Here you guys go, the off topic thread for July. Couple of things to talk about:
– Baseball
– Movies: Any recommendations? Any good rentals?
– Video Games
– Peppers & Gardening
– Any good BBQ plans?
– Any good jokes?
– Favorite blogs to read (besides the HSB of course)?
– Anything and everything else…
60 responses to “July: Off Topic Thread”
Hellllllloo July
OK…. how many BBQ’sParties is everyone going to this weekend? I have 5 between today, tomorrow and Tuesday
Good day all.
4 + work + yard work + boating + drinking + Drinking + drinking + work + Boom Boom + More Boating + 4TH
Other words 4 days of eating, drinking, Boom Boom, working , boating all with out KIDS. PRICELESS
The only parties I have are the ones I have to feed at work! I will be working 14 hours a day all the way through Tues. cooking for all the crazy vacationers here – so while we remember all those who gave us our independence, also remember all those service people out there who don’t get vacations and work even harder when everyone else is relaxing! 🙂
Just a little side note while I’m whining here 🙂
Grilling food is much less fun when you’re in a 100 degree kitchen, crowded by 3 other sweaty dudes, and a crazy waitress is screaming at you from the other side of the line. Gotta love it! I do!
I’ve only got one, and that’s the “Hell Night” I’m hosting. This one is a Cajun theme, complete with crawfish and loads of hot sauce!
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Crawfish are the magic words my man! oh and hot sauce too 🙂
Greetings and Happy 4th of July weekend to all the hot heads here. It’s hot as hell here in Austin, and that’s just the way I like it! That’s what God made Barton Springs for anyhow.
Baseball-
My Astros are sucking right now! I hate inter-league play-it has killed The Astros since it started! The are playing The Rangers this weekend, who suck too, and they beat us last night! Arggg!
Any good BBQ plans?-
The second annual Rib-a-palooza is being held on the 4th in some friends backyard. It’s a mini-rib cook-off, with lots of good beer, of course! My winning recipe, which I perfected last night on some beer ribs is very simple: Tabasco Chipotle Sauce, and Knorr’s Chipotle Seasoning (they come in little tiny cubes in the Mexican section of the store). You crumble them up on the ribs after a good dousing with the hot sauce. (I know you don’t need me to tell you how to cook ribs!)
You could certainly use any hot sauce-it’s all good! I’ll try to post some photos over on the board(will it take images?)
Favorite blogs to read (besides the HSB of course)
http://eatingasia.typepad.com/
http://vietnamesegod.blogspot.com/
http://pomelopleasures.blogspot.com/
Coming up here in Austin on Sunday, August 27th is the Austin Hot Sauce Festival, in which I am a judge. Not any kind of celebrity judge mind you, but a ‘grunt’ judge (20-25 of us) to mow through the 400+ entries of individual, restaurant, and commercial sauces. It falls on my birthday this year, so I can’t think of a better way to celelbrate than burning my mouth up!
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Sounds like a great weekend!
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Well that stinks! I’ll have a beer for you though 😀
BBQ’s? One, maybe. Sick wife, firehouse tomorrow, fun Holiday 🙂
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What about training!!!!!!!
Ryan and I have a BBQ today, then I work the next 2 days, then off to have a 4th of July celebration with the kids and parents, then back to work. it will be a good weekend
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you are such a first comment on the off topic thread hog !!!!!!! 😛
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even Super hero Jim needs a weekend off to relax, sheesh Huv! 😀
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There is a crawfish festival every year in the town I live in…..those things are UGLY!
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BOOM-BOOM? Bret what is that?
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I am right there with you. the weekend before any holiday the salon fills up with hundreds of people that have to look pretty before they go on vacation and they are hostile and in a huge hurry. My question is….why did they wait til the last second?
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LOL – I know… I guess I can cut him some slack 😀
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😀 It’s the little things in life …….
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I would hope so 🙄
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LOL
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No kids ….should I say more
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No please don’t, I do not want the visual 😛
Bret check your email
What a great weekend for cooking out, eating hot sauce and drinking beer! Happy Fourth everyone!!!!
Movie Review #3
I have not had a lot of time for movies lately, but here are a few thoughts.
1. Annapolis…. I liked it, but it was to much like An Officer and a Gentlemen for me.
2. Underworld 2…. Not bad for a re-make, had some good effects, but I think it messed with the history of the Lychans and the Vampires to much.
3. Munich…..I didn’t like it, just sort of rambled.
Some up-coming must see movies.
1. Da Vinci Code
2. Pirate of the Caribean 2
I seen Munich last night, it went on and on and on, I kind of lost sight of what the plot was, and the end was a little difficult to swallow. it was ok though, I didn’t like or dislike it. if that makes sense.
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I would have to second that mrs ryan…lol
Hey all just to let you know as I didn’t have any interest for the frostbite 4 Test #7 here it’s on ebay for what I paid for it (hope this doesn’t offend anyone). I need to try and get my $$ back so I can have a bid on the charity bottles. I just hope it goes to a nice home as it’s one of the rarest bottles I have 🙁
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That’s a sweet bottle – one i’d love to have! I’m one a serious buying freeze right now. I may even be selling some of the collection soon, need the funds. The Firecracker is the last for a while for me.
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same here I’m running low on cash so I’ve got to sell to make funds available. I start work tomorrow though, before heading back to uni in sept, but I’ve got to go on holiday with that money too. lol
why can’t I be doing a 3yr uni course 🙄
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Ain’t been slacking- 32,000 on Friday. Make that ‘0’ BBQ’s though- Aunt died. Spent the afternoon on the phone calling family.
