Where the Kids Come to Mouth Off

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
it's only been 8 minutes, but these posts are board killers. stop it. even if you only did it to mock Hank's doing it (if you're not Hank talking to yourself, that is. or if you are. my blood sugar is low, I don't care if I'm not making sense.)

Often, after smart dinner parties, Picasso is said to have wheeled out Guernica for his guests to enjoy.

Once, Pablo's accountant was honored to have been asked. He brought as his guest, his dowager sister. The aging woman, had only recently learned to appreciate impressionism, and knew not of Picasso, or for that matter much of what passed for thoughtful expression inthe prior 40 years. Still the accountant knew she had been recently left by her husband, and he felt the chance to get out, and catch intellectual fare might be very beneficial to her.

as with many grand plans, this crashed a fiery death. while the assembled guests spoke of topics like the German expressionists and some of the fine noir novels that had been recently published by the independant press in France, the sister simply, and loudly, questioned Pablo's servants as to where they had purchased the chafing dish and other bakeware.

When papa had the masterpiece wheeled in, its intial effect was always the same- stunned silence. after several minutes the sister grew agitated, and finally, with fanfare announced "well I know what everyone is thinking, and I'll be the first to say it, my child could have done this!"

the guests, thinking the accountant had brought an actress to play the role of buffoon laughed heartily. he recognized the moment and ushered her to a cab.

[tmdiva]

I would recommend only getting nonstick in the frying pan. It's indispensable for cooking things containing eggs (and for warming tortillas), but for almost everything else, you want to encourage the development of fond. A stainless interior also makes it easier to see when this is happening and to make sure that it doesn't burn. I will never own one of the anodized aluminum pans for this reason.

I own a bunch of the Cuisinart Everyday Stainless pans. In tests by Cooks' Illustrated, they were pretty good but not quite as good as the All-Clad. If I had a bunch of money, I'd get those. For non-stick, you should only spend enough to get you a pan with a good heavy bottom that won't warp, because the nonstick coating, no matter how careful you are with it, will wear out before the pan will. I recently bought a nice heavy-bottomed 12-inch nonstick frying pan on sale for about $15 at Fred Meyer (cf Target).

The pots I use most hang on my pot rack:

small and medium stainless saucepans
large saute pan (straight-sided) with lid
6-qt dutch oven
nonstick stir-fry pan (I use this for risotto)
12-in nonstick skillet

The pans not on the pot rack that I get out most often are:

8-in nonstick skillet
5-qt dutch oven
12-qt all-in-one pot (with pasta and steamer inserts, which are used much less frequently--this particular pot has a nice heavy bottom and work perfectly for making my blue-ribbon-winning caramels)
16-qt stockpot

Next on my purchase list are some cast iron pans--skillet, griddle/grill and abelskiver pan.

If anyone wants a really, really good potato salad recipe, let me know. It involves a boiled dressing, lots of hard-boiled eggs, and sweet pickes. It's the one I grew up with, and I've never had another one like it.

tm

[ilikenewsocks]

From this week's Tuesday Morning Quarterback:

Apropos TMQ's item on the death of deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, Kevin Pugh, an assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Toledo, imagines this postmodern football encounter:

Coach: How could you throw that crazy pass? Didn't you see the safety?

Quarterback: I did see the safety, but then I thought, how do I know the safety really exists? My eyes perceive a safety and he seems to be covering the receiver, but this might only be from my frame of reference. Someone in the stands might perceive the safety to be covering another receiver, or no one at all. Who am I to say that my perception is correct and theirs is wrong? Then I thought, maybe the safety does exist! But the taboo against throwing into double coverage is just an oppressive ideology used by the dominant hegemony to maintain the imperialist power structure. So you see, I had to make the throw in order to liberate myself.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by tmdiva
I would recommend only getting nonstick in the frying pan. It's indispensable for cooking things containing eggs (and for warming tortillas), but for almost everything else, you want to encourage the development of fond. A stainless interior also makes it easier to see when this is happening and to make sure that it doesn't burn. I will never own one of the anodized aluminum pans for this reason.

I own a bunch of the Cuisinart Everyday Stainless pans. In tests by Cooks' Illustrated, they were pretty good but not quite as good as the All-Clad. If I had a bunch of money, I'd get those. For non-stick, you should only spend enough to get you a pan with a good heavy bottom that won't warp, because the nonstick coating, no matter how careful you are with it, will wear out before the pan will. I recently bought a nice heavy-bottomed 12-inch nonstick frying pan on sale for about $15 at Fred Meyer (cf Target).

