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[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Is this your version of "being nice?"

NFH makes an interesting point here. I believe that you have pronounced on this board that you were going to "turn over a new leaf," figuratively speaking, in the sense that you were no longer going to post messages that are construed as mean. I believe you even had a confusingly apostrophed signature line for a time that read "nicer for New Years'." Yet, the post to which NFH replies, and some other messages that you have posted in 2005, have content that one could persuasively argue are not nice, or that are even mean. I am surprised that nobody has pointed out this inconsistency before.

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You don't have to try be a dick, it comes naturally for you.

I heard from 2 different people (both funnier than you, like that would be hard to do) that they thought that particular joke was funny.

But this is the last time you and I do this, because, although you think you're funny and clever, you are not. Not even close. And it's stupid to even talk about the subject with you.

TM

And for anyone who's keeping score, I guess it looks like you can put another W in TM's e-life column.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I don't understand how they continue to sellthem. Shouldn't free market principles be at work here?

Free-market principles also fail to explain why people pay $3+ for a cup of pretty basic coffee. Why would you expect those same customers to reject overpriced, stale breadstuffs?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I am not reading this list but did "looking good, lewis" "feeling good, Todd" make it? Because that should be el numero uno.

Or "Bratwurst and shelailies (sp?) Paging Dr. Freud!"

and "you pretentious beret wearing motherfucker" should be up there.

and of course just about anything from Lebowki though I would pick "3000 years of beautiful tradition from Moses to Sandy Koufax. You're goddam right I am living in the past". I think.

Hey honey you must have been something before electricity...How'd you like to make 14 bucks the hard way

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Free-market principles also fail to explain why people pay $3+ for a cup of pretty basic coffee. Why would you expect those same customers to reject overpriced, stale breadstuffs?

They (well, some of them) have learned my name, which is more than I can say of any coworkers. That's enough for me.

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Argh!!! A good fresh bagel needs no toasting!

Philistines and rubes, that's what you are, you people who toast fresh bagels.

Where in DC does one find a bagel that does not need toasting, pray tell?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
NFH makes an interesting point here. I believe that you have pronounced on this board that you were going to "turn over a new leaf," figuratively speaking, in the sense that you were no longer going to post messages that are construed as mean. I believe you even had a confusingly apostrophed signature line for a time that read "nicer for New Years'." Yet, the post to which NFH replies, and some other messages that you have posted in 2005, have content that one could persuasively argue are not nice, or that are even mean. I am surprised that nobody has pointed out this inconsistency before.

"Hey Wang, what's with the pictures its a parking lot...Wang, I think this is a restricted club so don't tell 'em you're Jewish."

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
A. What is a Montreal-style bagel?

B. Kick the summer in the head.

A. Wikipedia has a good explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_bagel

Essentially the bagel is boiled in honey-sweetened water before being baked in a wood-fired oven (must be a wood-fired oven). The taste is exceptional and the crust is delicious. Montreal is known for its smoked meat, and Montreal bagels go well with smoked meat (and on their own, and with cheese and a whole bunch of other stuff). God, now I really want one.

B. Consider it done.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Bagels can be toasted, but only the next day. Bagels can be onion salt garlic or plain. Fruit should not be found in your bagel.

I don't know if the above applies to Montreal bagels, but one of the best North american Jewish writers is from Montreal and something must inspire him. and Richter doesn't seem like the kind of drip who'd eat a cinnimon raisin or blueberry.

Yes, only next-day toasting is permitted. The only reason to toast is to soften it up.

I agree with you on the blueberry (and let's add spinach, sun-dired tomato, and asiago cheese to ridiculous bagel flavors) but you are dead wrong on the cinnamon raisin. That is your dessert bagel, for after the lox, to enjoy with fresh coffee. And how can you omit the very best kinds of bagels -- the egg bagel and the egg onion bagel? You talk a good game, Hank, but you really aren't up to this.

I failed to persuade the owners and employees of a bagel establishment in a small mid atlantic college town that a sancwich consisting of eggs on a bagel is absolutely not properly called an "egg bagel." You don't call an egg sandwich on a kaiser roll an "egg roll" do you? They did not change their terminology, even when I explained how wrong it was to get a customer excited about a variety of bagel that they did not carry, and even after I pointed out that many of their patrons would have the same experience.

Fucking rubes.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Free-market principles also fail to explain why people pay $3+ for a cup of pretty basic coffee. Why would you expect those same customers to reject overpriced, stale breadstuffs?

The $3 cup of coffee makes people believe they are indulging in a small daily luxury. Not entirely rational, but the coffee smells good. But nothing about stale breadstuffs says indulgence. I guess those pastries are just freeloading off the coffee's cachet.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
No. You're thinking of Peets. Their pastry's crap. And the coffee sucks too.

I like Peets. And I worked on their IPO.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Yes, only next-day toasting is permitted. The only reason to toast is to soften it up.

I agree with you on the blueberry (and let's add spinach, sun-dired tomato, and asiago cheese to ridiculous bagel flavors) but you are dead wrong on the cinnamon raisin. That is your dessert bagel, for after the lox, to enjoy with fresh coffee. And how can you omit the very best kinds of bagels -- the egg bagel and the egg onion bagel? You talk a good game, Hank, but you really aren't up to this.

I failed to persuade the owners and employees of a bagel establishment in a small mid atlantic college town that a sancwich consisting of eggs on a bagel is absolutely not properly called an "egg bagel." You don't call an egg sandwich on a kaiser roll an "egg roll" do you? They did not change their terminology, even when I explained how wrong it was to get a customer excited about a variety of bagel that they did not carry, and even after I pointed out that many of their patrons would have the same experience.

Fucking rubes.

What about steamed bagels? My bagel knowledge is clearly minimal (I just don't eat them very often).

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Yes, only next-day toasting is permitted. The only reason to toast is to soften it up.

I agree with you on the blueberry (and let's add spinach, sun-dired tomato, and asiago cheese to ridiculous bagel flavors) but you are dead wrong on the cinnamon raisin. That is your dessert bagel, for after the lox, to enjoy with fresh coffee. And how can you omit the very best kinds of bagels -- the egg bagel and the egg onion bagel? You talk a good game, Hank, but you really aren't up to this.

I failed to persuade the owners and employees of a bagel establishment in a small mid atlantic college town that a sancwich consisting of eggs on a bagel is absolutely not properly called an "egg bagel." You don't call an egg sandwich on a kaiser roll an "egg roll" do you? They did not change their terminology, even when I explained how wrong it was to get a customer excited about a variety of bagel that they did not carry, and even after I pointed out that many of their patrons would have the same experience.

Fucking rubes.

psst. RT egg bagels are treyf

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I don't know if the above applies to Montreal bagels, but one of the best North american Jewish writers is from Montreal and something must inspire him. and Richter doesn't seem like the kind of drip who'd eat a cinnimon raisin or blueberry.

Do you mean Richler? He's dead. I'm not sure what he's eating now, if anything.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I like Peets. And I worked on their IPO.

A solid b-list celebtrity was a walk in off the street into my office today with an invention. str8 if you want I can see if he needs a tix distributor.