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The Library => Haley Center Basement => Topic started by: Snaggletiger on May 24, 2010, 04:30:40 PM
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What's the plan for everybody's Memorial Day. Traditional trip to Lake Eufaula to the family's cabin. Just about everyone in that part of the lake (The slew...slough...sluuuueee) is from Dothan and it's a certain everyone will be there. Already made plans for a massive low-country-boil. Gettin the SeaDoo serviced right now and primed up to kick ass on the lake. My low-country-boil recipe.
Cajun sausage
Corn on da' cobb
New potatoes
Jumbo skrimps
Snowcrab legs (Just a little extra sumthin' sumthin')
Cook em' together with a couple of bags of Zattarain's crab boil and a lot of fresh squeezed lemon juice. Dump it all on the table and pop the top on several Landsharks. Get the ketchup and cocktail sauce ready and eat til' you bust.
You?
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What's the plan for everybody's Memorial Day. Traditional trip to Lake Eufaula to the family's cabin. Just about everyone in that part of the lake (The slew...slough...sluuuueee) is from Dothan and it's a certain everyone will be there. Already made plans for a massive low-country-boil. Gettin the SeaDoo serviced right now and primed up to kick ass on the lake. My low-country-boil recipe.
Cajun sausage
Corn on da' cobb
New potatoes
Jumbo skrimps
Snowcrab legs (Just a little extra sumthin' sumthin')
Cook em' together with a couple of bags of Zattarain's crab boil and a lot of fresh squeezed lemon juice. Dump it all on the table and pop the top on several Landsharks. Get the ketchup and cocktail sauce ready and eat til' you bust.
You?
I'm pretty sure if you drink Landshark you are gay.
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What's the plan for everybody's Memorial Day. Traditional trip to Lake Eufaula to the family's cabin. Just about everyone in that part of the lake (The slew...slough...sluuuueee) is from Dothan and it's a certain everyone will be there. Already made plans for a massive low-country-boil. Gettin the SeaDoo serviced right now and primed up to kick ass on the lake. My low-country-boil recipe.
Cajun sausage
Corn on da' cobb
New potatoes
Jumbo skrimps
Snowcrab legs (Just a little extra sumthin' sumthin')
Cook em' together with a couple of bags of Zattarain's crab boil and a lot of fresh squeezed lemon juice. Dump it all on the table and pop the top on several Landsharks. Get the ketchup and cocktail sauce ready and eat til' you bust.
You?
I'm sorry, did you say kechup?
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This past weekend a buddy of mine did his annual crawfish boil out on the sandbar. People were suckin heads and eatin tails and the mudbugs weren't bad either. We took the boat over, only problem was he picked the wrong weekend with the tides, the water was messin with the fun way to early.
This weekend we are going up to a condo my brother has, on the inlet in Ft. Pierce, planning on boating, drinking and eating. Pretty much the average weekend....we just get another day of it. So I got that going for me.....
...which is nice.
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We have a neighborhood cookout. Our BBQ team cooks all the meats and the womenz make the sides. We start cooking about 4 that morning, drinking starts at 7 am and we cook and drink all day.
Menu:
Briskets
Boston Butts
Drunk Chickens
Spares and Baby Backs
Fatties
Atomic Buffalo Turds
Potato Salad
Baked Beans
Slaw
Chips
Cheese Stuffed Banana Peppers Wrapped in Bacon
Pasta Salad
Makers Mark
Eagle Rare
Don Julio
:)
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I'm pretty sure if you drink Landshark you are gay.
So what if I'm gay...I mean..so what if I drink Landsharks.
Bitch
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What's the plan for everybody's Memorial Day. Traditional trip to Lake Eufaula to the family's cabin. Just about everyone in that part of the lake (The slew...slough...sluuuueee) is from Dothan and it's a certain everyone will be there. Already made plans for a massive low-country-boil. Gettin the SeaDoo serviced right now and primed up to kick ass on the lake. My low-country-boil recipe.
Cajun sausage
Corn on da' cobb
New potatoes
Jumbo skrimps
Snowcrab legs (Just a little extra sumthin' sumthin')
Cook em' together with a couple of bags of Zattarain's crab boil and a lot of fresh squeezed lemon juice. Dump it all on the table and pop the top on several Landsharks. Get the ketchup and cocktail sauce ready and eat til' you bust.
You?
For your boil, might I also sugest throwing in some mushrooms and a few artichokes. You would be surprised how spiced up both of those little side dishes get from Da Boil. Those are always very popular at our house.
