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  2. What Have You Watched Recently?

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    Green Hornet. While I was on my second martini while watching, I was sipping them slowly enough to only be slightly drunk. Should have pounded them both back while hitting play. Campy, irritating characters, in-your-face bad effects, the list of problems go on. I knew it was bad going in (hence the liberal application of gin) but did not expect suckage of this magnitude.

  5. Foods for those that just don't care anymore

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    Onion jam? :nonp: I'm ... intrigued.

     

     

    From a distance.

     

    I have a recipe kicking around somewhere, never attempted to make it. IIRC you basically caramelize a whole mess of onions. It's kinda like french onion soup, but concentrated. Really good on sandwiches, tarts/quiches, or canapés. Potentially lots of things you can do with it. The only thing stopping me from trying is the sheer volume of onions I'd have to cut. (They might be using something completely different, don't know)

     

    Kinda like jalapenio pepper jelly. It sounds crazy, but once you try it, the world opens up with things to do with it.

  8. Foods for those that just don't care anymore

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    Next time I make corned beef, I'm going to do something similar with the leftovers. Line the muffin tins with hash, crack an egg in each one, and bake till the eggs are set.

     

    Baking eggs in a muffin tim is a great way to get a whole bunch done at the same time. The problem is getting them out. With more butter then is healthy, you can get them out of a normal tin, but if you have a silicone muffin "tin" they pop right out. Technology, it's a good thing!

     

    Of course, bacon lined muffin tins would probably slide right out. I'd worry about getting the bacon and eggs cooked at the same rate. You might have to pre-cook the bacon a bit before cracking the eggs in. Of course, canadian bacon works better for this job.

  10. Make Your Own Motivational Poster

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    I still have mine from the early '80s. In a couple more years I'll give them to my kids.

     

    I have a big bucket of Legos I bought for myself in my mid-30s. I can't wait for my little girl to get big enough to be interested in playing with them (as opposed to eating them).

     

    A couple of years ago my brother and I split all of our old legos. He spent the better part of a year assembling all the sets we had, looking up instructions online if needed and buying bricks to replace ones lost over the years. We then calmly and evenly divided what we had. My Dad expected more heated arguments, but we were quite reasonable about it. I've been building my half with The Boy (who will be 6 in March) for a while now. My brother is just starting with his oldest, who will be 5 this summer. He is also buying new sets and smuggling them into the house under the wife-radar for when his boys are the right age. He's an unabashed LEGOholic.

     

    It is interesting to see the evolution in LEGOs. The original yellow castle, everything was basic bricks, even the horses for the knights. The most recent King's Castle (which my folks got The Boy for Christmas) is chock-full of specialized pieces. Some are cool and neat, like the lion head capstone brick over the gate. Others are not necessary. "Back in my day we just stacked 4 1x1 posts on top of each other to get this piece"

     

    Kids these days.

    Get off my green base-plate!

     

    (They probably have custom lawn bricks now anyway...)

  11. Order of the Stick

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    Maybe I my caffeine levels are too low to pick up on this' date=' but why did Redcloak go to so much trouble to cover up Tsukiko's death (having the wights eat her and then each other with the last one immolating itself) only to casually mention it to Xykon the next time they meet?[/quote']

     

    It might be by telling the truth in such a flippant manner, Xykon will just assume he's joking and go on with his evil plans. But Redcloak will have the fall back of "I told you, you just didn't listen/believe" if ever called on it.

     

    That or it's just part of working for an evil organization. Eliminating rivals is par for the course. He was just very thorough in his work to make an example for anyone who thinks about crossing him.

     

    Or he got rid of the wights because he didn't want to leave any uncontrolled undead in his goblin city when he left.

     

    Lots of options, time will tell.

     

    EDIT: One last reason to kill all the wights: they overheard Redcloaks plans. Witnesses needed to be eliminated.

  14. Order of the Stick

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    No' date=' what I meant was: Xykon is strangling goblin X -- wouldn't Xykon's touch, being a Lich, be draining levels at the same time? I don't know how you thought I was talking about Tsuiko. :)[/quote']

     

     

    Liches don't drain levels with their touch (although wights do, who we saw last strip)

     

    They do get:

    [h=5]Damage[/h]A lich without natural weapons has a touch attack that uses negative energy to deal 1d8+5 points of damage to living creatures; a Will save (DC 10 + ½ lich’s HD + lich’s Cha modifier) halves the damage. A lich with natural weapons can use its touch attack or its natural weaponry, as it prefers. If it chooses the latter, it deals 1d8+5 points of extra damage on one natural weapon attack.

    [h=5][/h][h=5]Paralyzing Touch (Su)[/h]Any living creature a lich hits with its touch attack must succeed on a Fortitude save or be permanently paralyzed. Remove paralysis or any spell that can remove a curse can free the victim (see the bestow curse spell description).

  24. Foods for those that just don't care anymore

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    [h=2]Pate De Chateau Blanc[/h]12 White Castle Hamburgers

    4 eggs

    1 cup milk

    1/4 cup cognac

    1/4 tsp leaf marjoram

    pinch allspice

     

    Remove half the bun from each White castle hamburger and discard.

    Discard pickle, grind in food/meat grinder then add eggs and liquids or blend in food processor with eggs and liquids a few at a time. Do not puree. Pack mixture into an greased standard sized bread pan. Place pan into a larger pan and pour boiling water into the larger pan to level half the depth of the bead pan. Bake in @350 for 1 hour. Cool loaf in refrigerator, overnight is best. Turn it out on a plate, decorate with cream cheese and stuffed olives. And cut pate into slices.

  25. Foods for those that just don't care anymore

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    I might as well ask this here: a White Castle just opened up near my house' date=' and I'm curious about their menu. I seem to recall some folks here as having talked about the chain. Is their food any good or not?[/quote']

     

    I find their burgers slimy and disgusting. Some people love them. It's one of those things you have to try and see how you feel. That being said, it's been something like 15 years since I last darkened their doorway.

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