1: I wasn't sure. I'm willing to change. I just don't know.
Urban Dictionary says "stylee". To the backside!
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Now it looks like I don't know what stylee means. God DAMN it, Stanley!
This is the kind of panel show Brock can use:
"Rather than having a sell-by date on cheese, they should have the date that the cheese becomes poisonous."
It's true. Sell-by dates are completely useless, especially when they drop the milk shipment off at the store two hours before it opens and it just sits there getting hot outside before put in the refrigerator. Stupid milk.
Which is why a lot of the milk in New York has a date, and then an "In NYC" date that's two or three days earlier.
they should have the date that the cheese becomes poisonous.
Similarly to how they should be a lot more explicit about what will happen if you mix your prescription drugs with alcohol. Twice the fun or twice the liver damage?
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Hey I had no idea Apo was at the World Cup.
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10: You look great, Apo, but you should have done your eyebrows.
i cut off a bunch of green stuff that was on my cheese earlier today (trip, and it was expensive cheese). theres probably some sort of superziplok that woudl prevent moisture buildup without letting refrigerator funk in or out.
oh, i mean it was expensive = i've had it for two months and was savoring it.
It can help to wrap a cheese in paper before Ziplocing it.
Ronco or whatever shrinkwrappers or vacuum sealers are sold astonshingly cheap on some of science channels at 3 AM ...or so I am told.
What do I know, I eat Kraft Singles.
14: Paper in a plastic bag is good, but don't zip it, just fold it over without sealing it.
Sell-by dates are completely useless, especially when they drop the milk shipment off at the store two hours before it opens and it just sits there getting hot outside before put in the refrigerator.
Yes, and in NYC there were, until very recently, two sell-by dates; and that earlier NYC date always worried me, and made me think of milk shipments left out in sun. I prefer a "best before" date, I don't care when or where it was sold.
Kraft singles aren't really cheese, bob, and cheddar should be not rubbery but crumbly.
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It's weird to get (non-critical, non-emergency {birthday-for-my-brother*-organizing}) text messages from my mom at 11:40pm. Go to bed, Mom!
*Same as Tom Cruise.
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This is the kind of nonsense that gets people thinking raw chicken goes bad after two days in the fridge.
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/food/how-long-can-you-refrigerate-or-freeze-food-1753460/
i had a rather bad smelling fridge for a while from not-super-99.999-sealed shrimp paste, so i am sketched by not keeping my cheese sealed. i don't even like cheese, except cheddar all by itself. totally gross if it got on other food.
also i watched 'band of brothers' on spike networked, and they played the shit out of AXE commercials. i can't get the jingle tune out of my head now and was whistling the bass line all day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt3yFRnChy0&feature=related
i was not as horrified by that commercial as the VLAD THE IMAPALER!!@#@DE#ATHMETÄLVOICË!!@! commercial though.
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I think "Dramamine" is my favorite Modest Mouse tune.
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Really? Isn't that the first song on their first album? That is *never* the best song. Weirdo.
I prefer pretty much every song on Good News . . ., but I am fairly conformist.
so......you don't think their earlier stuff was better?
Now it looks like I don't know what stylee means.
Maybe you can make a crash course in British slang part of your trip.
This is the kind of nonsense that gets people thinking raw chicken goes bad after two days in the fridge.
I was under this impression. How long does it last?
Some murdered chickens live for years.
How long does it last?
Depends on the chicken. I try to use chicken within a day or two, but I've definitely had it sitting around four or even five days without it showing signs of going bad. I wouldn't buy it that far in advance on purpose, but if I somehow haven't gotten around to cooking it in that time, I wouldn't automatically throw it out.
So when raw chicken goes bad, it's obvious? I would always use that rule of thumb for cooked meats, but somehow I always toed the ultra conservative line for raw chicken.
It can start to smell pretty awful. Or it might feel squishier/less firm, or take on a sliminess that is different from your regular raw chicken feeling.
the ultra conservative line for raw chicken
Only in the poop chute until marriage?
Though it can be hard to judge with raw poultry, because it doesn't smell that awesome to begin with. We buy our poultry at a shop where they do all the killing and cutting themselves (as advertised on their sign), and the place always has a bit of a raw chicken stench about it. But when it goes bad enough to smell, you'll really know.
Three days or so in the fridge can improve the flavor, actually.
24 Really? Isn't that the first song on their first album? That is *never* the best song.
I submit 6'1" from Exile in Guyville. Certainly a contender for best song. Oh oh oh or sort of randomly because I happened to google it to see if what I thought was the first song/first album actually was that*, **, I shall also submit "Love is a Stranger" from Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).
(Quasi-erotic response to watching Annie Lennox tear off the blond wig in video to above-mentioned song: early sign that things were Not Right.)
*It wasn't, but the actual first song worked out anyway.
**Okay, fine, it also isn't their first album but nobody I know has ever heard the other one so it doesn't exist.
"I Will Dare" could certainly be considered the best song on Let It Be (I'd probably go "Answering Machine" or "Favorite Thing," but still). I translated it into Latin in 9th grade. Simple condition! Si audebis, audebo!