We are going to a block party - we bring sides or dessert and others cook the meat. Bouncers and water sprinklers for the kids. Mucho booze for the adults. Sounds about right.
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We have a neighborhood cookout. Our BBQ team cooks all the meats and the womenz make the sides. We start cooking about 4 that morning, drinking starts at 7 am and we cook and drink all day.
Menu:
Briskets
Boston Butts
Drunk Chickens
Spares and Baby Backs
Fatties
Atomic Buffalo Turds
Potato Salad
Baked Beans
Slaw
Chips
Cheese Stuffed Banana Peppers Wrapped in Bacon
Pasta Salad
Makers Mark
Eagle Rare
Don Julio
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That's what I'm talking about. ABTs are kickin'. How do you do your fatties?
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while you guys are sucking head, doing fatties, and other ghey summer activities...i'm looking to hit the ski slopes.
click here for ski info (http://www.timberlinelodge.com/conditions/)
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I plan on collecting a shit ton of adult beverages to be consumed at a later date.
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I have to WORK. :silence:
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That's what I'm talking about. ABTs are kickin'. How do you do your fatties?
Fatties: The finest green I can find.....no really, 2lbs of deans hot sausage, jalepeno's, red and green bells, green onions, and pepper jack cheese. All wrapped in bacon of course. I am thinking about doing some armadillo eggs as well.
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I plan on collecting a shit ton of adult beverages to be consumed at a later date.
Some things never make it to the evidence locker, eh?
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I will be in Rome getting ready to leave for Venice.
Suc it Trebek.
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You're going at a good time. The euro is in a tail spin.
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You're going at a good time. The euro is in a tail spin.
Yea. Dumb assed luck but I'll take it. The cost of this trip has significantly dropped over the last month.
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What's the plan for everybody's Memorial Day. Traditional trip to Lake Eufaula to the family's cabin. Just about everyone in that part of the lake (The slew...slough...sluuuueee) is from Dothan and it's a certain everyone will be there. Already made plans for a massive low-country-boil. Gettin the SeaDoo serviced right now and primed up to kick ass on the lake. My low-country-boil recipe.
Cajun sausage
Corn on da' cobb
New potatoes
Jumbo skrimps
Snowcrab legs (Just a little extra sumthin' sumthin')
Cook em' together with a couple of bags of Zattarain's crab boil and a lot of fresh squeezed lemon juice. Dump it all on the table and pop the top on several Landsharks. Get the ketchup and cocktail sauce ready and eat til' you bust.
You?
You're from Dothan? We'll have to chat about this. My family beez from around that area.
I myself am heading up to North Carolina for some R&R in the Smokies. Will pretty much be in the entire Western half of the state West of Asheville. Thought about heading over to Charlotte for the Coca Cola 600 Sunday night but I really don't wanna drive 3 hours back at midnight after its over. Gonna def hit Standing Indian Mountain in Franklin and a couple of other 5K+ feet high points (Clingman's Dome).
Also gonna stop by Tallulah Gorge, GA (near the Ga/NC/SC borders) on the way. Coincidentally this is where Deliverance was filmed. And I swear if I see Ned Beatty coming out of the woods, I'm running like a mofo.
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Ole Ned may bend over for ya and drop dem panties.
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Ole Ned may bend over for ya and drop dem panties.
Powerful scene...And I really wish I had never seen it. Old Ned in his tightee whitties and such...
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I will be returning to Las Vegas Sunday and took off Tuesday & Wednesday as well. For a bachelor party this time.
I will be trying to get my Lurking Tiger on, but I'll most likely end up losing my ass again.
By the way, Mark, if you care to join in the festivities and just so happen to want to be staying in a pimp ass penthouse suite again and want us to party with you, we'd be obliged.
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This past weekend a buddy of mine did his annual crawfish boil out on the sandbar. People were suckin heads and eatin tails and the mudbugs weren't bad either. We took the boat over, only problem was he picked the wrong weekend with the tides, the water was messin with the fun way to early.
This weekend we are going up to a condo my brother has, on the inlet in Ft. Pierce, planning on boating, drinking and eating. Pretty much the average weekend....we just get another day of it. So I got that going for me.....
...which is nice.
Up to Ft. Pierce? Where are you at? (I'm in Hollywood) Didn't think anyone else was this far south.
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Up to Ft. Pierce? Where are you at? (I'm in Hollywood) Didn't think anyone else was this far south.
West Palm
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West Palm
Watch it Wally. He's all high assed.
I actually tried to get the Godfather to come down and meet us when the Jersey State Champ and I were down playing golf a couple years ago but his vagina hurt.
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Watch it Wally. He's all high assed.
