"This Week in God" on The Daily Show.
This video- disturbing or awesome? The kid looks ok at the end.
I don't think you people understand the category.
I recently tried Oro Blanco fruit, a cross between grapefruit and pomelo. Verdict? Delicious.
Roy Orbison! Dwight Yoakam! Shopping at Goodwill! Swimming in the river!
OK, try this: being told to eat me.
Kitty cats! Red corduroy pants! Tattoos! Jammies! Thunderstorms! Wheeeee!
I've got about two dozen gigantic grapefruit in a bowl on my counter b/c PK insisted on picking as many as he could reach and then climbing the tree and picking more when we went to Grandpa's funeral.
It's kind of nice, even though at the time I kept yelling NO MORE GRAPEFRUIT because my mom gave grandpa that tree when he had to sell the farm and move to town. It's horrifying how productive the thing became.
being told to eat me
Totally new to me, McManly. Category error!
So what you're saying is that there's a difference between grapefruits and pomelos?
It's hard to know what would fit into the category and what wouldn't. What does "you" mean?
13: Thicker skin! Different bitterness! I guess, yeah, it's kinda subtle.
According to this, crosses between grapefruits and pomelos are commonly sold under the name "pomelo". Perhaps taking a pomelo that is a cross between a grapefruit and a pomelo and then crossing it with a grapefruit creates an even better pomelo. Or "grapefruit" for short.
Riding your bike at night with friends.
Melogold grapefruits are even better than Oro Blanco grapefruit. Should you run across a Melogold, spend the dollar or two on it (They're a grapefruit - tangelo backcross and have zero bitterness.)
12: Fair enough. I think we need more examples.
"Stanley seems to understand" ??? What am I, chopped liver?
I dunno, heebie, I never saw the pictures.
A game of Capture the Flag around a lake in Desolation Wilderness.
Yeah, 4 made me throw my hands in my air and cover my face. Yikes.
Guys shooting bottle rockets out of their ass.
I admit that at first I googled "j.j. cale " and "grapefruit" in hopes expectation of something more prurient.
29: yeah, that video made me think of croquet too.
That first snuggle with your sweetie.
Damn. B-pwned. But croquet is awesome, and we should all try to remember that.
32: No, I thought of croquet b/c we got a set and PK loves it. And it really is pretty fun.
Speaking of sleep, naps. Naps are awesome.
Everything bagels with cream cheese and lox
The ability to get whole seasons of TV shows on DVD
Oh, man. 38 through 42 are all freaking awesome.
A leaf of sage, burning slowly in the corner of ogged's mom's bedroom.
mmm, boiled peanuts. They sell those in New York?
Picnics, Irish cheddar, and chilled white wine, all on a warm afternoon.
Living rooms! Bedrooms! Dinettes!
The category is things we might have forgotten, Standpipe. MANDOM! is unforgettable.
Isolated moments of genius, surrounded by tragic tedium.
I for one will never forget the awesomeness of KISS.
Back from China so soon?
Oh. Wrong blog. Right.
On-topic: Cumin!
Heebie reminded me of the awesomeness of "Sister Christian" today. I can't say I ever forgot it, but it wasn't foremost in my mind until I started tooling around on her blog.
I wish when hard rock was still soft rock, I had known this. I think I would have been less fearful.
When you're in a new relationship where you're both really physically attracted to each other, but you're trying to take that part of the relationship slow 'cause you both really want to give the other parts of the relationship time to catch up, and then the first time you make out together.
Having nothing to do on a whole Saturday! (I forget that all the time, since I haven't had an un-duty-filled Saturday since about 2003, until last Saturday) It was like a whole vacation packed into one afternoon.
Lilacs.
I add that pomelos are sort of the lychee fruit of citrus--their flavor is strange and delicate and (to me at least) very intense. Also, peeling them is a tantalizing nuisance. In Shanghai, the pomelo-selling-woman would peel them for you for an extra fee. She was extraordinarily adept the one time I was lazy enough to pay.
