Mal: Well said. Wasn't that well said, Zoe? Zoe: Had a kind poetry to it, sir.

'Out Of Gas'


Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?  

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.


Toddson - Jun 05, 2007 3:36:23 am PDT #1059 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I do love Hell's Kitchen - I felt sorry for Julia (the waffle house cook) - she COULD fry an egg properly. And what was up with Aaron - he kept crying - I don't think he's going to last long. But they keep promising that something really, really dramatic is going to happen this season - aside from setting Gordon Ramsey on fire, or going after him with a cleaver, I think they've already done about everything they could.


Theodosia - Jun 05, 2007 3:43:24 am PDT #1060 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Toddson, maybe somebody will be swept overboard by a rogue wave?


brenda m - Jun 05, 2007 4:10:17 am PDT #1061 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

Man, I love Gordon Ramsey. The thing this ep reminded me, and that I'd noticed in other seasons, is that for all the shouting and berating - when someone's really on the edge, or actually injured rather than belly-aching about tiny kitchen burns, he switches gears instantly and 100 percent. And no passive aggressive "fine, now I have to take care of you" overtones. It makes the rest a lot easier to watch because it makes it so clear how much of these people's distress is their own self-indulgent BS.

It's kind of amazing to see in action. He's very, very good at pulling people back, calming things down, getting to the bottom of things.

I don't know what the fuck was up with all that nastiness towards Julia, but I was very impressed with how Melissa handled things. She's got a decent BS detector her own self, it looks like.


askye - Jun 05, 2007 4:18:31 am PDT #1062 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

Brenda I agree with you about Gordon and I think if someone had made comments about Julia not being worthy to be on the show because she worked at Waffle House he would have ripped that person a new one. Also I think the "fireworks" promised are the guy who called him a Shar Pei getting cocky with Ramsay and trying to "give back". Ramsay's arrogant and rants but he's earned the right to be like that. This guy hasn't earned that.


msbelle - Jun 05, 2007 4:37:27 am PDT #1063 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

&*&*(&#(*@@)!!!

I had a Dr. appt. with E this morning that I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT!!

It is and important consult and I have a call in to see if we can get squeezed in later today or re-schedule for soon.

OMG not enough suck in the world for me right now.


Hil R. - Jun 05, 2007 4:40:06 am PDT #1064 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Anybody around who speaks German?


Fred Pete - Jun 05, 2007 4:49:29 am PDT #1065 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

I took a year of German in high school, about 30 years ago. So I might be able to figure out something that's really, really simple.


Ginger - Jun 05, 2007 4:52:47 am PDT #1066 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I had a couple of years of German in college, which pretty much means that I can order beer.


Hil R. - Jun 05, 2007 4:56:17 am PDT #1067 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

OK. I'm trying to translate a handwritten cookbook that belonged to my grandmother. Her family owned a restaurant in Germany before the war. So in addition to trying to translate a language I don't really speak (I can fake my way through it a little, but not much), there's old-fashioned handwriting, and old-fashioned ingredients (I'm pretty sure this is from when she was a teenager, and she was born 1909.)

Anyway. I've got a recipe starting (as far as I can tell):

1/2 # mehlgenebt
1 Ei mit wenig Wasser verfuiels indire mitte der mehlen geben

I've got that as 1/2 pound something-flour, 1 egg with a little water something flour something.

1/4 # butterflocken
160 g zucker
auf der Rand der doehles geben

1/4 pound butterflakes (huh?), 160 grams sugar, on the edge of something?

Any guesses as to what the "something"s or question marks could be? I'm not positive I'm deciphering all the handwriting correctly, either, so a few letters could be off, which is making dictionaries somewhat unhelpful.


DavidS - Jun 05, 2007 4:56:53 am PDT #1068 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Anybody around who speaks German?

Check with Fiona in Unamerican.