Giles! I accidentally killed Spike. That's okay, right?

Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'


Natter 36: But We Digress...  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Dana - Jul 11, 2005 8:15:11 am PDT #8713 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

eBay is weird.

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Actually, I suppose it's people that are weird.


P.M. Marc - Jul 11, 2005 8:15:21 am PDT #8714 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Ketchup does not belong on hot dogs. Mustard belongs on hot dogs.

In the even that only one topping can be applied to the dog, that topping should be mustard.

In the event that multiple toppings can be applied, then everything but the mayo should be added to the dog.


askye - Jul 11, 2005 8:16:08 am PDT #8715 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

I want strawberries. Which are very good with sugar and/or whipped cream.

I've never tried strawberries and balsamic vinegar, but that just seems wrong to me.

My jr & sr year of high school a lot of the girls mixed various condiments together and dipped their fries in it. Mustard and Ketchup, Ketchup and Maynoaise, Mustard, Ketchup AND Maynoaise. It always looked vile.

I had frech fries for lunch and a sandwichand I'm so carbed out, I really want pineapple or a clementine or something.

My grandfather was always admanant that the only allowable condiment with seafood was lemon. I don't think I ever tasted tartar sauce or cocktail sauce until I was in high school and I don't like it.


Topic!Cindy - Jul 11, 2005 8:16:44 am PDT #8716 of 10001
What is even happening?

Mayo on hotdogs is the fourth horseman of the apocalypse. FACT.


§ ita § - Jul 11, 2005 8:17:38 am PDT #8717 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

this is fun - stand about 20-30 feet from a computer CRT and then click your teeth together rapidly (and fairly hard)

That's so funny. The co-worker that was freaked out by my slow refresh just suggested rapping at my temples to see the screen vibrate. Despite being a kravver, I neglected to follow up on his suggestion.

I give the high refresh five more minutes to clear itself up.


tommyrot - Jul 11, 2005 8:17:38 am PDT #8718 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I don't think I ever tasted tartar sauce or cocktail sauce until I was in high school and I don't like it.

I hated tartar sauce as a kid, but now I kinda' like it. Although I find that I love fish cooked with capers - I wonder if the capers in tartar sauce aren't as fresh....


askye - Jul 11, 2005 8:18:20 am PDT #8719 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

Hot dogs should only have mustard and relish (dill not sweet).


P.M. Marc - Jul 11, 2005 8:18:45 am PDT #8720 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I've never tried strawberries and balsamic vinegar, but that just seems wrong to me.

You need really good balsamic to pull that off. I'm cheap, and only get the kind of okay balsamic, but I hear tell that good balsamic (which my store keeps in a LOCKED CASE, people) and brown sugar on fresh strawberries is the absolute yum.


Aims - Jul 11, 2005 8:18:56 am PDT #8721 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Hot dogs should have mustard, ketchup and sauerkraut.

As should bratwurst.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 11, 2005 8:20:33 am PDT #8722 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

The wrongheaded ketchup dislike is a mystery to me.

I had fried calimari Saturday night at the Dinner of the Vanishing Waiter. It was pretty tasty with just lemon juice and basil, though I was a little dubious at first about the whole tiny squids that they included along with the rings. (Couldn't taste any difference though.) Still, never eating octopus again.

My car overheated YET AGAIN on the way to work today. I'm guessing that it's somehow not ramping down to the proper amount of fuel consumption after a long period of highway speeds—it's just fine while I'm racing along at 75-8070 miles per hour, but when I slow down to enter the city for the last few miles it redlines on me.