Sorry — I am swamped trying to unpack and catch up on work-work before trip to Liberty con/Portugal and my post on “the crazy stuff being said about the Brexit” and “the crazy stuff that might actually result from it” will have to wait.
Meantime read Francis Turner’s excellent post
CCCRRRAZZZZZZZZZZZZY SSTTTTTTTTTTTUFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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Stazy cruff?
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Stazi cruft?
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That wasn’t a post, and this isn’t a comment.
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This isn’t a response.
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This isn’t waiting two weeks and posting a thread necro comment.
(Really, it’s not; I tried it once when a thread went meta like this and found that comments are locked after a while.)
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I heard the torpedo impact the Red October… and you were never here.
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You lost *another* submarine? (Shakes head sadly.)
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Adding a not comment and seconding the “too much stuff to get done before LibertyCon and [not trip to Portugal].”
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Just got back from camping for a week, now to prepare for LibertyCon.
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That’s funny. It seems my time is being eaten up by preparing for a trip to visit my parents, and then LibertyCon.
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See, I’m the other way around.
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No Post Today!!!!!
There Must Be A Post Today!
I Paid For One…..?
Oh, I forgot we don’t pay you for posts. :embarrassed:
Seriously, Take Care Sarah. :grin:
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Yes! We have no posts today.
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Post yesterday and post tomorrow, but not a post today. ;-)
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Today’s post is prologue, a tempest in a pot of tea.
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If it’s a prologue, wouldn’t that make it a pre rather than a post?
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Unless it is a political party (PRI).
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The post is pre-logue.
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If there are posts daily, but no post today, is today a post hole?
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The whole of the post is the hole of the post.
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As a post hole is a hole for a post, but if you fill in a hole, it is a post hole, thus a post hole is not a post hole.
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A post without a hole is merely a stick. It is only when stuck in a hole that it becomes a whole post.
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If I dig a post hole and don’t put a post in it, is it still a post hole?
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No, because if you do that I’ll put a tomato plant in it.
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“Find everything alright, sir?”
“Not quite. I have a complaint about the tomato paste.”
“The tomato paste?”
“Yes. It doesn’t hold a tomato back together worth a d_mn.”
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You’ll need a BIG tomato plant. I usually dig post holes three feet deep.
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You’ve pegged it!
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You paid nothing for a post and nothing for a post you shall have.
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This reminds me of calling in to work to take a personal holiday because it was “Nothing to Celebrate Day!”
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Even the Creator rested.
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Not a comment for the purpose of not receiving comments.
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The British departure from the European Union is overdue insofar that they got blocked multiple times trying to join and then opted out of so many programs. If you’re not totally participating then it is easier to be out than barely in.
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Please nominate a theme:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/18162938-august-2016
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One of the many things I’ve learned since I first lurked here it that lack of an actual post doesn’t mean a topic won’t develop in the comments. Somewhere. At some point. But not here.
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I’ve just put coq au vin in the crock pot for the first at-home family dinner (Robert is coming to do some stuff) in 6 months.
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Never had coq au vin. According to Wikipedia: Coq au vin is a French dish of chicken braised with wine, lardons, mushrooms, and optionally garlic.
Lardons? Are they like fat, lazy protons? I’m always suspicious of recipes with mysterious ingredients…
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I have no clue what lardons are. This one has mushrooms and garlic.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lardon
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Lardon, also called lardoon, larding needle or larding, is a small strip or cube of pork fat (usually subcutaneous fat) used in a wide variety of cuisines to flavor savory foods and salads. In French cuisine, lardons are also used for larding, by threading them with a needle into meats that are to be braised or roasted. Lardons are not normally smoked, and they are made from pork that has been cured with salt.
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Ah! Pork cured with salt. BACON!
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Could be ham.
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And believe me, SATURATED lardons are the worst kind.
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Things that never before occurred to me to do: sew fat into meat.
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It is a method to introduce more moisture as well as add flavor.
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I’ve more or less applied the concept — it’s the method of introduction that is new to me and sort of fascinating.
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I’ve done that with turkeys, by making a deep, narrow cut, then pushing little bits of fat in with a skewer.
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Ooh, that gives me an idea. I once watched an Iron Chef episode (can’t remember if it was original or American), where the chef made an herb butter and inserted it under the skin of the bird – bacon under the skin of the bird.
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I didn’t do that. I did sear the chicken in fat.
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Lardons are the fundamental particles linked to the physical force known as entropy. As the universe piles on the lardons over time it gradually goes to pieces…
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I thought that as it piled on the lardons, it gained mass until it turned into one giant
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I’ve made a recipe that called itself coq au vin, but that was in the oven, and with onions not garlic. (Shallots worked well.) Recipe, please?
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we used onions, too, I just added garlic and made it in the croq pot which is how they made it at home.
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Coq au van was the first recipe I learned from The Compleat Automotive Guide To Quality Cuisine: A Mechanic’s Compendium.”
Their “exhaust smoked jerky” was to die for.
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I remember watching Bewitched, and hearing them talk about making “Coco Vahn”. I always thought it was a chocolate recipe. ;-)
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So, sear chicken, then put it in the crockpot for x hours on high/low drowned in wine along with mushrooms, onions, & garlic—anything else?
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yep. on low for about 5 hours. NOT drowned in wine. Cut the wine by three fourths, as it produces a lot of “juice.” Onion, garlic and mushrooms. I put in carrots, because I like carrots…
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If not here, where? If not now, when? If not you, who?
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It ought be recognized that, with two posts Friday and one Saturday, the routine weekly quantity of posts is unmarred.
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Random Topic of Randomness: Unicorn(s)
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Unicorns vs, Zombies!
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I didn’t have Post cereal for breakfast today either. And the post doesn’t run on Sundays, so no mail.
I guess I’ll have to either go lean on a fence, or go postless today.
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You could talk to a Progressive, they’re as dumb as posts.
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You can be insure of it.
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:)
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