I'm sorry - this thread is really funny and I wish I could send awards to all who contributed. Just had to say that.

"Bad astronaut. Bad. Don't ever do that again."

Heh. Mine were all 1870'ish or so to Wisconsin. I got diced dill pickles in scrambled eggs (perfect amount of salt/tang) and put through a meat grinder with baloney to make sandwich spread. Nothing I'd normally think to do unless I'd come from that culture.

Being from Wisconsin originally, I was challenged a while ago to make a dairy free (ghee ok) and wheat free version of this. Got the best non-dairy sour cream I could find, Tinkyada rice pasta (it cooks the best, not sticky and holds up very well) and the used the red wine base with everything else the same.

Where are you from? Those variations are sounding like what my farming German grandparents from Wisconsin would do.

Made some bananas foster and got the pan a little hot before flaming it (*and* a little over enthusiastic with the brandy?) Launched a pillar of flame right into the ceiling which splash bounced across the room. No damage, no muss (that I could see at least), just clean fire.

I like the way you think. It rises above the chaff.

They never look up, do they?

Of course, eagle/baby, yes. eagle/deer, no.

Or Triscuits, as the case may be.

Because it's an intelligence test, and congresscritters didn't get to where they are being dumb (although you may not be able to work with them, and you may not get what you voted for...)

I'm surprised anyone is surprised or otherwise noticing this. Humans haven't come that far from their original roots. Those cut players are not part of the *tribe* that is an NFL franchise team - and if you've *ever* had the experience of dealing with an NFL employee during season, there *is* nothing else. …

I get it - and good point. Your comment on what the big guys couldn't do is telling. Having 20+ years in highly corporate experience, the reasons why "big guys" can't do something is all about culture, and almost never about physical reasons.

It's unclear that the early days of HP and Apple type startups is possible anymore. There is so much more overhead and market manipulation to overcome.

There was a concept car, a long time ago pre-everything on the net (read: couldn't find the reference for the memory in my head) that had a front end designed to funnel air into the front, and then it channeled that air to profile vents along the entire outside of the car. 2 things were happening according to what I…

Reminds me of the Foster story, ""Why Johnny Can't Speed".

I'm with you on the "produce fewer new cars" to be really environmental, but the memes associated with our culture where "growth is good" and "consumerism is about my personal choices" kinda gets in the way of that wisdom.

Before the Light Beer craze hit in the 70's early 80's (someone?) the tagline label on the Coors logo was (as I recall) "A Fine Light Banquet Beer". They got out marketed in the light beer thing, and had to drop that for many years and bifurcate into Light and Regular types.

Gotta love the tech industry. Spend 2 years thinking about the next great thing, how it's gonna work, how yer gonna build, won't it be great, it'll be the greatest thing, etc. And then the people you're building it for don't like it.

Getting organizations like the MLB to upgrade is like getting a corporation with 32 CEO's (Teams, Umps, Management) to agree at the same time. Tough job. Saw it in the NFL before they were to HD on their instant replay system.