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TazManiac wrote:Yesterday I went looking for EggNog and the shelves were bare, it's now Friday evening and I have some Brandy and commercial eggnog in the shopping bag. (It's better to make it from scratch...)
Having avoided all things Pumkin-Spice up to this point I suppose I can deal with an appropriate seasonal flavour for a little while. (The bottle of Brandy is likely going to last until New Years at the rate I (don't) drink these days.)
I don't get sick from uncooked foods, I seriously think every case of food poisoning I've ever had came from improperly handled, but already prepared, foodstuffs.
Heck, just last night I took myself to dinner and ate raw fish, danger be damned.
I adore punkin spice. This year, every bottle I acquired was bitter...tasted like no sweetener, just the punkin spice.
Yes, I am purposely spelling it like that. My son has been cute lately. Pumpkin is one word he always has issues with, and this year, I decided to not correct him on it.
Eggnog...soooo yummy! Especially hot with fresh cinnamon and nutmeg on top.
Great wakeup while in perkatory.
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.
oldmanmickey wrote:Eggnog with a shot of granddaddys finest, now we talking.
Or with some Brandi or Bud?
FreeFlier wrote:
Warrl wrote:Thanks, that makes me feel more confident about the safety of something I did a while back. (I kept a small amount of soup, very carefully, at 160 degrees... for about 4 hours, with no lid. Thai curry soup turned into a really wonderful pizza sauce.)
That's standard practice, actually . . . it's very common to keep soups and stews simmering, sometimes for days.
Yeah, I've done that sort of thing many times over the years. It's kind of necessary for cooking down bones into bone broth over an open fire, for example.
Dave wrote:For getting fires started in nasty weather, when it's raining sideways... a Karuk elder I knew, swore that chainsaw-bar oil was the thing to use. It's thicker than kerosene or diesel fuel... much less volatile than gasoline, the vapors are not likely to go boom, it burns hot, and it burns longer than an equivalent amount of gasoline.
One of the best fire-starters I've found over the years was the "peanut-butter" that we had in our combat rations mixed with a bit of the insect repellent we were issued. It would burn quite nicely and odiferously even in heavy rain.
AnotherFairportfan wrote:Steel wool is good initial tinder if you're using flint-and-steel.
Or if you have a lantern battery and a couple lengths of wire.
Or just a 9v battery. No need for wire. You can also stretch and spin the steel wool into a yarn to reach both ends of a string of smaller batteries.
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
Catawampus wrote:That's why you never want to be too close to a herd of steel sheep during a lightning storm.
My inner Pyro now desperately wants to see what happens when a steel-wool factory is hit my lightning. Or just what happens when a really, really, really big pile of the stuff is hooked up to a car battery.
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
Catawampus wrote:That's why you never want to be too close to a herd of steel sheep during a lightning storm.
Funny, I've never heard of steel sheep...
*deposits an SOS Pad into the pun vault*
Ah - you need to read about Brillo, the Revolutionary Ram, in Eric Flint's "1632" books.
You guys are giving me baa-aa-aa-aad ideas. Tell you later.
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.
Catawampus wrote:That's why you never want to be too close to a herd of steel sheep during a lightning storm.
My inner Pyro now desperately wants to see what happens when a steel-wool factory is hit my lightning. Or just what happens when a really, really, really big pile of the stuff is hooked up to a car battery.
This is how I dispose of contaminated steel wool used in the machine shop....FUN!
Got an old model-rocket launcher that hooks to a 12-volt battery. Hook up the alligator clips, push the button, and up it goes in a hurry. Even more fun when you add solvent-laced rags to the bucket it's in.
"The Empire was founded on cups of tea, mate, and if you think I am going to war without one you are sadly mistaken."
Catawampus wrote:That's why you never want to be too close to a herd of steel sheep during a lightning storm.
My inner Pyro now desperately wants to see what happens when a steel-wool factory is hit my lightning. Or just what happens when a really, really, really big pile of the stuff is hooked up to a car battery.
This is how I dispose of contaminated steel wool used in the machine shop....FUN!
Got an old model-rocket launcher that hooks to a 12-volt battery. Hook up the alligator clips, push the button, and up it goes in a hurry. Even more fun when you add solvent-laced rags to the bucket it's in.
Then place said bucket over some deserving miscreant's head- don't forget the magnesium chips...
Rule 17 of the Bombay Golf Course- "You shall play the ball where the monkey drops it,"
I speak fluent Limrick-
the Old Sgt.
Catawampus wrote:That's why you never want to be too close to a herd of steel sheep during a lightning storm.
Funny, I've never heard of steel sheep...
*deposits an SOS Pad into the pun vault*
Coyotes steel sheep alla time...
Sam and Ralph.jpg
That one never wins. He just punches his time card and rolls with it for the tucks...and the green.
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.
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