Mr. Silver
The problem with me doing a chili cook-off is that I always wing it, and it's usually good enough that it doesn't make it outside of the house to non-immediate family unless it's in the tummies of people we invited over.
12:00 PM Mr. Silver
(sings) "C is for chili...that's good enough for me. C is for chili...that's good enough for me. C is for chili...that's good enough for ME. Chili chili chili starts with OM! NOM! NOM! NOM! NOM NOM NOM nom...ahhhhh."
12:01 PM Mr. Blue
The problem with a chili cook-off is that chili is pretty difficult to screw up, and I don't like chili that much anyway.
12:01 PM Mr. Silver
I've had many sad so-called chilis.
I tend to try some anywhere a menu boasts about it.
12:02 PM Mr. Brown
Well its not very hard to make a normal chili.
But to make one pop in flavor, that everybody loves?
That’s hard.
12:02 PM Mr. Silver
90% of them, I classify as "Bean soup".
12:04 PM Mr. Silver
Of course, having been taken by a fit one day to study the origins of chili, the original stuff sounds just plain disgusting.
12:16 PM Mr. Silver
"The recipe used by American frontier settlers consisted of dried beef, suet, dried chili peppers and salt, which were pounded together, formed into bricks and left to dry, which could then be boiled in pots on the trail"
12:17 PM Mr. Brown
Or just eaten in brick form.
lol
Just pull it out of the bag and take a bite.
12:24 PM Mr. Silver
"We call this our Authentic Southwestern-Style Brick-Of-Old-Meat-And-Fat-So-Spiced-Up-You-Can-Choke-It-Down Stew!"
"Kinda long. Are those chili peppers you're grinding in?"
"Yessir."
"Well if that's the masking flavor, I suggest just calling it 'Chili' then."
“Hmmm...Not a bad name.”
12:26 PM Mr. Silver
That first bit about the Cholula Indians under history has been added since I read the article the first time.
12:29 PM Mr. Silver
It also smells of chili peppers and apocrypha.
(Later...)
1:17 PM Mr. Silver
Hey Mr. Mustard…
The Cholula Indians have a good chili recipe for the Chili Cook-off in Mars at the end of the month if you are interested in entering. It’s in the history section.
"Chili con Conquistador"
1:46 PM Mr. Silver
I'm not into Spanish cuisine, myself.
1:46 PM Mr. Blue
http://www.alleghenycity.org/index.php?ARTICLE=29 That's what Allegheny City originally looked like, before the "urban renewal".
It used to be its own city before it was annexed by Pittsburgh.
1:47 PM Mr. Silver
The Vatican of western PA.
1:47 PM Mr. Blue
Heheh
Mr. Silver
I watched "Hugo" over the weekend.
2:01 PM Mr. Blue
I almost did yesterday, but ended up watching “Drive” again instead.
Was it good? I’ll probably check it this weekend.
2:01 PM Mr. Silver
I liked it .
"Hugo" used the 'as long as they have an accent, it's ok for Americans' trick.
So although they were in France, I don't think I recall a single French accent...I'd have to watch it again.
2:05 PM Mr. Blue
Heh
Ah yes, the ‘vague British accent’ trick.
2:05 PM Mr. Silver
The girl who played the vampire in ‘Let Me In’ gave a kind of uneven performance for me...I’m not sure what it was.
2:06 PM Mr. Blue
I’m not a fan of hers.
2:06 PM Mr. Silver
Anyway, it was very lush and stylized, and less of a fantasy than I expected.
It’s also firmly in the category of theater folk who love making theater about theater folk.
It was certainly worth the couple hours.
2:09 PM Mr. Blue
Doesn’t Chloe Moretz have a face that is distractingly goofy?
I mean, so do I, but I’m not in motion pictures.
2:09 PM Mr. Silver
A bit. I'm wondering how she'll grow into it.
2:10 PM Mr. Blue
It’s like her eyebrows are really dark and her hair is really light, and she looks like she could cut glass with her chin.
2:10 PM Mr. Silver
She appears to be at that stage where she could turn into "Wow!" or "What happened?"
(More RPG gamer geek stuff; in this case our "Rifts" game. - Mr. Silver)
8:44 AM Mr. Yellow
How did Ned’s mercenary fair?
8:45 AM Mr. Green
Good. He didn’t die, and didn’t lose his Glitterboy.
8:45 AM Mr. Gray
Yeah....He fit in pretty well.
8:46 AM Mr. Green
And we picked up a 50 foot fighting robot and a military transport ship.
8:46 AM Mr. Yellow
Sweet.
8:47 AM Mr. Gray
What fun would it have been to go to the Japanese space station and NOT escape with a giant fighting robot? LOL
The trouble will be that there are no spare parts, and it doesn’t fly or have the maneuverability of a Gundam style bot....even if it looks like one.
You may need to do mods and a lot of self repair to keep it.
It’s worth A LOT if you keep a hold of it and sell it though.
9:06 AM Mr. Silver
"Hi...we'd like this thing separated into 5 transforming lions please."
"Pfff...Where do you think you are? Japan?"
9:06 AM Mr. Gray
LOL
Ask the right people, it might be possible.
9:34 AM Mr. Silver
"The sniffing each others' butts thing is slowing the transformation sequence down. Can't we take that out?"
9:34 AM Mr. Gray
LMAO
9:34 AM Mr. Yellow
“No, that is important and adds a nice comedic effect.”
With the right amount of money, anything is possible.
Replacement parts will still be a pain.
9:16 AM Mr. Gray
Maybe Brad can make them, heh.
9:16 AM Mr. Silver
Hehe
"Are you still filing that first sprocket, Brad???"
"It's 5' across with 5000 teeth...yes."
9:19 AM Mr. Yellow
Yes, repair is one thing. Having a factory to crank out gigantic parts is another.
Now if you can take over a factory as a base of operations, then you will be set.
9:22 AM Mr. Silver
Mechanic "Well, sir, the repairs were easy, really. So that's a million credits for that. Retooling the foundry and factory floor was a little steep."
Mr. Green "So what's the damage?"
Mechanic "Uh...143 billion....and 26 credits for the inspection sticker."
Mr. Green "Million...M?"
Mechanic "Billion...B. Good news though...we can make these things now and there's a market for them."
Mr. Green “Uh…can you take a check?”
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