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I guess we’ll have to take ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ out of the Lexicon now, because once Jake Tapper starts using it any phrase is officially Lame & Worn Out.
(H/T Wonkette)

Also (thank you Bad Horse’s Filly) here is the Thursday Night Menu – Checkered Tablecloth Edition, slightly late, because Monday holidays screw around with everyone’s calendar timing:

Hope you feel like Italian. Off to enjoy the beautiful weather. On the board tonight:

Chicken Parmesan
Garlic Bread
Italian Mushroom Confetti
Sherbet or (my favorite) Gelato

Click on the bold for the recipes and a shopping list. Mangia!

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63Comments

  1. 1.

    Mark S.

    That . . . last . . . thread . . . was . . . crazy . . .

    I made this for dinner but substituted turkey for pork and rice for noodles.

  5. 5.

    JGabriel

    Hey, Anne, just a hint on the tags: if you put the bold tags outside of the link tags, it’ll show up in bolded blue instead of bolded black.

    At least that’s how it works in the comments.

    Damned if I know why.

    .

  7. 7.

    Elizabelle

    I missed 99% of the Balloon Boy saga, but talk about cable falling for something bright and shiny. (Although it was horrifying to think of a small boy falling from the balloon.)

    Did anyone post Andy Borowitz on the subject?

    Millions of Americans Waste Entire Fucking Afternoon

    Balloon Boy to America: Punk’d!

    http://www.borowitzreport.com/

  8. 8.

    jeffreyw

    When I was a wee lad there was a BBQ joint downtown on the corner of main street, named Elsie’s, and they had a nice little treat for the little boys in all of us, called a Curly Dog. Yum! I made some the other day outta nostalgia.

  9. 9.

    jeffreyw

    @Elizabelle:

    I watched a bit of it this afternoon on CNN, but Wolfie got to me and I muted the damn tv thing, went about the important business of reading blogs n shit. I looked up later and they were still goin on and on about the balloon boy and I was thinking 12 Monkeys like some other fellow hinted at in a previous thread.

  11. 11.

    Yutsano

    @jeffreyw: Dude if that’s the three day version I might have to reconsider my coq au vin aversion. Duck a l’orange, however, I could eat forever.

  12. 12.

    Cain

    Saturday is Diwali,I hope you plan on making some indian food, bitches! (that’s what you say in Diwali.. really! “Hope you m ake some indian food, bitches”)

    cain

  13. 13.

    jeffreyw

    @Mark S.:

    Not your classic Julia Child approved recipe, but I’ll give ya a rough idea:

    Fry some bacon in a good sized saute pan, take the bacon out, brown some chicken parts in the grease with some onions and garlic, then deglaze with some red wine.

    Throw in some carrots and mushrooms and more onions and the bacon bits and it’ll look something like this.

    Cover and simmer for a while, it’ll soon be lookin so.

    You might want ta thicken it with some corn starch, or just let it simmer uncovered until it looks right. Serve over the rice, I like the wild/long grain mix.

  16. 16.

    Yutsano

    Back (slightly) on topic, tomorrow’s menu will be eggplant parmigana and possibly spaghetti with pesto or Alfredo (I haven’t decided which yet, I may just hedge and do both since pesto freezes well and I’ve been kinda wanting some before basil gets too pricey) and regardless of price asparagus.

  17. 17.

    jeffreyw

    Dammit, I forgot, the coq au vin recipe needs some beef broth in there with everything else, sorry about that, chief.

  18. 18.

    JenJen

    Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for noticing the Jake Tapper “WTF” thing. Didn’t read the Wonkette post, but it bugs the crap out of me whenever Tapper tweets “that is so foxtrot lame” or something of that sort. He’s sucking all the fun out of it, dammit.

  19. 19.

    freelancer (itouch)

    I read through most of the last thread. Fuck that! This troll michael gass is either a spoof or he was a winger who was dishonorably discharged, and wanted to be a cop and failed the background check. From someone from a job history that dealt with law enforcment on a weekly basis, the guy doesn’t know wtf he’s talking about.

  22. 22.

    MelodyMaker

    I’m appalled that you blog commenters aren’t more weepy about the chicken. I am apalled, and I know better because I’ve seen chickens. Thank god I worked in the pizza biz before chicken was a a pizza ingredient. But, AFAIK, tomatoes can go DIAF. Ground up and under cheese in a 500 F oven. fukers

  24. 24.

    MelodyMaker

    Koncerned, yeah. Meant AFAIC.
    Anyway, single cooks should check out the electric roasters. I’m loving mine since it got cold here in MN. Cocooning, maybe.

  26. 26.

    2th&nayle

    @jeffreyw: Excuse me, but ahh… damn the coq au vin! Anybody can cook a yard bird! (jk) That ‘Curly Dog’ looks pretty damn scrumptious to me. Any special secrets to that?

  28. 28.

