As usual, Backstage starts with prayer…after a sort. Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott, assiduously avoid discussion of the news topics of the week. Yet it happens anyway.
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29 replies on “Right Angle: Backstage (09-15-2020)”
It would be hard to beat this in the pantheon of bad ideas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_Laboratory
Walk into public places and say, “Hello fellow Covid survivors!” …. No one laughs… Free for you all to use.
I wanted one of those Gilbert Atomic Energy Labs, but it never happened. Later I did wind up playing (working) with things that had Plutonium in them.
My girlfriend is a vegetarian (I’m not) — consequently, we go to vegan restaurants sometimes. I’ve found that there is some good vegan food out there, but it’s best when it’s being good vegan food instead of trying to imitate “real” food.
The best one I’ve been at so far (and the one that is the exception to my “don’t imitate non-vegan food” rule) is Kaya’s Kitchen in Belmar, NJ. Their coconut pineapple curry is great, as is the BBQ seitan (they’re calling it “ribs”) and the Lion of Judah.
Anyone in or visiting the Jersey Shore might want to check them out.
http://kayaskitchenbelmar.com/kayas-kitchen-belmar/
Steve: Ann Altouse.
(I think there’s an “h” in there.)
Wow, I’m missing out on something here. I just checked my “bottled water” and it has the words “Vintage Single Barrel Kentucky Bourbon” on it. Someone has been tampering with my bottled water and giving me this very old, tainted water with additives in it! No wonder it has this deep caramel color, the water obviously has been tampered with. Oh the things I must suffer through in my old age …
As for the “gluten free snacks” … They all have the word Partagas on a band that goes around them, except for the ones in metal tubes labelled “Cohiba” of course. They all have to be kept in humidity controlled boxes or they lose some of their appeal. Even though they’re not really edible snacks they’re very, very low calorie.
I must be way, way behind the times. I doubt I’ll ever be able to catch up.
Woe is me.
I was stationed in GTMO from 93 to 95 and had a REAL Cuban Cohiba; UNREAL beyond belief!
Yeah, I have a buddy who travels to Europe occasionally. Where you can buy the real thing. The customs guys just wink and nod after asking him if they’re all for his “personal use”. So he keeps me in a few REAL Cuban Cohiba’s and REAL Partagas. I prefer the Partagas myself and keep most of the Cohibas for him aging in my humidors., Hard to beat a well aged Cohiba though … I just went and fished one out to show you I’m not joking.
The back of the tube where it says “Hecho En Cuba”. Those commies make some fine cigars.
Oops, forgot to load the pic before hitting “Post Comment” … I never claimed to be a photographer but I think those pics are good enough to prove my point.
That particular one is a Cohiba Siglo III and considering which humidor I pulled it out of … That’s the first time it’s been out of a humidor in 5 years. Being as he’s nice enough to get them for me I always save the best aged ones for him when he comes over and feels like having a cigar. He doesn’t smoke cigars anywhere near as much as I do so I reckon that’s the least I can do for him. Sometimes I have to fight off other friends when they dig in the humidor and pull out one of those I’m saving for the guy that brings them to me.
He and another friend of ours are coming over on election night to smoke a few Cubans, drink some fine sippin’ whiskey and depending on how the election goes either celebrate or drown our sorrow.
Oh, and I don’t smoke expensive, aged Cuban cigars every day. I’m nowhere near rich enough that I can do that, the Cubans are a gift I save for special occasions. I just like to show off now and then when someone says they appreciate a fine cigar. It’s a character flaw of mine.
How about demented left of left professor roasts? All you would have to look out for is the prions flowing in their blood. They tend to survive roasting.
The “M” Rule. Prepositions….(and think of pronouncing it PRE-position…easier)….are used to inform the reader/listener that something needs to go somewhere. At ME, about HIM, For Us, between Them, to Whom. It does help to learn all the prepositions. The Pronouns, Me, Him/Her, You, Us, Them, Whom, are the correct form to use when placing something somewhere. ‘Give me the ball.’ is correct because there is a silent inferred preposition. ‘Give the Ball to Me.’ Starting a sentence with a preposition can only occur if the pronoun refers to someone already in play. ‘Sally looked horrid.’ Her blouse was a hateful shade of mauve.’ “I am going to drive him to the station.’ The pronoun him is the object of the preposition’s verb. “That Scott Ott is so funny, just like I.” Do not use ME….there is no preposition. This is one of the many mistakes people make. Add a verb to the end of “I” and you will see it is correct. That Scott Ott is so engaging, just like I AM.”
Ok. Lesson over. Get out there and amaze people with the correct English.
I’m thrilled that my kids can hear “I” and “me” used incorrectly, most of the time. Correction: “Starting a sentence with a pronoun [not preposition] ….”
You are correct. Thank you. Got goofed up trying to not have things go haywire when I type now. For some reason things just disappear or send. Going to have to type in Word and cut and paste.
I know what you mean. (I’ve had trouble drafting comments in Word and cutting and pasting, though!)
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Three years ago our church summer youth camp was going to have the girls dance on stage to a dance that was going viral at the time; The Cocoa Cola dance. Being nieav about it, I googled the video. What I saw was a Brazilian trio in body suits dancing suggestively followed by a cutaway to the trio in bikinis. Oh, great for little girls to do sex dances at church. When I showed the video to our 21 year old youth group leader, she couldn’t understand why I was taken back by this beautiful dance. She who gave me such a bad time about singing Baby Its Cold Outside; the youth proclaimed Date Rape Song. The look of horror finally came on when she realized what was going on.
Flash that against your story of the French doco. Baby, we’ve come a long way; the wrong direction.
Specific Republican ALWAYS looses to generic Democrat.
If there’s a debate, I think Joe’ll be using the Baby Seal Strategy. Make Trump look mean and awful picking on a poor old man. Mean while, Trump’ll be needling Joe w/ stiletto like verbal jabs that’ll get under Joe’s skin. Hoping Joe’ll get so angry that he completely looses it on stage.
IF the debates happen and Joe DOES descend into one of his incoherent babbles I would NOT be surprised if Trump Looks into the camera, starts praising Biden as a devoted public servant of many years, says he deserves a better end than this, and then walks off the stage. Trump is a master showman as well as thinker; what would confound the press and public critics more?
Believe it or not, soylent green exists and is sold. Google it.
I know. I was amazed when I ran across the site. I still wonder whether or not they knew the history of that term when they named their product. However, they don’t actually have a ‘green’ version… yet.
Scott wants to be on both sides of the bet… sounds like a democrat
Well, to Scott’s credit, he does regularly play one on YouTube, so he has practiced.
Scott – My bingo card is full of excuses as to why Joe won’t debate.
The only reason you may be somewhat correct is that the bar is now very low for his success. As long as he doesn’t wet himself, either figuratively or literally, the press will say he was great.
But the independents will see for themselves.
BTW – Trump immediately responded to Joe Rogan with an affirmative
Oh … that is so wrong that it had me rolling on the floor laughing out loud. Well played.
Think of the second half of Pink Floyd’s Wall concert. I think some doctor feelgood will pump Biden full of drugs that will keep him lucid just long enough to debate. If he dies six months later? So much the better.
Steve, it’s Ann Althouse you’re thinking of.
and she is in Madison, Wisconsin so he got that part right.