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bon bon - Jul 28, 2005 9:13:50 am PDT #3758 of 10002

It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

That's kinda evil, bon.

Well, in the second story about conspiring peers, they were not competent conspirators-- I knew they were working on this brief, I knew the issues in the brief, and I knew they'd been researching for a week. So when they asked me to research the primary issue, I kinda knew they hadn't found anything.

amych - Jul 28, 2005 9:14:32 am PDT #3759 of 10002

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

That's just asking the chef to give you an inferior cut of meat.

That or very helpfully drop it on the floor and tap-dance on it for you, as it will need tenderizing.

Lyra Jane - Jul 28, 2005 9:14:36 am PDT #3760 of 10002

Up with the sun

Why is rare stake called "rare"?

My dictionary says that it means cooked briefly and comes from the Old English hrēr. M-W online adds, "Etymology: alteration of earlier rere, from Middle English, from Old English hrEre boiled lightly; akin to Old English hrEran to stir, Old High German hruoren: cooked so that the inside is still red."

§ ita § - Jul 28, 2005 9:14:55 am PDT #3761 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The day I discovered beef sashimi was a very happy day for me. I was abuzz with delight.

undercooked meat

Undercooked. Such a subjective term.

Christ. I'm totally putting the lunch in the fridge and going for a mediocre steak for lunch.

-t - Jul 28, 2005 9:16:27 am PDT #3762 of 10002

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Why is rare stake called "rare"? "well done" is relatively self-explanatory, but I don't understand how "rare" = "closer to the uncooked end of the scale than the well-cooked end."

According to www.etymonline.com, the cooking meaning is from Old English hrer while the other kind is from Latin rarus.

Kristen - Jul 28, 2005 9:17:42 am PDT #3763 of 10002

Well, we have a chain Morton's (I think we have more than one) but then there's also Morton's on Melrose, which is like a big Hollywood power lunch scene.

It's very confusing.

Jesse - Jul 28, 2005 9:18:28 am PDT #3764 of 10002

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

A true friend will happily send you naked pictures of people you know.

True that.

What's weird is that I'm totally into raw beef when they call it carpaccio, but not so much with the rare steak. I think it's about the slicing.

sarameg - Jul 28, 2005 9:18:44 am PDT #3765 of 10002

OED has a version of rare deriving from a form of rear which can mean early. So maybe that's it. Rare cooked=take it up early.

eta: ok, so oed was not helpful.

tommyrot - Jul 28, 2005 9:27:43 am PDT #3766 of 10002

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 am eating a KFC lunch. Mmmm.... corn on the cob....

Lee - Jul 28, 2005 9:28:26 am PDT #3767 of 10002

The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

ALL OF YOU ARE BIG GIANT FREAKS.

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