[jjbrr]

<inappropriate curling innuendo>

[Winstonm]

 jjbrr, on 2013-December-15, 16:36, said:

Spoiler

curling in sochi

I've had curling with pene but never in sochi.

[ggwhiz]

 y66, on 2013-December-14, 03:25, said:

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Happy birthday comrade!

Belated happy birthday and this one brought back memories.

I did a stint with an NGO is South Africa in 97 and heard 2 of the kids say blah blah "comrade" turned around laughing cause I thought it was funny only to find out they were serious.

Meanwhile back off topic the mantra for curling and a Benjamin Button life are the same. Hurry, hurry HARD!

[mike777]

Happy B-day Ken!

Off topic but I wonder if any of our European forum members ever ate at Noma in Copenhagen?

[Aberlour10]

 mike777, on 2013-December-21, 20:40, said:

Off topic {fixing it] but I wonder if any of our European forum members ever ate at Noma in Copenhagen?

I did not.

What is the secret behind being World's No1?

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at Noma, in Copenhagen, where chef René Redzepi pursues a doctrine of "if it ain't Nordic, I ain't cooking it."

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Nothing goes on the menu unless it comes from the Nordic region: Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Isles) and Finland

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That means a lot of basics that your bog standard Michelin-starred chefs fall back on - olive oil and olives, garlic and tomatoes and various herbs – are completely out of the equation

2 Michelin stars without using tomatoes? I think, the Finnish tomatoes are the answer to my opening question.

[jjbrr]

I watch very little TV, but I try not to miss anything with Anthony Bourdain in it. I'm a big fan of his CNN show, and the NOMA episode was pretty good, as was, of course, the El Bulli episode when he was still on the Travel Channel.

[mike777]

off topic but a serious question.

When a company makes a great building spending millions/billions. Does that mark the high water mark of a company?


I am from Chicago and I think of sears tower which in 71-73 marks it decent into hell.

GM =building
ATT building
Chrysler building
Wachovia building
WOOLWORTH( BEST SKYSCRAPER EVER?)
CONTINENTAL BANK..HUGE BANK IN CHI TOWN...BUST...
FIRST NAT BANK IN CHICAGO...YES NO LONGER EXISTS BUT GREAT BUILDING...
BANK OF AMERICA IN SF....NO.....

ETC


I UNDERSTAND APPLE IS BUILDING A BILLION DOLLAR PALACE?

iS AMAZON?

[paulg]

 mike777, on 2013-December-29, 02:31, said:

off topic but a serious question.

When a company makes a great building spending millions/billions. Does that mark the high water mark of a company?

I feel that most people in IT would be a lot richer if they'd sold their stock options when the company decided to have its own, purpose-built, new headquarters rather than wait for the building to be completed. I certainly would.

[Aberlour10]

 Winstonm, on 2010-January-05, 17:52, said:

Seems obvious - this thread is about everything under the sun that another thread is not. Bon Appetit!

Celebrating already the 4th birthday today>>>

[Winstonm]

Whoopee!

[kenberg]

This morning the temperature is 0 degrees F, and they supply a wind chill correction to -22. In the summer, when the temperture is 80, they supply a humiidty correction to get it up to 90 or so. Hey! This definitely is not Intelligent Design. In the winter we need a correction upward, in the summer we need a correction downward. Dear Designer, please correct this error.

[Winstonm]

 kenberg, on 2014-January-07, 08:01, said:

This morning the temperature is 0 degrees F, and they supply a wind chill correction to -22. In the summer, when the temperture is 80, they supply a humiidty correction to get it up to 90 or so. Hey! This definitely is not Intelligent Design. In the winter we need a correction upward, in the summer we need a correction downward. Dear Designer, please correct this error.

Poof, you're a chipmunk!

[Aberlour10]

In a tiny corner of western Poland, in Gryfino (not far from Szczecin) a forest of about 400 pine trees grow with a 90 degree bend at the base of their trunks – all bent northward and aprox 80 y old.. How did they get so....what is your conspiracy theory???

[blackshoe]

Something happened due south of there 30 years ago. About 1933. Don't know what.

[y66]

Does the Norwegian men's curling team train in Gryfino?

[Winstonm]

 y66, on 2014-January-22, 09:20, said:

Does the Norwegian men's curling team train in Gryfino?

Curling? I thought they all bought the same "Doppler Effect" Halloween costume.

[y66]

"Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

Spoiler

You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there’s a dog. -- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (1996)

[ggwhiz]

My link

[Thiros]

 y66, on 2014-January-23, 08:38, said:

"Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

Spoiler

You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog. -- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (1996)

Don't forget a masochist, or for that matter, an ascetic....

[mike777]

 Thiros, on 2014-January-28, 01:23, said:

Don't forget a masochist, or for that matter, an ascetic....

yes I think most of not all forget where a masochist or an ascetic derive from