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So this is a thread where you talk about how you're going to score with a lifeguard?


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:21 PM
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Ogged so funny, he ain't that funny.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:21 PM
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SURE, LET'S IGNORE THE IMPORTANT ISSUES. IT'S NOT LIKE WE HAVE WAR CRIMINALS IN THE OVAL OFFICE OR ANYTHING.

GRANNY


Posted by: OPINIONATED GRANDMA | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:22 PM
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Hear the one about the blind carpenter who put down his hammer and saw?


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:27 PM
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Great. So we're all like, literally political prisoners of ogged.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:32 PM
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Yurt.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:33 PM
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Mukluk.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:35 PM
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I can't believe ogged actually deleted my comment. That joke slayed in the 1790s.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:37 PM
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8: Slew.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:38 PM
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Kalamazoo!


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:38 PM
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There once was a man from Nantucket.

He owned a sailboat.

I haven't seen him in over a year.


Posted by: arthegall | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:43 PM
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Werewolves are pretty funny.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:43 PM
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Gee, your hair smells terrific!


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:47 PM
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Fuck you, ogged.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:53 PM
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...And they said, "I don't know what you've got in mind, but usually we get on the camel and he takes us to the girls."


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:54 PM
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I go to all that effort and ogged deletes the setup! ATTICA!


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:55 PM
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3 is funny?


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:55 PM
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If we don't have to be funny, I'm just going to tell you some stuff that has made me happy recently:

- When Snarkout and I were walking home the other day, an enormous hawk swooped down only a few feet away from us, so we could suddenly see its huge white-and-black underside right at eye level. It was astonishing, and very cool. (Whatever small mammal it swooped to catch apparently ran away in time to evade the deadly talons.)
- My dissertation committee is complete, thanks to the addition of someone far snazzier and more suitable than I would have been able to find at my home institution.
- Our new mattress arrived today. No more tired old springs poking me in the back. (No double entendre intended.)
- I am currently consuming a delicious bourbon on the rocks.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 4:59 PM
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Did you get one of those fancy foam mattresses or just regular?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:05 PM
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That's it??? 'Candor' was all that was required?

That's fucking hilarious.


Posted by: arthegall | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:06 PM
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20: I was just reading that. Funny, but at least it leaves the cheater Bonds on the hook.

There's something about Giambi's facial expression that says 'haunted.' Just me?


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:12 PM
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I really wonder if those fancy foam mattresses are any good, or if they get all squished down and ruined within a few years.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:13 PM
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Just regular type. Compared to our old, very worn out one, anything new is a great improvement. Also, memory foam is unappealing to me -- I don't like the way it sort of sucks you in. The more sproingy latex foam is nice though; that's what my current pillow is made of, and it's pretty great. If we ever want to spend quite a bit more money on a mattress, I might want to get one that was latex, or latex around a something-else core. There are wool/latex mattresses that sound kind of spiffy.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:13 PM
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Dude, they use NASA space technology.


Posted by: DaveB | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:14 PM
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Motherfucker!


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:14 PM
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Great site!

Would you consider a Link Exchange with The Internet Radio Network?? At the IRN you can listen for free to over 27 of America's top Talk Shows via FREE STREAMING AUDIO!

http://netradionetwork.com


Posted by: Steve | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:16 PM
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24: Uh huh, right. So does Tang.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:16 PM
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A friend with back trouble has a memory foam mattress and goddamn loves that thing. I too wondered about whether it was hard to move around in it but friend says "no." Not sure I believe.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:16 PM
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Now I'm drinking some delicious coconut water.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:17 PM
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Ahem:

/* Because of various limiting factors in the technology, this function always returns y */

{ return x; }


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:17 PM
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28: Can you sleep at your friend's place for a few days and let me know kthx.

Rocky, check your damn email why dontcha.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:20 PM
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Coconut water is kind of gross.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:20 PM
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Nooo, it's delicious! Only good cold, though. Actually, I can easily see how one might dislike it, but I love it, especially with spicy food or when I've just been exerting myself.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:21 PM
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I drank quite a bit of it last year during my search for low-sugar sources of potassium but it always wound up making me feel kind of ill. But in the spirit of comity, I'm glad you like it, you monster.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:22 PM
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Coconut water tastes good for about 11/100 of a second and then has a horrible aftertaste.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:24 PM
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you monster.

