A sad, constant bid for attention - Page 332

notcasesensitive · 10-18-2006, 05:28 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
This is the slowest K race ever. I thought you all would be done by the time I got back from lunch. And here you are talking about German chocolate. What about Black Forest Ham?

This is the part where the Hanks of the board stop posting so they can save up their A material. Then when you see it in a flurry 30 posts later, you think to yourself "that was his A material"?

NotFromHere · 10-18-2006, 05:31 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
This is the part where the Hanks of the board stop posting so they can save up their A material. Then when you see it in a flurry 30 posts later, you think to yourself "that was his A material"?

I would have thought at least a few socks would have arrived by now. But yeah, now that you mention it, that's how it usually plays, only without the flurry this time.

Hank Chinaski · 10-18-2006, 05:32 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It's like a desert over there.

Thurgreed , Ty PMed me his real joke- that East of the Nile is a black neighborhood.

Hank Chinaski · 10-18-2006, 05:34 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
I would have thought at least a few socks would have arrived by now. But yeah, now that you mention it, that's how it usually plays, only without the flurry this time.

both you and ncs have won K-races. I never have.

Gr8testHitS(lave) · 10-18-2006, 05:35 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
This is the part where the Hanks of the board stop posting so they can save up their A material. Then when you see it in a flurry 30 posts later, you think to yourself "that was his A material"?

I disappear for half the day and half the liquor cabinet almost passes me by. [Glad I logged in before we ended up on the Kahlua drink discussion].

Canadian Whiskey (rye):
Seems to me that Rye has really lost its cachet, while all the market share of the other whiskies has increased dramatically). Hardly anyone seems to drink Rye straight, with the most obvious mixed variant being the "7 & 7." Of the brands, I always preferred the flavor of Seagram's VO, although I wouldn't necessarily consider myself a real fan of the whole Rye genre.

Tequila:
Let me preface this by agreeing with several of the posters here that bad Tequila experiences are hard to recover from. It literally took me 8 years from my fraternity pledging days before I could even smell a glass of Tequila from an adjoining bar patron without becoming nauseated. That being said, I can offer two bits of advice: (1) the better the Tequila, the less sick to your stomach you will become - now this advice may seem somewhat obvious - but it has been my experience that among all the major liquors, the quality of the Tequila is most closely related to one's physical well-being, and (2) after a bad experience, a decent way to slowly get back to drinking Tequila again is by experimenting with premium Tequila Margaritas. The Triple Sec/Cointreau and Lime Juice diffuse the nose and taste of the Tequila substantially such that you won't develop hat "wretching" feeling. And I too agree with the earlier sentiment that the current "high-end" Tequila craze will pass like most fads - however, one cannot dismiss that the craze has resulted in many more brands of fine blue agave tequilas being available stateside, and these are wonderful to sip with nothing more than a few cubes of ice.

Vodka:
I've always been a Stoli loyalist. Period. That is, until they got cute and started making Stoli Limon, and Stoli Peppar, and Stoli Kola, et. al. It's only a matter of time before Stoli starts coming in colors ("Can I have a Blue Stoli and Tonic"). But truthfully, I can't remember the last time I ordered a Vodka out, so I can only say that my cabinet at home has a bottle of Stoli, a bottle of Ketel One (which my "vodka-friends" like the best, along with Belvedere and the Polish vodka Wybyorwa (sp?)) and a default bottle of Absolut (for the people who used to collect the Absolut ads and hang them on their apartment walls as art - you all know a few of these people).

On a side-note, and much like Plated's single-handed crusade to shake up Cahill, I think it should be the duty of this Board to out and boycott any bars that convert to Cold Guinness (gives me the creeps just writing that).

Gr8testHitS(lave)

http://www.infirmation.com/bboard/cl...?msg_id=0001RW

Hank Chinaski · 10-18-2006, 05:36 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
This is the part where the Hanks of the board stop posting so they can save up their A material. Then when you see it in a flurry 30 posts later, you think to yourself "that was his A material"?

who are the others in the "Hank" list? Is it a description, like jokester or story teller, or do you mean a ranking, like C-level?

Keep in mind my Juan the Marine sock was very well-known on Greedy Canada.

Replaced_Texan · 10-18-2006, 05:36 PM

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Originally posted by Fugee

Now that I've read Allyson's site and the chapter of her book, she should have a ton of chits to call in for marketing help and not just cover blurbs. If Whedon and Minear don't try to get her on a couple late shows, they are complete ingrates! I'm also a sucker for a great title and hers didn't grab me, maybe because I didn't discover the series until the movie.

The title came from an incident in a hotel in LA, where all of these random people who knew each other from the internet were sort of milling around in the lobby of the hotel that we* were staying in and the general manager of the hotel walked up and yelled "Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby." It sort of became a catch phrase.

*I actually wasn't there. I was probably taking a bar exam.

greatwhitenorthchick · 10-18-2006, 05:37 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
both you and ncs have won K-races. I never have.

