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Ami Silberman wrote: The recipie I particularily remember is Chinese Tea Duck. You take a airtight (or nearly so) container, put in about a cup of loose tea leaves and a cup of raw rice, a wire rack, and a duck. Stick it on top of the stove for about an hour and a half. If the container isn't airtight, you may have to open up all your windows and disconnect the fire alarm. (This is what happened when we tried it.) The duck is absolutely delicious. It does seem an odd way of cooking. My theory was that some guy centuries ago had a warehouse where he stored rice and tea, and kept a few ducks in the attic. One night, a drunken Toshiro Mifune crept in, looking for the hidden Samurai armor, and accidentally set fire to the place. The poor owner was distraught, but kept wondering "what is that wonderful smell"... Now that I've got to try! Is there a particular type of tea to use? Like Green Tea for a male Mallard? Pat |
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Eric Chomko wrote: I understood Pat's comment perfectly, and it has nothing to do with the military and as everything to do with how you view yourself. To clear the air here; the remark was supposed to be a reference to our new society being along the lines of a fascist dictatorship with lots of uniforms and parades; as long as we are going to be impoverished and exploited, we might as well have cool uniforms to wear while we suffer. No the diversion was that you're still sore at being the butt of Pat's joke. There that should be enough fodder to get you back into trouble. Rand Simberg = Buttfodder? :-\ Sounds like a term for inmates in a Turkish prison. Pat |
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Eric Chomko wrote: : No, instead we've had taxpayer uprisings. Is that what the Revolution was against England back in 1776-83? To some extent, yes. The battlecry of "No taxation without representation!" was a major one during the war. Then there was George III's demand that he have the right of Prima Nocta with all women married in the colonies; who can forget that fateful day that George Washington's wife was killed by General Burgoyne, and he painted his face half blue and....and ... wait a minute. :-) Pat |
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On 2005-03-17, Pat Flannery wrote:
To clear the air here; the remark was supposed to be a reference to our new society being along the lines of a fascist dictatorship with lots of uniforms and parades; as long as we are going to be impoverished and exploited, we might as well have cool uniforms to wear while we suffer. "If only this were a proper police state... then at least the trains would run on time." -- -Andrew Gray |
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:44:39 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote: Then there was George III's demand that he have the right of Prima Nocta with all women married in the colonies; who can forget that fateful day that George Washington's wife was killed by General Burgoyne, and he painted his face half blue and....and ... wait a minute. :-) ....Pat's not that far from the truth with this one, kids. The forced billetting of Redcoats was viewed with the same disgust as if Fat George had decreed that every virgin in the Colonies had to be deflowered by he himself. Considering that according to a couple of sources the Colonial population too a 14% spike upwards in the first year the billetting was in full swing, I suspect Fat George was essentially raping the Colonists by proxy after all. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:04:22 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote: (Cut to scene of stone rolling away from a dog turd) ....After which, Foghorn Leghorn becomes the first of the Disciples. "Ah say thar, son, I say, have you heard the Word of Jesus Chicken?" God, I'd completely forgotten those- they did have those too, didn't they? ....Yeah, they did. Until PETA and the local health departments put a nix on the idea, most of the dime stores locally - Ben Franklin, TG&Y, and Woolworth's - had them. Pink, Blue, Green, Enhanced Yellow, Orange and Purple, but no Red. The owner of the Ben Franklin next to my granddad's old cafeteria was fond of saying that "Red Chickens are for Communists!" Can you imagine the prices you could get on E-bay for those old models nowadays? ....CIP: The "Voyager" from the "Fantastic Voyage" cartoon is a rather shoddy kit, even for Aurora's quality. However, because it had such a short press run, finding a mint-in-box kit is damn near impossible, and what's out there can usually go for 3-4K. Usually all you find are the assembled ones in ****-poor shape, with the Testor's Old Red Tube turning the adhesion points bile yellow. And those, alas, generally go for $200-300 a pop, and normally are missing the tailfin and the upper horizontal stabilizer, if not the glass pieces. My brother got a Strombecker Ferry Rocket with the transparent exterior and colored paper inserts to show the interior layout down there. ....That one was one I never got, because locally nobody got the Strombecker products. We did get Lindbergh and Hawk kits, tho, which in retrospect still surprises me. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:57:33 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote: This morphed into Gibson's, ....Gibson's we had, and from 1968 thru 1971, it was the only place in town to get kits at knockdown prices that had been out of stock at the local hobby shops for months, if not years. It was where I picked up my first-press edition of the Glenn commemorative reworking of the Atlas booster & launch pad. Had all the nice extras, and was also listed as being approved by the Boy Scouts of America with regards to the Space Exploration merit badge - the second badge I got, right after First Aid, and just before earning Basketweaving while drunk on a six-pack of old formula Schlitz we'd smuggled into Camp Wilderness. My mom still has the basket, which came out more like a pencil holder. Which made sense, since I was drunk and the basket was supposed to have a wineglass shape :-P OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:35:59 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Eric Chomko wrote: I understood Pat's comment perfectly, and it has nothing to do with the military and as everything to do with how you view yourself. To clear the air here; the remark was supposed to be a reference to our new society being along the lines of a fascist dictatorship with lots of uniforms and parades; as long as we are going to be impoverished and exploited, we might as well have cool uniforms to wear while we suffer. Yes, which is why Eric's response was...typical. And hilarious. |
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:44:39 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Eric Chomko wrote: : No, instead we've had taxpayer uprisings. Is that what the Revolution was against England back in 1776-83? To some extent, yes. The battlecry of "No taxation without representation!" was a major one during the war. Then there was George III's demand that he have the right of Prima Nocta with all women married in the colonies; who can forget that fateful day that George Washington's wife was killed by General Burgoyne, and he painted his face half blue and....and ... wait a minute. :-) Don't do that. He'll believe you. He believes lots weirder stuff. |
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