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Post by primsong on Feb 11, 2009 5:41:49 GMT
Dang, this topic is making me hungry! All of this sounds good, even the eel sushi - I love good, fresh sushi. We're currently twitterpated with a local Thai restaurant as well, fantabulous stuff. Ah sauerkraut! I only get to have it once in a long while because I have to keep my salt levels down. Phooey on that, but sauerkraut on a really good sausage? - o serious yummers.
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Post by magnusgreel on Feb 12, 2009 7:20:57 GMT
I need some really good food. The closest I get now is this spinach dip that I snarf down. As for "twitterpated", I suspect that that would not pass muster in a Scrabble game. It's a perfectly rippin' word as Lord Peter Wimsey would say, but I have no idea what it means.
Yes, I've left myself open to "retaliation" by using the non-word "snarf". Let me have it!
I come in peace, all pseudo-antagonism is meant for purely comedic purposes.
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Post by primsong on Feb 13, 2009 5:55:36 GMT
Lord Peter Wimsey! Haven't read him in a long time - should go dig him up again.
Twitterpated has weaseled its way into our vocabulary via the Disney film Bambi - when Spring is working its wonders upon the woodland creatures and all their common sense flies out their brains at the sight of a pair of pretty feminine eyes they are "twitterpated". (hence their pate is most assuredly twittering!) ;-)
Snarf! Ah, one of the delights of onomatopoeia! Bump, splat, kawoosh!
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Post by clocketpatch on Feb 13, 2009 7:15:49 GMT
bump bump bump?
or, more appropriately:
nom nom nom!
getting back to the topic of the thread (and I already mentioned this in the c-box, but whatever) I had a spat of good fortune today when random people came into the Anthro reading rooms carrying the remains of one of those 'see a guest lecture and then eat fancy little sandwiches and veggies' things that always seem to be going down at universities (because they know that the best way to get students to show is to appeal to their stomachs).
So, it wouldn't all fit into the reading room bar fridge, and I'm kind of sitting there at the clothing-selling table feeling peckish because I ate the last of my pantry-stores yesterday, and I keep giving little want-want-want glances over in the general direction of the food, when suddenly the dude is like:
'Hey are you a student?'
'yeah...'
'Want free food?'
'I'm a student...'
*random magical zip-lock bag appears*
'You can have whatever you can fit in this baggy. Have fun.'
I made a stir-fry out of my takings from the vegetable tray. It was glorious.
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Post by jjpor on Feb 14, 2009 0:06:24 GMT
One of the things I miss most about being a student (apart from the excessive alcohol abuse and complete lack of responsibility!) is randomly being offered items of free food by various parties. I used to live on-campus during my third year (we only get three years here in the UK, unless you're a linguist or a medico or a scientist!) and the bursar's secretary (who, I think, kind of liked me in a motherly sort of way), was forever offering me leftover prawn sandwiches or whatever from some function or other. It was great ;D.
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Post by Starflower on Feb 14, 2009 0:37:58 GMT
I'm not sure what some of that stuff taists like but it SOUNDS good. =)
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Post by clocketpatch on Feb 14, 2009 8:17:22 GMT
this thread is about food, more or less... Bored Three in the Morning Clocket was rummaging about on youtube looking for old milk commercials for some reason... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF6cgZDdQvoCanada had weird milk commercials. Really, how does that make you want to drink milk? If those little things popped out of my glass I'd probably scream and throw it at the wall or something... or at least feel vaguely nauseous. Anyway, one link led to another and I ended up at another video about milk bags. And while I was always vaguely aware of the fact that milk doesn't come in bags in most parts of the world (or even most parts of Canada) I didn't realise how confused some people were by the whole milk in a bag concept. So, um, yeah, in Ontario milk comes in bags. How do you buy your dairy beverages?
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Post by magnusgreel on Feb 14, 2009 8:49:29 GMT
Just replenished food supplies (and critically needed pahameceuticals) in domicile, with help from friend Mark who drove and helped carry, and showed me 4th season newwho at his place (Sontarans).
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Post by Stripes on Feb 14, 2009 15:18:02 GMT
I grew up with those milk commercials. If I had those little things I would sit there amused. Eventually I would show my mom and try to keep them or being the evil person I am, I would drink it. Hahahaha.
Milk bags are an Ontario thing only? They had some in B.C. My host dads (I had two while in B.C) bought them all the time.
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Post by clocketpatch on Feb 14, 2009 17:57:33 GMT
So they are in BC too? Cool! My brother told me that he got his milk in cartons, but maybe that's just a Victoria thing, or personal choice.
