Better behave at Waffle House
 

On May 16, 12:04*pm, BAR wrote:
jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 11:10:47 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:02:58 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 21:08:04 -0400, DK
wrote:

jps wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2009 19:35:31 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 19:54:49 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:23:54 -0400, HK wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:15:50 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

My oldest son was a very fussy eater.
We'd go into a Chinese restaurant and he had to have a hamburger.
The Chinese joints I go to don't serve hamburgers, at least I never
saw them on the menu.
But I learned something when eating out with a friend who had been a
restaurateur - and he had been the maitre de at La Francais, an
internationally know restaurant nearby.
You can get almost anything you want in a good restaurant without even
looking at the menu.
Of course he knew the owners, what the kitchen was capable of, best
sides for the dish in the traditions or the originating country, etc.
You could call him an epicure, if that's the word.
These were all local "specialty" places, mostly Italian.
But let's say you tend that way, and like to eat just so.
For example you like blacks olives with such and such.
Not on the menu, but if you ask you should be accommodated.
One of my favorite movie scenes was Jack Nicholson getting his
toast by putting multiple holds on the menu BLT.
Five Easy Pieces, I think.
You don't have to do contortions like that to get what you want in a
good restaurant.
Having said that, I never do it, and go with the menu.

I believe in ordering the food they specialize in.

Me too.

--Vic
Indeed. Many, many years ago, Stepfatherinlaw #1, a nice fellow, came to
visit shortly after we moved to the DC area from New York. He was a
lifelong midwesterner. We went out to Annapolis for a nice day trip, and
I took everyone to a pretty nice seafood restaurant there. He ordered
meatloaf and his youngest daughter, who accompanied him on the trip,
ordered a roast beef sandwich. With mashed potato(e)s. *Grrrrrrr.

Better behave at Waffle House
 

On Sat, 16 May 2009 13:04:06 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 11:10:47 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:02:58 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 21:08:04 -0400, DK
wrote:

jps wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2009 19:35:31 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 19:54:49 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:23:54 -0400, HK wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:15:50 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


My oldest son was a very fussy eater.
We'd go into a Chinese restaurant and he had to have a hamburger.
The Chinese joints I go to don't serve hamburgers, at least I never
saw them on the menu.
But I learned something when eating out with a friend who had been a
restaurateur - and he had been the maitre de at La Francais, an
internationally know restaurant nearby.
You can get almost anything you want in a good restaurant without even
looking at the menu.
Of course he knew the owners, what the kitchen was capable of, best
sides for the dish in the traditions or the originating country, etc.
You could call him an epicure, if that's the word.
These were all local "specialty" places, mostly Italian.
But let's say you tend that way, and like to eat just so.
For example you like blacks olives with such and such.
Not on the menu, but if you ask you should be accommodated.
One of my favorite movie scenes was Jack Nicholson getting his
toast by putting multiple holds on the menu BLT.
Five Easy Pieces, I think.
You don't have to do contortions like that to get what you want in a
good restaurant.
Having said that, I never do it, and go with the menu.

I believe in ordering the food they specialize in.

Me too.

--Vic
Indeed. Many, many years ago, Stepfatherinlaw #1, a nice fellow, came to
visit shortly after we moved to the DC area from New York. He was a
lifelong midwesterner. We went out to Annapolis for a nice day trip, and
I took everyone to a pretty nice seafood restaurant there. He ordered
meatloaf and his youngest daughter, who accompanied him on the trip,
ordered a roast beef sandwich. With mashed potato(e)s. Grrrrrrr.
They can't help themselves. My partner grew up in the midwest. We
met in Los Angeles. For the first year he was on the west coast,
every course of the meal featured meat.

He's long been rehabilitated but it took years.
Now I get it.

-dk
All you get is ****. "Partner" is used in the traditional sense as in
business partner.

As usual, go **** yourself.
Is that what I implied, dip****?
You implied it elsewhere, dickhead.
Right. Last week at the airport. Sorry, I remember now.
You're now officially a liar. Do I need to quote you?

You're just as vile as the dickheads in this group who insisted we
were in Iraq for all the right reasons while accusing me of being a
traitor, unamerican, guilty of sedition, comfort to the enemy, etc.

None of them is man enough to admit they were dead wrong.

Just like you.
Do I hear someone sniffing very loudly?
Do you understand that he's addressing me and that he's not addressing
you and that you've added absolutely nothing to the dialogue?
Take it to e-mail if you don't want the rest of us chiming in when we
want to chime in.

This is what you've spent 100s of hours doing? Have you learned
anything, honed your debate skills, enlightened anyone about anything?
We are here to prove that you are a pompous ass as often as possible.

Is this your civic duty?