Ogged, why are you going out of your way to stir things up?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:25 PM
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To make you feel at home, B.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:26 PM
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Like all of Ogged's posts, this one carries significant undertones of homoeroticism. I'm starting to think it's me.


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:26 PM
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I laugh at every opinionated gramma post


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:27 PM
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Checked and replied, B.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:27 PM
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37: Aww. I love you so much.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:28 PM
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Speaking of memory foam, I really want this.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:28 PM
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A top flight mattress will CHANGE YOUR LIFE. I was going to get one of those memory foam mattresses, but it was going to be a three-week delay in delivery and I wanted a new mattress right then. So we got the turbodeluxingest coil mattress that had a 2" memory foam pillowtop on it. Oh God, do I love that mattress.

I was amazed; I thought I was getting achy and creaky from age, but it turns out I'd just had shitty mattresses all my life. If you spend extra for any single thing in your life, that's my recommendation.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:28 PM
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35: I find that depends a lot on the source. Zico brand doesn't have that problem for me, but other brands sometimes do. I have yet to have the fresh stuff.

Anyway, I'm curious about whether coconut water is going to be on sale in every corner cafe in a few months, the way it seems to be in New York. It does seem to be a thing where it either really hits the spot for you, or is icky. I loathe bananas, so the potassium is a nice feature.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:29 PM
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So what did you get, apo? The mattress business is easily as slimy as the used car business, so specific recs are appreciated.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:29 PM
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Like all of Ogged's posts, this one carries significant undertones of homoeroticism.

There was a very short period I actually worried that Ogged's ironic hipster lolhomoeroticism was just a manifestation of genuine closetedness.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:29 PM
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46: It's not?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:30 PM
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So, who else has a SULTAN HÖGBO?


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:30 PM
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HÖGBO


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:30 PM
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I got the impression from threads (gay chicken ones i think, or maybe comments over at ezras or something) that i was told my hipsterlolhomoeroticism was a manifestation of my homophobia.


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:32 PM
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I am a monster, though. Rorrughrrowerararar.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:32 PM
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What intrigues me is aloe water.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:32 PM
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If you spend extra for any single thing in your life, that's my recommendation.

Yeah, it turns out that good sleep is a remarkable tonic. Not that you should know at the moment, Apo.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:33 PM
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43: Eh, I think that there are some other places that you could spend "extra" money first.

Like toilet paper. Life's too short of cheap toilet paper.


Posted by: Epoch | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:33 PM
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ANYTHING MEN DO WITH OTHER MEN IS A MAN
IFESTATION OF HOMOPHOBIA


Posted by: OPINIONATED GRANDMA | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:33 PM
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A Simmons Beautyrest, about five years ago.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:34 PM
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Ok, thanks.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:35 PM
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Ok, thanks.

Sorry, what I meant was: gay.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:35 PM
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I would be gay for this mattress.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:37 PM
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I read somewhere that mattress retailers all have slightly different make names and model numbers, each of which is exclusive to that chain of mattress/furniture stores, to confound comparison shoppers. We just gave up and bought one that seemed appropriate from Costco. (A Sealy.)


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:37 PM
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Life's too short of cheap toilet paper.

I don't know, I think life is pretty long on cheap toilet paper.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:37 PM
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Aren't we all supposed to be getting those happy butt water shooters anyway?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:39 PM
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I have one on my office chair.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:41 PM
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Hey, Unfogged, tell me what I should make for dinner.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:42 PM
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Are you going to a store first?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:42 PM
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Yep.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:43 PM
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Pork shoulder braised in milk.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:43 PM
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If Lunar's not a vegetarian, I'll eat a burger.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:44 PM
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life is too short to wipe your ass with something dry


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:45 PM
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She didn't ask what she should eat for dinner.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:46 PM
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Poop!

Oh, wait, now we don't have to be funny?

Phew!


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:46 PM
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69: Well, that eliminates the pork shoulder braised in milk.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:47 PM
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70 is still there, isn't it?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:47 PM
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Hey, Unfogged, tell me what I should make for dinner.

Fuck make, get some of the little Vietminh sandwiches. (BTW, thanks to Bob for describing them so well in "About." I love 'em, and wouldn't have tried them but for him.)


