The Off Topic Topic

[Grey Fox]

My employer pays a 300 Euro bonus if you don't miss a single day for sickness during the year. They reduce it by 50 Euro per day that you are missing. I wonder if that leads to sick people coming into the office.

That leads to showingupism, that's very stupid.

[Ideologue]

Posted on Salon.com, an excerpt from the upcoming bio on Phil Hartman

Phil Hartman's final night: The tragic death of a "Saturday Night Live" genius
Exclusive: The shocking minute-by-minute account of the comedian's death at the hands of his wife, Brynn
Mike Thomas

May 28, 1998—early morning

According to police, the most likely scenario for what then transpired is this: sometime in the next couple of hours, as Phil sleeps with his bent right leg exposed atop the sheet and cover and his left arm extended straight out beneath him, Brynn enters the master bathroom suite. There, on a closet shelf, is the metal lockbox in which she and Phil keep their firearms and gun supplies. Extracting his Smith & Wesson .38, she returns to where her husband lies. From her side of the bed, she takes aim and fires the first shot. A second and a third follow. One strikes the right side of Phil's neck, just lateral to his chin. Another enters through his posterior right forearm, exits out the anterior, and re-enters his right lower chest. Both are fired from no more than eighteen inches away, the latter causing a fatal wound. The most damaging shot, also fatal, is fired at point-blank or nearly point-blank range and enters just above the bridge of Phil's nose, passing through his skull and brain before it comes to rest. Death is quick, perhaps instantaneous. Incongruously, he seems to be smiling, as if in the middle of a sweet dream.

http://www.salon.com/2014/09/21/phil_hartmans_final_night_the_tragic_death_of_a_saturday_night_live_genius/

Good morning to you too.

[derspiess]

Isn't British bacon different from American bacon?

Is it like Canadian bacon?

Edit:  Google is telling me that British bacon is big, wider, floppy cuts of meat.

There's a lot of variation in the US.  The bacon I buy from the butcher over at the market is wide and thick.  The bacon they serve for the pre-game meal at Paul Brown Stadium is razor-thin. 

[Admiral Yi]

I totally missed the Jesus pancake.

[Josquius]

[Maximus]

I totally missed the Jesus pancake.

I'm not sure what the rest of the stuff on that plate is.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

I totally missed the Jesus pancake.

I think it's a biscuit, not a pancake.

[Barrister]

I totally missed the Jesus pancake.

I'm not sure what the rest of the stuff on that plate is.

There's a couple of lobster tails, but I can't ID the rest either.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

I totally missed the Jesus pancake.

I'm not sure what the rest of the stuff on that plate is.

I think an omelette, lobster tails, and a sausage patty.

[DGuller]

Dog cheated. 

[Admiral Yi]

I think:

lobster tails, loaded baked potato, steak, and Jesus bread product.  Not sure about the red thing on the right.  Bagel with cranberries?

And is that a cup of tea in the picture.  That makes no fucking sense.

[Syt]

I totally missed the Jesus pancake.

I'm not sure what the rest of the stuff on that plate is.

Better?

[Barrister]

On closer review, that's not tea, that's bacon fat.

Not sure what's in the glass.  Coke?  Wine?

[Admiral Yi]

Coke with no ice?  Doubt it.

Any guesses on the red pellet thingy?

[Barrister]

They would appear to be pomegranate seeds.  Not sure what they're on.