the only part of the Collins that needs to be done in advance -- the method I use from my memories of bar-back days is to dissolve 1 unit of sugar in 1 unit of boiling water, stirring until clear, and then refrigerate in a glass bottle)
(3) Add a shot and a half of gin
(4) Ice in a tall glass
(5) club soda the rest of the way
(6) drink
(7) Lather, rinse, repeat

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

Apologies. My Id has an overactive imagination.

However, he is right about the joys of a Tom Collins on a warm day. The local paper ran a feature on "the drinks of summer" (or some such nonsense) a few weeks ago and I decided to make a batch. Yum. I don't recall the exact recipe they ran, but you'll need to tinker with the proportions anyway. Here's how I make them:

(1) Juice one lemon
(2) Add two tablespoons of simple syrup (the only part of the Collins that needs to be done in advance -- the method I use from my memories of bar-back days is to dissolve 1 unit of sugar in 1 unit of boiling water, stirring until clear, and then refrigerate in a glass bottle)
(3) Add a shot and a half of gin
(4) Ice in a tall glass
(5) club soda the rest of the way
(6) drink
(7) Lather, rinse, repeat

I'd rather have a gimlet.

[barely_legal]

So, my four year old nephew is scared of Chuck E. Cheese. He has a pretty novel way of dealing with his fears, though. He likes to dress up as the thing that scares him, and that helps him not be scared (this has worked well so far with lions and Darth Vader). So, he desperately wants a Chuck E. Cheese costume and my mother has tasked me with finding one because, for some reason, she thinks I'm handy with the internet.

Yes, I've tried googling, and couldn't find anything. Does anybody know where I can buy a child-sized Chuck E. Cheese constume?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally Posted by barely_legal

So, my four year old nephew is scared of Chuck E. Cheese. He has a pretty novel way of dealing with his fears, though. He likes to dress up as the thing that scares him, and that helps him not be scared (this has worked well so far with lions and Darth Vader). So, he desperately wants a Chuck E. Cheese costume and my mother has tasked me with finding one because, for some reason, she thinks I'm handy with the internet.

Yes, I've tried googling, and couldn't find anything. Does anybody know where I can buy a child-sized Chuck E. Cheese constume?

Have you tried E-Bay? Or contacting Chuck E Cheese? They might sell them there.

[barely_legal]

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick

Have you tried E-Bay? Or contacting Chuck E Cheese? They might sell them there.

EBay was a good idea, but they only have the full size head and hands (for $350!) or a crappy plastic mask that looks nothing like Chuck E. Cheese. I will try to contact the store, though. I can't believe I didn't think of that. The internet has made me lazy AND stupid.