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Hah! Can’t decide which is funnier- the ‘Super Hero’ title or the weekend off 🙂
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1. Da Vinci Code
2. Pirate of the Caribean 2
1.) Not the slightest interest
2.) Absolutely!!! Keira Knightly… mmmmmm 🙂 Just hope they don’t turn them into goofy superheros or some such nonsense.
Jsut saw Superman Returns last night – another great piece of work from Bryan Singer. A little more on the chick flick side then any of his previous movies but still well worth seeing in the theaters
Yah, I want to see that sometime.
BTW, if anyones interested, on Yahoo movies there is a teaser for Spider Man 3. Looks like Venom, the sandman and another goblin. Looks like it’s going to be pretty good.
HSB Gallery Link
What is this?
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It’s a piece of a broken BBQ sauce bottle I found in the parking lot – a tragedy of the FF Show.
OK, thanks, it looks like some gelatinized food product at first.
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I wonder what your logo would be….. a pepper with a cape, wearing a fire hat standing on top of a fire truck 😀
I just ordered the american hot sauce. I also just ordered hot pot for $5 and smokin hot pot for $6, hope that fr that price they actually get here, those plus shipping was 14.85.
Store link
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Could you tell me where you found hot pot for $5.00? I would like to add it to my collection also,
Ed
Found the link in the next comment…Duh,
Thanks,
Ed
No problem, I’ll have to see how it shows up because if it shows up in good condition then that is a great deal.
Hmmmm, 🙂
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Hmmmmm ?????? Hmmm what! 😀
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Nate did you contact them before sending your order? Sorry to ask but it looks very much like a store that I saw them in and asked for the shipping cost to the UK – they replied saying they had none and hadn’t updated their website as the IT man had left.
May not be but thought I’d just give you a heads up
everyone must be really busy this month, this thread has been slow 🙁 to bad I am pretty good at getting off topic. here is a joke for ya though hope it doesn’t offend anyone. this was on the tonight show I thought it was hilarious.
Very bad date but Very Funny
If you didn’t see this on the Tonight show, I hope you’re sitting down when you read it. This is probably the funniest date story ever, first date or not!!! We have all had bad dates.. but this takes the cake.
This just tells you how tough it is to be single nowadays.
This was on the “Tonight Show” with Jay Leno.
Jay went into the audience to find the most embarrassing first date that a woman ever had.
The winner described her worst first date experience. There was absolutely no question as to why her tale took the prize!
She said it was midwinter… snowing and quite cold…and the guy had taken her skiing in the mountains outside Salt Lake City, Utah.
It was a day trip (no overnight). They were strangers, after all, and truly had never met before.
The outing was fun but relatively uneventful until they were headed home late that afternoon.
They were driving back down the mountain, when she gradually began to realize that she should not have had that extra latte. They were about an hour away from anywhere with a rest room and in the middle of nowhere!
Her companion suggested she try to hold it, which she did for a while.
Unfortunately, because of the heavy snow and slow going, there came a point where she told him that he had better stop and let her go beside the road, or it would be the front seat of his car. They stopped and she quickly crawled out beside the car, yanked her pants down and started. In the deep
snow she didn’t have good footing, so she let her butt rest against the rear fender to steady herself.
Her companion stood on the side of the car watching for traffic and indeed was a real gentleman and refrained from peeking. All she could think about was the relief she felt despite the rather embarrassing nature of the situation.
Upon finishing however, she soon became aware of another sensation.
As she bent to pull up her pants, the young lady discovered her buttocks were firmly glued against the car’s fender.
Thoughts of tongues frozen to poles immediately came to mind as she attempted to disengage her flesh from the icy metal. It was quickly apparent that she had a brand new problem due to the
extreme cold.
Horrified by her plight and yet aware of the humor of the moment, she answered her date’s concerns about “what is taking so long” with a reply that indeed, she was “freezing her butt off and in need of some assistance!”
He came around the car as she tried to cover herself with her sweater and then, as she looked imploringly into his eyes, he burst out laughing.
She too, got the giggles and when they finally managed to compose themselves, they assessed her dilemma.
Obviously, as hysterical as the situation was, they also were faced with a real problem. Both agreed it would take something hot to free her chilly cheeks from the grip of the icy metal!
Thinking about what had gotten her into the predicament in the first place,
both quickly realized that there was only one way to get her free.
So, as she looked the other way, her first-time date proceeded to unzip his pants and pee her butt off the fender. As the audience screamed in laughter, she took the Tonight Show prize hands down… or
perhaps that should be “pants down.” And you thought your first date was embarrassing.
Jay Leno’s comment .. “This gives a whole new meaning to being pissed off.
Okay, I’ll help you out on this 🙂
Re: We have all had bad dates..
Oh, but you’re wrong there 🙂 Not “all” of us. I only had three dates before I was married (at age 27).
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Gotta go with Jim on this one. Me and The Createss met by blind date (and she didn’t even have a dog or cane), we went out for about 6 months and WHAM! I woke up with a ring welded to my finger. Haven’t been happier since.
I could go into some really colorful “bad” dates, but I think I would breech the PG-13 threshold. 😀
I am still laughing about this date, i have never had a date that bad, so it makes it even funnier.
First date was May 21st, proposed July 4th- yours was a LONG courtship Defcon 🙂 Celebrating 21 years next time around.
My parents met on a blind date also. 5th time they saw each other was the wedding day. Just celebrated 60 years last month.
Whatta they say? Love is blind, marriage is an institution of love, ergo marriage is an institution for the blind 🙂
I met my wife when I was 7 and she was 5. Our mothers have been best friends for over thirty years…….. I have pictures of us sitting next to each other when we were that young. Just celebrated our 8th anniversary.
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Cool! Nice story 🙂
No August up yet. Gotta sneak mine in here 🙂
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Damn you Jim 😀 LOL – beat me again!