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:47 PM
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I don't understand your animosity towards me, ogged, or your desperate supposition that a humorous attitude can be attained by force.

Frankly, I'm more than a little hurt by the whole affair.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:48 PM
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74 was me.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:49 PM
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Are you smoking the crack, Ogged? My background is half Polish, half Southern Redneck.

I am as close as I can be to being the opposite of a vegetarian without severe intesinal problems.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:49 PM
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You could make some summer squash gratin and have it with a green salad dolled up with orange supremes and some mysterious asian lemony herb.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:49 PM
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Sweet, burger time!


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:50 PM
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74: I had a Vietnamese sandwich for the first time today at lunch. Jesus Pete, I would stand in line for those.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:50 PM
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80: Seriously, no? Gawddamn.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:51 PM
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Frankly, I'm more than a little hurt by the whole affair.

Save the cheering up for when I'm really down, Ben.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:51 PM
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Anyone know where to get them in Midtown NY? They do sound good, but I've never noticed them for sale.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:52 PM
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71.1 to 70 only after the fact.

Goddamit. I can't recommend clams to LROC without being totally, totally sexist, EVEN THOUGH I REALLY DID JUST EAT SOME AND THEY WERE DELICIOUS.

I blame the mattriarchy. Apo.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:53 PM
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Goddamn you, Ogged. God damn you.

Also, w-lfs-n, I love you. Never change, baby, never change.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:54 PM
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Seriously, no?

Yeah, they opened this place down the road from where I work, and Roberta came and met me for lunch there with the baby. Synchronicity.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:54 PM
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Y'all are talking about banh mi, right? You might look here, LB.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:55 PM
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Wait, what are these sandwiches? I'd even be funny for you if I could get one.


Posted by: strasmangelo jones | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:56 PM
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74, 80: Banh Mi are unspeakably awesome.

Not to hard to make, if you're not fussy about accuracy. Daikon radishes, cured meat, cilantro, good baguette: these are key.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:57 PM
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Here, SJ.

I've never had one.

Sniff.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:57 PM
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Are you serious?


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:59 PM
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We really dig our Tempur-pedic with the softer foam top layer.

Best.Bed.Evah.


Posted by: ukko | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:59 PM
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Oh. Oh, those are beautiful. And a quick googling reveals nothing of their like in my town.


Posted by: strasmangelo jones | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 5:59 PM
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If 91 is to 63, then no.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:00 PM
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59: Not to say that I wouldn't go gay for any of the reasonably good mattresses, but have you thought about good blankets? Damn.

Up here in the North, in winter-time, what makes the most difference to my sleeping is the quality of the comforter or quilt.


Posted by: arthegall | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:00 PM
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I linked to the recipe I use for homemade banh mi somewhere in the archives; one of you enforcers of the Oldfagriarchy might want to dredge it up. Anyway: you can make them and they are yum.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:01 PM
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Resolved: Lunar Rockette should make banh mi for dinner.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:02 PM
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Was it this, Rocky?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:02 PM
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Food Network has one, too.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:03 PM
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97: Resolved: Lunar Rockette should make banh mi for me for dinner.


Posted by: Hamilton Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:03 PM
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Yep, it is, and yes, I think I will. Mmmm, banh mi.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:04 PM
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Here


Posted by: Oldfagriarchy | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:04 PM
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Some of the Oldfagriarchy move more slowly these days.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:06 PM
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100: Sexist.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:07 PM
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If there's ever a Bay Area meetup/potluck/BBQ, I'll bring banh mi.

Also, B and I are talking shit about Ogged behind his back! It's awesome.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:09 PM
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I know! I'm reading your e-mail!

I didn't even know you could have hair there.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:10 PM
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Tweety, that's not fair. Ogged's hair problem really isn't for public discussion.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:12 PM
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If there's ever a Bay Area meetup/potluck/BBQ, I'll bring banh mi.

You know I've just been struck with the oddest thought...


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:15 PM
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Sanctity of off-blog hirsuteness and all that?


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:16 PM
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w-lfs-n, go talk some crazy w-lfs-n talk in the Transhumanist discussion on the Virgin/Whore thread, it needs you.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:17 PM
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Meetup/potluck/BBQ at Wolfon's in 25 minutes! He'll be wearing a bib.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:17 PM
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109: Well, more like, I mean, *that* particular thing is, y'know, especially private and embarrassing. Have a li'l mercy.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:18 PM
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Oh, my phantom Vietnamese sandwiches... lost to me for all time, like the gentle baiji.


