Well if I said how I really feel I'd sound all stalky and mushy. ;)

Running triggers certain impulses in predators and that's all I need to know.

I can live in hope....

I'm sitting here reading a story and simultaneously watching tv, as I often do.

I'm reading a short story which features a stray dog named Katie. When they name her that, I'm thinking, that's dumb, what kind of a dog name is "katie?"

and --

in the tv show I'm watching - THERE'S A STRAY DOG NAMED KATIE!

I'm creeped out.

how's this for a segue? I'm watching Criminal Minds; a show where they chase killers who are referred to as "unsubs" i.e., unknown suspects. And what commercial comes on? A KFC ad.

"an unsub frame of mind."

signs, signs, everywhere I see signs

Was the movie based upon the book?

was the tv show based on the story? nope; no connection

How do you slice a loaf of bread without squishing it?
I am a spoilt child of the '70s. 1972 if you have to know (how rude!)
Growing up we had a bread slicer. I say bread, it was manual and could be adjusted for ham or beef or fingers or whatever was your bag.

Apparently, the 'rents tried to get a replacement a couple of years ago, but the new one they got was rubbish and ended up in the charity shop.

The only bread I grew up slicing (kiddies didn't use the bread slicer!) was Italian bread. And that has a crust so thick it's like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

I learned how to slice cheese. I learned how to butter fresh bread with real, cold butter (warm the butter up TBH) and to spread crackers without them cracking. BUT. Deli bread I buy, I always have to squash the air out of it to slice it. Squeeze and saw. Never the same once I've got at it.

Is this a lost art? Mum mourns the lost art of her parents' generation - carving a chicken so it lasts all week. Have my generation lost yet another art?

It's all in the knife and the pressure. Working at the Country Club, we hand sliced the bread we took out with the salads. Chef loved me because I didn't squish it half to death when slicing. Once you get that first cut, the knife does all the work.

Sharp cerrated bread knife, I highly recommend a Wustof or a Henckels. PRoper tool for the job and all that. If your knife is dull . . . just go Italian and rip a hunk off.

302 posts before Dec 31, 2009.

...just felt like saying that.




Gee... I feel like a Cellar veteran. :)

Thinkpad sounds like an artificially intelligent sanitary towel. Probably made in Tampa.

But what would a sanitary pad with AI be thinking?

Get me outta here?

@ Sundae: needs to be a sharp serrated knife (as has been mentioned). The trick is to make the first cut and then 'saw' quite fast but without putting on too much pressure.

Hey, I just saw your sig line, Sundae. :)

Now, what it T E H?

Use a can opener to open those bedamned clamshell packaged things

You must mean one of these?

well, no. the kind with the wheel you turn.

http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/how-t...-opener-037769

Does eating too much salmon cause salmonella?

No shit, does that really work? Have you tried it?

no, but you can be sure I will next time. Those things are evil.

Yes they are, you'd be safer tying a knot in the cat's tail, than opening one of those diabolical clamshells.

I saw this in Real Simple magazine.

so it must be true, eh?

I use my aviation snips to open clamshell packages. Works extremely well.

Well, I typically use scissors, but honestly, I think the can opener would would work better, because you don't have to continuously reposition it, exposing one's hands to the edges.

chainsaw is the way to go. Or give it to a 2-year-old. they can open anything they shouldn't be able to without hurting themselves

Bet those bad boys would work in a pinch at a bris.

Here's an old school Eurpoean circumcision knife from 1770s...
http://cdn.edu-search.com/uploads/circumcisionknife.jpg

All you internet savvy Science Fiction fans, what is the deal with Cthulhu, and why do I stumble across pictures of him all over the internet? I never read Lovecraft, so can any of you tell me why a character from a story written almost a century ago is a recurring internet meme? Am I missing a joke or something?

No answer, but i can give you a recipe if that helps.... I'm thinking crispy fried with lemon

cool name and creepy writer--what's not to like?

and; OUCH at the bris knife!