I actually tried to get the Godfather to come down and meet us when the Jersey State Champ and I were down playing golf a couple years ago but his vagina hurt.
Does he have a pool and a pond? A pond would be good for me.
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He has good bourbon and water access.
His woman makes good samiches.
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Yea. Dumb assed luck but I'll take it.
I'd rather be lucky than good.
I will be returning to Las Vegas Sunday and took off Tuesday & Wednesday as well. For a bachelor party this time.
I will be trying to get my Lurking Tiger on, but I'll most likely end up losing my ass again.
By the way, Mark, if you care to join in the festivities and just so happen to want to be staying in a pimp ass penthouse suite again and want us to party with you, we'd be obliged.
Two things: 1) You're a masochist; and B) It is sooooo choice. If you have the means to party with LT in a casino, I highly recommend it.....
I'm pretty sure if you drink Landshark you are gay.
Uh...yeah. That's the first warning sign. Followed closely by a fierce love of John Mayer.
I will be in Rome getting ready to leave for Venice.
Suc it Trebek.
Yeah, but what have the Romans ever done for us?
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Uh...yeah. That's the first warning sign. Followed closely by a fierce love of John Mayer.
And, Dave Matthews...
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And, Dave Matthews...
The dreaded duo-infection. Tragic.
I forgot to answer the original question. I'm in NWFL. Wrecking hos.
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Yeah, but what have the Romans ever done for us?
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"The Aqueduct?"
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"The Aqueduct?"
Oh yeah well sure, there's the aqueduct. But what else have the Romans ever done for us?
And "Dave" makes me want to kick little ducklings.
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Oh yeah well sure, there's the aqueduct. But what else have the Romans ever done for us?
"The Roads?"
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"The Roads?"
When are you leaving?
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When are you leaving?
Friday afternoon.
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Friday afternoon.
I don't want to hear of any Italians touching your face.
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I don't want to hear of any Italians touching your face.
I am going to rub loaves of bread on it and distribute them to the masses.
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I am going to rub loaves of bread on it and distribute them to the masses.
I didn't realize you had a stop over in Jerusalem.
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Friday afternoon.
We need you. Hell, I need you. I'm a mess without you. I miss you so damn much. I miss being with you, I miss being near you. I miss your laugh. I miss your scent; I miss your musk. When this all gets sorted out, I think you and me should get an apartment together.
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I didn't realize you had a stop over in Jerusalem.
Look, I don't think it should be a sin, just for saying "Jehovah".
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We need you. Hell, I need you. I'm a mess without you. I miss you so damn much. I miss being with you, I miss being near you. I miss your laugh. I miss your scent; I miss your musk. When this all gets sorted out, I think you and me should get an apartment together.
Do you really love the lamp, or are you just saying it because you saw it?
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Look, I don't think it should be a sin, just for saying "Jehovah".
You're only making it worse for yourself!
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Do you really love the lamp, or are you just saying it because you saw it?
I ate your chocolate squirrel
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"The Roads?"
Roades, Roods.
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Look, all I said was that Halibut was good enough for Jehovah.
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Look, all I said was that Halibut was good enough for Jehovah.
You're only making it worse for yourself!
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Roades, Roods.
Mommy, Mommy the hippo's getting too close to the car.
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Mommy, Mommy the hippo's getting too close to the car.
You know, a lot of people go to college for seven years.
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You know, a lot of people go to college for seven years.
Yeah. They're called doctors.
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You're only making it worse for yourself!
Worse? How could it be worse? Jehovah..Jehovah..Jehovah.
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You're only making it worse for yourself!
You're only making it worse for yourself!
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Aaaaarre there any women in the crowd today?
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Aaaaarre there any women in the crowd today?
[high pitched] NO!!NO!!NO!!... [lower pitch] uh...er...umm Nope.
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No one is to throw a stone until I blow this whistle ... even if they say "Jehovah".
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Friday afternoon.
Remember, take the train from the airport to Termini station. It's a non-stop job and will save you a metric shit ton of folding money as compared to taking a taxi or bus. It's a 30 minute ride, they run every 15-20 minutes, and the ticket counter is right there at the stop inside the airport terminal. Ask one of the wops outside baggage claim, "Preggo, dove (doo-veh) la tren a stazzione termini." They'll think you're all international and shit.
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Remember, take the train from the airport to Termini station. It's a non-stop job and will save you a metric shit ton of folding money as compared to taking a taxi or bus. It's a 30 minute ride, they run every 15-20 minutes, and the ticket counter is right there at the stop inside the airport terminal. Ask one of the wops outside baggage claim, "Preggo, dove (doo-veh) la tren a stazzione termini." They'll think you're all international and shit.