Only in the poop chute until marriage?
It'd be a pretty anatomically naïve chicken that fell for that one.
Three days or so in the fridge can improve the flavor, actually.
Many such cultures are downright tasty!
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So, my credit card doesn't expire until 2013, but they just sent me a new one. Do I have to activate it? It's mildly annoying to have to go into Amazon.com and all the bill websites or wherever I've tucked it online, and update the card.
Is this a security thing?
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I translated it into Latin in 9th grade
This is funny. When I worked at [That Mall Pizza Chain] in high school and found myself washing dishes for hours at a time, I used to translate the local pop station songs into Spanish to pass the time. So I have a bunch of random en español choruses of songs from bands like 98 Degrees that float earwormingly into my head.
39: The last time this happened to me, I actually called in, suspicious that someone may have ordered a new card, with the idea of picking it off at my mailbox before I got it. The impression I got upon calling in was (1) this new card featured New™ Important® Security Features but that (2) what was really going on was they seemed to see a blip in card use when cardholders in-good-standing got handed a shiny new card.
It happens pretty often that a corporate server with millions of card numbers stored is cracked. I think both banks and clients try to keep it out of the news when they discover the problem.
I just got a new debit card in the mail that's a Visa rather than my current MasterCard, or maybe the other way around. I figure my (giant) bank cuts new payola deals with Visa and MasterCard every couple of years.
It happens pretty often that a corporate server with millions of card numbers stored is cracked.
What if the number hasn't changed, just the expiration date (and possible the 3 digit code on the back. Didn't think to check)? Still how they would paper over a security concern? Because then I'd probably activate the new card.
Yeah, my bank has just switched its debit cards over from Maestro (which is run by Mastercard) to Visa. As a result, my old card was cancelled las week. Cunningly, I failed to collect the special delivery of the new card from the PO depot in time, so I'm currently without card.
I wouldn't worry about it, Heebie. Here in the UK banks are always updating their cards. In fact, my card that just got cancelled was the first one I've ever had that was a replacement for one that reached its expiry date.
That said, most of the recent replacements have been for chip and pin, which you guys don't have, if I remember rightly.
We don't have chip and pin. We have the less-secure but more-remunerative-for-the-banks signature debit.
Since the CVV and expiration are necessary for an electronic transaction, this change would make any stolen numbers worthless.
The credit card industry not only suppresses reporting of individual mass thefts, they do not release statistics about how much aggregate fraud costs them. These costs are reported occasionally by enforcement agencies, but not by the banks themselves. For years, my pad signature has been either "no thanks" or "help me" in legible capitals.
36: Nice. What's the Latin for "bacon and cigarettes"?
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Finally something to listen to while driving, besides Rehms. My NPR affiliate has started a music station, in apparent association with a bunch of Denton alumni.
9-11 AM June 29
10:57 Bosque Brown - This Town [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
10:54 Bruce Springsteen - Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
10:50 Vampire Weekend - Run [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
10:44 The Be Good Tanyas - When Doves Cry [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
10:42 John Butler Trio - One Way Road [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
10:36 Sarah Jaffe - Clementine [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
10:29 Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (w/ Hope Sandoval) [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
10:25 Grupo Fantasma - Calor [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
10:22 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Give It Back [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
10:10 Bob Schneider - Bringdown [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
10:07 Stevie Wonder - Tuesday Heartbreak [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
9am
9:58 Smile Smile - Tempo Bledsoe [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
9:54 PJ Harvey - This Mess We're In (feat. Thom Yorke) [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
9:50 Crash Test Dummies - And It's Beautiful [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
9:45 Bob Dylan - Beyond Here Lies Nothin' [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
9:40 Katsuk - Cut The Cord [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
9:37 Cowboy Junkies - Stranger Here [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
9:34 Truth & Salvage Co. - Call Back [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
9:29 The Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
9:25 Broken Bells - The High Road [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
9:20 ALO - I Love Music [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
9:14 XTC - Generals And Majors [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
9:10 Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - Tiny Light [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
9:06 Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights - Bright Energy [ Buy: Amazon | iTunes ]
I can handle this.
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50: That's an impressively varied playlist.
Isn't that the first song on their first album?
"Gloria" by Patti Smith has to be one of the all time great first song/first album tracks and certainly ranks among her best work.
More first song/first album.
The Cars are also a likely candidate and while I don't know that "Good Times Roll" is their best song it's one of their better ones.
As is "X Offender" by Blondie.
"Radio Free Europe"? by R.E.M?
"Mirror in the Bathroom" by the English Beat clearly isn't their best song, but is one of their most anthologized.
Apparently the 80s were a good time for strong debut albums.
Looking at the 70s you have "Suzanne" by Leonard Cohen
51 gets it right -- that is an impressively good collection of music particularly to hear on the radio.
"Radio Free Europe"? by R.E.M?
