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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 4:58:20 AM   
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You ain't spent 'nuff time in the 'hood. Dog's that four-legged thang. Dawg's the brotha walkin' that mutha.


Whereas you were drooling at a girl who looked oddly like a canned chicken in junior high, I attended JH in a neighborhood where MS13 and 18th Street territories intersected. Trust me, I'm familiar with the concept.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 4:59:14 AM   
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A chickendawg (sic)? I could live with that.


Now that you mention it, it does have a certain ring to it.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:04:48 AM   
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I thought the terms "redneck" and "hillbilly" pretty much had that covered. The only other context I've heard the term in was in regards to white supremacists.

No, see, "redneck" is a term of prideful self-application on the one side, and intended as pejorative by those who are not proud to be rednecks.

"Hillbilly" is pretty archaic, and conjures up images of Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae and the rest. It's a pretty toothless (tee hee) general term anymore that is used harmlessly and even fondly as a description of poor, rural people in such places as West Virginia, southern Missouri, northern Arkansas and western Tennessee. Unsophisticated views of all Southerners tend to identify them generically as "hillbillies."

You've probably heard "peckerwood" connected with "white supremacist" by those who live in vague fear and are looking for a way to comfort themselves by applying dismissive, trivializing labels to those who are perceived to threaten them.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:05:45 AM   
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...and more prone to crop failure / famine. And poorer yield. Which means either more hungry people or livestock or more acres of trees cut down to provide new acreage for tillage.


True enough. But from a consumerist perspective, I prefer Russian products. They just plain taste better. I was a tad young to remember a lot of details, but I do remember that chicken soup in Russia had a very full, pleasant smell. Here it barely smells at all.

A few years back my parents went to Russia to visit. Somehow (which is another story), my mother (god bless her soul) managed to sneak two large garlands of dried mushrooms through customs on the way back. As soon as she took them out of the bag, the whole house was filled with that magical, forest scent of mushroom that I hadnt felt for years. Maybe its different for folks in rural areas, but IMHO the food we get here is calorically rich, but tastes like processed ass.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:06:01 AM   
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Pas got to this one first, but it's a requirement for growth for good 'ole yellow dent #2 field corn. It doesn't affect taste because this corn is largely livestock feed, ethanol fodder or ground for use in ingredients. It's not your (fictitious) great grandfather's sweet corn sold by the road side stand that you would eat off the cob. Field corn tastes like pasty drek.

In the 1940s, they were thrilled to be getting a yield of 50 bushels/acre. It's a freakin' miracle of science that we can feed so many more on so little land.



I dont suppose the chemicals affect the livestock in any way.

Incidentally, I doubt I will ever get used to US grown corn. Corn in the old country was much less sweet and a lot less watery.

No. The 'chemicals' are basically concentrated manure used to concentrate the plant growth. Bovine effluvium is pretty inefficient stuff in terms of nitrogen yield/ kg. Anhydrous ammonia is the shiznit. It's the same biochemical effect, but one is largely 'filler' and the other is what the plant is really looking for.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:06:41 AM   
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We're talking field corn here, oh great commentator on matters agricultural. You know. Gasohol. Livestock feed. Corn meal. You can't eat that stuff unless they grind it up and process it or feed it to something that can become meat or crank out eggs or milk.

Growing up in a place like Iowa gives you a pretty hard, gritty view of those waves of grain, amber or otherwise...



How does the process differ for corn intended for human consumption?

Bushel yield per acre is not as important in 'sweet corn'. Yellow dent #2 is a starch commodity-a play on complex carbohydrate produced by the corn plant. Sweet corn (a very small minority of corn produced) is hybridized to produce so much sucrose in the plant in order to make the taste sweet. Different critter altogether.


Thanks CB.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:07:26 AM   
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Trust me, I'm familiar with the concept.

Gotcha, dawg.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:09:58 AM   
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(aaaahh ... reminds me of a lot of old Motown hits, but never mind)


Which reminds me of the time I asked a West Indian friend in college an idiotic question about the appeal of Bob Marley. Luckily, she was more amused than otherwise. What she said was "Yury, you have no idea how many West Indian kids were conceived to this song".

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:11:04 AM   
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...and more prone to crop failure / famine. And poorer yield. Which means either more hungry people or livestock or more acres of trees cut down to provide new acreage for tillage.


True enough. But from a consumerist perspective, I prefer Russian products. They just plain taste better. I was a tad young to remember a lot of details, but I do remember that chicken soup in Russia had a very full, pleasant smell. Here it barely smells at all.

A few years back my parents went to Russia to visit. Somehow (which is another story), my mother (god bless her soul) managed to sneak two large garlands of dried mushrooms through customs on the way back. As soon as she took them out of the bag, the whole house was filled with that magical, forest scent of mushroom that I hadnt felt for years. Maybe its different for folks in rural areas, but IMHO the food we get here is calorically rich, but tastes like processed ass.

I totally get the consumerist angle. But the thing is...I'm sure pas will back me on this...ass sells. You can keep your magical musrooms (unless you're in CA-then there's a 'first mover' advantage for magical mushrooms), as there's little hope of feeding a hungry world with memories of magical smells and ye olde memories.

ETA: I'm drunk. Time to stop arguing philosophy and go to bed.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:11:36 AM   
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(whispers to Onime) Soylent Green is PEOPLE!