I won a K-race once.

Hank Chinaski · 10-18-2006, 05:38 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I won a K-race once.

I made post 200,000.

notcasesensitive · 10-18-2006, 05:38 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
both you and ncs have won K-races. I never have.

What are you talking about, Mr. Proud Holder of Post 200,000?

I don't know that I have ever won a K race (I don't think that I have), but SS let me name his thread once (rowrr) and I took the naming right away from some annoying sock.

notcasesensitive · 10-18-2006, 05:41 PM

I'm going to have an IT person in my office for the next 15 minutes, fixing my mailbox, so I have to bow out of the festivities. May the best sock win.

Hank Chinaski · 10-18-2006, 05:43 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I'm going to have an IT person in my office for the next 15 minutes, fixing my mailbox, so I have to bow out of the festivities. May the best sock win.

If I win I can use the name of dead socks in the thread title, correct?

Replaced_Texan · 10-18-2006, 05:44 PM

There's a guy a dozen rows or so in front of me that got the Texans logo tattooed to his arm somewhere in the first season. I thought it was a little premature to have that kind of loyalty to a team that hadn't existed for very long.

But fans of any stripe are weird people.

This though seems weirder than most stuff marketed to fans. :

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Coffins to bear logos of baseball teams By PATRICK WALTERS, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 27 minutes ago

PHILADELPHIA - Baseball fanatics won't have to leave behind their beloved teams when they finally go to that big stadium in the sky. Instead, they'll soon be able to rest in peace inside a coffin with team colors and insignia.

Major League Baseball has a marketing deal with a company called Eternal Image. It'll put team logos on caskets and urns. The effort begins next season with the Yankees, Red Sox, Tigers, Phillies, Cubs and Dodgers. It could eventually include all 30 teams.

Each urn will be stamped with a message saying Major League Baseball officially recognizes the deceased as a lifelong fan of that team.

After starting with baseball, Eternal Image hopes to branch out by making similar deals with the NFL, the NHL and NASCAR.

"We have been receiving these requests either directly or through our clubs for several years," said Susan Goodenow, an MLB spokeswoman. "Passionate fans express their love of their team in a number of different ways."

I bet this is going to drive up the price of the funeral that much more.

Did I win?

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 10-18-2006, 05:47 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I made post 200,000.

Funny. I show Burger getting that post. Oops - now it's Tys! Hank, you were robbed.

SlaveNoMore · 10-18-2006, 05:49 PM

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Gr8testHitS(lave)
I disappear for half the day and half the liquor cabinet almost passes me by. [Glad I logged in before we ended up on the Kahlua drink discussion].

Canadian Whiskey (rye):
Seems to me that Rye has really lost its cachet, while all the market share of the other whiskies has increased dramatically). Hardly anyone seems to drink Rye straight, with the most obvious mixed variant being the "7 & 7." Of the brands, I always preferred the flavor of Seagram's VO, although I wouldn't necessarily consider myself a real fan of the whole Rye genre.

Tequila:
Let me preface this by agreeing with several of the posters here that bad Tequila experiences are hard to recover from. It literally took me 8 years from my fraternity pledging days before I could even smell a glass of Tequila from an adjoining bar patron without becoming nauseated. That being said, I can offer two bits of advice: (1) the better the Tequila, the less sick to your stomach you will become - now this advice may seem somewhat obvious - but it has been my experience that among all the major liquors, the quality of the Tequila is most closely related to one's physical well-being, and (2) after a bad experience, a decent way to slowly get back to drinking Tequila again is by experimenting with premium Tequila Margaritas. The Triple Sec/Cointreau and Lime Juice diffuse the nose and taste of the Tequila substantially such that you won't develop hat "wretching" feeling. And I too agree with the earlier sentiment that the current "high-end" Tequila craze will pass like most fads - however, one cannot dismiss that the craze has resulted in many more brands of fine blue agave tequilas being available stateside, and these are wonderful to sip with nothing more than a few cubes of ice.

Vodka:
I've always been a Stoli loyalist. Period. That is, until they got cute and started making Stoli Limon, and Stoli Peppar, and Stoli Kola, et. al. It's only a matter of time before Stoli starts coming in colors ("Can I have a Blue Stoli and Tonic"). But truthfully, I can't remember the last time I ordered a Vodka out, so I can only say that my cabinet at home has a bottle of Stoli, a bottle of Ketel One (which my "vodka-friends" like the best, along with Belvedere and the Polish vodka Wybyorwa (sp?)) and a default bottle of Absolut (for the people who used to collect the Absolut ads and hang them on their apartment walls as art - you all know a few of these people).

On a side-note, and much like Plated's single-handed crusade to shake up Cahill, I think it should be the duty of this Board to out and boycott any bars that convert to Cold Guinness (gives me the creeps just writing that).

Gr8testHitS(lave)

http://www.infirmation.com/bboard/cl...?msg_id=0001RW

I'm awed by my earlier brilliance.