You mean walking onto the concourse and shouting at all the dago's that I'll call Germany if they do not cooperate will not work?
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Tell them they need another Mussolini. Hewas the last person that was able to get them to do shit.
Have fun!
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ok. made it to Austria a few hours ago. Here is the recap thus far......
Prague - B - needed more than eight hours but easily could work it's way up higher. Depressed economies will get people to do all sorts of shit for money.
Rome - B - great food, great sites. Less than impressed with the women.
Venice - C - Branson, MO with 800 more years of history and boats. Women were hotter and more friendly.
Thinking now that were are in Austria things are going to start looking up overall. Here in Wien till Friday then off to Salzburg.
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Yeah, but what have the Romans ever done for us?
Say friend, did you know that the US Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches.
That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used?
Because that's the way they built them in England, and the US railroads were built by English expatriates.
I see, but why did the English build them like that?
Because the first railway lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
Well, why did they use that gauge in England?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Okay! Why did their wagons use that odd wheel spacing?
Because, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads. Because that's the spacing of the old wheel ruts.
So who built these old rutted roads?
The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The Roman roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts?
The original ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by the wheels of Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for or by Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
Thus, we have the answer to the original question. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot.
And the motto of the story is Specifications and bureaucracies live forever.
So, the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be exactly right. Because the Imperial Roman chariots were made to be just wide enough to accommodate the back-ends of two war-horses.
So, just what does this have to do with the exploration of space?
Well, there's an interesting extension of the story about railroad gauge and horses' behinds. When we see a Space Shuttle sitting on the launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are the solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at a factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site.
The railroad from the factory runs through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than a railroad track, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So a major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was originally determined by the width of a horse's ass.
AS for the original topic of this thread:
Spent the weekend in Gulf Shores out upon the Fort Morgan Peninsula.......cooked a lot of good food.....saw pelicans, boats, the Coast Guard, the National Guard, was shot at by a Civil War cannon, raced hermit crabs, saw a flounder and a red, walked on sand bar, trimmed the palm trees, and saw nary a sign of oil.......fraid that won't last. Will be back for the Fourth and see how it is then.
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Say friend, did you know that the US Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches.
That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used?
Because that's the way they built them in England, and the US railroads were built by English expatriates.
I see, but why did the English build them like that?
Because the first railway lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
Well, why did they use that gauge in England?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Okay! Why did their wagons use that odd wheel spacing?
Because, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads. Because that's the spacing of the old wheel ruts.
So who built these old rutted roads?
The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The Roman roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts?
The original ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by the wheels of Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for or by Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
Thus, we have the answer to the original question. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot.
And the motto of the story is Specifications and bureaucracies live forever.
So, the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be exactly right. Because the Imperial Roman chariots were made to be just wide enough to accommodate the back-ends of two war-horses.
So, just what does this have to do with the exploration of space?
Well, there's an interesting extension of the story about railroad gauge and horses' behinds. When we see a Space Shuttle sitting on the launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are the solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at a factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site.
The railroad from the factory runs through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than a railroad track, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So a major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was originally determined by the width of a horse's ass.
AS for the original topic of this thread:
Spent the weekend in Gulf Shores out upon the Fort Morgan Peninsula.......cooked a lot of good food.....saw pelicans, boats, the Coast Guard, the National Guard, was shot at by a Civil War cannon, raced hermit crabs, saw a flounder and a red, walked on sand bar, trimmed the palm trees, and saw nary a sign of oil.......fraid that won't last. Will be back for the Fourth and see how it is then.
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Quite verbose.
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Quite verbose.
It is "hump day".........I am in between "humps" and being verbose is how I relax and recharge.
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Rome - B - great food, great sites. Less than impressed with the women.
Venice - C - Branson, MO with 800 more years of history and boats.
Thinking now that were are in Austria things are going to start looking up overall.
Italian chicks are the flabbiest skinny wimmen in the world.
Venice smelled like dirty dishwater to me.
France is going to be awesome.
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Italian chicks are the flabbiest skinny wimmen in the world.
Venice smelled like dirty dishwater to me.
France is going to be awesome.
Fuck the French. I am moving to Wien. Where else can you go to a Beethoven concert then to a show put on by the local ladies. Both I might add were done by professionals in my humble opinion.
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Fuck the French. I am moving to Wien. Where else can you go to a Beethoven concert then to a show put on by the local ladies. Both I might add were done by professionals in my humble opinion.
Don't forget to see a donkey show..wait..