Open Thread

21 Comments

1. 

   Steven D on August 10, 2006 at 2:41 pm

   Does a foam latte count?

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   Real History Lisa on August 10, 2006 at 2:42 pm

   Only when I’ve left the OJ in the fridge too long…

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   CabinGirl on August 10, 2006 at 2:44 pm

   

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     poemless on August 10, 2006 at 4:21 pm

     Mmmm. The best!  Also good: San Pellegrino Aranciata and Trader Joe’s French Market Lemonade.

     And do vodka tonics count as fizzy drinks?  

     And what does Booman have against fizzy drinks anyway?

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   Family Man on August 10, 2006 at 2:45 pm

   Only if you count beer as fizzy?

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     dada on August 10, 2006 at 2:51 pm
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   librarylil on August 10, 2006 at 3:00 pm

   Not much, but when I was a kid I liked to eat Fizzies. I especially liked the lemon-lime. I see they’re back on the market.

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   DaveW on August 10, 2006 at 3:07 pm

   But if I ever have the misfortune to dine with my “representatives” in DC, I will get to eat french fries and french toast. In a story so controversial that only the intrepid Moonie Times dared touch it, it is revealed that Capitol Hill fries and toast are no longer free:

   Neither Reps. Bob Ney of Ohio nor Walter B. Jones of North Carolina, the authors of the culinary rebuke, were willing this week to say who led the retreat, as it were, from the frying pan. But retreat there has been, as a casual observer can see for himself in the House’s basement cafeterias.
       “We don’t have a comment for your story,” said a spokeswoman for Mr. Ney.
       Several Republican staffers and lawmakers suggest that the change isn’t worth investigating, unlike the eagerness in March 2003 to get into the headlines about patriotism on the menu.
       Mr. Ney, who was then the chairman of the House Administration Committee, which oversees the cafeterias, gleefully announced the change at the height of anti-French sentiment, when Paris scolded Washington that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was premature.
       “This action today is a small but symbolic effort to show the strong displeasure of many on Capitol Hill with the actions of our so-called ally, France,” he said on March 11, 2003.
       The Ney spokeswoman, who wasn’t aware Monday that fries and toast had reverted to their original names, observed that Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers of Michigan, the Republican who chairs the House Administration Committee now, “has the right to change the name.”
       But Jon Brandt, a spokesman for Mr. Ehlers, doesn’t want to talk about it, either. “Officially the committee has no comment on the matter,” he said. “I really don’t see how this is a story.”

   Gosh, I think idiocy in high places is always a story, don’t you? But no doubt Mr. Ney has more lucrative idiocies on his mind these days. Like Jack Abramoff.

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     keepinon on August 10, 2006 at 7:02 pm

     Ya think that means that the French are our good buddies again??

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       DaveW on August 10, 2006 at 7:33 pm

       I don’t know, but now that the fries have lost their freedom, I think they qualify to called American fries.

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   Cali Scribe on August 10, 2006 at 4:59 pm

   and an occasional good champagne…but I do have some diet IBC root beer on hand; got a couple of bottles in the fridge now for possible root beer floats (with Healthy Choice low-fat vanilla ice cream) this evening…

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   bkrog on August 10, 2006 at 5:14 pm

   I think this would qualify as a ‘fizzy drink’.
   An excellent pitcher-drink for hot summer days, encountered in Buenos Aires, AR as ‘clerico champs’ (clerico being a regional word for a sangria made with white wine):

   Clerico Champs

   1. 1 bottle brut or extra-dry sparkling wine (Freixenet Brut is excellent for this, widely available and should be less than $10)
   2. 1 carton softened lime sorbet (like Haagen-Dazs)
   3. about 1 cup sliced fruit to taste (oranges, limes, raspberries, strawberries

   Mix all ingredients in a chilled glass pitcher and serve.

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   Jeff Huber on August 10, 2006 at 5:16 pm

   …those no cal, no carb, no nothing fruit flavored fizzy waters.  

   Why did it take so long to come up with those?

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    Renee in Ohio on August 10, 2006 at 5:28 pm

    Having Coke with lime right now. I usually like them with ice so that they’re not quite so fizzy, but always order “no ice” if we get beverages when we’re out. ‘Cause otherwise they use the ice as an excuse to stiff you on the pop, which costs them almost nothing in the first place.

    FYI…Demetrius has created a few new bumper stickers, which you can find here.

    

    

    

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    mlr701 on August 10, 2006 at 5:33 pm

    I normally have something fizzy after work (usually diet dr. peper).  But today, my company laid off 30 people, including several friends, so I’m having a giant glass of wine.  I don’t care that it’s 4:30 in the afternoon.  There’s nothing like wine and monster.com.

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      Renee in Ohio on August 10, 2006 at 5:44 pm

      Oh, jeez, I just came from Monster.com. It is soooo frickin’ depressing. Not sure wine would have helped.

      And nothing quite like both adults in the household looking for work.

      I say this in the hopes that you all will excuse the shameless bumper sticker pimping I just did upthread.

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        Cali Scribe on August 10, 2006 at 6:37 pm

        and ordered some stuff I’d had on my list for some time…

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          Renee in Ohio on August 10, 2006 at 7:44 pm

          Thanks–much appreciated!

12. 

    keepinon on August 10, 2006 at 7:30 pm

    If you haven’t yet, go look at Shalimar’s recommended piece before it slips off the page.

13. 

    neutron on August 10, 2006 at 8:12 pm

    no soft drinks though…
    oh and beer…
    of course.

    -C.

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    Into The Woods on August 11, 2006 at 12:18 am

    Anyone have any idea how I can get a transcript of Savage Nation from tonight?

    I check in on the “Patriot Radio” guys once in awhile just to get a feel for where they are trying to lead the sheep.  Usually shows up with Bush et al within a week or two.

    Tonight was extra special.  You can about imagine.  

    Islamofacist this, white man that, profiling this, we ought to have vigilantes to do what needs to be done – and it will be done.  

    One thing I learned.  It’s hard to drive when you are flipping off the radio with both hands.  

    Let me know if you have ideas of how to track down a transcript.  It would be a prime example of the kind of racial/religious hate mongering that is being stirred up by the Right-Wing Media.