Topics that get off topic (NOT)

mark02 · Post by **mark02** » Fri Aug 10, 2001 1:31 pm

Hi All:
You are not alone in your curiousity as to how things get off the subject. Anyway, for a good yet simple Bar-B-Que sauce, combine the following:
2 cups ketchup
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup Worcestershire Sauce (Note Celtic reference here)
2 Tbsp Honey
2 Tbsp Balsamic Vinegar
2 Tbsp Chinese Chili Paste (or other chili sauce to taste).

This will spice any meat nicely; and you can whistle between basting.

-Mark Sackett

Mack.Hoover · Post by **Mack.Hoover** » Fri Aug 10, 2001 2:00 pm

Poem... OT... who cares

READ MY QUIPS
It wouldn't be fit for paper and ink
If I were to say what really I think.
But poems reword the grissle and grit,
Pleasing the palate with wisdom and wit.
So I'll clean up my thoughts with rhyme and a wink;
And you'll think what I'm thinking
Is what you think that I think.
—Mack Hoover 8/8/01

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Fri Aug 10, 2001 2:14 pm

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LeeMarsh · Post by **LeeMarsh** » Fri Aug 10, 2001 2:17 pm

I'm waiting for Steve to go in and edit the original post for the topic on off topic, making all our topical off topic posts off topic too. Then we'll be scanning the topics to find the new off topic topic to which we had previous made our topical off topic posts so we can edit them for topical purposes.

Any one who can roll his tongue around the above phrases sensibly; has not had enough guiness topically applied to said tongue.

So just ...

thomlarson · Post by **thomlarson** » Fri Aug 10, 2001 2:18 pm

Hey, speaking of...

Did you know that you can see the International Space Station from Earth (if that's where you happen to live) with the naked eye?

<UL>
<LI>Go to <A HREF="http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/temp/Stati ... oc.html</A> and click on the "J-Pass" tab.
<LI>On the left side of the screen, click on the "Location" tab, then click on the "Find by US Zip" button
<LI>Type in your Zip Code, then click "OK"
<LI>Then click the "Control" Tab, then Click "Start" (stay with me here, it's simpler than it seems...).
</UL>

Ignore the pop-up screen at first, and read the info on the right side of your browser first. The whole thing's a little confusing until you get used to it, but basically you're trying to find a time that the Station is overhead when it's dark out (duh...), but the Station is in the sunlight (it will show as a little green square on the chart). If you double-click on the little square, it brings up a star chart with details. Just go through different days until you find one that's at a time that you're going to be up.

It's pretty neat to see. It streaks across the entire sky in only a few minutes - it looks similar to a bright star that's moving very fast.

ErikT · Post by **ErikT** » Fri Aug 10, 2001 2:29 pm

GM,

Dave has been seen in the flute forum; can't help with the rest, but sometimes people get busy. I'd hate to think what would happen if I had a life

Erik

[ This Message was edited by: ErikT on 2001-08-10 16:30 ]

LeeMarsh · Post by **LeeMarsh** » Fri Aug 10, 2001 3:05 pm

GM.
John Palmer has made over 9 posts. What with the move and summer vacations and visitors setting in, some folks may be more web ready in the fall.

LittleMy · Post by **LittleMy** » Fri Aug 10, 2001 8:47 pm

Please help me maintain civil relations with the other people in my apartment complex.
I want to avoid annoying my neighbors. Should I play my high or low D whistle late at night? Which is less likely to produce wall-penetrating noise?

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Fri Aug 10, 2001 9:30 pm

Always offer a choice. Ask them if they'd prefer Great Highland Pipes or the whistle.
Tony

LittleMy · Post by **LittleMy** » Fri Aug 10, 2001 9:47 pm

Don't EVEN give me ideas.

DaveO · Post by **DaveO** » Fri Aug 10, 2001 9:49 pm

On 2001-08-10 22:47, LittleMy wrote:
Please help me maintain civil relations with the other people in my apartment complex.
I want to avoid annoying my neighbors. Should I play my high or low D whistle late at night? Which is less likely to produce wall-penetrating noise?

My wife said neither.

Dave

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Fri Aug 10, 2001 10:31 pm

How's this one, Mack?

I sit to have a cup of tea
and set myself for bed
But many great, poetic thoughts
go swirling through my head.
My muse is very eager,
it seems, to give me rhyme,
but heart and mind are too played out
to keep up with her time.

And so I write this poem,
devoid of any thought,
but having lots of rhyming words
I've made up on the spot.

A poem about nothing,
no topic, love, or spite,
To kill a couple minutes while
I'm home alone at night.

But now the night is getting on;
the time is well at hand
to find a horizontal space
and drift to never-land...

(I really enjoy you all--variety is wonderful. Have a lovely night. Many smilies [the kind with the big teeth]!)

TW

Cinead · Post by **Cinead** » Sat Aug 11, 2001 7:36 am

WyoBadger,

Excellente poem. You really have a gift. I'm impressed.

totst · Post by **totst** » Sat Aug 11, 2001 7:57 am

Darn, just found out the Space station was supposed to be visible 10 min ago. Just found out we're out of Mayo too. Not my day.

Tots

PS. Duuh..read the chart wrong. I guess I can still catch it ,but that doesn't change the Mayo situation.

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Mack.Hoover · Post by **Mack.Hoover** » Sat Aug 11, 2001 8:11 am

ODE TO TOM
He wakes with the dawn with a stretch and a yawn...
What to do with the freedom till school starts again?
Play my tuba, draw my bow, pipe or whistle, hey I know:
I'll set myself down to some breakfast and tea;
And write on a napkin as words come to me.
And share it off topic (or perhaps topically)
To be critiqued by Cinead, Chuck and Lee,
An all the rest of C&F's company!

Mack
Picture a big grinning bulldog saying,"That's my boy!"