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CCarr
Canada
1200 Posts |
 Posted - 10/13/2002 : 20:41:51
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Ghost, that was not the intent, nor in afterthought a manner in which to win a wager you had not yet accepted.
I cann't tell at least 1/2 the time if you are serious or not, but I didn't mean to come across the ways you described, if in fact you really thought I did. That's not me - I hope.
Sometimes your damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
I'm not looking to take warm showers with anyone, just looking for peace in the valley. You must have forgot, its Thanksgiving up here this weekend.
That reminds me, as I sit here with a cheap cigar, and wonder why I eat till it hurts sometimes; that as your Thanksgiving approaches I do hope Linda will once again share her day with us. I share her story with everyone that is around anytime a turkey or even a capon comes out of our oven; truly a great story that I'm glad I can read from a distance. |
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Linda
USA
127 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2002 : 23:36:50
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Clayton, just wait until you hear about my first experience cooking a Christmas goose! I will save that one for December.
Unbelieveable!
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Todd_Summers
USA
69 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2002 : 00:36:28
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| You guys are way outta my league ... I don't even know what a "capon" IS ! |
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Todd_Summers
USA
69 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2002 : 00:37:29
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| Or how to pronounce it! |
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CCarr
Canada
1200 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2002 : 09:12:53
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Hey Todd, say "Kay-pawn", and now you can go to a purveyor of fine fowl and order a capon.
This is the King of fowl - in the chicken line, except that these lads lost their masculine attributes, normally as day olds in the nursery.
Shed of their pride and any ability to waste energy as a male species, they concentrate on the consumption of food with requisite rest between binges. Genetic improvements in certain crossbred types of chickens to give them stronger legs and larger hearts, that allow fowl destined for the "sexing knife" the day after birth, to better survive their growth spurts and improve their intake conversion to meat.
In my "gentleman farmer" days when life was simpler, even with reasonable tutorials I could not "sex" a day old chick; so I paid .27 cents a newtered capon chick, instead of open choice at .25 cents.
It was much easier, other than listening to my wife's strong opposition, to take week old bull calves, and with the trusty Elastasicor Ring Pliers, place a tight elastic around the pride of the fledgling bull and wait 10 days for "things" to dry up and fall off so a young steer could run around the pasture. Of course when I got to the foothills of my beloved western Canada, it was there that I was introduced to the fall tradition of the process on a much larger scale; and the annual "calves fry" or "prairie oyster" dinners.
Anyway, that was only to give you a comparison of a common process.
A "free range" fed (i.e. not confined to a cage) capon, can easily be 7 or 8 pounds come time to get it ready for the freezer, compared to normal "broilers" at about 3 pounds.
A free range capon slowly roasting in your oven is one of the best and real cooking aromas you will ever encounter with any type of fowl.
Try it, as Martha says (while she is still able) - its a good thing. |
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Todd_Summers
USA
69 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2002 : 12:57:18
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| Oooh, I was SO enjoying your post until I heard Marthas voice creep in there at the end! You wanna see the fastest remote control in the west? Just put it on Martha while I've got the remote. |
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Newt
USA
657 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2002 : 22:17:51
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Martha Stewart,Janet Reno,Tammy Faye Bakker, hillery, Rosanne Barr, Barbabra Walters,Barbara Striesand and you Todd will have nightmares.
I got some good info on the SF estimatics, I have already studied most of this and all I need to do is refresh my memory and try to retain it.
Most of it is xactimate and the way SF does the estimate. I don't feel so uneasy about the test now...The time limits may be a problem though. I got a study guide by email, its not complete but for the most part it will help me pass. I still have the complete set comming.
Todd, I'm glad that remote has a limited line of sight range, I'd be zapped already. |
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Peter
CA
5 Posts |
Posted - 10/15/2002 : 00:06:29
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Easy way to tell if this guy is a canadian. I have the following quizz
1. What do Canuks ask for when they want brown toast.
2. when ordering a soft drink what do they ask for
3. What do they call a napkin
4. Which is the BEST donut place
5. Which offical language does our current prime minister speak
6. What is the canadian way to spell center.
7. what is mould?
8 is Winnipeg in eastern Canada or Western canada
9. what is the political party with the acrymon CCRAP (seriously)
10. Who is Don Cherry
any good canadian should be able to answer at leat 7 of the questions correctly but be careful #5 is a trick question. |
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CCarr
Canada
1200 Posts |
Posted - 10/15/2002 : 08:33:04
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Hi Peter, hows things out in Kleindom?
You underestimate the intellect of the Kocky impersonator, even he would score at least 7 on this trivial trivia.
If a "good" Canuck can live east of Medicine Hat, and it was the builder of Kleindom who some 20 years ago just as a mere mayor, said that he didn't want any eastern bums coming his way; many would score higher than 7.
