The Swamp

P.D.X. wrote:

Jerloma wrote:

P.D.X. wrote:Staff's knowledge of what goes into the food > my knowledge of what goes into the food. Just playing the odds.

Oh, that's different. Telling someone what is in a particular dish is just a presentation of facts, and thus the waiter cannot be held accountable. Asking a waiter what tastes better is what I'm talking about. "How's the veal saltimbocca" is not the same as "what's in the veal saltimbocca."

"What goes into the food" implies more than just ingredients.

Like Heart, Soul, Passion, Creativity, Years of Toil...
or do you mean what happens when you piss off the disgruntled kitchen worker....

That would still be an ingredient.

Pretty much every time we dine out, my wife asks the waiter some questions about the entree or drink she is considering ordering. It is a bit of a pain in the ass for me, but to be fair, she often does glean some very helpful information.

You're all dead to me except Ryan.

I always like asking the server which dish they'd choose out of two I'm deciding between.

Giff wrote:I always like asking the server which dish they'd choose out of two I'm deciding between.

My wife does this routinely. Quality tactic, especially if they tell you why and you can tell if they've actually sampled the food. Some places, you can kind of tell they don't know what they're talking about.

Yeah I don't get what's wrong with talking to someone who's paid to talk to you.

I'm imagining a scene in which a couple at dinner asks the waitress for a recommendation, a pleasant exchange follows, then the waitress steps out of the frame to reveal J-Lo staring over from the next table, shaking his head disapprovingly.

Johnny Carwash wrote:I'm imagining a scene in which a couple at dinner asks the waitress for a recommendation, a pleasant exchange follows, then the waitress steps out of the frame to reveal J-Lo staring over from the next table, shaking his head disapprovingly.

They got it on film!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ

Johnny Carwash wrote:I'm imagining a scene in which a couple at dinner asks the waitress for a recommendation, a pleasant exchange follows, then the waitress steps out of the frame to reveal J-Lo staring over from the next table, shaking his head disapprovingly.

Indignantly chewing his sub-par selection.

After asking exactly what ingredients made up the brine his chicken had sat in and for how long.

Gonna be in Newport today and tomorrow if any random frogs want to find a place to eat and just fuckin' guess what's good

The nachos at Brick Alley Pub are amazing. You know why? Because they're fucking nachos! They're fucking tortilla chips, covered in fucking chili, and fucking cheese, and fucking sour cream and guacamole. They're like 8,000 calories. It's almost fucking impossible for them not to taste good.

Gross, glad I asked

My trivia team won last night for the first time in a month and a half.

I scored a goal in my Sunday game and my game last night, both while playing D.

I leave for Florida tomorrow for a long weekend on the fiancee's company dime.

It's been a good week so far.

BSF21 wrote:My trivia team won last night for the first time in a month and a half.

I scored a goal in my Sunday game and my game last night, both while playing D.

I leave for Florida tomorrow for a long weekend on the fiancee's company dime.

It's been a good week so far.

New Superchunk album announced. Big anti-Trump day at the polls. Lots of sun today.

It's a rhetorical question, but you ever have one of those weeks?

Thank God for my dog, because otherwise, I'd be crawling into a hole right about now.
The bright light is that it's only Wednesday and things will get better.

Pruitt wrote:It's a rhetorical question, but you ever have one of those weeks?

Thank God for my dog, because otherwise, I'd be crawling into a hole right about now.
The bright light is that it's only Wednesday and things will get better.

On the bright side, you get to work tomorrow while we all have the day off.

...at least you guys have a hockey team playing to its potential...?

(intentionally keeping it light - throwing you some love from just across the lake, P)

Pruitt wrote:It's a rhetorical question, but you ever have one of those weeks?

Thank God for my dog, because otherwise, I'd be crawling into a hole right about now.
The bright light is that it's only Wednesday and things will get better.

brian wrote:

Pruitt wrote:It's a rhetorical question, but you ever have one of those weeks?

Thank God for my dog, because otherwise, I'd be crawling into a hole right about now.
The bright light is that it's only Wednesday and things will get better.

On the bright side, you get to work tomorrow while we all have the day off.

True.

And to be honest - happy to not have to spend the day with my entire family!