Posted by: strasmangelo jones | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:19 PM
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I'm finding it hard to believe one could make anything vietnamese w/o fish sauce. But why would you want to make one anyway? You're unlikely to do better than the pros,and they're like $2.


Posted by: foolishmortal | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:21 PM
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112: hey, I'm not the one hunting all over creation for chlorine-resistant x-ray film.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:21 PM
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114: pho doesn't have fish sauce either.

Hey, I just thought of the 100% best place ever for a Boston meetup. Best Vietnamese food I've ever had, and I've looked long and hard on several continents.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:22 PM
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Bullshit


Posted by: foolishmortal | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:25 PM
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Apparently there's a place with decent banh mi within walking distance. Oh, I dunno, maybe I should just have McDonald's.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:28 PM
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I defy you to try the Viet Fisherman's Soup, Rolling Chicken, and freshly made spring rolls, and still tell me that. Plus, it's BYOB.

But really, Viet Fisherman's Soup: greatest food of all time.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:30 PM
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118: McDonalds is delicious.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:30 PM
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Also, w-lfs-n, you are worse than Ogged.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:34 PM
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117: the soup I'm thinking of is somewhat similar to #42 at the place you linked.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:35 PM
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What? Lunar—Rocky—what do you mean?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:36 PM
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I've never had one.

F'real? You live in the mecca of banh mi, and you've never had one? Go to Cam Huong in Oakland Chinatown already.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:36 PM
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I'm about to walk down and get some. It better be fucking fantastic, people.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:39 PM
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Or what, you'll cry?


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:50 PM
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Then we'll have to listen to his wang talking about its feelings for fucking ever.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:53 PM
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Although, thinking about it, "I'm about to walk down and get some" is... certainly an interesting statement.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:56 PM
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Our new mattress arrived today. No more tired old springs poking me in the back.

A new mattress really is an amazing thing.


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:57 PM
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I didn't even get a chance to fail to be funny.


Posted by: Timothy Burke | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:12 PM
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You do that at your own blog all the time, Mr Reasonable.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:13 PM
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Oh, you know, change of pace, chance to get over to someone else's house and be unfunny and prolix there.


Posted by: Timothy Burke | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:14 PM
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Banh mi liveblogging! The Acquisition:

32 minutes to go, order, wait, receive, walk back. The place: deserted, seedy. Smelled fantastic, but that was the pho. Service: "How big are they?" [Points to drawing on menu.] "Ah, ok."

Next: The Unwrapping!


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:18 PM
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Unwrapped! Looks good, in a foreign kind of way. Photos later.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:20 PM
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Flavor: Not bad. Slightly sweet, slightly bitter. Could be fresher, more zingy. Meat is good. Bread is more roll-ish and doughy than expected. They did call them "french roll" sandwiches.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:22 PM
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What kind did you get? Also, did the place you go warm up the roll beforehand?


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:25 PM
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Sounds like they didn't make it fresh, ogged. They gotta make it fresh.

What kind of meat did you get?


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:26 PM
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Was the place in Oggedville?


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:26 PM
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I got two beef and two chicken. I'm having the chicken now. It took ten minutes to get it, so they must have been doing something back there, and yes, the roll was warmed up.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:27 PM
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Forget it: you had to go and get it. No delivery.

Meat is good

I like this part. What kind of meat?

In Puerto Rico many moons ago, when buying empanadillas at a roadside stand, we kept brokenly asking, "Que tipo de pescado?" Answer: "Pescado, pescado!"

Gotcha.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:27 PM
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(I asked because in my experience, every single restaurant in Oggedville is horrible. But.)


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:28 PM
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You have to be Japanese to appreciate it here, Polack.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:31 PM
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More like Chinese, if gruesome dim sums if yore are any indication.

Also: hah hah.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:32 PM
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Blurry phone picture of sandwich.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:32 PM
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No no, this is no place for Chinese food.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:33 PM
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Polack

It's gonna take more than that to convince everyone you don't like poles, ogged. (IYKWIM, AITYD.)


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:34 PM
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That doesnt look so good. But it is still better than my meal of a cheeseburger at my son's football practice.

