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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #180 on: February 09, 2010, 06:26:44 pm »
Octopus is delicious! Calamari at sushi shops is just like fries elsewhere, except chewier and made of fish (and presumably healthier). They need sauce though, or the flavour will get a little overpowering.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #181 on: February 09, 2010, 06:29:54 pm »
Squid is quite tasty, especially when battered and fried. I particularly like the tentacles.

Also, no side sauces. Never! Such sauces are the corruptors of flavor. Do not give into their plot to cover true flavor!

... yeah, when I go to Mexican restaurants, I'll eat the chips sans salsa. Good chips don't need salsa.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #182 on: February 09, 2010, 06:36:19 pm »
Good chips don't need salsa, but they serve all chips with salsa because it's really hard to find a good chip!

Adding side sauces to meats is like adding ketchup to fries, butter to bread, soy sauce to rice, or milk to cereal. It just improves the flavour and builds off of it. While I'll  be the first in favor of the flavour of meat, I'll also be the first in favor of barbecue sauce and teriyaki.

And in that vein.. we had no barbecue sauce for our Little Smokies this Super Bowl. So, instead, we improvised and used teriyaki sauce. It was delicious.
Also Spam fried in barbecue sauce. Try it. It's good. Really, it is!

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #183 on: February 09, 2010, 06:46:39 pm »
Did you know that octopi have three hearts??

Heracles: I shall rip out your heart, and dine upon thee!
Octopus: A lot of good will it do, for I have three!
Heracles: Curses and epithets! But how can this be?!

Narrator:
Well! Good King Squid had a slippery little kid!
And a slippery little kid was he!
So he swam up to Heracles and taunted him--he did!
With his separate hearts: one, two, three!

And every hero who came...
Was humbled just the same...
For you can't rip out the heart
Of a slippery little fart
And expect to long hold on to your claim!


Heracles: Noooooo!
Octopus: Heh heh heh.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #184 on: February 09, 2010, 06:49:38 pm »
Was that modeled after "Zacchaeus sat in the sycamore tree to see what he could see" ?  Or have I just spent waaaay too much of my childhood in Sunday school classes?  (Er..."yes" to that last question regardless of the answer to the first one.)

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #185 on: February 09, 2010, 06:57:58 pm »
Not quite!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_King_Cole

In my ideal world, people would be more like this! Singing octopi and kings calling for their fiddlers.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #186 on: February 09, 2010, 07:07:31 pm »
Calamari... ::drool::

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #187 on: February 09, 2010, 07:08:49 pm »
Heh, I actually think those two rhymes have the exact same tune.  I never knew that before.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #188 on: February 10, 2010, 12:26:27 am »
There used to be an exotic meat place near where I live. A friend of mine and I would pick out meats and make pizzas with these arbitrary animals. I got a bit tired of kangaroo, but llama was quite good.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #189 on: February 12, 2010, 08:07:31 pm »
I was just returning from the basement, having turned on lights there experimentally to see if that improves my perception of the level, when I heard a loud and disembodied beep. It puzzled the dickens out of me because this is a very quiet house. I went looking around to see which of the innumerable electronic systems here might have done it, when it struck me in a flash: the microwave! I had turned it on 90 seconds earlier to heat some penne. Hah! So, now we know that a Josh's memory span is unreliable with even the slightest of diversions. Where do I sign up to be an air traffic controller?

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #190 on: February 12, 2010, 09:26:59 pm »
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I was just returning from the basement, having turned on lights there experimentally to see if that improves my perception of the level, when I heard a loud and disembodied beep.
I'm amused at the fact that, when I read this sentence for the first time, Carl Sagan's voice was reading that sentence in my mind. Imagine, Carl Sagan saying the word, "beep." How awesome would that be? "Mmm-beep-ah (with hand gestures)."

Insert obligatory clip from Cosmos here.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #191 on: February 12, 2010, 10:24:10 pm »
He had such a great voice, too...geeky and soothing, thoughtful, at times whimsical.

Beep!

Beep!

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #192 on: February 13, 2010, 05:20:40 am »

So, here's my amusement.  I heard the riddle of the how much wood a woodchuck could chuck, and I didn't feel satisfied not being able to find out the answer.  Instead, I turned my nagging frustration into creative energy and came up with this little diddy:

How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hoards got bored?

Let me know when somebody here comes up with the answer.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #193 on: February 13, 2010, 05:22:20 am »
42.

The answer is always 42.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #194 on: February 13, 2010, 05:45:47 am »

42.

The answer is always 42.

As in The Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?

Uh-huh.  Second opinion, anyone?