What you're doing is buttsniffing and I hear a giant whiff coming from
your direction. Here's something for your trouble -- pfffffft
Did you learn that from Harry? Sounds about third gradish!

Just a repeat of what "Reggie" said.

You're not here to prove anything. You haven't the skill.

How are those find German screw drives doing? You know the metal rods
with plastic handles.

You are freakin' weird. Would you limit my choice to chinese crap
bought at walmart for my electronics bench?

First you want to dictate what happens in your wife's womb, then it's
screwdrivers. Where does it stop, BAR?

Better behave at Waffle House
 

Tim wrote:
On May 16, 12:04 pm, BAR wrote:
jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 11:10:47 -0400, BAR wrote:
jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:02:58 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:
jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 21:08:04 -0400, DK
wrote:
jps wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2009 19:35:31 -0400, DK wrote:
jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 19:54:49 -0400, DK wrote:
jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:23:54 -0400, HK wrote:
Vic Smith wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:15:50 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:
My oldest son was a very fussy eater.
We'd go into a Chinese restaurant and he had to have a hamburger.
The Chinese joints I go to don't serve hamburgers, at least I never
saw them on the menu.
But I learned something when eating out with a friend who had been a
restaurateur - and he had been the maitre de at La Francais, an
internationally know restaurant nearby.
You can get almost anything you want in a good restaurant without even
looking at the menu.
Of course he knew the owners, what the kitchen was capable of, best
sides for the dish in the traditions or the originating country, etc.
You could call him an epicure, if that's the word.
These were all local "specialty" places, mostly Italian.
But let's say you tend that way, and like to eat just so.
For example you like blacks olives with such and such.
Not on the menu, but if you ask you should be accommodated.
One of my favorite movie scenes was Jack Nicholson getting his
toast by putting multiple holds on the menu BLT.
Five Easy Pieces, I think.
You don't have to do contortions like that to get what you want in a
good restaurant.
Having said that, I never do it, and go with the menu.
I believe in ordering the food they specialize in.
Me too.
--Vic
Indeed. Many, many years ago, Stepfatherinlaw #1, a nice fellow, came to
visit shortly after we moved to the DC area from New York. He was a
lifelong midwesterner. We went out to Annapolis for a nice day trip, and
I took everyone to a pretty nice seafood restaurant there. He ordered
meatloaf and his youngest daughter, who accompanied him on the trip,
ordered a roast beef sandwich. With mashed potato(e)s. Grrrrrrr.
They can't help themselves. My partner grew up in the midwest. We
met in Los Angeles. For the first year he was on the west coast,
every course of the meal featured meat.
He's long been rehabilitated but it took years.
Now I get it.
-dk
All you get is ****. "Partner" is used in the traditional sense as in
business partner.
As usual, go **** yourself.
Is that what I implied, dip****?
You implied it elsewhere, dickhead.
Right. Last week at the airport. Sorry, I remember now.
You're now officially a liar. Do I need to quote you?
You're just as vile as the dickheads in this group who insisted we
were in Iraq for all the right reasons while accusing me of being a
traitor, unamerican, guilty of sedition, comfort to the enemy, etc.
None of them is man enough to admit they were dead wrong.
Just like you.
Do I hear someone sniffing very loudly?
Do you understand that he's addressing me and that he's not addressing
you and that you've added absolutely nothing to the dialogue?
Take it to e-mail if you don't want the rest of us chiming in when we
want to chime in.
This is what you've spent 100s of hours doing? Have you learned
anything, honed your debate skills, enlightened anyone about anything?
We are here to prove that you are a pompous ass as often as possible.
Is this your civic duty?
What you're doing is buttsniffing and I hear a giant whiff coming from
your direction. Here's something for your trouble -- pfffffft
Did you learn that from Harry? Sounds about third gradish!
Just a repeat of what "Reggie" said.
You're not here to prove anything. You haven't the skill.
How are those find German screw drives doing? You know the metal rods
with plastic handles.

I don't know about his, but this looks like ti could be fun.

Really fun!

http://www.allproducts.com/machine/c...761142316.html

If I was laying drywall or putting up metal framing all day long I'd buy
one.

Better behave at Waffle House
 

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 13:04:06 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 11:10:47 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:02:58 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 21:08:04 -0400, DK
wrote:

jps wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2009 19:35:31 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 19:54:49 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:23:54 -0400, HK wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:15:50 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


My oldest son was a very fussy eater.
We'd go into a Chinese restaurant and he had to have a hamburger.
The Chinese joints I go to don't serve hamburgers, at least I never
saw them on the menu.
But I learned something when eating out with a friend who had been a
restaurateur - and he had been the maitre de at La Francais, an
internationally know restaurant nearby.
You can get almost anything you want in a good restaurant without even
looking at the menu.
Of course he knew the owners, what the kitchen was capable of, best
sides for the dish in the traditions or the originating country, etc.
You could call him an epicure, if that's the word.
These were all local "specialty" places, mostly Italian.
But let's say you tend that way, and like to eat just so.
For example you like blacks olives with such and such.
Not on the menu, but if you ask you should be accommodated.
One of my favorite movie scenes was Jack Nicholson getting his
toast by putting multiple holds on the menu BLT.
Five Easy Pieces, I think.
You don't have to do contortions like that to get what you want in a
good restaurant.
Having said that, I never do it, and go with the menu.