Ordinary grapefruit are awfully good, though. My family always used to eat them with sugar when I was little, but in college one of my more ascetic friends made remarks about that and now I eat them plain. I should get some grapefruit...
I love pomelo. I typically get a small knife to cut the skin and then eat the delicious fruit.
Love the pomelo.
69: I can't be the only one feeling you ought to be kinder to yourself; you probably think so too.
Having our own lilacs would probably give my wife as much pleasure with our house as many a more substantial and costly improvement.
My mother, who is staying with us this week, puts sugar on everything, classically tomatoes. Waitresses often come up to her and say, "You know, that's sugar," no doubt thinking she thought it salt. So grapefruit, which I happily eat straight now, was something calling for mounds of sugar in my childhood too.
BEER.
I know there are people for whom the awesomeness of beer is never far from the mind, but somehow I often forget. Two nights ago I had my first beer in a week, and my date was quite amused at my excitement.
72: Particularly beer on a hot day when you're thirsty.
Now that the weather's warmed up...iced mocha, with a couple of added shots.
44 gets it exactly right.
"The Bridge Over the River Kwai", "The Great Escape" and other multiple-Oscar winning epic dramas from that period.
If only typing with your teeth were a marketable skill.
I think you were just doing it wrong SB.
Anyway, I want my teeth back.
(They're a grapefruit - tangelo backcross and have zero bitterness.)
So they're crap?
Say ben, I totally didn't understand what you were getting at with that "Chris Onstad is M/tch M/lls?" thing? What were you getting at?
72: Particularly beer on a hot day when you're thirsty.
The bootleg of a Tom Waits concert in Australia, titled Cold Beer on a Hot Night. Contains perhaps the best rendition of "Burma-Shave" going.
Also: pastis with some ice water.
Ben seeks the elusive camparifruit.
I've long thought that pomelo juice and gin would make an excellent highball. Pomelos are exceedingly hard to juice, unfortunately.
87: he had come up with a silly band name under the constraint of a theme, something at which, as I recall, you are particularly talented.
Plus he's been to China.
Becherovka, though, is something whose awesomeness few people, I suspect, have had occasion to forget, as a result of their being plumb ignorant of it (I count myself in this category, though I bet it's nice).
91: Thanks. I get it now.
Becherovka is something like Campari.
Don't worry, everyone, I've procured a room for young ben and I. The sight of our comity will trouble you no more.
Taking the thread to triple digits, all by myself. This is just like the good old days!!
I thought it was more an herbal thing, like Fernet Branca or that other famous one, than a bitter.
Fernet Branca goes pretty well in coke.
Haven't had Fernet Branca, though I'm looking to correct that. Becherovka isn't as bitter as Campari, and so the herbalness is more pronounced, but they both contain a lot of the same ingredients.
There's some weird german bitter herbal liqueur that's sold in three-packs of tiny bottles at some markets around here. I can't remember its name, alas, alas—I blame the Herbsaint.
98: I knew you couldn't resist even such obvious bait.
I mean, Jagermeister, before it went the "Prove Your Manhood!" party-marketing route, was known mainly as a digestif type thing. And I've seen it sold in the tiny little bottles, although only in Europe.
iTunes is selling a clean-lyrics version of "Die beiden Grenadiere".
OK.
In my astonishment, I forgot to invent a long-winded story about two red-colored syrups returning to France.
Is it any of the ones on this list?
It's been fun and all, but now I must go to bed. Night, all.
Becherovka and Campari are both quite nice, but not particularly similar, no. I don't care if they have the same ingredients: so might omelettes and egg salad.
Becherovka is really niced mixed with tonic to make a Beton. Very refreshing alternative to gin and tonic.
The formula for Campari is secret, so we should look askance on M/tch's assertion anyway.
112: The herbally tastes and undertones of Campari and Becherovka are pretty similar. That's why I said they are "something like" each other, to give young ben some idea about Becherovka. Try having a campari & soda and a becherovka & tonic in fairly quick succession, as I did just the other night, and you'll see what I mean. I'd definitely put them in the same category of spirit.
113: Exactly right.
114: The formula is secret, ben, but the components therein are discernable.