    Yutsano

    @2th&nayle: Just looking at it, it’s all in the slaw (and a pretty fine looking one at that!) and probably a very decent hot dog. But mostly the slaw, which I would eat by the bucket all on its lonesome.

  29. 29.

    freelancer

    @Yutsano:

    I think, at this point, to be recognized as a voice of reason, and not a concern troll/spoof on this site, you have to have two things going for you:

    1)pseudonym recognition

    2)you can’t sound batshit insane.

    when I bust Cole’s chops, or any one of the other front-pagers, for instance, for the most part they know I’m being a facetious jackass and that it’s made in snark. Hell, this is the only place I’ve found on the entire internet, aside from randi.org and a couple of other skeptical sites, where I’ve found snarky bastards that actually act like fucking adults and a community is formed, where for the most part, people value each other and connect over common causes/experiences.

    freelancer out. (for the next six hours or so)

  30. 30.

    Ruckus

    @jeffreyw:
    That looks delish.
    About like the hockey burger at a local joint by work.
    Cheeseburger with a hot dog. Greasy, and you could feel your arteries clogging as they were making it, but it tasted great and was filling too. Only one of us could eat 2 but he could eat the saddle off an old mule and still be hungry.

  31. 31.

    Yutsano

    @freelancer: I think, at this point, to be recognized as a voice of reason, and not a concern troll/spoof on this site, you have to have two things going for you:

    1)pseudonym recognition

    2)you can’t sound batshit insane.

    (I apologize for potential format fail in advance.)

    1) That for me took some time, but yeah dropping in out of nowhere then going full guns blazing pretty much drops your credibility to zero. At least establish some kind of reputation before you go all concern troll on us. Of course we’ll never hear from him again so it’s pretty much water under the bridge now.

    2) I AM insane (well no more or less sane than anyone else) but yeah I do fall a bit short in the guano department. You nail it perfectly though: no one here takes this board or themselves so seriously that it’s anything beyond discussion of issues and mild entertainment. I’m really really happy I got turned onto this blog by SgwhiteFL, I’ve had a great time here.

    If that was word salad, it’s 1:15 AM Pacific time on my Friday and I’m approaching new layers of exhaustion.

  32. 32.

    MelodyMaker

    How poisonous is a little bit of green potato? does sharp cheddar act as an antidote? I spit it out, but I still have the bitter taste in my mouth. I’ll know when I wake up, I guess.

  33. 33.

    Yutsano

    @MelodyMaker: Not enough to be really harmful. If you had eaten all of the potato I would recommend getting to the ER ASAFP, but a small bite will just leave you with that bitter taste. I’ve never heard of sharp cheddar as an antidote (except for helping the flavor maybe).

  34. 34.

    calipygian

    Quite frankly, if Jake Tapper cannot recite the remaining 23 letters of the NATO alphabet, backwards and forwards, as quickly as he can recite the standard alphabet, he has zero claim to the use of “whiskey tango foxtrot”.

    So Jake, what is the phonetic for (and correct pronunciation of) “q”?

    If he doesn’t know, he should shut the fuck up.

    In fact, Jake Tapper should just shut the fuck up out of General Principle.

    We should REALLY get worried if Jake starts saying things are “OBE” (overtaken by events).

  35. 35.

    MikeJ

    Urgh. Up early after spending *all* day yesterday doing family tech support. Thank gopod for ubuntu boot disks. When mom’s windoze box dies I can still go in and hack on registry files. System is now up and booting, all software still installed, user files exist but no users created yet, so probably chmod-ing and chown-ing as things break for the next week.

    Please people, if you depend on somebody else to save your computer bacon (mmmm, computer bacon) back up those registry files. Don’t depend on them being in /repair.

  38. 38.

    Egypt Steve

    Jeez, shows how unhip I am. Had to look this up. I feel so unironic, cause when I wanted to say “what the fuck,” the only thing I could think of to say was “what the fuck.”

    Oh well, what the fuck.

    fuck! fuck! fuck!

  39. 39.

    calipygian

    If Jake really wanted to be cool, he would have added an “imi”, which is morse code for”?”

  40. 40.

    arguingwithsignposts

    “you … are a parasite who gets fat on American’s fears” – Rachel Maddow.

    Awesome!

  41. 41.

    RedKitten

    @calipygian: Quebec, bitches!

    Beat me to it. I’m curious as to what is considered the “correct pronunciation of” it, though. I’ve heard a lot of non-Canadians pronounce it “Kwee-bec”.

  42. 42.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: Fake-hubby #2, I agree with many of his points. When I used to peruse ESPN.com on a daily basis, LZ was one of my first-reads. There is a tendency as a minority to try to only present the best side of the group. It’s understandable, but not the right way to go about things.

    As for the last thread, I had to bail after MG told me he WAS a better person than I was. I just wasn’t in the mood for it last night. Blah-de-blah-de-blah.

    @freelancer: I, too, am insane. Even maybe bat insane. But, I’m not the full batshit insane. And, unlike most of our trollies, I recognize my own insanity.