Yep. Theres a nod to it in the latest Fallout game as well.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:14:28 AM   
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You've probably heard "peckerwood" connected with "white supremacist" by those who live in vague fear and are looking for a way to comfort themselves by applying dismissive, trivializing labels to those who are perceived to threaten them.


Actually, the guys themselves referred to themselves with that term. But, again, that was JH days, so we're obviously not dealing with mental giants.

How about the term "hick"?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:16:16 AM   
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No. The 'chemicals' are basically concentrated manure used to concentrate the plant growth. Bovine effluvium is pretty inefficient stuff in terms of nitrogen yield/ kg. Anhydrous ammonia is the shiznit. It's the same biochemical effect, but one is largely 'filler' and the other is what the plant is really looking for.


Thank you.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:17:15 AM   
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Trust me, I'm familiar with the concept.

Gotcha, dawg.


Straight up Loco. Viva la Raza.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:19:28 AM   
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Trust me, I'm familiar with the concept.

Gotcha, dawg.


Straight up Loco. Viva la Raza.

Como?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:21:11 AM   
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I totally get the consumerist angle. But the thing is...I'm sure pas will back me on this...ass sells. You can keep your magical musrooms (unless you're in CA-then there's a 'first mover' advantage for magical mushrooms), as there's little hope of feeding a hungry world with memories of magical smells and ye olde memories.

ETA: I'm drunk. Time to stop arguing philosophy and go to bed.


Cant say I agree. Its a sad thought for me that my kids and grandkids might never know what chicken soup is supposed to smell like on a cold, snowy day.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:22:20 AM   
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(whispers to Onime) Soylent Green is PEOPLE!

Heeheehee. One of the great things about that movie is ole Charlie gettin' wound up like his discovery's a big deal, and everybody around him lookin' at him like, "Yeah, so what?"

You could maybe see some of the same thing with a lot of people watching the end of "Planet of the Apes."

Charlie made a whole acting career out of gettin' all wound up and goin' over the top...





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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:24:01 AM   
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Como?


Oh sh!t, whero dont understand.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:27:45 AM   
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(whispers to Onime) Soylent Green is PEOPLE!

Heeheehee. One of the great things about that movie is ole Charlie gettin' wound up like his discovery's a big deal, and everybody around him lookin' at him like, "Yeah, so what?"

You could maybe see some of the same thing with a lot of people watching the end of "Planet of the Apes."

Charlie made a whole acting career out of gettin' all wound up and goin' over the top...






Dude, what is it with you and Yul Brenner?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:32:41 AM   
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I totally get the consumerist angle. But the thing is...I'm sure pas will back me on this...ass sells. You can keep your magical musrooms (unless you're in CA-then there's a 'first mover' advantage for magical mushrooms), as there's little hope of feeding a hungry world with memories of magical smells and ye olde memories.

Yep, I prefer my little pleasures to what feeds the masses, but what you gonna do? Like Winston and Julia in 1984, you'd like to hide, have sex and drink fresh tea with sugar, but the world's reality is pseudo stew and victory gin.

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ETA: I'm drunk. Time to stop arguing philosophy and go to bed.

Ah, so you're a sensible man. Not many of those in the Land of 10,000 Mosquito Breeding Ponds. I have often made the mistake of believing that when you're drunk is the ideal time to START arguing philosophy.

G'night, dawg.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:36:34 AM   
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I have often made the mistake of believing that when you're drunk is the ideal time to START arguing philosophy.


Its a good strategy.


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:37:21 AM   
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Dude, what is it with you and Yul Brenner?

What can I tell ya? He was a beautiful man.





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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:41:49 AM   
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How about the term "hick"?

EZ. From "hickory," a hardwood plentiful in Southern wooded areas used for such things as axe handles, wagon axles, wheel spokes and the like.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 5:49:55 AM   
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How about the term "hick"?

EZ. From "hickory," a hardwood plentiful in Southern wooded areas used for such things as axe handles, wagon axles, wheel spokes and the like.


Heh. Theres one I would have never guessed.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 7:39:23 AM   
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Good Morning Guys


Hello Jo. Hope all is good


All is Good Eric I will be going to Ireland on a much needed vacation soon which will be good. I hope all is well with you


Wich part of Ireland ? Connemara ? Shannon ? Dublin ?
Good choice. You have some family related people to see, if i remenber ?
Things OK for me, thanks


I have family over there they live in Connemara. I will be spending my whole trip there should be relaxing.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 7:43:23 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 8:09:15 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 8:34:34 AM   
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Good morning!


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 8:59:47 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 10:43:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hmmm ... since went to bed at 3am, I had the intention of hugging the pillow for a looong time this morning. That was not meant to be.

At 8am, my opponent informed (via SMS) that I had a turn in my inbox ...

This game is dangerously addictive ...

Of course, I had some incentive to get up and do my turn - I had to set up my CV sneak attack on Truk. With both KB and Mini KB in DEI, I thought it was time to send a message ... . It will be very interesting to see the outcome when I get the turn back later today ...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/20/2010 11:05:43 AM   
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Hmmm ... since went to bed at 3am, I had the intention of hugging the pillow for a looong time this morning. That was not meant to be.

At 8am, my opponent informed (via SMS) that I had a turn in my inbox ...

This game is dangerously addictive ...

Of course, I had some incentive to get up and do my turn - I had to set up my CV sneak attack on Truk. With both KB and Mini KB in DEI, I thought it was time to send a message ... . It will be very interesting to see the outcome when I get the turn back later today ...


SMS PBEM turn notification on Saturday morning...


Leo "Apollo11"

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