I was only being slightly pointed when I indicated you don’t sound like you’ve experienced that many different parties. You were the one being a dick with your no-true-scotsman party posturing. You go to lots of parties, and never see people playing games? Sounds like some pretty bland parties to me. 

Not everyone is going to get that 30 Rock reference. I feel like ‘Jacques Pepin to Receive Lifetime Achievement Emmy’ would have been the way to go with the title. You easily could have worked EGOT into one of the opening paragraphs if you felt the call out was absolutely necessary.

And for most of those generations 25 was considered ‘middle aged’ because people dropped before 60.

Lots of different kinds of parties. You might be young enough you haven’t experienced much of life yet, or you might only have a single flavor of friends.

It was a coupon printed by the previous ownership group. Despite the similar names, it is a whole new restaurant. The new owners are under no obligation to honor anything done by the previous ownership group. They probably don’t even have their point of sale system set up so that they could enter the coupon into their…

Myth Directions the third installment. A weird book even by the standards of such an off beat series. Tananda stole an ugly trophy to give to Aahz as a birthday gift. Because Aahz refused to part with it they had to figure a way to win it somewhat legitimately which led to the the three way soccer jousting match.

I’m not sure how I would feel about having my work rated by a preteen. 

Fun fact: in my state the bar that is filling your growler is required by law to clean it before they fill it up for you. Putting an ounce of water in it and giving it a few half hearted shakes fulfills this requirement. We tell you that a drop of water and cooler glass prevents the beer from foaming up as much (and…

Potatoes.

That whole ‘eating in the kitchen’ thing is for Chef’s you know personally. There is no universal Chef handshake that gets you special treatment everywhere. A Chef should know that. If Alton Brown shows up where I work he gets treated like anybody else; my boy Alex that taught me my first osso bucco on the other hand…

Not as hipster as my comic books themed sub shop: Soup or Hero?

As you found out, you did not miss anything. Children love fast food because their undeveloped senses can be overwhelmed by salt and sugar, and their undeveloped minds can be easily brainwashed by marketing.

I briefly worked at a crappy sporting goods store in an even crappier mall. The corporate office sent us tapes (honest to god cassette tapes in 2011!) for our in store music. We got a new tape in every Sunday. These tapes were only 40 minutes long. In an 8 hour shift I heard the same short playlist TWELVE FREAKING…

We are already at post-peak court/field storming. Have been for a number of years. It’s all part of the pageant of college athletics now, and everything is meaningless. Feel free to load up your outdated taeks with your Gwen Stefani albums and return to 2005.

Number one best way to improve your chili is to ditch the store bought powders. Chili paste is where it’s at. Substitute 3tbsps paste for every tbsp of powder you would normally use. You can really ratchet up the intensity of either the chili flavor or the heat by going overboard with chili paste. Try that with chili…

Two words: city slickers

How bad were the other departments’ chilis that THAT concoction won frequently?

Wait until she is 50 and her mustache finally starts to come in.

That was my thought. A 75 minute dinner felt rushed? Dude you placed a reservation; you didn’t take up a short term lease on space in the dining room.

2 whole incidents in 2 years? That’s not ‘in the news a bit’, that’s just the fallibility of anything built by man. How many car accidents have to be reported before you guys go full on hermit?