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Post by Stripes on Feb 14, 2009 19:29:53 GMT
So they are in BC too? Cool! My brother told me that he got his milk in cartons, but maybe that's just a Victoria thing, or personal choice. Where does your brother live? I think there is a milk that produced on the island and sells on the island. I could be wrong. Anyway I swear I saw milk bags in my little town.
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Post by jjpor on Feb 14, 2009 20:50:59 GMT
We get milk mainly in big plastic bottle things here (used to be cartons, but you don't really see them any more). There are still milkmen who deliver it door to door in 1-pint glass bottles, but you don't see them as often as you used to.
Milk in bags, though, is an intriguing concept. Presumably you need some sort of other receptacle to keep the milk in after you've opened them, because you wouldn't be able to put them down again...Or are they re-sealable?
And Magnus, what say you to the NuWho Sontarans?
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Post by Stripes on Feb 14, 2009 21:40:48 GMT
We get milk mainly in big plastic bottle things here (used to be cartons, but you don't really see them any more). There are still milkmen who deliver it door to door in 1-pint glass bottles, but you don't see them as often as you used to. Milk in bags, though, is an intriguing concept. Presumably you need some sort of other receptacle to keep the milk in after you've opened them, because you wouldn't be able to put them down again...Or are they re-sealable? And Magnus, what say you to the NuWho Sontarans? This is what I have dylanb.files.wordpress.com/2006/06/milk.JPG. I don't buy bags anymore.
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Post by primsong on Feb 15, 2009 4:02:06 GMT
Boring plastic jugs or cartons here, though my son just did a report on Siberia where they put the buckets of milk outside the barn in the morning with a stick in them and they freeze solid that way. Pop the bucket off and you have a giant milk-sicle. These are then stacked on a wagon and carried into town to sell! You buy a milk-sicle and take it home, stick it back into your own bucket and let it thaw by the fire. Wild.
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Post by magnusgreel on Feb 15, 2009 4:32:40 GMT
jjpor, my impressions of all the new Tennant stories I've been seeing lately from the past two years has either been negative, or I've just been too confused to know. Sontarans, silly, too short, too purple, they rely on bright clashing colored light bulbs shining on everything more than any show I've ever seen, and I just don't see what episodes like these accomplish, except to repeat and feed off of the past.
I liked Love and Monsters and the last three from s3.
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Post by clocketpatch on Feb 15, 2009 7:05:13 GMT
Have you seen Blink yet? I'm quite fond of that episode, if only because it has quantum physics statue monsters.
Well, not if only, I like anything with messages sent through time using the 'long road'. It must be the archaeologist in me. Also, the DVD Easter egg concept is brilliant.
I feel bad for Martha though. Seriously, she spent the VAST majority of her time 'with' the Doctor either not with him, or stranded in static time, or both.
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Post by jjpor on Feb 15, 2009 15:05:21 GMT
I think whoever said that the new series Sontarans were clearly designed to make good action figures was distressingly close to the mark. I think they lacked that edge, that sense that actually for all of their buffoonish militaristic stylings, they're actually quite a dangerous enemy. And as you say, bringing back classic monsters is all very well, but only if you're going to do something interesting with them. And NuWho UNIT are pretty poor as well. I liked Blink; it was unusual, had some good concepts, as well as entertaining one-off characters and creepy monsters; I am easily impressed by that sort of thing. ;D I also very much enjoyed the Human Nature/Family of Blood two-parter, even if the concept of adapting NA novels for the telly is a little suspect - the only major flaw I would identify with that one was the ending, which fell a bit too much into the new series trap of portraying the Doctor as this godlike, magical being who can do absolutely anything, which if true takes most of the tension out of the show and also takes it outside of the realm of science fiction into pure fantasy. Apart from that, I liked it; I liked Paul Cornell's writing for the NAs, and his television stories all have that same quality.
Frozen milk in a bucket? It could catch on, I suppose, but probably only in places where it is very cold...
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Post by magnusgreel on Feb 15, 2009 18:51:34 GMT
I've seen Blink-- it's one of those I just didn't understand. I don't have my own copies so no second viewings. Those statues struck me as typical RTD creatures, who are the way they are (looking like Earth statues) just for the visual impact upon the viewer, without concern for whether it makes any sense for them to be that way, as with the "clockwork" robots that were after Madame Bovary. How could a glass head full of wooden gears make a robot work, especially in the head?
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