OK, why am I receiving spam telling me about Real Mature Singles (to which I said, 'Yeah, that's real mature') and the Single People Over 50 that they're sure I'm interested in?
Unless Billy Idol is one of them, then I'm in.
I caught her on a park bench, making out with a *chaos* demon! Have you ever seen a chaos demon? They're all slime and antlers.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
The Crying of Natter 49
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.
Connie Neil - Jan 05, 2007 7:44:33 am PST #281 of 10001
brillig
bon bon - Jan 05, 2007 7:47:19 am PST #282 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
How does Alton want us to keep our good knives if we want to keep them a long time?
I've heard a magnetic strip on the wall. I'd heard before that jumbling knoves together in a drawer will turn your knives to crap, never heard that before about the wooden block. Fuck that noise, I got a marble backsplash.
Sean K - Jan 05, 2007 7:48:40 am PST #283 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I've heard a magnetic strip on the wall.
Sweet! We already have one of those.
brenda m - Jan 05, 2007 7:48:57 am PST #284 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Sean, I keep my good knives on a magnetic strip on the wall - that way the blades aren't touching anything and dulling. [link]
Honing stones are fun! And provide a great opportunity to practice your maniacal laugh. I use something like this: [link]
Kevin - Jan 05, 2007 7:49:09 am PST #285 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Hey peeps. A few days ago I wrote about my problems getting financing to move. A few people suggested what to do, and I did as suggested - and I've been given the money for a deposit now! Just need to find a shiny flat in Liverpool now. Looking at ones in the city center near my work, as I'm a big metrosexual looser.
DavidS - Jan 05, 2007 7:50:02 am PST #286 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
As bon notes, the magnetic strip is a good option.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 05, 2007 7:50:33 am PST #287 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Sean, Tom and I go a decidedly low-tech way of flattening paper towel rolls and sliding a chef's knife in there. (We don't have any good smaller knives.) For our other, we were pleased as punch to get it back from getting it sharpened with a little cardboard sleeve. Sadly, we've not gotten that again. So, cardboard casing, laid in drawer.
We have a honing steel, that looks like a little sword, and we (ideally) before every use, slide each side of the knife at about a 45% angle an equal number of times just to keep the blade in line. Do we do this every time? No, but we should. But we don't. We send them to be sharpened a couple times a year, usually mom and pop hardware stores can do that.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 05, 2007 7:52:00 am PST #288 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
also, we covet a magnetic strip solution to our knife storage. Until then, stupid cardboard sleeves.
SailAweigh - Jan 05, 2007 7:52:02 am PST #289 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Let loose the metrosexuals of war!
Er, you did mean something like that, Kevin, yes?
Fred Pete - Jan 05, 2007 7:53:26 am PST #290 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Robert Blake.
That's right, I'm wrong.
The character was Tony Baretta. And to complicate things even more, the related series Toma starred Tony Musante.