I really need to convince them to sell sushi at the ball field.


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:35 PM
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Not to beg the redaction, but 1) Rockyville is just as good for Japanese food, trust me, 2) the Bay Area actually completely blows for certain kinds of Japanese food compared to Los Angeles, ie, sushi, and 3) the real point, which is man, Oggedville is lame, sucka.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:36 PM
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Stanley:

WHERE IS MY COLLEGE INN PIZZA?


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:36 PM
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Now having the beef. Not bad. A lot more cilantro and carrot on this one; the first one might have been a lemon.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:36 PM
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144: Dude, you couldn't post a pic of a non-gnawed on sandwich? No one wants to see your chewed food.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:38 PM
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You don't know from Oggedville, cracker. What's the best place to get ramen here? Huh? Huh?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:38 PM
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Not enough Daikon, if the picture is an indication.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:39 PM
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That sandwich hadn't been touched, B. Keep ratcheting up that credibility and we'll have to make you President or something.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:39 PM
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149: Calm down, will. That shit isn't that good anyway. But I am planning to go to Dr. Ho's this weekend. I'll forward you the doggie bag.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:39 PM
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The best place to get ramen is like a minute walk from my house, motherfucker.

Yes, I know you qualified it, I don't care.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:39 PM
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150: So beef is better than chicken. There's news. Didn't they offer pork?


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:40 PM
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Yeah, I think they had pork. Next time. I'm muslim, you know.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:40 PM
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(If there's actually good ramen in Oggedville, I'm going to have to beat up my Oggedville-dwelling friends for holding out on me and torturing me with slimey chinese.)


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:41 PM
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this is no place for Chinese food.

Once in oggedville I shall never take my menu from any national cuisine.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:41 PM
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104: Don't feel threatened, B.


Posted by: Hamilton Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:42 PM
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Dr. Ho's is certainly far superior to College Inn. I just didnt want you to have to bike so far. Plus, you can get great pie next door.

Go a little further down the road to the Covesville Store and get some Raspberry Jalapeno jelly. Delicious.


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:42 PM
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Lunar, you're kinda pwning yourself here. There are several ramen places here and at least one of them is very good.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:44 PM
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Trust me, regardless of their goodness, they are wholy inferior to those of Rockyville, for very obvious reasons.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:45 PM
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Ok, enough with the local blogging. Apologies to people who live in the rest of the world.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:46 PM
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I will say that banh mi seems to have a lot of potential and I'm not not enjoying what I got.

Ben, I don't get the allusion (if such there be).


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:47 PM
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God, you have no culture.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:48 PM
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Funny, I had that poem in mind when I wrote the line about Chinese food, but obviously didn't remember the rest of it.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:49 PM
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Also, all my Oggedville-dwelling friends have vacated for friendlier, tastier locales, so I'd need a reason to put my beliefs on Oggedville cuisine up for possible invalidation.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:49 PM
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165: by acknowledging that, you reveal yourself a stranger in your own land.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:50 PM
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I got nuthin' to prove, L-rock.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:50 PM
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I think the only place in CrypticNed/JRothTown with banh mi is a woman under an umbrella in front of a grocery store on Penn Avenue somewhere near 23rd street. I presume she's there at the same time the rest of the Strip District is open.

She only has one type of sandwich and it's $3. I'm always torn between that and a fish sandwich at Wholey's.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:50 PM
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Have nothing to prove, you mean, O-dog.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:51 PM
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Nothing reticent to prove.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:52 PM
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So, Ogged, I have a question.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 7:59 PM
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Technically, that was a statement.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:00 PM
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Hit me, Rockdog, but nothing I'll have to redact.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:03 PM
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Nothing, too reticent to prove, redacted.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:05 PM
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Blurry phone picture of sandwich.

Ogged, were you raised by wolves? What have you done to that sandwich?


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:13 PM
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People, I unwrapped the sandwich, removed the top from one half so that you ingrates could see inside, and snapped a picture. That's all.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:15 PM
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It was already cut in half? Clearly that was the problem.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:16 PM
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It was already cut in half?

Yup.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:18 PM
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Nevermind; I am too reticent.

However, you never ate that hamburger.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:25 PM
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Dude, you guys are totally fucking, aren't you?


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:26 PM
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As opposed to partially?