I believe in ordering the food they specialize in.

Me too.

--Vic
Indeed. Many, many years ago, Stepfatherinlaw #1, a nice fellow, came to
visit shortly after we moved to the DC area from New York. He was a
lifelong midwesterner. We went out to Annapolis for a nice day trip, and
I took everyone to a pretty nice seafood restaurant there. He ordered
meatloaf and his youngest daughter, who accompanied him on the trip,
ordered a roast beef sandwich. With mashed potato(e)s. Grrrrrrr.
They can't help themselves. My partner grew up in the midwest. We
met in Los Angeles. For the first year he was on the west coast,
every course of the meal featured meat.

He's long been rehabilitated but it took years.
Now I get it.

-dk
All you get is ****. "Partner" is used in the traditional sense as in
business partner.

As usual, go **** yourself.
Is that what I implied, dip****?
You implied it elsewhere, dickhead.
Right. Last week at the airport. Sorry, I remember now.
You're now officially a liar. Do I need to quote you?

You're just as vile as the dickheads in this group who insisted we
were in Iraq for all the right reasons while accusing me of being a
traitor, unamerican, guilty of sedition, comfort to the enemy, etc.

None of them is man enough to admit they were dead wrong.

Just like you.
Do I hear someone sniffing very loudly?
Do you understand that he's addressing me and that he's not addressing
you and that you've added absolutely nothing to the dialogue?
Take it to e-mail if you don't want the rest of us chiming in when we
want to chime in.

This is what you've spent 100s of hours doing? Have you learned
anything, honed your debate skills, enlightened anyone about anything?
We are here to prove that you are a pompous ass as often as possible.

Is this your civic duty?

What you're doing is buttsniffing and I hear a giant whiff coming from
your direction. Here's something for your trouble -- pfffffft
Did you learn that from Harry? Sounds about third gradish!
Just a repeat of what "Reggie" said.

You're not here to prove anything. You haven't the skill.
How are those find German screw drives doing? You know the metal rods
with plastic handles.

You are freakin' weird. Would you limit my choice to chinese crap
bought at walmart for my electronics bench?

What's the difference between a $2 screw driver and a $5 screw driver?

First you want to dictate what happens in your wife's womb, then it's
screwdrivers. Where does it stop, BAR?

I was smart enough to marry a woman who has the same values I have.

I am interested to know if your fine German screw drivers are as good as
my fine Craftsman screw drivers that I bought 30 years ago. $19.95 for a
20 piece screw driver set. I still have 17 of them. Two didn't survive
due to them being used as pry bars and one failed as a chisels.

Better behave at Waffle House
 

On Sat, 16 May 2009 14:49:13 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 13:04:06 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 11:10:47 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:02:58 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 21:08:04 -0400, DK
wrote:

jps wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2009 19:35:31 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 19:54:49 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:23:54 -0400, HK wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:15:50 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


My oldest son was a very fussy eater.
We'd go into a Chinese restaurant and he had to have a hamburger.
The Chinese joints I go to don't serve hamburgers, at least I never
saw them on the menu.
But I learned something when eating out with a friend who had been a
restaurateur - and he had been the maitre de at La Francais, an
internationally know restaurant nearby.
You can get almost anything you want in a good restaurant without even
looking at the menu.
Of course he knew the owners, what the kitchen was capable of, best
sides for the dish in the traditions or the originating country, etc.
You could call him an epicure, if that's the word.
These were all local "specialty" places, mostly Italian.
But let's say you tend that way, and like to eat just so.
For example you like blacks olives with such and such.
Not on the menu, but if you ask you should be accommodated.
One of my favorite movie scenes was Jack Nicholson getting his
toast by putting multiple holds on the menu BLT.
Five Easy Pieces, I think.
You don't have to do contortions like that to get what you want in a
good restaurant.
Having said that, I never do it, and go with the menu.

I believe in ordering the food they specialize in.

Me too.

