The first thought that pops into your sweet head: new Random

[Mike24]

I had some Bell's Expedition Stout the other day and it definitely had some chocolate going on.  The only chocolate stout of tried is young's double chocolate but it was kinda thin.  The Bell's will be what I go for when i'm craving some thick chocolaty beer.

Also tried Gulden Draak this weird Belgian beer in a white bottle, it was intense and delicious.  I was at this bar that has recently become (i think) the only place in the Canada that sells dogfish head, so i've been binging on their 60 minute, and india brown (and waiting patiently for the 90 and 120 minutes).  I asked the bartender to give me something different, and it definitely was.

[Andrew_TSKS]

lost japanese parrot tells name and address to veterinarian

i find this fascinating.

[alexandra]

I just read a story in the new yorker about another African Grey parrot that was pretty rad.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_talbot

[edison]

lost japanese parrot tells name and address to veterinarian

i find this fascinating.

Wow, that's extremely brilliant.

[Ignatius]

I looked at my dad's calendar, and on the nineteenth of May, apparently he had a match of "BLOOD GOLF" to attend to.  Or he went to a blood drive and the golf course on the same day, but really, which is more likely?

[G.C.R]

or maybe it was "Gulf" and he's commemorating a sad day back in the war? Anyway I was reading that New Yorker story about the parrot and it almost made me late to class this morning. fascinating stuff! Also, I want one.

[girl]

or maybe it was "Gulf" and he's commemorating a sad day back in the war? Anyway I was reading that New Yorker story about the parrot and it almost made me late to class this morning. fascinating stuff! Also, I want one.

Funny. Last time I was at a get-together at jess' house, we decided that none of us would want a parrot as a pet because they're too smart. Then WTSL decided it would be ok to have one if it could read, but not talk.

[Anne the Man]

Hey Chris, I remember aaages ago you posted some recipe for a pastry basket which had apples and spun sugar; I made it and it was delicieux. I can't find it in either of our posts, and I swear to God I cannot work the search engine here, so would you mind posting it again? I will give you and the rest of LPTJ a very nice White Bean Soup recipe in exchange. It be garnished with garlic lemon herb butter.

[Greg Nog]

Last time I was at a get-together at jess' house, we decided that none of us would want a parrot as a pet

So what you're saying is that you'd prefer five hundred lizards?

[jebreject]

Last time I was at a get-together at jess' house, we decided that none of us would want a parrot as a pet

So what you're saying is that you'd prefer five hundred lizards?

hahahahahaha

[alexandra]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaszeta/2485234156/in/pool-everythingsbetterwithbacon

http://www.flickr.com/photos/briankusler/2337430825/

AND: http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2008/02/27/bacon-cups/

[diesel_powered]

Last time I was at a get-together at jess' house, we decided that none of us would want a parrot as a pet

So what you're saying is that you'd prefer five hundred lizards?

hahahahahaha

Nice. It took me a minute.

[C of heartbreak]

There are children out in the yard screaming and throwing cake at each other.

[C of heartbreak]

"Is that girl wearing mittens?--oh wait, that's frosting."

[girl]

Hey Chris, I remember aaages ago you posted some recipe for a pastry basket which had apples and spun sugar; I made it and it was delicieux. I can't find it in either of our posts, and I swear to God I cannot work the search engine here, so would you mind posting it again? I will give you and the rest of LPTJ a very nice White Bean Soup recipe in exchange. It be garnished with garlic lemon herb butter.

I can't find that post either, and that cookbook is out on (extended) loan to my cousin, so I can't reproduce it exactly, but it's really simple. You need phyllo dough sliced into fairly thin strips that you shape into a nest and coat with melted butter or cooking spray and then sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Bake it until it's crispy and golden and then top it with fruit (apples, pears, really anything would work) that you've cooked with cinnamon and sugar and top the whole thing with a spun sugar cage. To make the spun sugar cage, heat some sugar in a saucepan on the stovetop until it starts to caramelize, then, using a fork, you sort of wiggle the liquid sugar over the bottom of an inverted bowl that you've coated with oil making a sort of lattice pattern. Once it hardens, remove it from the bowl and put it on top of the whole thing. Sorry I can't be more precise!

[girl]

Last time I was at a get-together at jess' house, we decided that none of us would want a parrot as a pet

So what you're saying is that you'd prefer five hundred lizards?

Are you buying me a present?! 

[Wally]

I just had a chip pan fire! The fire bridgade have just left! Bloody hell!

[alexandra]

omg! you okay? kitchen okay?

[Wally]

I'm fine, everything in the kitchen is now covered in black and kinda stinks. I guess I'll have some fun cleaning that up later, lucky for me only half an hour earlier I'd taken my laundry out of the kitchen and into the other room. When the fire started I forgot what you were supposed to do with a chip pan fire so I had to look it up on the internet, the internets advice? phone for the fire brigade. When I phoned them they told me make sure the building was empty, as there's another fifteen flats in the house and I've not actually met anyone apart from when we pass on the way to bathroom. So, this was an interesting way to meet them, banging on their door shouting "I set my chip pan on fire, the fire brigade are on their way, and you have to stop whatever you're doing and leave the building....I'm dom I live downstairs."

[alex]

Oh wow, damn. Good to hear you're okay though, Dom.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Yesterday my cat got off the couch and was hobbling really badly. Like a rabbit and kinda sideways. She looked terrible so we crammed her in a catbox and rushed off to the vet.
Turns out she'd been in a fight and had a couple of bites on one paw. She's OK but I was freaked out for a few minutes there.
Vets are fucking expensive.
But I noticed the vet had nasty scratches up and down both arms so I didn't mind him some $$.

On the plus side the vet weighed Kenickie and said she's normal. This was followed by a loud "Ha!" from me to my flatmate, "I told you she was just big-boned!".

[Son of Jo]

I love rabbits, enjoy liberating them, and have a rabbit tattooed on my body... no rabbits were harmed in the tattooing of my flesh, which indeed was harmed, in Uptown, Chicago.

[Babar]

 

[elpollodiablo]

You stole that rabbit?

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Looks like a white Wombat to me.