Look at me eh, I can almost pass;
1 - a pair of dark toast, side by each
2 - Pepsi eh, with the Vachon cake coupon
3 - pass the rag, eh
4 - hey, I got a Krispy Creme shop just 10 minutes away eh
5 - the trick lies on what side of the Ottawa River he happens to be on, there are modifications to this when on the southside only if the cameras are on; of course at the beginning of each week he starts out with sidewindereze regardless of location which he slides back into by Tursday. Its common for Quebecois boys, it was part of their schooling, especially the alphbet - just leave the "t" and "r" out all the time and from time to time another 4 or 5 letters
6 - T-O-R-O-N-T-O, all capitalized eh
7 - my wife makes a lovely tomatoe aspic mould, the key is to have enough tobasco in it
8 - this is really your trick question eh? Like, who wants Winnipeg in their part of the country?
9 - it is serious crap isn't it, and the guy that followed presto from Kleindom made it crap
10 - a Don Cherry, are those sour ones. After they get too old and bitter and fall off the tree, they can be distinguished as a Don when the foreign pickers in the orchard step on them - a Don Cherry will then squeal |
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KileAnderson
USA
875 Posts |
Posted - 10/15/2002 : 23:41:13
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| Not for nothing, but I heard that they were looking for a white van with a ladder on top as a possible vehicle driven by the beltway sniper....Has anyone seen Jim Flynt lately? I know there hasn't been much work lately but this is going over the deep end. |
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JimF
USA
1014 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2002 : 01:16:11
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Kile, your comment and 'joke' was completely tasteless and reflects poorly on your judgment in making otherwise sensible posts.
The Washington area sniper topic is not a matter of humor but one of very real pain for 9 families, great stress for the wonderful police organizations working in concert and at grave peril to their own safety to apprehend such a monster, as well as fear for an entire region, if not nation.
If you wish (or need) to make jokes at my expense, fine, that's your choice, but please choose a more appropriate topic for your humor. I am sure that even my worst detractors would find no honor nor humor in such untimely and insensitive remarks.
I'm sure I am not the only one here who would expect better of you and I rather suspect the effect will be almost exactly the opposite of what you intended.
Jim Flynt
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Todd_Summers
USA
69 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2002 : 10:29:51
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I agree there are some topics that just shouldn't be made fun of. So here's one that it's ok to laugh about...
Iraqi president Saddam Hussein got 100% of the vote in their election. What the news didn't report was that there was one guy that voted against Saddam. His name was Chad. He is now a hanging Chad. |
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ChuckDeaton
USA
373 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2002 : 20:54:29
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As long as we are laughing, here's a little Political Incorrectness.
Did ya hear about the Blond with the new puzzle. She poured it out on the table, worked on it and then called the boy friend to tell him how difficult the puzzle was. He asked about it and she told him that the box the puzzle came in had a picture of a tiger on it.
The boy friend went over to help.
First thing he said, to the frazzled blonde, was sit down and have a cup of coffee while I vacumn up these Frosted Flakes. |
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KileAnderson
USA
875 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2002 : 22:21:21
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Jim,
I'm sorry I offended your delicate sensibilities. I am a graduate of Spotsylvania High School, I lived in the area for 3 years, I worked in the mall across the street from where the first shooting happened in that area and I often bought gas at the same gas pump where the second victim in that area was hit. I have many friends in the area and have talked to them several times since this all began and even they are joking about it. Lighten up. The comment was not meant to denegrate you personally, the name could have been that of anyone else in this proffesion. It was a joke meant to point out the utter frustration many of us have felt lately and the irony that many in this profession also drive vehicles that match the desctiption given.
I am neither sensitive or politically correct. As a matter of fact I am the complete opposite of those words. Some people cry in the face of adversity, I am one of the few who choose to laugh because it is just as productive as crying but makes you feel alot better. It's called gallows humor. When the white van with the ladder on top came out everyone in my cat office was talking about it in a jovial manner. I believe that there is humor in everything, even the most terrifying situations can be made fun of. I laugh at horror movies, I laugh on roller coasters, when I was in the military I laughed when I jumped out of a helicopter or rapelled down the side of a sheer cliff. That's just who I am.
To all whom I have offended I am truly sorry, to all that laughed, and I know you're out there, you're welcome. |
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Ghostbuster
476 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2002 : 22:58:28
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And...speaking as one who's wife tells him constantly that not only am I insensitive and politically incorrect, but also socially unacceptable as well, I echo my offense at Jim Flynt being characterized as driving a white van with a ladder rack. In fact, he drives a P.O.S Chevy Blazer. Kyle, you have offended white vans with ladder racks everwhere! I can't imagine any white van lowering itself to such a level, can you?
(ZING! Gotcha, Jim. Now you can take your best aimed shot.) |
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