Random stupid things on your mind. Post them.

[zeebo]

My friendly local library had it available as an e-book so I borrowed a copy right away. They also had an audiobook available so I reserved that. Thanks again for the recommendation.

Cool ok hope you get a kick out of it.  I may have to check out the audiobook.  I wonder if it's read by the author, he's pretty funny, he drives around in a Back to the Future style DeLorean, which gives you a clue as to his nerd cred, haha.

[bateman]

As far as whiskey goes, I lean heavily in the bourbon direction. Favorites include: Four Roses Small Batch, Woodford Reserve, Buffalo Trace, Elijah Craig 12, Michters 10, Widow Jane & Booker's (but water it down, Christ almighty it's strong).

[zeebo]

You mean a Bro? 

haha, you beat me to it 'Over

[zeebo]

I think I'll have a turkey sandwich today in honor of my American friends. Do I need to deep fry it?

If it ain't deep fried, it ain't American  :

[Nova]

I think I'll have a turkey sandwich today in honor of my American friends. Do I need to deep fry it?

According to Steelbot, yes.  However, I think a cooked turkey is just wonderful too.  I would skip the sandwich and go straight for the whole cooked turkey though.  We can make a whole menu of Thanksgiving food for you to try.

[analog kid]

I'd love to have a revenue-generator anything and not have to work, but it's one of the few things that actually forces me to get out there, rub elbows with people, and have to get along with them.  It's often a strain, but it's probably good for me.  My real life friends all live some distance away, so I don't see them often but communicate online with them near daily, so it makes me FEEL like I have a busy social life when I actually don't.  Fortunately for me, I have a small, very nice, very close-knit family.  We like each other and get together weekly, if not even more often than that.  I live with my aunt, who's disabled, and we get along very well:  it's cozy to have someone to watch TV with at night, and she'll even watch my spooky stuff like Ancient Aliens and try to wrap her mind around it, so I like to think I've broadened her horizons.  She's very open-minded, since her dead husband often speaks to her, so the paranormal is not something she automatically poo-poohs.

That sounds nice. Good family is all you need and your aunt sounds cool.

[Ravenna]

As far as whiskey goes, I lean heavily in the bourbon direction. Favorites include: Four Roses Small Batch, Woodford Reserve, Buffalo Trace, Elijah Craig 12, Michters 10, Widow Jane & Booker's (but water it down, Christ almighty it's strong).

Those are brand names I've never heard.  Are they easy to find?

[Jnthn932]

According to Steelbot, yes.  However, I think a cooked turkey is just wonderful too.  I would skip the sandwich and go straight for the whole cooked turkey though.  We can make a whole menu of Thanksgiving food for you to try.

Screw the turkey. Turducken is where it's at.

[steelbot]

School work sucks

[jazmunda]

According to Steelbot, yes.  However, I think a cooked turkey is just wonderful too.  I would skip the sandwich and go straight for the whole cooked turkey though.  We can make a whole menu of Thanksgiving food for you to try.

I've always wanted to have a Thanksgiving dinner. It's the one holiday that we really can't copy from you guys. I grown up with Thanksgiving shoved down my throat through TV and Movies but I never had the pleasure of carving into a Turkey. Well I could just buy a turkey, cook it and carve it but it just wouldn't be the same.

[jazmunda]

School work sucks

Shouldn't that post be in the "Things that annoy me thread"?

[steelbot]

Shouldn't that post be in the "Things that annoy me thread"?

Yes probably! lol

[Marc.Knight]

Shouldn't that post be in the "Things that annoy me thread"?

Depends how random and stupid it is.

[analog kid]

I've never brined a turkey but I was in a thread were it was common with everyone else. Or at least common since the Alton Brown episode that was referenced.

Turkey Brining Secrets with Alton Brown From "Good Eats" on Food Network

[gbneely]

As far as whiskey goes, I lean heavily in the bourbon direction. Favorites include: Four Roses Small Batch, Woodford Reserve, Buffalo Trace, Elijah Craig 12, Michters 10, Widow Jane & Booker's (but water it down, Christ almighty it's strong).

I've seen the Four Roses Brand and have wanted to try it. I think I'll start with that. Thanks for the suggestions.

[gbneely]

I want a Deep Fried Turkey.  THey are indeed the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t2dwPTnsyA

I like deep fried turkey the best, too. My wife likes to brine the turkey and it's really good as well.

[bateman]

I've seen the Four Roses Brand and have wanted to try it. I think I'll start with that. Thanks for the suggestions.