"Wolves, Lower" isn't the first off the first, or is this LPs only?
It's not my favorite, but "That's When I Reach For My Revolver" has to rank pretty high in Mission of Burma's canon.
"Wolves, Lower" isn't the first off the first, or is this LPs only?
I was just going by what AMG lists as "main albums". It looks like "Radio Free Europe" was their first single, but AMG has "1,000,000" as the first song on their first EP.
There's a compelling argument that the Radiohead Hail to the Thief opener "2 + 2 = 5" is the album's best track.
I'm no stuck looking through AMG for classic first song/first album tracks.
"Ol' 55" by Tom Waits
"Illegal Smile" by John Prine (I'd pick "Angel from Montgomery" off his first album as his best song)
"Roadrunner" by Jonathan Richman is fantastic but I can't tell if it was actually the first song off his first album.
"Tears of Rage" by The Band isn't their best song, but it's a strong track, and I'd say the same thing about "When I Get to the Border" by Ricahrd and Linda Thompson.
Welcome to the Jungle--Guns N' Roses.
More first song/first album.
Guided by Voices' "Land of Danger" is an absolutely great song. It could be the best song ever by one of those bands like the Windbreakers or Pylon. And then they immediately diverged from that sound.
Say what you will about Rancid, but this is a pretty great song to be the first thing anyone ever heard from them.
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After hearing This Town by Bosque Brown, I was trying to remember who she reminded me of, since who the reviews discussed (Chan Marshall, Gillian Welch) din't quite ring true.
Maybe Innocence Mission
The roommate hates these semi-pro little girl voices; I love 'em a lot. Melanie, Sundays
KXT a link to station of 50 if you want to check it out;they have an onlive feed. Schedules and djs will vary.
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"Song Against Sex" by Neutral Milk Hotel.
Surely there will be strong opinions on what their best song is, but "21st Century Schizoid Man" leading off In the Court of the Crimson King certainly deserves mention as a candidate. "Gloria" is a good call with Patti Smith. I don't personally think it is their best, but "Precious" by The Pretenders might be another one.
50, 51: That playlist would not be unusual at WYEP here in Pittsburgh during some DJs' shifts. Ned might not agree.
50: Sounds like 89.3 The Current here in the Twin Cities, a public radio station with a lot of DJs from the long-mourned Rev 105. It's the only music station worth listening to in town aside from the U of M station Radio K, which is spotty. Enjoy!
In the first album/first song category, "Let the Mystery Be", the first song on Iris DeMent's first album, and probably her most famous song (except maybe "Our Town" that was featured on "Northern Exposure").
"Let the Mystery Be", the first song on Iris DeMent's first album
Good choice.
I really can't make peace with the title of this post. "Stylee" is just so annoying. I can't get the white, dreadlocked trustafarian capoeira performer saying that phrase over and over out of my head. Make it stop!
I do like the first song/first album theme, though, esp. 58 and 59.
68.1: Watch the clip? You could end up Stephen Fry on repeat instead of the dreadlocked trustafarian capoeira performer, which seems like a marked improvement.
I think Iris DeMent's best-known song might be that duet with John Prine "In Spite of Ourselves", but am not familiar with Northern Exposure.
That should be: You could end up *with* Stephen Fry. Dammit.
Thanks for making that clear. To be honest, I don't find Stephen Fry that sexy. Certainly not sexy enough to end him up on repeat.
Also, "watch the clip" is blatant discrimination against those of us procrastinating from an office, rather than at home.
not familiar with Northern Exposure.
I just realized that I have had Northern Exposure and Twin Peaks filed away as a single show about which I know pretty much squat.
See, for me it's Northern Exposure and Picket Fences.
For me it's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Wire.
Picket Fences
Huh. Yep. Same mental place as the other two.
Huh. Yep. Same mental place as the other two.
Shows I was not allowed to watch cuz they were past my bedtime?
78: That's it. My big brother's gonna beat you up!
at least you didn't spend hours watching twin peaks, and it still being a show about which you don't know squat.
at least you didn't spend hours watching twin peaks, and it still being a show about which you don't know squat.
But then you can see the movie Fire Walk With Me and it will convince you that it was a show about which David Lynch didn't know squat either.
80, 81: So, it didn't make any sense. It was amusing. (I watched a few episodes at various times in no particular order, so I had no expectation of making any sense of it.)
80, 81, 82
I enjoyed the first season. Quirky characters, dead teenagers, Westside Story Alumni Association meetings, mystery, whatev. By the second season it was obvious the writers had no clue where they were going, so just went with the weird. I think they must have had no hope for a second season, but they figured wrong, Butch.
73: I just realized that I have had Northern Exposure and Twin Peaks filed away as a single show about which I know pretty much squat.
But not too bad, geography-wise. Twin Peaks outdoor scenes were filmed at Snoqualmie Falls and North Bend, Washington while Northern Exposure was filmed in Roslyn just up and over on the other side of Snoqualmie Pass.
If you haven't seen Northern Exposure, you really should.