    @jeffreyw: That Curly Dog looks fucking awesome.

  44. 44.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I recognize my own insanity.

    And that is why we love you. I think recognizing your own insanity is a requirement for the BJ membership card, isn’t it?

  46. 46.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Just remember, The Helicopter Didn’t Make Jokes.

    FSM, that thread was too funny. A combination of trollery and Orly Taitz “original documents” nonsense, with a dash of William Shatner ellipses thrown in for good measure.

  48. 48.

    ericblair

    @RedKitten: Beat me to it. I’m curious as to what is considered the “correct pronunciation of” it, though. I’ve heard a lot of non-Canadians pronounce it “Kwee-bec”.

    In English, “kweh-BEC”; in French, “keh-BEC”.

    In Albertan, “them damn kwee-BECK-ers.”

  49. 49.

    The Golux

    Egypt Steve:

    Me too, though I didn’t have to look it up, the light bulb went on while I was reading Anne’s post.

    Before that, I didn’t know WTF it meant.

  52. 52.

    2th&nayle

    I got myself a cat about 6 weeks ago. He’s about 5 months old and BIG. Eats like he went hungry once, but didn’t. Won’t drink water unless it running from the tap. Strange. It got down to about 41F here last night. Cat woke up, ate, drank, then proceeded to go crazy. Rampagin’ all thru the house. Jumped up on the kitchen counter (a serious no-no and he knows it), squallin’ and carrying on. I finally put him outside. Now he’s out there laying on the picnic table chilling like he ain’t got a care in the world! Weird!

  54. 54.

    LD50

    @2th&nayle:

    Cat woke up, ate, drank, then proceeded to go crazy. Rampagin’ all thru the house. Jumped up on the kitchen counter (a serious no-no and he knows it), squallin’ and carrying on.

    Our little 14-YO female tabby does that every few days. She’ll be sitting around sleeping or doing nothing, when suddenly she’ll start racing around like a lunatic. Jumps up on things, crashes into things, eyes darting around like she’s being chased. Then in 1-2 minutes she’s back to normal. We call it ‘having a power surge’. I bet that’s why the puritans thought cats were possessed by demons.

    Considering she does this with absolutely no provocation, I suspect this is some kind of neurological phenomenon, maybe like a cat petit mal seizure.

  55. 55.

    Gravenstone

    @2th&nayle: Not familiar with cat behavior? They really don’t need reasons to go “off”, just sit back and enjoy the show. It’s especially entertaining when you have multiples and they all decide to mental at the same time. We always just ascribed it to impending weather changes.

  57. 57.

    2th&nayle

    @LD50: Yeah, that sounds just like what ‘Junior’ was doing. He wanted back in the house after a while and I let him in. He’s solid black with green eyes. Beautiful cat, but hard to see in a shadow. Now I can’t find him anywhere and he won’t answer me. No idea where he’s hidin’. Probably poutin’ cause I put him out!

  58. 58.

    2th&nayle

    @Gravenstone: Actually, I started out with two. ‘Junior’ and his little sister, ‘Lil’ Terra’. At least that what I thought they called her. After a couple of weeks, I was pretty sure they were callin’ her ‘Little Terror’! It was just too much! She was super needy and she was into EVERYTHING! ‘Junior’ seemed calm in comparison. Apparently she also wanted to learn to type, because every time I’d try to do anything on the computer she wanted to be right in the big middle of it. I finally found a good home for her and things have smoothed out…a little.

  59. 59.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @2th&nayle: do you feed him dry food? Just wondering, because I have a friend who just started feeding her cats wet food and one who used to drink from the tap now doesn’t.

    Cats are weird.

  60. 60.

    2th&nayle

    @arguingwithsignposts: Yes, I do feed him dry food and he seems to love it. In fact, when I first got him I ran out of dry food and tried to feed him some tuna. I didn’t think he was going to eat it, but he finally did. Maybe the dry food is dehydrating him, but it still doesn’t explain to stupid human why he won’t drink out of a bowl. Like you said, “Cats are weird.” But I like him, I’ll just have to leave the faucet dribbling in the bathroom sink when I leave, I guess.

  61. 61.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @2th&nayle:

    apparently, wet food is preferred to dry food by some veterinarians (apparently, the dry food is like crack to them and unhealthy).

    Also, cats apparently do better on food other than fish. You might try the wet food and see if it fixes the drinking from the faucet thing.

    Although there are cat water bowls that keep the water moving, because some cats apparently like the moving water better than the still water.

    Yeah, cats are weird.

  63. 63.

    jhonmaxwell82

    I’m appalled that you blog commenters aren’t more weepy about the chicken. I am apalled, and I know better because I’ve seen chickens. Thank god I worked in the pizza biz before chicken was a a pizza ingredient. At least that what I thought they called her. After a couple of weeks, I was pretty sure they were callin’ her ‘Little Terror’! It was just too much! She was super needy and she was into EVERYTHING! ‘Junior’ seemed calm in comparison…..

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