--Vic
Indeed. Many, many years ago, Stepfatherinlaw #1, a nice fellow, came to
visit shortly after we moved to the DC area from New York. He was a
lifelong midwesterner. We went out to Annapolis for a nice day trip, and
I took everyone to a pretty nice seafood restaurant there. He ordered
meatloaf and his youngest daughter, who accompanied him on the trip,
ordered a roast beef sandwich. With mashed potato(e)s. Grrrrrrr.
They can't help themselves. My partner grew up in the midwest. We
met in Los Angeles. For the first year he was on the west coast,
every course of the meal featured meat.

He's long been rehabilitated but it took years.
Now I get it.

-dk
All you get is ****. "Partner" is used in the traditional sense as in
business partner.

As usual, go **** yourself.
Is that what I implied, dip****?
You implied it elsewhere, dickhead.
Right. Last week at the airport. Sorry, I remember now.
You're now officially a liar. Do I need to quote you?

You're just as vile as the dickheads in this group who insisted we
were in Iraq for all the right reasons while accusing me of being a
traitor, unamerican, guilty of sedition, comfort to the enemy, etc.

None of them is man enough to admit they were dead wrong.

Just like you.
Do I hear someone sniffing very loudly?
Do you understand that he's addressing me and that he's not addressing
you and that you've added absolutely nothing to the dialogue?
Take it to e-mail if you don't want the rest of us chiming in when we
want to chime in.

This is what you've spent 100s of hours doing? Have you learned
anything, honed your debate skills, enlightened anyone about anything?
We are here to prove that you are a pompous ass as often as possible.

Is this your civic duty?

What you're doing is buttsniffing and I hear a giant whiff coming from
your direction. Here's something for your trouble -- pfffffft
Did you learn that from Harry? Sounds about third gradish!
Just a repeat of what "Reggie" said.

You're not here to prove anything. You haven't the skill.
How are those find German screw drives doing? You know the metal rods
with plastic handles.

You are freakin' weird. Would you limit my choice to chinese crap
bought at walmart for my electronics bench?

What's the difference between a $2 screw driver and a $5 screw driver?

First you want to dictate what happens in your wife's womb, then it's
screwdrivers. Where does it stop, BAR?

I was smart enough to marry a woman who has the same values I have.

I'm glad your wife was never raped and impregnated.

I am interested to know if your fine German screw drivers are as good as
my fine Craftsman screw drivers that I bought 30 years ago. $19.95 for a
20 piece screw driver set. I still have 17 of them. Two didn't survive
due to them being used as pry bars and one failed as a chisels.

Truth is I tried to purchase craftsman but they were more expensive
than the German model (manufactured for our specific tasks) and
significantly inferior in quality, made in China.

I must have at least 25 craftsman screwdrivers in my box and bag. For
most jobs they're fine, for assembling small electronic parts they're
not acceptable.

This is what we use:

http://www.wihatools.com/900seri/961serie.htm

Better behave at Waffle House
 

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 14:49:13 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 13:04:06 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 11:10:47 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:02:58 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 21:08:04 -0400, DK
wrote:

jps wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2009 19:35:31 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 19:54:49 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:23:54 -0400, HK wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:15:50 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


My oldest son was a very fussy eater.
We'd go into a Chinese restaurant and he had to have a hamburger.
The Chinese joints I go to don't serve hamburgers, at least I never
saw them on the menu.
But I learned something when eating out with a friend who had been a
restaurateur - and he had been the maitre de at La Francais, an
internationally know restaurant nearby.
You can get almost anything you want in a good restaurant without even
looking at the menu.
Of course he knew the owners, what the kitchen was capable of, best
sides for the dish in the traditions or the originating country, etc.
You could call him an epicure, if that's the word.
These were all local "specialty" places, mostly Italian.
But let's say you tend that way, and like to eat just so.
For example you like blacks olives with such and such.
Not on the menu, but if you ask you should be accommodated.
One of my favorite movie scenes was Jack Nicholson getting his
toast by putting multiple holds on the menu BLT.
Five Easy Pieces, I think.
You don't have to do contortions like that to get what you want in a
good restaurant.
Having said that, I never do it, and go with the menu.

I believe in ordering the food they specialize in.

Me too.

--Vic
Indeed. Many, many years ago, Stepfatherinlaw #1, a nice fellow, came to
visit shortly after we moved to the DC area from New York. He was a
lifelong midwesterner. We went out to Annapolis for a nice day trip, and
I took everyone to a pretty nice seafood restaurant there. He ordered
meatloaf and his youngest daughter, who accompanied him on the trip,
ordered a roast beef sandwich. With mashed potato(e)s. Grrrrrrr.
They can't help themselves. My partner grew up in the midwest. We
met in Los Angeles. For the first year he was on the west coast,
every course of the meal featured meat.

He's long been rehabilitated but it took years.
Now I get it.

-dk
All you get is ****. "Partner" is used in the traditional sense as in
business partner.

