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Oh, my God... how could you smoke anything other than Dunhill and sip anything less than Johnny Blue. Oh, My God!

SuZero my ass. I grew up with an interior designer in my family and we never had one because they're overpriced status junk. See: Range Rover.

Cold is cold. Hot is hot. Unless you've got a chef's degree, you don't even know the supposed difference in the hardware you've bought, except that someone told you its top of the line.

But yes, gas does cook much quicker.

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If I told her once, I told her a million times, she should have had those callusses checked.

I can see where you got your smarts.

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Where you get one of those badboys? (please don't tell me an ethnic store!)

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Actually . . . the Uncle Ben's boil-in-a-bag rice did really well in the Cook's Illustrated tasting, though the instant and converted faired poorly.

www.Cooksillustrated.com {Subscription required.}

We need a rice thread sock.

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Actually, the big draw to gas over electric is the ability to adjust the termperature much more quickly and precisely.

And yes, actually, I do have a degree in Culinary Arts, thank you very much.

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No, we really don't. I'm not even going to thank you for playing on this one.

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I'm sorry ncs, you know how I hate to disagree with you and shit, but Uncle Ben's SUCKS. (My ethnic, mysterious, foreign and glamorous husband knows from rice, and would rather go without than eat Uncle Ben's.)

He's not as glamorous as, say, someone from Greece, but he'll do.

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Is that why you were fasting? Poor RT. Did the reply unclench your stomach?

I don't think I've ever left a voicemail or email that I totally regretted. I've had my stomach clench a few times, but not because of something I didn't mean to say and nothing changed the course of a relationship.

I had a long distance relationship about 10 years ago. It didn't work out, but it was a lot of fun (and expensive). I get sick of people easily if they are too close, so maybe that's why it worked well.

My husband and I also lived apart in different cities for a year when we were first married. That went fine as well. A bit of an adjustment when we started living together after, but no big deal.

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The most shocking thing about this story is that he got his Taurus to hit 100 mph.

He was replaced with George Huff, the guy that was cut in the earlier round b/c the judges thought he looked too old. The reason this is weird is b/c the judges had already picked 4 alternates in case anything happened to the 32 finalists (after Frenchie and Cory last year, they learned their lesson) but George wasn't one of the four alternates.

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If white people are an ethnicity, Amazon counts as an ethnic store.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...1.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

And when you're done cooking rice, it's handy for storing Walt Disney's cryogenically preserved head.

Thank you for participating in the Rice Thread!

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Poll:

Yes. Email. I knew it was a bad idea at the time, let alone in retrospect. "I lied when I said I loved you" is better left unexpressed, especially when that's the lie. (Allow me to clarify that this type of conversation only took place over email because he person was in Asia and we couldn't talk on the phone.)

Yes, but by worked, I mean that one of the parties moved to be with the other within a year or so. The only people I know for whom it worked over a longer period were within manageable-weekend-trip distance.

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Shut. Up.

TM

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here's the problem. I could care less about whether or not you or anyone else thinks a particular brand of rice sucks. the low is related to it as a topic of conversation at all, not the actual or perceived quality of Uncle Ben's.

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not only that, but it comes with its own FB-style slam:

"Luxury "Sushi" rice cooker smarter than some people!"

Indeed.

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Ever been to Turkey? Compared to the glamour of Greeks, Turkish men would strike you as royalty.

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Fuck. Now I have that song going through my head. Thanks a lot.

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Poll number one:

Once, I was having an argument on the phone with a man I was dating. He hung up on me.

Well, what would you do? I immediately grabbed my smokes and took a walk to my friendly neighborhood bar, where I chatted with the bartender and several other local regulars.

When I got home, there were 23 (!) messages on my answering machine, each one more apologetic and sniveling than the one before. I was never able to look at him the same way again, and the realtionship died shortly after.

Poll number two:

Relationships that are temporarily long-distance seem to do okay. My husband was called to active duty about a year after we started dating. The 6 months apart was tough, but not insurmountable.

Relationships that start out long distance, or have no end to their long distance-ness in sight, are pretty much set up to fail. In my experience, anyway. And ussually the endings are not pretty.

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Too late missy! I was already here, lurking for the day that rice rose to its rightful place here. And I do have a degree in Rice Arts. So allow me to share.....

Forgetting Uncle Bennie and the 5 Minute versions that are staples of my diet, when I can get one of my lady lover pals to cook for me or when I go out to eat at an ethnic restaurant (not to be confused with an ethnic store), my fav-o grain of rice is The Basmati Rice, which as I'm sure NFH knows is a grain from the Indian Sub-continent. I love it! Less starchy but tastes great!

It also quite aromatic and is full of complex yet subtle flavors. I affectionately call it the "rice of love!"

Perhaps you should try a dish.

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I am mainly sure that Thurgreed will agree that I am mostly correct when I say this is a totally useless, pointless post. Didnt we have a discussion on this type of hooey sometime back?

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Rice with a little olive oil, some crumbled feta cheese and greek olives is fantastic. What do the Turks have to compare?