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:27 PM
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Dude, you guys are totally fucking, aren't you?

I swear to god, I was just starting to type "L-Rock, you know some people think we're flirting..." when I decided to refresh the thread.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:28 PM
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185: as opposed to just oral sex, yes.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:28 PM
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I know some people think that, O-dog.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:29 PM
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Impossible, we all know Ogged has a biological penis.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:29 PM
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But we know better, Rockdog.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:30 PM
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(Oh, goddamnit, Elemund just called me and said something brilliantly hilarious that I can't fucking say because it will require redaction. Shit.)


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:30 PM
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I win, Ogged.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:31 PM
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we all know Ogged has a biological penis

You all do?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:31 PM
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190: unless you grew a vagina, I know better, too. Still, 'thell?


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:32 PM
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191: Ooh! Oooh! Allude! Elide! But share!


Posted by: Hamilton Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:32 PM
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193: Wolf-boy emailed the photo to all of us. Pretty convincing, at least.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:33 PM
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Sifu, if you had thought to call me O-dog, I would have flirted with you, too. I'm easy that way.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:33 PM
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I would never have imagined. Please, for the love of god, nobody ever call me Tweet-dog.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:34 PM
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HL, do you know the nice three-initialized young Chinese man of great angriness who was elemund's college roommate and also worked at MayNotExistCo for a time? And, further, do you know the SF suburb in which he dwelled for some time before leaving for tastier climes?


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:36 PM
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I see you as more of an S-Hound, Tweety.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:38 PM
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Don't you people have email?!


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:38 PM
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Wow, I just outed my "dealing with dodgy WoW related stuff" email to Ogged. Ohnoes.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:39 PM
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Shut up, Ogged, it's funnier this way.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:39 PM
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This thread is as exciting as watching Korean Language financial news. You could at least SPEAK ENGLISH maybe and then redact later. Or, like, e-mail each other and repost the cock jokes here.

Also, everybody already knows that ogged lives in Alameda. Why else would she get the tattoo?


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:39 PM
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God, I've created a monster.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:40 PM
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Well, Sifu, considering you already made the joke but with the wrong commenter, let's just consider it settled.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:41 PM
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S-Hound almost inexorably becomes Zounds. Which I can imagine quickly becoming Z-Slice. Maybe Z for short.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:42 PM
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"The only body you could find was a woman... and a GAMER? Ibob, you're fired."

"But Master Frankenogged, all the cemeteries are in Colma!"

"BLAST! She'll have to do. Bring me BitchPhD's brain."


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:42 PM
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206: eh?


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:43 PM
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Shut up, Z-slice.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:44 PM
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209: Eh?

Oh, for fuck's sake: Also, everybody already knows that ogged lives in Alameda. Why else would she get the tattoo?


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:44 PM
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207: see, I was thinking like "sound," but drunkenly slurred. Which is appropriate, in its way.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:44 PM
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211: still lost. The wrong commenter? Ogged lives in Standpipe?


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:45 PM
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OGGED LIVES IN MY LAP


Posted by: OPINIONATED GRANDMA | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:47 PM
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Do banh mi typically have MSG? My heart's a little poundy, and not just for Z-Slice.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:47 PM
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You be my O-dog, and I will give you heart disease.

I think they have a fair amount of salt in the meat; dunno if that sets you off.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:48 PM
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Most of the places I've gotten them have proudly proclaimed their lack of MSG, so that could point either way. But if you're liable to croak if you guess wrong, break out the epipens or whatever.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:49 PM
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OFTEN THEY DO


Posted by: OPINIONATED GRANDMA | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:49 PM
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This is the least funny thread initiated by a complaint about unfunny threads ever.


Posted by: strasmangelo jones | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:51 PM
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It's funny, you just aren't seeing those parts.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:53 PM
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Yeah, I actually deleted all the funny comments.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 8:53 PM
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They had MSG in them.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 9:04 PM
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146: I think that Stanley is Stanislaus.

Also, sauerkraut. Mmmmm.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 9:07 PM
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nice three-initialized young Chinese man of great angriness

Not ringing any bells. I'm no fun at all! But, uh, you should mail me anyway so we can stop BOTHERING THESE NICE PEOPLE WITH OUR CIRCUMLOCUTIONS. The address I use here is valid.


