Where the Kids Come to Mouth Off

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
Yes, but he often disappears for stretches of time without explanation when we go out.

Is he by any chance from Nantucket? Just curious.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Is he by any chance from Nantucket? Just curious.

POTD.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Jaws in 30 seconds, and re-enacted by bunnies.

(spree: sound, moving pictures, the safe kind of bunnies)

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
POTD.

Updated POTD!

[dtb]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I once saw a Hyundai with Sprewells.

TM

Of course you've seen the Chris Rock bit where he talks about wasting money on "reeeeey-ums"...**


**Said with the same voice and cheesy smile used to imitate Colin Powell saying, "I'm gonna drop me some BOMBZ!"

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Dear Abby:
I am a 15-year-old girl who baby-sits for extra money. I baby-sat for a new family last week. After I put the kids to bed, I found a snake in the house. I was scared for the kids, so I grabbed a kitchen knife and chopped off the snake's head.

When the parents returned, I found out it was their pet snake that had escaped from its cage, and they were really angry. I feel terrible about it. Although I apologized, they won't talk to me when they see me in the neighborhood.

Should I write them a letter of apology or buy them a new snake? I don't know what the proper etiquette is when you kill someone's pet.

Rattled in Texas

Thanks, Belle Waring

Great. Now I won't be able to sleep for a few days. Fucking snakes. I say, give the kid a medal for offing the slithery scary scaly thing.

No offense to any reptiles in the room.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Great. Now I won't be able to sleep for a few days. Fucking snakes. I say, give the kid a medal for offing the slithery scary scaly thing.

No offense to any reptiles in the room.

I want her babysitting for me, but I'm thinking I'd make good and sure to introduce her to the dog before I left.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
POTD.

D for day or D for decade. I vote for decade.

Nice work Wonk.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Updated POTD!

Bilmoreski of the Day.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Great. Now I won't be able to sleep for a few days. Fucking snakes. I say, give the kid a medal for offing the slithery scary scaly thing.

No offense to any reptiles in the room.

None taken. I am not a big fan of snakes either.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Well, there are actually some objective requirements for a "sushi-grade" label that do not directly relate to freshness, and that you do not need an Itamae for.

http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20040513.html

For someone who fancies himself a timmy, you are certainly quick to throw out 800 years of sushi rules.

The only standard I see in your post is that "sushi grade" fish must be frozen. That is objective, and you wouldn't need be an Itamae to tell if a piece of flesh met the standard. It is, of course, also pure bullshit. WFUM New Hampshire doesn't make sushi rules- Itamae are trained in an 8 years apprenticeship- there are Itamae organizations that decide what fish is "sushi grade." For 2 years all an Itamae apprentice can do is wash pans and make the rice. Do you think they know something you and I don't by the end of the 8 years?

And guess what? You don't make SUSHI! You may take some raw fish and wrap it on instant rice but that's not fucking sushi unless you have trained for 8 years. I don't care if its the tastiest fish in minnesota. If you go to Tokyo the only job you could get would be at the conveyor belt "fish snack" places. You can't make sushi Flower, sorry.

Quick question; what brand package rice vinegar flavoring do you use?

I don't mean to take you down a notch, but rules are rules are rules. We're lawyers for god's sakes.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski

For 2 years all an Itamae apprentice can do is wash pans and make the rice. Do you think they know something you and I don't by the end of the 8 years?

Yeah. "Fuck! They said it was only going to be TWO years! Fucking lying Ikea assholes!

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
For someone who fancies himself a timmy, you are certainly quick to throw out 800 years of sushi rules.

The only standard I see in your post is that "sushi grade" fish must be frozen. That is objective, and you wouldn't need be an Itamae to tell if a piece of flesh met the standard. It is, of course, also pure bullshit. WFUM New Hampshire doesn't make sushi rules- Itamae are trained in an 8 years apprenticeship- there are Itamae organizations that decide what fish is "sushi grade." For 2 years all an Itamae apprentice can do is wash pans and make the rice. Do you think they know something you and I don't by the end of the 8 years?

And guess what? You don't make SUSHI! You may take some raw fish and wrap it on instant rice but that's not fucking sushi unless you have trained for 8 years. I don't care if its the tastiest fish in minnesota. If you go to Tokyo the only job you could get would be at the conveyor belt "fish snack" places. You can't make sushi Flower, sorry.

Quick question; what brand package rice vinegar flavoring do you use?

I don't mean to take you down a notch, but rules are rules are rules. We're lawyers for god's sakes.

It is like Picasso invented cubism on your ass. First, I never said I personally made sushi. I said I have had some great sushi at people's homes. Some of it was made by people visiting from Japan. Some of it was made by nice Scandinvian folk with a passion for making sushi at home. I am certain that none of them are Itamae.

But you have again shifted the discussion. Because you are probably too inebriated to remember it, I will recap. I asked if one could make ceviche from any fish you found in the supermarket, or whether you needed fish sold as sushi-grade. You basically responded that sushi-grade was something that only a trained Itamae could determine, and that supermarkets and fish distributors made off-the-cuff determinations as to what is sushi-grade and what is not based on how fresh or old they happened to think the fish is. I responded that, based on my limited internet research, in American markets sushi-grade has a different meaning then the one you want to ascribe to it -- it has some objective characteristics. In other words, the blather you pulled out of your Blue Period ass about Joe behind the fish counter making ad hoc decisions about labeling the "good" fish as sushi-garde and the "bad" fish as non-sushi grade is . . . well . . . I think you know what it is. Or at least you will when you sober up.

[Fugee]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
Of those of you who have or know of people who have non-diamond engagement rings, what types of rings* do they have and what is your opinion of the ring?

I know several people with non-diamond engagement rings.

My sister has one ring -- it is her engagement and wedding ring and it has a large marquise-shaped ruby. I'm not fond of her ring, in large part because I don't like that cut in any stone and don't think it does anything for rubies.

Several friends have rings with sapphires as the central stone, often with smaller accent diamonds on the sides. They look quite nice.

With anything other than a sapphire or ruby, you would need to have a setting that protects the stone -- emeralds in particular are prone to fracture.

Of course, people could have CZs or those new created (or "cultured" as one company calls them) diamonds in their engagements rings and I would never know. Given the artificiality of the diamond market, I'd be inclined to go with a created diamond of decent size and a good cut, do something more practical with the money and let people assume it was the real thing.**

ETA: The recipient should not be one of the people who is assuming it is the real thing.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
Yes, but he often disappears for stretches of time without explanation when we go out.

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
There could be other reasons for that, y'know.

Indeed.