As usual, go **** yourself.
Is that what I implied, dip****?
You implied it elsewhere, dickhead.
Right. Last week at the airport. Sorry, I remember now.
You're now officially a liar. Do I need to quote you?

You're just as vile as the dickheads in this group who insisted we
were in Iraq for all the right reasons while accusing me of being a
traitor, unamerican, guilty of sedition, comfort to the enemy, etc.

None of them is man enough to admit they were dead wrong.

Just like you.
Do I hear someone sniffing very loudly?
Do you understand that he's addressing me and that he's not addressing
you and that you've added absolutely nothing to the dialogue?
Take it to e-mail if you don't want the rest of us chiming in when we
want to chime in.

This is what you've spent 100s of hours doing? Have you learned
anything, honed your debate skills, enlightened anyone about anything?
We are here to prove that you are a pompous ass as often as possible.

Is this your civic duty?

What you're doing is buttsniffing and I hear a giant whiff coming from
your direction. Here's something for your trouble -- pfffffft
Did you learn that from Harry? Sounds about third gradish!
Just a repeat of what "Reggie" said.

You're not here to prove anything. You haven't the skill.
How are those find German screw drives doing? You know the metal rods
with plastic handles.
You are freakin' weird. Would you limit my choice to chinese crap
bought at walmart for my electronics bench?
What's the difference between a $2 screw driver and a $5 screw driver?

First you want to dictate what happens in your wife's womb, then it's
screwdrivers. Where does it stop, BAR?
I was smart enough to marry a woman who has the same values I have.

I'm glad your wife was never raped and impregnated.

A life is a life, what did the baby do to deserve to die.

I am interested to know if your fine German screw drivers are as good as
my fine Craftsman screw drivers that I bought 30 years ago. $19.95 for a
20 piece screw driver set. I still have 17 of them. Two didn't survive
due to them being used as pry bars and one failed as a chisels.

Truth is I tried to purchase craftsman but they were more expensive
than the German model (manufactured for our specific tasks) and
significantly inferior in quality, made in China.

Sounds like an exchange rate problem.

I must have at least 25 craftsman screwdrivers in my box and bag. For
most jobs they're fine, for assembling small electronic parts they're
not acceptable.

This is what we use:

http://www.wihatools.com/900seri/961serie.htm

You operate a tech bench at work rather than the corner office.

Better behave at Waffle House
 

On Sat, 16 May 2009 15:13:53 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 14:49:13 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 13:04:06 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 11:10:47 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:02:58 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 21:08:04 -0400, DK
wrote:

jps wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2009 19:35:31 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 19:54:49 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:23:54 -0400, HK wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:15:50 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


My oldest son was a very fussy eater.
We'd go into a Chinese restaurant and he had to have a hamburger.
The Chinese joints I go to don't serve hamburgers, at least I never
saw them on the menu.
But I learned something when eating out with a friend who had been a
restaurateur - and he had been the maitre de at La Francais, an
internationally know restaurant nearby.
You can get almost anything you want in a good restaurant without even
looking at the menu.
Of course he knew the owners, what the kitchen was capable of, best
sides for the dish in the traditions or the originating country, etc.
You could call him an epicure, if that's the word.
These were all local "specialty" places, mostly Italian.
But let's say you tend that way, and like to eat just so.
For example you like blacks olives with such and such.
Not on the menu, but if you ask you should be accommodated.
One of my favorite movie scenes was Jack Nicholson getting his
toast by putting multiple holds on the menu BLT.
Five Easy Pieces, I think.
You don't have to do contortions like that to get what you want in a
good restaurant.
Having said that, I never do it, and go with the menu.

I believe in ordering the food they specialize in.

Me too.

--Vic
Indeed. Many, many years ago, Stepfatherinlaw #1, a nice fellow, came to
visit shortly after we moved to the DC area from New York. He was a
lifelong midwesterner. We went out to Annapolis for a nice day trip, and
I took everyone to a pretty nice seafood restaurant there. He ordered
meatloaf and his youngest daughter, who accompanied him on the trip,
ordered a roast beef sandwich. With mashed potato(e)s. Grrrrrrr.
They can't help themselves. My partner grew up in the midwest. We
met in Los Angeles. For the first year he was on the west coast,
every course of the meal featured meat.

He's long been rehabilitated but it took years.
Now I get it.

-dk
All you get is ****. "Partner" is used in the traditional sense as in
business partner.

As usual, go **** yourself.
Is that what I implied, dip****?
You implied it elsewhere, dickhead.
Right. Last week at the airport. Sorry, I remember now.
You're now officially a liar. Do I need to quote you?

You're just as vile as the dickheads in this group who insisted we
were in Iraq for all the right reasons while accusing me of being a
traitor, unamerican, guilty of sedition, comfort to the enemy, etc.