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I wasn't really thinking about anything but that stupid e-mail all day yesterday. It probably has a lot to do with why I didn't eat anything until 8:00 last night. And it was unbelievable how much his reply made me feel better, even though it wasn't what I was hoping for.

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Just one more point- make sure you have a good rice paddle or none of the rest matters. I got the yellow one from Tanaka distributors.


http://starbulletin.com/2001/02/14/features/story1.html

[i]Some things you don't think about until they change. In this case, they're rice paddles.

The familiar flat pieces of bamboo that flare from handles to wide, rounded, slightly concave heads may be destined for the nostalgia bin as new and improved plastic models muscle into the marketplace.

And while the description "new and improved" is overused in this age of unrestrained consumerism, the latest rice paddles are a great leap forward. Really.

Why? Because rice doesn't stick to them -- not regular rice, not Uncle Ben's, or mochi rice, not fried rice or Thai sticky rice, not cold rice, not mushy rice.

Some might say, big deal, but it is a big deal. Really.

"Because you don't have to scrub them!" said Mildred Spence, a clerk-typist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. "It just doesn't stick. At first I didn't believe it, but it works. It's so much easier to clean"

http://starbulletin.com/2001/02/14/features/art.jpg

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I experienced brand snobbery last week.

Some guy came up to me and said "hey, that's a great Tommy Hilfiger shirt."

I have since resigned my entire collection of English shirts. From now on, its solids.

I wanted to hit him, but I didn't.

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Yes, we did.

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There are times when useless, pointless posts nevertheless serve to bring up the average. This was one of those times.

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LOL!

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Poll number one:

No. But, one of my friends carried a truly insane VM on em's cellphone. It's still the stuff of legend and everyone within hearing distance heard it, some often enough that several of the lines are now classics on par with Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories. I've not yet met the sender, but I cannot wait.

Poll number two:

I have been in a few ldrs.

For one, I moved for him. We're still friends and I would still have made the move, even knowing that it ended after a year in the same place. It didn't work because we were too young.

The longest relationship lived several hours away. We saw each other every week, sometimes several days a week because of work-travel schedules.

A couple of other guys I dated I saw less often, but we worked to grab weekends here and there.

From my experience, ldrs work best when both people are extremely busy and travel frequently.

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You're done.

No more. Seriously.

Or prepare to be flipped.

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Dietary research indicates that things like regular exercise and a high daily intake of dietary fiber, for example RICE, are useful to the maintenance of a regular functioning digestive system, i.e. unclenchec stomach, intestines and bowel.

Was in one ldr that ended after we were both in the same place again. In retrospect, we should have broken it off much sooner. Was in another ldr with my wife, before we were married, but we knew that it would be over after a finite period. I know a number of people who have been in successful ldrs, but always because there was an end in sight. I don't know how you do it without an end in sight.

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Only if he falls on you.

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Impossible. He's toast.

You break up. Or "I broke up." College/post-college with some possibility that we'd end up in the same place reasonably soon. When it became clear her medical school and my law school would not be in the same town, that was that.

On q.1, I wish I'd kept all of the psycho VMs an ex left for me. I doubt, however, she felt badly about leaving them. To the contrary she seemed rather to enjoy it, or at least get something out of it (and this was pre-break up). Of course, it may have been the liquor talking (I juz wanna kith you). I may have one of her last ones since I bought a new answering machine about the same time as we broke up.

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I had a short term relationship with Woman #1 while living away from home. One night, pretty drunk, I wrote my mom a letter telling her I was in love, with a woman who:
was from A) Philadelphia, B) a runner, C) medium height, D) from ___ college.

I then forgot about the letter. A few weeks later we broke up and i started seeing woman #2 - she was A and B but not C or D.

Anyway, #2 stuck. When we'd see my folks my mom would tell her about the letter I'd written and how she knew I was in love, but she could never find the letter. I couldn't remember the letter ,so I didn't know it was about #1, not #2.

We heard about the letter for a couple of years, then a year or so after we're married, mom finds the letter and gives it to my wife to read. As she's reading it becomes clear that I was "in love" with someone else.

Ultimately, a fun moment, but for a minute there I was sorry I'd written the letter.

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Sorry about that. Just IM me next time.

TM

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While I agree with the sentiment expressed here, I find it amusing that em is so moronic as to think that we all don't know within 8 posts (on the high end) each of em's socks. Thus making it much easier once each sock is rightfully moved to the ignore list.

But overall I agree that we all should not be subjected to the need to continue growing the ignore list in this manner.

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I think white rice is actually a starch of minimal, if any, nutritional value.

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quote:
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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Speaking of Mom, I found her diary last night. do you know that poor woman never had an orgasm?
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When you come back to the office, and have to tell the billing attorney how you lost another motion, are you quick to blame the judge?

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You ever say "Hey, honey, let's try that new Caveman restaurant down the street!"??

When you change the heat level on a gas stove, it changes. When you change the heat level on an electric stove, you need to take the pan to a movie to kill time while waiting for the change to register.

In other words, it's all about control.

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No need to ask, I just club her over the head and drag her there. And when eating at home, I just make sure I take the marshmallows out of the fire before they overcook.