I think this malaise started when Peterman through his 2nd pickoff.

Was the 2nd one the one he tried to rifle threw triple-coverage?

L-Jam3 wrote:Was the 2nd one the one he tried to rifle threw triple-coverage?

I'm assuming you did that on purpose and it did not go unnoticed.

If you invested a grand into Netflix stock 10 years ago it's worth nearly 52 grand now. I hate reading stuff like that. Makes me feel dumb because it would have been so easy.

Don't cut your toenails when you are hammered. I left blood all over the kitchen last night. It was bad.

A_B wrote:Don't cut your toenails when you are hammered. I left blood all over the kitchen last night. It was bad.

So you suggest we just bite them?

Nobody else post in the Bitcoin thread. I want it to be endless consecutive posts from GPJ.

Seeing the kid from the SC State basketball team collapse today at the NC State game today was pretty terrifying. It reminded me of what happened at my son's soccer practice earlier this year. In both cases, the kid's heart had stopped and he was resuscitated by CPR (and maybe those paddles?).

Apparently the kid at my son's school is OK now, but he has to wear some sort of external device all the time now. I hope the SC kid recovers fully as well, although I assume his college basketball career is over.

Does anyone else go straight to this when they see NHL news from TSN's Bob McKenzie

Father of the Bride 2 is surprising for a 1995 movie. Steve Martin becomes a father and grandfather within moments of each other. He's 50 and Diane Keaton is 49 when it came out. Take the comedy element out of it, and it's just odd.

Johnnie wrote:Father of the Bride 2 is surprising for a 1995 movie. Steve Martin becomes a father and grandfather within moments of each other. He's 50 and Diane Keaton is 49 when it came out. Take the comedy element out of it, and it's just odd.

Well, most women are in menopause at 49, so that's taking some license for Diane Keaton, but the character she plays is likely supposed to be several years younger than that, which would make it more plausible. My wife and I were both 41 when my daughter was born.

And, as for the oddity of becoming a father again at the same time as becoming a grandfather, it isn't that much different than my own situation. My mother was the eldest of seven children, and only 18 when she married my father. Funny thing, in some of their wedding pictures, my mother's mother is holding her 6 month-old son - the youngest of her seven kids. I came along nine months after the wedding, so I have an uncle who is only 15 months older than me.

Huh. How about that. I guess the more correct adjective is "uncommon" then? I have only ever encountered the nephew/uncle being close in age thing once. When I moved to California in the early '90's the son of our neighbors was maybe 12/13 and his uncle was 14/15. It threw me off because I figured they were cousins, but I had to have it explained to me (I was 8) how the uncle could be young.

I think what struck me was Steve Martin being old in 1995 and it's 22 years later and he's still really old. But then again Norman Lear has 6 kids that range from 23 to 70. He's 95.

My father became an uncle before he was born.

I had a guy in my class whose aunt was also in our graduating class. Went to school together for 12 years together.

To be fair, Steve Martin has been grey haired since the mid 80’s.

Maybe the best restaurant review, ever. Seriously, if you live here and haven’t been (locations in Roland Park, Annapolis and downtown), your missing out. If you are coming to town anytime soon, have brunch here.

Johnnie wrote:Father of the Bride 2 is surprising for a 1995 movie. Steve Martin becomes a father and grandfather within moments of each other. He's 50 and Diane Keaton is 49 when it came out. Take the comedy element out of it, and it's just odd.

I think the "comedy element" was missing from the word go.

brian wrote:My father became an uncle before he was born.

My mother was an Aunt at 4 years old. Her brother was 22 and married when she was born.

Saw a tweet to this effect recently, but observed first hand tonight that white girls really love Mr Brightside.

The Sybian wrote:

brian wrote:My father became an uncle before he was born.

My mother was an Aunt at 4 years old. Her brother was 22 and married when she was born.

Wild.

My sister has two nieces who are older than her.

A good friend of mine is 51, and her half-brother is 11. (Her father was 60 and his 3rd wife was in her late 30s when the kid was born). Which means that her 16 & 14 year old daughters have an uncle who is 11.

As part of my subscription to the Washington Post, I get a monthly pass each month for their site.

Free - I had been sending them to a friend, but he just told me he doesn't use it.

So anyone want it for December?