None of them is man enough to admit they were dead wrong.

Just like you.
Do I hear someone sniffing very loudly?
Do you understand that he's addressing me and that he's not addressing
you and that you've added absolutely nothing to the dialogue?
Take it to e-mail if you don't want the rest of us chiming in when we
want to chime in.

This is what you've spent 100s of hours doing? Have you learned
anything, honed your debate skills, enlightened anyone about anything?
We are here to prove that you are a pompous ass as often as possible.

Is this your civic duty?

What you're doing is buttsniffing and I hear a giant whiff coming from
your direction. Here's something for your trouble -- pfffffft
Did you learn that from Harry? Sounds about third gradish!
Just a repeat of what "Reggie" said.

You're not here to prove anything. You haven't the skill.
How are those find German screw drives doing? You know the metal rods
with plastic handles.
You are freakin' weird. Would you limit my choice to chinese crap
bought at walmart for my electronics bench?
What's the difference between a $2 screw driver and a $5 screw driver?

First you want to dictate what happens in your wife's womb, then it's
screwdrivers. Where does it stop, BAR?
I was smart enough to marry a woman who has the same values I have.

I'm glad your wife was never raped and impregnated.

A life is a life, what did the baby do to deserve to die.

Even if extending the dna line of a psychopath...

I am interested to know if your fine German screw drivers are as good as
my fine Craftsman screw drivers that I bought 30 years ago. $19.95 for a
20 piece screw driver set. I still have 17 of them. Two didn't survive
due to them being used as pry bars and one failed as a chisels.

Truth is I tried to purchase craftsman but they were more expensive
than the German model (manufactured for our specific tasks) and
significantly inferior in quality, made in China.

Sounds like an exchange rate problem.

I must have at least 25 craftsman screwdrivers in my box and bag. For
most jobs they're fine, for assembling small electronic parts they're
not acceptable.

This is what we use:

http://www.wihatools.com/900seri/961serie.htm

You operate a tech bench at work rather than the corner office.

I don't operate. I'm responsible for making certain it's stocked with
the right tools, just like I'm responsible for making certain we have
the right computers, software, personnel, offices, professional
accountants, attorneys, security, etc. I run a business.

Better behave at Waffle House
 

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 15:13:53 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 14:49:13 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 13:04:06 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 11:10:47 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:02:58 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 21:08:04 -0400, DK
wrote:

jps wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2009 19:35:31 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 19:54:49 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:23:54 -0400, HK wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:15:50 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


My oldest son was a very fussy eater.
We'd go into a Chinese restaurant and he had to have a hamburger.
The Chinese joints I go to don't serve hamburgers, at least I never
saw them on the menu.
But I learned something when eating out with a friend who had been a
restaurateur - and he had been the maitre de at La Francais, an
internationally know restaurant nearby.
You can get almost anything you want in a good restaurant without even
looking at the menu.
Of course he knew the owners, what the kitchen was capable of, best
sides for the dish in the traditions or the originating country, etc.
You could call him an epicure, if that's the word.
These were all local "specialty" places, mostly Italian.
But let's say you tend that way, and like to eat just so.
For example you like blacks olives with such and such.
Not on the menu, but if you ask you should be accommodated.
One of my favorite movie scenes was Jack Nicholson getting his
toast by putting multiple holds on the menu BLT.
Five Easy Pieces, I think.
You don't have to do contortions like that to get what you want in a
good restaurant.
Having said that, I never do it, and go with the menu.

I believe in ordering the food they specialize in.

Me too.

--Vic
Indeed. Many, many years ago, Stepfatherinlaw #1, a nice fellow, came to
visit shortly after we moved to the DC area from New York. He was a
lifelong midwesterner. We went out to Annapolis for a nice day trip, and
I took everyone to a pretty nice seafood restaurant there. He ordered
meatloaf and his youngest daughter, who accompanied him on the trip,
ordered a roast beef sandwich. With mashed potato(e)s. Grrrrrrr.
They can't help themselves. My partner grew up in the midwest. We
met in Los Angeles. For the first year he was on the west coast,
every course of the meal featured meat.

He's long been rehabilitated but it took years.
Now I get it.

-dk
All you get is ****. "Partner" is used in the traditional sense as in
business partner.

As usual, go **** yourself.
Is that what I implied, dip****?
You implied it elsewhere, dickhead.
Right. Last week at the airport. Sorry, I remember now.
You're now officially a liar. Do I need to quote you?

You're just as vile as the dickheads in this group who insisted we
were in Iraq for all the right reasons while accusing me of being a
traitor, unamerican, guilty of sedition, comfort to the enemy, etc.

None of them is man enough to admit they were dead wrong.

