Small Talk: Chili's

[LiberryLady]

What would happen if you didn't have your own whistle? What if you forget your whistle??

 

What would happen is chaos.  The only thing that stands between me and complete anarchy is my trusty whistle.

[King of Birds]

KOB, don't the local Dunkin Donuts sell apple cider donuts?

I know I mentioned that a Dunkin Donuts opened in Encino, but I don't recall any apple cider there. PERHAPS I will re-visit as exploratory research.

 

The only thing that stands between me and complete anarchy is my trusty whistle.

Sounds like a bumper sticker to me!

 

I've never heard of an "e-ink"  but just googled it. Glory is quite the techno-gal.

 

PS. Again, I have turned into Middle-Aged Man! Fighting Crime, Grime, Ever-Expanding Waistlines and Evil-Doers everywhere--- HEYGetOffMyLawn!  but what is there to Teach about PE to kindergartners?

 

"Kids, go outside and run around." 

"Okay I roll the big red ball and you kick it, and then you run to first base over here..."

Kickball. 4-square, maybe?  Remind me what "gym" is to a 4-5 year old.

Edited October 3, 2015 by King of Birds

[LiberryLady]

what is there to Teach about PE to kindergartners?

 

California implemented pretty strict PE standards recently. Although they aren't so picky about actually doing the standards, they are evidently pretty strict that the kids get the mandated time in (100 minutes, every two weeks).  Here's an example of some of what kindergarteners should be able to do:

 

Body Management

1.5 Create shapes by using nonlocomotor movements.

1.6 Balance on one, two, three, four, and five body parts.

1.7 Balance while walking forward and sideways on a narrow, elevated surface.

1.8 Demonstrate the relationship of under, over, behind, next to, through, right, left, up, down,

forward, backward, and in front of by using the body and an object.

[smrou]

1.6 Balance on one, two, three, four, and five body parts.

Five? Like...hands, feet, and head?

 

1.8 Demonstrate the relationship of under, over, behind, next to, through, right, left, up, down,

forward, backward, and in front of by using the body and an object.

This standard is clearly based on the teachings of

, no?

[Too Late Kev]

I don't call it "balancing," when there are five body parts touching the ground!!

[Kalliste]

I don't call it "balancing," when there are five body parts touching the ground!!

Technically, it's just sitting if you have your hands behind you and your feet on the ground :P

[Too Late Kev]

Right! I sure hope the majority of kindergartners have mastered sitting!

[LiberryLady]

I don't call it "balancing," when there are five body parts touching the ground!!

 

Yeah, five parts?  That's pretty much lying down!

 

Fortunately, only the fifth graders get test for the national fitness test. So I don't need to worry about making sure the kinders have mastered sitting and lying down.

[King of Birds]

INT DESOLATE JAIL CELL IN CALIFORNIA

LITTLE JOEY sits, getting a whistle tattooed on his arm.

 

TATTOO GUY

So, why you in here Lil' Joey?

 

LITTLE JOEY

Well, I was in 5th grade and failed my fitness test. It all went downhill from there. 

They said "five body parts on the ground" and well...

 

TATTOO GUY

Five body parts?

 

LITTLE JOEY

Yeah! Five body parts. I knew from my experience in 3rd grade, that my two arms,

both my feet and my dick on the ground, wasn't right. It scarred

some young girls for life. Got me on the National Sex offenders list.

 

TATTOO GUY

So, what did you do in fifth grade?

 

LITTLE JOEY

I thought about hacking off my sister's hand, using that. Instead, I

used my brain, thought about it, and asked the PE teacher,

'what fifth body part are youse talking about?'

He said "Didn't your kindergartner PE teacher learn ya about that?"

 

TATTOO GUY

Oh. Hey- isn't that who you called to the stand, during trial?

 

LITTLE JOEY

Why that lady with the whistle never taught me about five body part sitting,

well, we'll never know.

 

(end scene)

[LiberryLady]

Inspired, King of Birds.

 

IN. SPIRED.

[Pixel]

May I interrupt? I just have to say that you all need to go see The Martian.  Now.

[LiberryLady]

May I interrupt? I just have to say that you all need to go see The Martian.  Now.

 

I saw it Friday!  One of the things I dug about it was there was no waiting for the "good parts" to start.  It zipped up to speed, plot-wise, right away, and kept going till the end.

[Glory]

The Martian was amazing!! So much awesome!!

[King of Birds]

Inspired, King of Birds.

 

IN. SPIRED.

It sorta kinda feels like you were thinking of other words, and fell back on INSPIRED.

Edited October 5, 2015 by King of Birds

[Kalliste]

I only just watched my first The Martian trailer just now because of your post KoB :P All anyone can talk about his The Martian but I know very little about it (well I am no 3mins more educated than I was). I wonder if it's worth reading the book first and then watching the movie. I hear the book readers are happy with it which is unusual.

[EllieH]

The Martian was great!  A really solid adaptation of the book.

 

And yes, good trailers too...

[King of Birds]

I wonder if it's worth reading the book first and then watching the movie. I hear the book readers are happy with it which is unusual.

It's a quick read, if you're into reading before seeing movies. But as we all know, you'll wait for it to be online, you don't go to the cinemas!  So you have time.

 

If you're all wondering, NO, at this time I do not plan on bringing back Little Joey and the Tattoo Guy and their prison adventures. 

 

I know- I've heard the cries for more, but ... These just aren't made up things. They're Characters. They need time to live, and breathe.

[Too Late Kev]

You missed the opportunity to use Prison Mike...and the Dementors.

[King of Birds]

Prison Mike and the Dementors had NOTHING to do with five-body-part-sitting!  Why would I bring PM&D up? I'm not writing some Harry Potter fanfiction here!

[Kalliste]

but you could be..

[King of Birds]

"'YOU'RE A LIZARD HARRY!'

Harry Potter's heart grew 90 times normal that day, and he evolved into a magical Godzilla and took over the world."

The End.

 

That's all I got.  Don't be thinking I'm gonna be writing some new amazing story for y'all to read. You got the snippet of Little Joey for free!

[Kalliste]

It's better than the actual ending. 

[King of Birds]

Well. I don't see us recovering from this.

[possibilities]

What do you all think is the upper limit on how much chocolate a person should consume per day?

[Kalliste]

If it is dark chocolate, the upper limit is limitless. If it is milk chocolate...about one half of an ounce should do it.

I feel the opposite to this. If I eat more than a few squares of dark chocolate my body can't handle it but I could happily eat a full block of milk chocolate and crave some more.

 

Well. I don't see us recovering from this.

The epilogue of Harry Potter was terrible. Harry being a lizard is a preferable outcome.. in fact let's just get that over with in the first book:

 

"Did you say wizard?"

"No, I said LIZard!"

"Oh.. no thanks"

 

the end.

[Glory]

I have cleaned up my yard for fall and planted a million tulips and daffodils for next spring. We also have to store the Trans for winter and that is making me sad.

On the bright side, my house smells like Apple Pumpkin Yankee candles. Love that!

[sacrebleu]

Let me say, at the onset, that I am not a pumpkin spice person. I don't buy the lattes and while I do enjoy pumpkin bread, pie, and muffins, I'm not a person who goes nuts over the stuff every fall.

 

But I met some friends for brunch today, and we strolled through Eastern Market (an outdoor market in DC) and that's where I discovered pumpkin butter. It's essentially pumpkin pie filling that you can spread on anything you want (bread, muffins, shortbread cookies) It's amazing. Go-- find some.

 

You're welcome.

[King of Birds]

Et tu, sacrebleu?  All you pumpkin spicers need your own special area.

 

And as for the dark vs milk chocolate, all you dark lovers need to bring it down a notch or twenty.  My fav bit at See's is the orange cream, which is only made with the milk chocolate- AND IT'S FINE AS IS.  Don't be slamming the milk chocolate.

[possibilities]

LL, we need your referee whistle here! I don't want to be breaking up any fights between chocolate factions! It's all good. I am currently counting one vote for no daily limit, one for "a block or more," and one side comment pleading tolerance for all recipes and flavors.

 

I like pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread. Have never tried it in other forms. Oh yeah-- years ago I had a really good pumpkin soup. Pumpkin seeds are also good. I don't mind the seasonal pumpkinpalooza, but I have not really gotten swept away by it either. Pumpkins are fun to grow, but they take a lot of space. Pumpkin butter sounds good to me. Sometimes I make pumpkin pudding by making a pie without the crust.

 

Glory, what kind of tulips did you get? I have not had much luck with tulips. Daffs and crocuses always come up, faithfully. But my tulip efforts have been very sparsely rewarded. There is a field across the street from me that is covered in daffodils each spring, so I wanted to be the tulip yard, since there's already a daffodil yard in the neighborhood. But it hasn't worked out.

[Too Late Kev]

I think the amount of chocolate one can consume in a day varies a lot. I prefer dark chocolate, and I'm sure I could have a bar or 6 - 8 See's Candies w/o feeling like I've overloaded on chocolate. What any chocolate does to my waistline is another issue, of course.

[MichelleAK]

Et tu, sacrebleu?  All you pumpkin spicers need your own special area.

 

And as for the dark vs milk chocolate, all you dark lovers need to bring it down a notch or twenty.  My fav bit at See's is the orange cream, which is only made with the milk chocolate- AND IT'S FINE AS IS.  Don't be slamming the milk chocolate.

I don't know about that. I find the raspberry cream to be the superior cream, and it's dark chocolate. IMHO, of course. Which is not that humble. Actually, my fave is the Scotchmallow.

On another non-chocolate note, the David Cook show was great! I also really liked the opener, Andrew Ripp. The venue was funky and fun.

[Glory]

I'm not sure the variety of tulips. They were a giant bag of bulbs purchased at Costco! I'm hoping they will come up next spring.

There is a tulip house in a neighboring town that I always drive by in the spring because it's so pretty. I want to be that house!

[King of Birds]

I can't even...

Up is down. Black is white. 

 

Dogs and cats, living together- Mass Hysteria!

[sacrebleu]

I don't judge when it comes to chocolate- both milk and dark have their places.

Dark Milky Ways are far superior than their original counterparts, but dark Reeces don't stand a chance against original recipe Reeces. 

 

Except for white chocolate- that sh*t is gross.

 

as for KOB's distress, I can't believe in the age of internet porn that Playboy is still a thing. I'm guessing they had to reposition themselves as more GQ and Maxim-like. (Now all those guys who say they read it for the articles will actually be telling the truth.)

[Too Late Kev]

I like dark Reese's way better than milk Reese's, but both are good, of course.

 

KoB, I love that 6-second clip you linked. Ghostbusters, I think?

[smrou]

Now all those guys who say they read it for the articles will actually be telling the truth.

I think it's funny how the whole "read it for the articles" thing is such a standard joke, because Playboy actually has good articles! Or interviews, anyway. I've never actually bought Playboy but I have read a handful of interviews from it and found them really good. So...I actually do read it for the articles. (I go elsewhere for naked ladies.)

 

I don't judge when it comes to chocolate- both milk and dark have their places.

I suppose I agree with that, but I think dark has more places than milk. 

[Pixel]

I used to subscribe to Maxim. That magazine consistently made me laugh.

[WescottF1]

Thanks to free internet subscriptions that "stack", I'm currently getting Maxim until 2029.  In the past year or so, they've definitely tried to go "upscale" and be less of a "cheeky lad mag" and more along the lines of Esquire/GQ/etc.

 

Playboy's current editor is Jimmy Jellinek who came from.. wait for it.. Maxim,

[King of Birds]

 I'm currently getting Maxim until 2029. 

That's like, a REAL commitment. Almost like a marriage. Congratulations.  Did you sign a pre-nup?

 

Welcome Wescott! Not sure if you de-lurked or what.

 

Anyhow, my "WHAT WHAT?!?!?" over no nude ladies in Playboy is ... well then what's the point? I never even subscribed (but college roommates did) but I'm well versed on what Playboy is all about. And actually - as smrou says- the interviews are always good. As long as they don't interview the models, that is.  I suppose we can blame Playboy for Jenny McCarthy, and so perhaps the de-evolution of the species will hit pause.  But I don't know the subscription #s and all that but I recall that it was a big collector's thing, to collect all the Playboys. Subcultures of collectors/ hoarders raise their fists and growl at the world!!

