ORIGINAL: Terminus
Hooray! I'm unemployed again!
The Husband Store.
A store that sells new husbands has opened in Manchester where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:
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You may visit this store ONLY ONCE!
There are six floors here. The value of the products increase as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!
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So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads:
Floor 1 - These men have jobs.
She is intrigued, but continues to the second floor, where the sign reads:
Floor 2 - These men have jobs and love kids.
'That's nice,' she thinks, 'but I want more.' So she continues upward.
The third floor sign reads:
Floor 3 - These men have jobs, love kids, and are extremely good looking.
'Wow,' she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.
She goes to the fourth floor and the sign reads:
Floor 4 - These men have jobs, love kids, are drop-dead good-looking and help with housework...
'Oh, mercy me!' she exclaims, 'I can hardly stand it!'
Still, she goes to the fifth floor and the sign reads:
Floor 5 - These men have jobs, love kids, are drop-dead gorgeous, help with housework, and have a strong romantic streak.
She is so tempted to stay, but she decides to continue on to the sixth floor, where the sign reads:
Floor 6 - You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.
{insert rimshot}Badda Boomp
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The Wife Store
PLEASE NOTE:
To avoid gender bias charges, the Husband Store owner opened a New Wives store just across the street with the same rules.
The first floor has wives that love sex.
The second floor has wives that love sex and have money and like beer
The third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors have never been visited!
[insert cymbal crash] Clang!
G'day, dude. What's shakin'?ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
No roofing crew tithe. [:'(]
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
G'day, dude. What's shakin'?ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
No roofing crew tithe. [:'(]
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
I assume you've been following Russian language news blurps / telecasts regarding the Meteorite? Other than the expected comments by Zhirinovski ([8|]), learn anything interesting?
Ok, I was doing Floyd, but it was a skoosh to heavy for what I was doing, so went with David Grissman/Jerry Garcia's Old and in the Way.ORIGINAL: Symon
Ok, I'm kinda typing this as I'm cooking, so hope it's working for you.
I use a shallow/wide pan for the roux. I use the halfway marks for stove heat. I have Pink Floyd on the headset and spend 15-20 minutes stirring and scraping the roux till it looks the color of well treated oak. Then I move it to an empty burner and let it embroglio (another reason I use cast iron) till it's a deep mahogany. No muss, no fuss, no crusty crap to wash from the pan, and no burnt stuff to hurt the final gumbo. Da roux is da true.
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
I assume you've been following Russian language news blurps / telecasts regarding the Meteorite? Other than the expected comments by Zhirinovski ([8|]), learn anything interesting?
Zhirinovsky is one of a kind. Oddly enough, there are very well thought out and logical thing that come out of his face occasionally. But at all other times...ay dios mio.
Havent been following it really. As far as I understand, there's not much to say that hasnt been said already. I've learned to check back on things like this about a week later when the excitement has gone out of the story and you can get some sources to distil it to the bare facts instead a lot of speculation and general bs.
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
I assume you've been following Russian language news blurps / telecasts regarding the Meteorite? Other than the expected comments by Zhirinovski ([8|]), learn anything interesting?
Zhirinovsky is one of a kind. Oddly enough, there are very well thought out and logical thing that come out of his face occasionally. But at all other times...ay dios mio.
Havent been following it really. As far as I understand, there's not much to say that hasnt been said already. I've learned to check back on things like this about a week later when the excitement has gone out of the story and you can get some sources to distil it to the bare facts instead a lot of speculation and general bs.
I've been noticing that the Russians use cheap *** windows. Single pane, easily broken, all that. In the Ural mountains-haven't the Russians heard of double pane windows? What about insulation? [X(]
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
But let's not split hairs. The first place I lived in in NY was a house in Sheepshead Bay built in the late 40s that had single pane windows (not original but probably dating from the 60s or 70s) and cinderblock walls.
But then there's one that's prolly my all time favorite. Dave Bromberg's The Holdup. George Harrison on slide guitar, Jerry Garcia on "backup", Butch Trucks on drums,ORIGINAL: Symon
Ok, I was doing Floyd, but it was a skoosh to heavy for what I was doing, so went with David Grissman/Jerry Garcia's Old and in the Way.
And tons of other gems. Some of the finest guitar work Jerry Garcia has ever done. If you can find it on DVD this one of the finest bluegrass music collections ever made.
But the one tune I would take to a desert island for the rest of my life is Fish Scale by David Grisman Quintet. David Grisman, Tony Rice, Darol Anger, Bill Amatneek, Todd Philips. The studio version is on The David Grisman Quintet and doesn't seem to be on youtube. But there's a live, reunion version from 2003 that's even better. The audio sucks, but listen close and watch Tony Rice. He does things with a guitar that just aren't natural. IMHO, the greatest flat picking guitar player that was ever born, and goldarn close to Andres Segovia as one the greatest guitar players ever ... ever.ORIGINAL: SymonBut then there's one that's prolly my all time favorite.
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
But let's not split hairs. The first place I lived in in NY was a house in Sheepshead Bay built in the late 40s that had single pane windows (not original but probably dating from the 60s or 70s) and cinderblock walls.
Man. This place may be cold, but the building construction is much better than more temperate areas out there. Cinderblock walls and single pane windows? You can just *see* your heating dollars flying away...