Just like you.
Do I hear someone sniffing very loudly?
Do you understand that he's addressing me and that he's not addressing
you and that you've added absolutely nothing to the dialogue?
Take it to e-mail if you don't want the rest of us chiming in when we
want to chime in.

This is what you've spent 100s of hours doing? Have you learned
anything, honed your debate skills, enlightened anyone about anything?
We are here to prove that you are a pompous ass as often as possible.

Is this your civic duty?

What you're doing is buttsniffing and I hear a giant whiff coming from
your direction. Here's something for your trouble -- pfffffft
Did you learn that from Harry? Sounds about third gradish!
Just a repeat of what "Reggie" said.

You're not here to prove anything. You haven't the skill.
How are those find German screw drives doing? You know the metal rods
with plastic handles.
You are freakin' weird. Would you limit my choice to chinese crap
bought at walmart for my electronics bench?
What's the difference between a $2 screw driver and a $5 screw driver?

First you want to dictate what happens in your wife's womb, then it's
screwdrivers. Where does it stop, BAR?
I was smart enough to marry a woman who has the same values I have.
I'm glad your wife was never raped and impregnated.
A life is a life, what did the baby do to deserve to die.

Even if extending the dna line of a psychopath...

I am interested to know if your fine German screw drivers are as good as
my fine Craftsman screw drivers that I bought 30 years ago. $19.95 for a
20 piece screw driver set. I still have 17 of them. Two didn't survive
due to them being used as pry bars and one failed as a chisels.
Truth is I tried to purchase craftsman but they were more expensive
than the German model (manufactured for our specific tasks) and
significantly inferior in quality, made in China.
Sounds like an exchange rate problem.

I must have at least 25 craftsman screwdrivers in my box and bag. For
most jobs they're fine, for assembling small electronic parts they're
not acceptable.

This is what we use:

http://www.wihatools.com/900seri/961serie.htm
You operate a tech bench at work rather than the corner office.

I don't operate. I'm responsible for making certain it's stocked with
the right tools, just like I'm responsible for making certain we have
the right computers, software, personnel, offices, professional
accountants, attorneys, security, etc. I run a business.

You are a lab supervisor.

Better behave at Waffle House
 

On Sat, 16 May 2009 16:36:32 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 15:13:53 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 14:49:13 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 13:04:06 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 11:10:47 -0400, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:02:58 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 21:08:04 -0400, DK
wrote:

jps wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2009 19:35:31 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 19:54:49 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:23:54 -0400, HK wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:15:50 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


My oldest son was a very fussy eater.
We'd go into a Chinese restaurant and he had to have a hamburger.
The Chinese joints I go to don't serve hamburgers, at least I never
saw them on the menu.
But I learned something when eating out with a friend who had been a
restaurateur - and he had been the maitre de at La Francais, an
internationally know restaurant nearby.
You can get almost anything you want in a good restaurant without even
looking at the menu.
Of course he knew the owners, what the kitchen was capable of, best
sides for the dish in the traditions or the originating country, etc.
You could call him an epicure, if that's the word.
These were all local "specialty" places, mostly Italian.
But let's say you tend that way, and like to eat just so.
For example you like blacks olives with such and such.
Not on the menu, but if you ask you should be accommodated.
One of my favorite movie scenes was Jack Nicholson getting his
toast by putting multiple holds on the menu BLT.
Five Easy Pieces, I think.
You don't have to do contortions like that to get what you want in a
good restaurant.
Having said that, I never do it, and go with the menu.

I believe in ordering the food they specialize in.

Me too.

--Vic
Indeed. Many, many years ago, Stepfatherinlaw #1, a nice fellow, came to
visit shortly after we moved to the DC area from New York. He was a
lifelong midwesterner. We went out to Annapolis for a nice day trip, and
I took everyone to a pretty nice seafood restaurant there. He ordered
meatloaf and his youngest daughter, who accompanied him on the trip,
ordered a roast beef sandwich. With mashed potato(e)s. Grrrrrrr.
They can't help themselves. My partner grew up in the midwest. We
met in Los Angeles. For the first year he was on the west coast,
every course of the meal featured meat.

He's long been rehabilitated but it took years.
Now I get it.

-dk
All you get is ****. "Partner" is used in the traditional sense as in
business partner.

As usual, go **** yourself.
Is that what I implied, dip****?
You implied it elsewhere, dickhead.
Right. Last week at the airport. Sorry, I remember now.
You're now officially a liar. Do I need to quote you?

You're just as vile as the dickheads in this group who insisted we
were in Iraq for all the right reasons while accusing me of being a
traitor, unamerican, guilty of sedition, comfort to the enemy, etc.

None of them is man enough to admit they were dead wrong.

