The Off Topic Topic

[Duque de Bragança]

Someone had to be here to make sure they do a proper job.

Ah, the Canadian work ethic.   

Fixed it for you

[Malthus]

Someone had to be here to make sure they do a proper job.

Ah, the Canadian work ethic.   

Fixed it for you

Hey, call it the "French Canadian work ethic" and you can *both* be right. 

[Grey Fox]

Maybe he was a mexican, you guys don't know.

[katmai]

Maybe he was a mexican, you guys don't know.

wtf you implying francis?

[Grey Fox]

Maybe he was a mexican, you guys don't know.

wtf you implying francis?

Laziness

[Duque de Bragança]

Someone had to be here to make sure they do a proper job.

Ah, the Canadian work ethic.   

Fixed it for you

Hey, call it the "French-speaking Canadian work ethic" and you can *both* be right. 

/Nitpicking

[Savonarola]

Leave it to the FIBs to ruin Canada's national dish:

Chicago versions of Canada's poutine by Phil Vettel, Tribune critic

Canada has given us so many things — Smarties, Trivial Pursuit, Jack Bauer — but one of its best-known culinary innovations remains largely unknown in Chicago. That would be poutine, a debatable delicacy that first appeared in Quebec in the 1950s. The dish consists of french fries, topped with cheese curds (mild white-cheddar cheese nuggets so fresh they squeak when you bite) and lovingly smothered with a chicken-based gravy. It's a rich-tasting, artery-clogging slopfest of a dish, popular with hockey fans and over-imbibers (two categories that, every so often, overlap).

Let us not snicker too much. Compared with the gloppy abominations known as cheese fries and stadium-style nachos, topped with that distinctive Day-Glo orange cheese (molecular gastronomy gone horribly wrong), poutine should be considered haute cuisine.

But the dish was relatively unknown in Chicago until a few years ago, when The Gage, a gastropub on Michigan Avenue, added it to the menu — presented, says executive chef Dirk Flanigan, as a taste of home to Catherine Gilmore-Lawless, the Canadian-born half of The Gage's husband-wife ownership team. Flanigan, an accomplished chef, wasn't content to put out straight poutine. Instead, he fashioned a version that included not mere gravy, but an elk ragout with nibbles of elk meat. Gourmet poutine, if you will.

Now there are at least a half-dozen poutine incarnations in the Chicago area, and though the essential components — fries, cheese, gravy — remain in place, Chicago's poutines are tricked out with specialty meats, imported cheeses and/or fine herbs. Definitely a notch above bar food.

With a grateful bow to the soon-to-be-concluded Olympic Games in Vancouver, we look at poutine, Chicago-style...

[Grey Fox]

It's okay, Poutine is versatile. Smoked Meat Poutine is fantastic. Foie Gras poutine is also good.

[Josquius]

The song is bleh but this video just looks so cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZInkc_YWpPg

[garbon]

I got a free 13-month porn calendar from a bar. The tube snakes look almost fake.

[Korea]

I've just tried Blodpudding for the first time.
Its surprisingly OK, the idea of sweet black pudding was just nasty but...yeah, it works, though it feels more like a odd cake than blood pudding.

Does it have blood in it?

[Savonarola]

Monsterpiece Theater Presents:  Waiting for Elmo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksL_7WrhWOc

Brilliant, so brilliant that it makes absolutely no sense to anybody.

[Josquius]

I've just tried Blodpudding for the first time.
Its surprisingly OK, the idea of sweet black pudding was just nasty but...yeah, it works, though it feels more like a odd cake than blood pudding.

Does it have blood in it?

I hope so

[Alcibiades]

Gmail option I just found: 

Mail Goggles
by Jon P

Google strives to make the world's information useful. Mail you send late night on the weekends may be useful but you may regret it the next morning. Solve some simple math problems and you're good to go. Otherwise, get a good night's sleep and try again in the morning. After enabling this feature, you can adjust the schedule in the "General" settings page.

Could save a lot of embarrassing moments 

[Alcibiades]

I have finnally gave up on Azureus/Vuze & moved to utorrent.

It seems better.

I did the opposite 6 months ago and came to the same conclusion.