Noble Dust

By the way, we already have three entries (impressive!), so it's far too late for everyone to begin from the same prompt. But if a few of you decide t...

:up: I like the idea of using someone else's character as a starting point.

I'm not sure what this has to do with vice other than your clear addiction to scholarly Shoutbox research. Truly a hard habit to kick. And I've never ...

The Snow Queen - Joan D. Vinge I wouldn't normally grab a fantasy title blind, but my brother (an unpublished fantasy/sci-fi author with an agent) not...

I'm loath to accept compliments about my smoking. I chalk it up to smoking American Spirits, which some consider to be a minimum of two cigarettes in ...

Congrats. I haven't really tried, but part of that is the excuse I give to myself that I'm a "light" smoker; about 2-4 a day. It's long been an after-...

Off the top of my head, Baden won the first, Jamal won the second, Tobias won the third, and Hypericin won the fourth. I think that's right. I reckon ...

Looking forward to it, y'all. Big props to those resolving to do their best to fill @"Amity"'s shoes. I don't want to be too optimistic, but I'm antic...

Time to put the bourbon back in the cabinet and call it a night, Sancho.

I'm impressed by how quickly you pulled that out of your ass.

I'm glad you asked. You can watch the noodles being made starting around the 17:32 mark here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hbmVX47DOM&list=PLD56YY...

Lunch today was from a staple in Manhattan's Chinatown called Tasty Hand Pulled Noodles. Yes, that's the name of the restaurant. The noodles were pret...

the "this" part

Did you get permission to express that?

:clap:

Au contraire, the secret to the best cranberry sauce is to blorp it out of the can and slice it up.

Indeed I did top the mush with fried onions. The rutabaga was tolerated by all, but resisted by most on seconds.

Your Midwest is showing. This year my brother made rutabaga fries in an air fryer. I dutifully swallowed three. Everyone loved the green bean casserol...

Happy T-Give, kids.

Oh trust me, brother, I'm just getting started. Game on.

Thank you sir. I do enjoy eating with chopsticks, in part because I have a bad habit of eating two quickly, and the use of chopsticks slows me down a ...

Stop droning on and post a picture of your lunch for God's sake. The world is made up of more than spite and grievance. This is the shoutbox.

Dinner: Pad Prik Khing, i.e. Dry Thai Red Curry (no coconut milk). As I've said, it's all about the right ingredients and then it's the easiest thing ...

I'm yer ideal running mate cause we're totes oppo. Can make tiktoks where we fight and everyone will love us cause we're work husbands. I want all the...

Salt is a big deal, but I was merely pointing out that all food should be seasoned, so there's no need to mention it. I'm also trying to work more emo...

When did I ever cyberbully you about your food, Hani-man?

Your attempt at revenge is sadly misplaced, Hani-boy.

Ah, thank you. Gentlemen, I give you Outlander's presentation of my humble tuna melt. And first photographic evidence of my corporeal existence.

Gentlemen, I give you the humble tuna melt: <a href="https://ibb.co/ZVr1xNM"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/G0D3RF5/IMG-1084.jpg" alt="IMG-1084" border="0...

Pork chops with salt are so much better than without. Pro move. Wow. :clap:

You truly are strenuously cool and aloof. :gasp:

For sure, Javi. All good points. I just feel the need to mention that Jamal and Hanover or whatever his name is and I are just banging on about some d...

How does one wait for someone else to decide if they have the time when one don't know if one has the time?

I may post the explanation if I find the time; otherwise I can wait for you to google it.

I think "Official and used in laboratories" vs. "Slang and used by most of us" should be standard usage in the shoutbox when it comes to convention. I...

Fred, right? That bitch.

What were we fighting about again? I don't remember.

All of this expended energy on this issue was unnecessary, as I was using the phrase in a cheeky (as you...Brits? would say) fashion. Sometimes I like...

It's all Greek to me. My solution is to avoid sweets all together; not for health reasons, but because I'm one of those annoying people that doesn't h...

Clearly I was referencing the blue color.

Sir, Blue syrup that doesn't even pretend to have a flavoring is worse than the fake "blue raspberry" flavor one sometimes encounters. The Cap'n didn'...

Here I was, all ready to chum it up with you and prove that I'm a man of the people by telling you that I grew up on Log Cabin, but sometimes we'd get...

Are you a real maple syrup hipster, or a salt-of-the-earth Aunt Jemima/Log Cabin man?

Explain, por favor.

Now I'm imaging a marinated potato being essentially a next level mashed potato. This could be genius. I'll grant you the copyright.

Not true; we can marinate them. I go back and forth on whether I think potatoes are just fine as they are. Some days I love them; other days, I find t...

Might they get a bit sludgy?

Cool pointers, but I don't understand the obsession with "soft scrambled" eggs. I don't want well done scrambled eggs, but they don't need to be water...

I've never heard of him. I only listened to a few seconds, as this style of modern straight jazz that ECM does is not my thing, but they sound good. T...

My take is that dental offices should start selling all sorts of shit. It would make the visit less stressful. Distract them with capitalism, I say.