Posted by: Hamilton Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 9:12 PM
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I think that Stanley is Stanislaus

Not on the birth certificate, but you're right on the origin. Growing up in Chicagoland, I attended St. Benedict's, but St. Stanislaus' was right across town and b-balled against us. My true loyalties were always in-question.

Poles! Woo!


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 9:15 PM
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Emailed ya, Hamilton.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 9:17 PM
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Polacks are fucking everywhere. I do like their ethnic food: sauerkraut and horseradish and sausage.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 9:51 PM
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Hear the one about the constipated mathematician?

Note that Heebie is boycotting.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 9:52 PM
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Hey Ogged, how about a swim?


Posted by: Gaijin Biker | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 10:12 PM
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Fun link.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 10:30 PM
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I'm declaring the banh mi MSG-full. I know that weird feeling. I'll have to ask in the future.

Yeah, GB, I saw that. I can't believe no one drowned. You live in a very strange place.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 10:51 PM
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Check your email, O-dog.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 10:53 PM
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OT: just thought of a boss pseud: "Onanymous"

Available!


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 10:54 PM
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Check your email, O-dog.

Don't people just regularly check their email? Doesn't it, in fact, "ding" for most people when an email arrives?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 10:58 PM
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An onanymouse would selflessly generate utility setoffs without any human intervention. You wouldn't even have to jerk them off personally, just give them food and water and let the utils pile up.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 10:58 PM
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Ding dang dung, bitch.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:00 PM
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Don't people just regularly check their email?

Not everyone has it open all the time. I mean, I do, but there are people who don't.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:00 PM
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Hey, teo. Check your e-mail.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:02 PM
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I emailed you 3 minutes ago Ogged. WTF??!!??!

Some people do have multiple emails. One good friend of mine checks his email once a day, and God bless him for that. I wish I had his self-control.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:03 PM
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I am always already checking my e-mail, Stanley.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:11 PM
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When I get an e-mail, my computer snaps the hips.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:11 PM
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Whose hips?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:12 PM
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THE hips.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:13 PM
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Okay then.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:14 PM
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I rarely check my personal email when I'm at work, and I rarely check my work email when I'm away from work.


Posted by: Hamilton Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:19 PM
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I rarely check Hamilton's e-mail.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:22 PM
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Anything else you want to admit to, Lovecraft? Do you also beat up old ladies?

Check your email, people! Maybe I want something from you just then.

Do you also beat up old ladies?

Sexist.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:23 PM
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Maybe I want something from you just then.

...


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:24 PM
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My parents check their (joint!) e-mail about once a week.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:25 PM
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It's ok, I don't want anything from old people.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:27 PM
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250: schadenfreude?


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:27 PM
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Ageist.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:27 PM
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joint!

Creeeeepy.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:27 PM
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Pretty much all they get is forwarded jokes and promotions from websites they've used in the past. They're not very technologically oriented.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:29 PM
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Hey, Ogged, what's the word for someone who waits for an occasion to be scandalized?


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:31 PM
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Hey, Unfogged community, what's the word for someone who waits for an occasion to be scandalized?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:39 PM
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Mitt Romney?


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:40 PM
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Capacitive Bluestocking?


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:41 PM
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Anticipatorily appalled?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:47 PM
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B.

Wait. This isn't multiple choice?


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:53 PM
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Funny, I was going to say B, too.

(Sifu, in trouble, waits)


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:55 PM
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Lordship and banh mi.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 12:12 AM
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Dude, how unfunny is this? I was sitting by my kitchen window, talking on the phone, and there's a person, suddenly, on the other side of the window, on the fire escape, trying to get into my apartment. Calling the police and dealing with that shit all night? Super-fun. Far less fun, of course, would have been getting killed. (My blood is worth a lot in money rituals.)


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 12:17 AM
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Holy shit AWB. Did they find them? Do you have somebody over for approximate reassurance?


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 12:18 AM
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Did he look friendly?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 12:18 AM
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264: Naw. I called the police and then called my friend back while I waited for things to settle down. They never came and told me what happened, but the alarm on the roof door was going off, so I figure some asshole tried to go on the roof and then thought it would be fun and easy to get some sucker to let him in their apt window. I was having none of it. I see a face six inches from mine at 1am, and I scream and call the police.

265: I didn't bother to register anything about the face. I don't even know if it's someone I know.