Just like you.
Do I hear someone sniffing very loudly?
Do you understand that he's addressing me and that he's not addressing
you and that you've added absolutely nothing to the dialogue?
Take it to e-mail if you don't want the rest of us chiming in when we
want to chime in.

This is what you've spent 100s of hours doing? Have you learned
anything, honed your debate skills, enlightened anyone about anything?
We are here to prove that you are a pompous ass as often as possible.

Is this your civic duty?

What you're doing is buttsniffing and I hear a giant whiff coming from
your direction. Here's something for your trouble -- pfffffft
Did you learn that from Harry? Sounds about third gradish!
Just a repeat of what "Reggie" said.

You're not here to prove anything. You haven't the skill.
How are those find German screw drives doing? You know the metal rods
with plastic handles.
You are freakin' weird. Would you limit my choice to chinese crap
bought at walmart for my electronics bench?
What's the difference between a $2 screw driver and a $5 screw driver?

First you want to dictate what happens in your wife's womb, then it's
screwdrivers. Where does it stop, BAR?
I was smart enough to marry a woman who has the same values I have.
I'm glad your wife was never raped and impregnated.
A life is a life, what did the baby do to deserve to die.

Even if extending the dna line of a psychopath...

I am interested to know if your fine German screw drivers are as good as
my fine Craftsman screw drivers that I bought 30 years ago. $19.95 for a
20 piece screw driver set. I still have 17 of them. Two didn't survive
due to them being used as pry bars and one failed as a chisels.
Truth is I tried to purchase craftsman but they were more expensive
than the German model (manufactured for our specific tasks) and
significantly inferior in quality, made in China.
Sounds like an exchange rate problem.

I must have at least 25 craftsman screwdrivers in my box and bag. For
most jobs they're fine, for assembling small electronic parts they're
not acceptable.

This is what we use:

http://www.wihatools.com/900seri/961serie.htm
You operate a tech bench at work rather than the corner office.

I don't operate. I'm responsible for making certain it's stocked with
the right tools, just like I'm responsible for making certain we have
the right computers, software, personnel, offices, professional
accountants, attorneys, security, etc. I run a business.

You are a lab supervisor.

Sometimes I wish I were.

You folks with "jobs" don't live with responsibility beyond 5 days.

I'm responsible for people's livelyhoods and the future of our
business. You know, where the buck stops.

Maybe you don't.

Better behave at Waffle House
 

jps wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 21:08:04 -0400, DK
wrote:

jps wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2009 19:35:31 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 19:54:49 -0400, DK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:23:54 -0400, HK wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:15:50 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


My oldest son was a very fussy eater.
We'd go into a Chinese restaurant and he had to have a hamburger.
The Chinese joints I go to don't serve hamburgers, at least I never
saw them on the menu.
But I learned something when eating out with a friend who had been a
restaurateur - and he had been the maitre de at La Francais, an
internationally know restaurant nearby.
You can get almost anything you want in a good restaurant without even
looking at the menu.
Of course he knew the owners, what the kitchen was capable of, best
sides for the dish in the traditions or the originating country, etc.
You could call him an epicure, if that's the word.
These were all local "specialty" places, mostly Italian.
But let's say you tend that way, and like to eat just so.
For example you like blacks olives with such and such.
Not on the menu, but if you ask you should be accommodated.
One of my favorite movie scenes was Jack Nicholson getting his
toast by putting multiple holds on the menu BLT.
Five Easy Pieces, I think.
You don't have to do contortions like that to get what you want in a
good restaurant.
Having said that, I never do it, and go with the menu.

I believe in ordering the food they specialize in.

Me too.

--Vic
Indeed. Many, many years ago, Stepfatherinlaw #1, a nice fellow, came to
visit shortly after we moved to the DC area from New York. He was a
lifelong midwesterner. We went out to Annapolis for a nice day trip, and
I took everyone to a pretty nice seafood restaurant there. He ordered
meatloaf and his youngest daughter, who accompanied him on the trip,
ordered a roast beef sandwich. With mashed potato(e)s. Grrrrrrr.
They can't help themselves. My partner grew up in the midwest. We
met in Los Angeles. For the first year he was on the west coast,
every course of the meal featured meat.

He's long been rehabilitated but it took years.
Now I get it.

-dk
All you get is ****. "Partner" is used in the traditional sense as in
business partner.

As usual, go **** yourself.
Is that what I implied, dip****?
You implied it elsewhere, dickhead.
Right. Last week at the airport. Sorry, I remember now.

You're now officially a liar. Do I need to quote you?

You're just as vile as the dickheads in this group who insisted we
were in Iraq for all the right reasons while accusing me of being a
traitor, unamerican, guilty of sedition, comfort to the enemy, etc.

None of them is man enough to admit they were dead wrong.

Just like you.

If that was true you would have quoted it.

Carry on...