 

For a few years I got Maxim, and then Esquire, being the manly man that I am, but I stopped subscribing to both of those years ago. I only subscribe to two magazines- how 'bout you Chilians?

[WescottF1]

Thanks!  I've been lurking for a while, indeed.

 

Magazine-wise, my wife and I are pretty voracious readers.  Most of my subscriptions I get for free via internet - freebizmag.com, rewardsurvey.com, etc.  Just thinking off the top of my head, we currently get:  Car and Driver, Autoweek, F1 Racing, Maxim, Playboy, Esquire, GQ, Guitar Player, Rolling Stone, Wine Spectator, Saveur, Taste of Home, Cooking Light, Travel + Leisure, Watch!, Glamour, Self, Woman's Day, Better Homes & Gardens, Kraft Food & Family, and Reader's Digest.

 

There might be a couple more that I'm missing, but yeah - we keep the postman plenty busy.

[smrou]

I don't get subscribe to any magazines. There have been some I got in the past--Road and Track, Autoweek, Entertainment Weekly--but I've never kept it up because I find I don't go through them and they just pile up.

[Too Late Kev]

We get Handyman, Consumer Reports, and lots of free magazines related to Mr. Kev's work. Long ago, I got TV Guide and Premiere magazine, back when TV Guide or your local newspaper were the only ways to get your local listings (how times have changed!) and back when Premiere existed. I got LIFE, too, when that was a monthly magazine.

[sacrebleu]

wow. That is a lot of magazines, I just get Cooking Light and the New Yorker, I used to subscribe to Vanity Fair but the quality of the articles has really gone down the last few years. IMO

[MichelleAK]

I only subscribe to three magazines:  MacLife (f/k/a MacAddict), Rolling Stone, and Entertainment Weekly. Years ago I subscribed to New Yorker, but I couldn't keep up with it and ended up not getting them read, so I unsubscribed (it's a pretty pricy subscription, so it was dumb to keep subscribing if I wasn't going to read them). I read Rolling Stone mostly for the politics, and the occasional interview.  I take most of their music reviews with a huge grain of salt, unless it's by Rob Sheffield, who actually has an appreciation for current music and doesn't have an oversized boner for classic rock (which I do like a lot of, but RS seems to grade on a curve for any musician older than 55).

[Kalliste]

Do magazines on my ipad count? I like getting soft copies of magazines but I wish you could bookmark the pages. All the things I subscribe to are cooking magazines so it' d be good to be able to find all those recipes later.

 

Currently the collection is Taste Magazine, Super food Ideas and Recipes +

 

I also like that electronic copies of magazines are much cheaper than physical!

[King of Birds]

 but yeah - we keep the postman plenty busy.

You certainly do!  Lots of mags there. I saw Playboy but not JUGGS, Wescott ;-) 

 

I recognized Cooking Light that sacreblue mentioned- that's another one I got briefly too. Found some good recipes in there.

 

I'm into the 2nd week now of my dog wanting to just sit out in the dark post-supper, looking for the possum that we found traveling over the top of our fence. She thinks it's coming back.

[Glory]

I get This Old House and Rachael Ray. I used to get US Weekly but I couldn't keep up anymore.

[King of Birds]

Hey all you Tree-Climbers. Guess whose birthday it is today?  One guess.

 

The possum returned Sunday night, but this time, it was up on a wire, not the fence, so the dog was not happy. I was kinda hoping the possum would go away, get hit by a car or something. This nocturnal visit - the dog didn't even want to come in last night since she wanted to wait outside.

 

Sorry not so chatty lately. Lots of sad and bad news. Hope you're all well.

 

ps- y'all buying your Star Wars tix yet?

Edited October 20, 2015 by King of Birds

[Kalliste]

Sorry not so chatty lately. Lots of sad and bad news. Hope you're all well.

 

I know the feeling, I want to hide in bed under the covers but life is getting in the way.

[EllieH]

To jump back to the previous conversation, I get Southern Living and Time.  Both were gift subscriptions.

 

And no, no Star Wars tickets in advance here.  I'm sure I'll get around to seeing it over the holidays at some point.