The pots I use most hang on my pot rack:

small and medium stainless saucepans
large saute pan (straight-sided) with lid
6-qt dutch oven
nonstick stir-fry pan (I use this for risotto)
12-in nonstick skillet

The pans not on the pot rack that I get out most often are:

8-in nonstick skillet
5-qt dutch oven
12-qt all-in-one pot (with pasta and steamer inserts, which are used much less frequently--this particular pot has a nice heavy bottom and work perfectly for making my blue-ribbon-winning caramels)
16-qt stockpot

Next on my purchase list are some cast iron pans--skillet, griddle/grill and abelskiver pan.

If anyone wants a really, really good potato salad recipe, let me know. It involves a boiled dressing, lots of hard-boiled eggs, and sweet pickes. It's the one I grew up with, and I've never had another one like it.

tm

Speaking of pot, the official acl site has its photo gallery up for this year's show. I think we might be in a couple of these.

http://www.austincitylimits.com/fest...llery_day1.asp

[TalkSock]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Speaking of pot, the official acl site has its photo gallery up for this year's show. I think we might be in a couple of these.

http://www.austincitylimits.com/fest...llery_day1.asp

Please tell me you didn't actually look in all of those pictures just to see yourself.

And something Less knew all along.

Bookies are better at predicting presidential election than polls.

Economists say betting sites better at predicting winner.
With just two weeks to go until the presidential election and most polls putting the two candidates neck and neck, you might be better off talking with a bookie if you want to know whether Sen. John Kerry or President Bush will win the Oval Office this November.

“The odds on our site react to the latest news event immediately, and so in terms of the reliability of our election data we think we are way ahead of the opinion polls which only tend to survey a few thousand people,” said Mike Knesevitch, a spokesperson for Tradesports.com.

Liquidity is the key to the accuracy of betting sites like Tradesports.com, according to Leighton Vaughan Williams, director of the Betting Research Unit at Britain's Nottingham Trent University who has studied how well efficient betting markets predict outcomes of events such as elections.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Speaking of pot, the official acl site has its photo gallery up for this year's show. I think we might be in a couple of these.

http://www.austincitylimits.com/fest...llery_day1.asp

Had I known that both plf

and Bilmore

were going, I would have made more of an effort to show up.

[Shape Shifter]

You get the horns.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by tmdiva
If anyone wants a really, really good potato salad recipe, let me know. It involves a boiled dressing, lots of hard-boiled eggs, and sweet pickes. It's the one I grew up with, and I've never had another one like it.

tm

All this food talk makes me want to cook. Now that the cold weather is here I've got a hankering for my Guinness stew. it's still a work in progree. I'll share the recipe when perfected.

Should we start a recipe thread, or compile a lawtalkers cookbooK?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
You get the horns.

did you see the wailers? Who is left? did Tosh come back? bunny?

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by TalkSock
Please tell me you didn't actually look in all of those pictures just to see yourself.

And something Less knew all along.

Bookies are better at predicting presidential election than polls.

....

This surprises me not at all. See: umpteen previous studies on markets making more accurate predictions than experts. I've always regretted that the admin didn't pitch their "terrorist attack market" idea better (basically - a big dead-pool on where and what the next terrorist attack would be), because it was really a pretty good idea, however callous it seemed.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
No way I'm visiting SF without protection.

Sidd can chaperone, and they give out free condoms at the needle exchange I go to.

[Spank Myasski]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Often, after smart dinner parties, Picasso is said to have wheeled out Guernica for his guests to enjoy.

I think you should join Ahnold in requesting that your party promote and accept the stem cell research. The Alzheimer's is starting to really get to you and it appears that the Ginkgo is no longer working. This is what -- the 3rd or 4th time you've posted this stupid story?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by LessinSF
Sidd can chaperone, and they give out free condoms at the needle exchange I go to.

No, that won't do. I need a bodyguard, not a chaperone. And it's not you I'm worried about. (In that context, I'll rely on abstinence.)

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Speaking of pot, the official acl site has its photo gallery up for this year's show. I think we might be in a couple of these.

http://www.austincitylimits.com/fest...llery_day1.asp

Do women get their breasts painted and walk around topless at ACL? Because that is a relevant measure of a summer outdoor music festival in a hot place.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Spank Myasski
I think you should join Ahnold in requesting that your party promote and accept the stem cell research. The Alzheimer's is starting to really get to you and it appears that the Ginkgo is no longer working. This is what -- the 3rd or 4th time you've posted this stupid story?

its a vehicle to insult people, sped. its not a story- the painting is in a fucking museum, duh. but if I don't get 5 PM's from people I find funny telling me they like the Guernica posts, I'll stop.