It's possible I overreacted, but I've been reading Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, in which a woman goes to open her closet in the middle of the night, and there's a dude there who was waiting to murder/rape her. It wasn't the best imaginative context for the moment.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 12:22 AM
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That is, the police did come to investigate, and they were out there with the alarm going until just a few minutes ago, so they probably found the person and were trying to verify that it was some douchebag who didn't believe the alarm sign. I didn't hear any gunfire or sounds of a struggle. ....or maybe the Fire Escape Walker still walks the night! Woooooooo....


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 12:24 AM
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I see a face six inches from mine at 1am, and I scream and call the police.

No wonder you can't get a second date.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 12:26 AM
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What's your excuse?


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 12:27 AM
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Wow, something self-pitying woulda been funnier, Ben. I'm sorry.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 12:28 AM
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My excuse is not having first dates.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 12:35 AM
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268 is funny


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 12:37 AM
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When I see a face six inches away from my own at 1AM I put away the mirror, sheepishly wash all the cocaine off my face, and go to bed.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 12:41 AM
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I'm sorry, 221 is the only funny statement in the entire thread.


Posted by: Lunar Rockette | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 12:43 AM
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It's funny because it's true.


Posted by: neil | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 1:19 AM
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At American center what you think,
The doctor told me I had to drink?
He said "Take this advice from me, buddy
"And go back to the West Indies!"

"What you need is:
"Drink the coconut water!"

The pho and banh mi in Frogtown in St. Paul is second to none.


Posted by: minneapolitan | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 5:11 AM
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"What you need is:
"Drink the coconut water!"

Ye gods it's been 50 years since I heard that.
"Drink the coconut water
Plenty good for your daughter*" etc etc.
Song is "Coconut Woman" by I don't know who, Harry Bela-bloody-fonte?

* "daughter" in Jamaican in the 60s, and, from this, in Trinidadian in the 50s, just meant "girlfriend younger than you".


Posted by: dave heasman | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 5:45 AM
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Gothic novels should be kept away from sensitive young girls.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 6:13 AM
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278: Quite right.


Posted by: OneFatEnglishman | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 6:52 AM
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Some of us sensitive young girls have to take oral examinations next month.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 8:52 AM
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I'm sure there's a non-innuendic way to read that, but who cares?


Posted by: Hamilton Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:00 AM
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Practice, practice, practice, AWB.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:03 AM
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(Sifu, in trouble, waits)

Aw, sweetie, all ya gotta do is ask. Don't forget to say "please, ma'am."


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:04 AM
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281: I often wish there was a non-innuendic way to say it. "Oral examination" is the tree that bears low-hanging fruit wherever it is planted.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:06 AM
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I often wish there was a non-innuendic way to say it.

"Exams."


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:07 AM
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285: But one must distinguish from the comprehensive written exams.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:11 AM
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Must one, really?


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:12 AM
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386: "First set of exams."


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:15 AM
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In my program, they're very different tasks. The writtens are taken after the first year, in a big group, and graded anonymously, while the orals are committee-run, with lists, and it's a big dramatic deal. Of course, everyone says to just act like it's not a big deal and just get the damn thing done.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:17 AM
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288: Must we push this thread that far?


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:18 AM
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They are very different, BUT,

(a) not all schools do it the same way
(b) if the person you're talking to doesn't know that, "orals" alone won't clear it up for them
(c) if you're talking to someone in the midst of it, "orals" won't even register as dirty, most of the time
(d) "major subject exams".


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:19 AM
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Ooh! Subject exams! This is excellent. I will foil fellatio jokes at my expense wherever I go!


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:21 AM
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"major subject exams"

Baby, I gotta major subject for you right here.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:22 AM
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"quals"


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:23 AM
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"blow jobs"


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:26 AM
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Dammit Heebie, you are NOT HELPING.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:32 AM
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The anal exam comes only after the PhD has been sentenced and is being taken into custody. It is sometimes called "the job interview".


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:37 AM
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I wish job interviews were that fun.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:40 AM
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291: not all schools do it the same way

Ain't that the truth.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:43 AM
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297: "sentenced" s/b "abducted"; "custody" s/b "the mothership"


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 10:46 AM
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I think the coconut song is by Harry Nilsson.


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 08-17-07 11:25 AM
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