No puppet! No puppet!

I didn't like Close Encounters of the the Third Kind. I mean, those aliens are not sending their best. They're bringing weird lights, they're bringing mashed potatoes. They're anal probers.

What about the dial for pH that starts at 0? That was special. We need more acid, crank up the pH dial!

Il Douche
Afterbirth of a Nation
(Elsewhere)

Maybe he's a Magic White Guy who teaches Andy Lau what's truly important in life in a non-threatening manner.

What do those affected by the outrages you describe have in common? They're not white.

Fat Slice, but the real answer is Top Dog.

Oh, and there's not just one "stir-fry": there's stir fry, dry fry, fry, quick fry, wet (sauce) - fry, explode fry, all of which would fall under the English stir-fry. I think what Yan is describing is a wet fry, but I don't know that technique, I just know the character.

That is not how you make Kung Pao. This is how you make Kung Pao. Kung Pao Chicken is a sugar/vinegar sauce over fried garlic/ginger/chilies. That recipe is Fuschia Dunlop's and that's how it's done in Chengdu.

I've mentioned it here before: only the Titans are allowed to score 2.718281828459 points.

So, the Raj was overthrown and Home Rule instituted 40 years early? I wonder what effect that had on the McDuck fortune.

I suppose I am talking about provincials. I lived in the provinces, and those are mostly the people I know. But, in general, compare the international cuisine in a major Chinese city other than Beijing or Shanghai to that of its US equivalent. It's crap. In my experience, you can get food from a province 2500 miles…

Chinese people would be/are confused and disgusted by steak; you have to cut it up yourself, which they would suck at, and the idea of anything under well done (defeating the purpose of steak imo) would just revolt them. Probably.I assume there are adventurous Chinese eaters too, I just haven't met them.

I wonder if OBJ knows who Dunham is. I hope this whole fantasy plays out entirely between Dunham's imagination and Twitter and that Beckham lives a long life blissfully ignorant of this nonsense.

Jared Fogle: disappointed orifice seeker.

A) J. Walter Weatherman
B) Babyboomorangatan

Me too!

Puppets was 86, Rain Dogs 85, both awesome albums. I take your point though, late 80s were different. Your timeline actually matches up pretty well with when Metallica didn't suck.

So much good shit in the 80s: The Smiths, Jane's Addiction, Tom Waits, Fugazi, The Pixies, New Order, early to mid Metallica, The Clash… I could go on for ages. Hell, Bleach came out in 89, Ultramega OK before that I think. I'd take 80s music over late 90s.

So, he's a Muslim now?