They make a couple different variations. The Yellow Label is unimpressive & the Single Barrel is too harsh, but I highly recommend the mid-range Small Batch.

Those are brand names I've never heard.  Are they easy to find?

Woodford & Booker's should be easy to find, but you might have to do some searching for the others.

[ziznak]

this thread has me yearning for some fried turkey and some wild turkey... but... I'll settle for

[gbneely]

That's just ludicrous.

[Treading Water]

As far as whiskey goes, I lean heavily in the bourbon direction. Favorites include: Four Roses Small Batch, Woodford Reserve, Buffalo Trace, Elijah Craig 12, Michters 10, Widow Jane & Booker's (but water it down, Christ almighty it's strong).

I lost a weekend to Booker's back when I was still young and immortal.(Don't know if I'd try it again though.  It made my lady-parts sore.)   :
Since I'm counting pennies these days I stick to Jim Beam Black Label.  Looked for Widow Jane, but, alas, they don't carry it here. 

[West of the Rockies]

Don't know where else to post this inquiry, so here it will be:  who has disappeared or received the boot from our happy little forum of late?  Nearly all of us are mourning Eddie Coyle's stormy "departure"; Casio got the boot, too, along with DorkPenguin.  I haven't seen Nucky Nolan posting here in a while.  Sardondi seems to have given us the slip as well.  Hal9000 got the boot a while back.  I have never been as actively involved in any forum as I have been this one -- is this a normal dynamic, people appearing and disappearing like whack-a-mole gophers?

What.  The.  Hell?  The joint is lousy with clueless newbies...

(I was a newbie once; many of you -- newbies, that is -- are fitting in just fine!   But others are really mucking up the place....)

[onan]

Don't know where else to post this inquiry, so here it will be:  who has disappeared or received the boot from our happy little forum of late?  Nearly all of us are mourning Eddie Coyle's stormy "departure"; Casio got the boot, too, along with DorkPenguin.  I haven't seen Nucky Nolan posting here in a while.  Sardondi seems to have given us the slip as well.  Hal9000 got the boot a while back.  I have never been as actively involved in any forum as I have been this one -- is this a normal dynamic, people appearing and disappearing like whack-a-mole gophers?

What.  The.  Hell?  The joint is lousy with clueless newbies...

(I was a newbie once; many of you -- newbies, that is -- are fitting in just fine!   But others are really mucking up the place....)

People come and go. Sometimes with a flare. I miss some and some not so much.

[UnscreenedCaller]

I don't know where I read this, but somewhere on Bellgab there's a post from Nucky saying he's going off for a while due to increased work demands. I hope Sardoni returns soon. and Eddie Coyle is offered amnesty. Sleeplessinca, EvB and ponyboysunset are also mia. I hope they return, too.

[jazmunda]

I don't know where I read this, but somewhere on Bellgab there's a post from Nucky saying he's going off for a while due to increased work demands. I hope Sardoni returns soon. and Eddie Coyle is offered amnesty. Sleeplessinca, EvB and ponyboysunset are also mia. I hope they return, too.

I miss ponyboysunset. I keep meaning to PM her which I will do now. Thanks for the reminder.

Like onan said people come and go from forums all the time. There are a lot of newbies here because of the mentions on Dark Matter and the fact that it is now widely know that Art posts here. There is nothing wrong with newbies. We were all newbies once. I have a problem with the newbies that troll from the get go but what can you do. Free speech yadda yadda yadda.

Anyway, some of the dearly departed are missed and others were waved off with a big fat CYA.

[AC400KICK]

A dog and the moon. Some salt. And turkey.

[bateman]

I lost a weekend to Booker's back when I was still young and immortal.(Don't know if I'd try it again though.  It made my lady-parts sore.)   :
Since I'm counting pennies these days I stick to Jim Beam Black Label.  Looked for Widow Jane, but, alas, they don't carry it here. 

You uh, you did DRINK it, right?

[zeebo]

I've never brined a turkey but ...

For some reason, this just sounds like the start of a really dirty joke.

[Treading Water]

You uh, you did DRINK it, right?

Ha ha ha ha ha.  Oops....

[bateman]

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/11/26/Georgia-Juror-Form-Lists-Slave-As-Occupation

"That is not an occupation, slave is not an occupation," said DeKalb resident, Cheryl Glass.

Hahahahahaha

[gbneely]

http://youtu.be/z7CUR2cozts