BTW, I tried the can opener thing--worked like a charm!

Wouldn't it have been awesome if Cancer had just happened to be in the WTC in 9/11?

Cthulu is FSM's cousin.

1.) It's a fun name to say, with bonus ironic-hipster points for sounding like a gothy foreign language.
2.) The octopus mouth is oddly entrancing?

I dunno man, Cthulhu is just funny.

The similarities with FSM are obvious, and I figured it was just some sort of hipster meme. But it just seems so bizarre. I never heard of Cthulu until maybe 5 years ago when I started seeing him everywhere. It's just strange that an obscure character from so long ago was revived. I'm curious what the catalyst was. I suppose you could make the same observation with any meme. I'm not even sure Cthulhu rises to the level of a meme.

Oh, I'd heard of Cthulhu before then. He was a funny joke for my group of friends at least as far back as high school (1997ish.) Maybe it's less that the meme itself came out of nowhere, and more that the group of people who had already attached to it came of age and started posting crap on the internet. :)

So I guess just because I hadn't heard of Cthulhu doesn't mean the character was obscure.

Generations re-discover Lovecraft and think he's cool; this generation just happens to be the Internet one.

Well, but it's different, because you have to factor in the irony. Anne Rice is having a little mini-popularity-boost, because of Twilight, all of which is popular with kids who really think vampires are cool and are re-discovering all of it. Cthulhu, on the other hand, is popular with people who think it's funny to fill their baby's mouth with spaghetti and photoshop the eyes to make him look like Cthulhu, not people who are genuinely snuggling up with Lovecraft books and appreciating them.

Cthulu was big with the Role-playing community beest hung around with 20 years ago iirc

I think we found our answer. It was D&D. That explains it all. I'm surprised I wasn't aware of it then.

check for traps, dude.

Looks more like a mind flayer to me.

LJ to the post-whore thread, stat!

:thumb: I love it.

I love Cthulu. I like how it sounds. I am a huge Lovecraft fan. I got there partly via the late 80s/early 90s schlock horror films made by the Blue Moon studios (stuff like Reanimator and From Beyond most of which were set in the fictional town of Arkham and often within the hallowed halls of Miskatonic University) and partly from a very old copy of short stories that was in my family's bookcase when i was little. As an insomniac kid I used to be up and about at 2 or 3 am, when the rest of the house was sleeping, stalking the bookshelves and reading Lovecraft or Poe.

I still have a penchant for occasional readings of scary/odd shit during the early hours. It's when ghost stories really should be read. When the rest of the world is sleeping.

How do you pronounce it? (No, not 'it', Cthuluhuhth or whatever it is?)

We need UT's embedded audio file player for this one.

In re: stupid people:

1) just got this question on one of my bodymod forums:

I mean, come on--did she not graduate from fourth grade? I know fractions can be confusing, but surely she knows how to use a ruler? (ETA: she's a 24-yo college student)

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2) At the grocery store, the person ahead of me was being all know-it-all and tried to tell the checker (a 30-something woman) a bit of food history, saying that the Chinese invented catsup. After he left, I said, they may have had a word for a sauce that sounded like our word, "catsup," but it sure wasn't any tomato sauce, since tomatoes are a New World food. Her response? What's the New World? I'm like, the Americas, you know -- Columbus sailed the ocean blue? Blank stare.

I hate that shit. I would have slapped both of you.

I get ya.

How did you do that?

do what? get so pissed off I needed to play that song?

I'm telling you, I probably haven't needed to hear that since Ilanded in the US 9 years ago. But I am fucking pissed off with a whole shitload of stuff right now.

I used to play it when i was a teenager and my dad was being more of an asshole than usual.

I was just taking this thread literally, sorry I was just posting and not about anyone or anything in particular. I am on dial up too I cannot play vids .. :( MLIA

dial up? DIAL UP? Is still possible? wow!

no stinking cable companies..... /pirates