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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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jimmy olsen

Vanilla coke is the beverage of gods!
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Syt

Haven't seen Vanilla Coke here, but then I normally don't shop for cola.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Malthus

Quote from: Grey Fox on February 05, 2014, 08:07:25 AM
I think so. The US has hundreds of Coke flavors.

Coke is to the US as snow is to the Innuit.  ;)
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Grey Fox

Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

The Minsky Moment

Quote from: Ideologue on February 04, 2014, 10:52:17 PM
Yeah, my vanilla Stolichnaya is fucking swill.

Joan and garbon are the reason President Donald Pleasance built that wall.

garbon is a founding member of the ersatz champagne designation club, as far as I am concerned he is a fellow traveler to your sasparilla-and-rum-and-cherry-liqueor with string cheese crowd.

I am the vinous Jeremiah, a lone prophet shaking my fist at the corruption that surrounds me.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

Kleves

I'm headed down to the victory parade for the Seahawks. 500,000+ are expected to attend.
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

jimmy olsen

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on February 05, 2014, 10:58:52 AM
garbon is a founding member of the ersatz champagne designation club, as far as I am concerned he is a fellow traveler to your sasparilla-and-rum-and-cherry-liqueor with string cheese crowd.

Gross :yuk:

Most people I encounter in real life consider me a cheese snob.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Eddie Teach

Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 05, 2014, 11:04:46 AM
Most people I encounter in real life consider me a cheese snob.

Cal, Wags, is this true?  :hmm:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Sheilbh

Didn't know America had cheese snobs, what with your addiction to vicious pasteurisation.
Let's bomb Russia!

garbon

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on February 05, 2014, 10:58:52 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on February 04, 2014, 10:52:17 PM
Yeah, my vanilla Stolichnaya is fucking swill.

Joan and garbon are the reason President Donald Pleasance built that wall.

garbon is a founding member of the ersatz champagne designation club, as far as I am concerned he is a fellow traveler to your sasparilla-and-rum-and-cherry-liqueor with string cheese crowd.

I am the vinous Jeremiah, a lone prophet shaking my fist at the corruption that surrounds me.

I picture you more as Don Quixote with regards to these issues. ;)
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Duque de Bragança

Quote from: Sheilbh on February 05, 2014, 12:44:02 PM
Didn't know America had cheese snobs, what with your addiction to vicious pasteurisation.

Bien dit ! :frog:

Jacob

Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 05, 2014, 08:57:55 AM
Vanilla coke is the beverage of gods!

A strong argument for atheism.

The Minsky Moment

Quote from: garbon on February 05, 2014, 12:58:19 PM
I picture you more as Don Quixote with regards to these issues. ;)

Oh no.   La Mancha DO is very large, but the quality is not the highest.  Still mostly Airen.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson