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[Jizzelbin]

Dude, try like all of them. On the good note nerve regeneration is apparently a thing. Still have a gnarly suspiciously handcuffy-looking scar from an officer friendly with some GD cuffs on me. Stupid kid, he didn't know better, so I don't blame them, just a bunch of retardeds.

TNP fantasizes about joining the force and becoming a detective who doesn't have to wear a uniform and be a dick all the time, but whatever.

[Trojan Man]

False. In fact, I very seldom watch CSI.

TNP enjoys pickled garlic.

[Elendil's Heir]

Never had it, but I'm willing to try!

TNP has had Bacon Salt, and liked it.

[Jizzelbin]

I had bacon jam served on little crostinis or whatever a few days ago.

TNP has bought as a novelty gift bacon mayonnaise for a "loved" one in the past few years.

[Elendil's Heir]

No, but I'd like to try it sometime.

TNP really should be going to bed soon.

[Trojan Man]

True. Wow, timing!

TNP likes brussel sprouts.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Hmmm...."can eat" is probably more accurate than "likes".

TNP gets laryngitis a lot.

[Jizzelbin]

Nope. Never, actually. But then again I am extremely frugal with my voice IRL. I think it's more badass to talk quietly and clearly, yet audibly. Sure wish I could yodel though.

TNP is just fronting because they never had Brussel sprouts cooked the right way, because once you had a good cruciform cooked good, you eat that shit right the hell up. And come back for seconds.

[Jizzelbin]

Nope. Never, actually. But then again I am extremely frugal with my voice IRL. I think it's more badass to talk quietly and clearly, yet audibly. Sure wish I could yodel though.

TNP is just fronting because they never had Brussel sprouts cooked the right way, because once you had a good cruciform cooked good, you eat that shit right the hell up. And come back for seconds.

[Elendil's Heir]

Nah, never really cared for brussels sprouts.

TNP has actually been to Brussels.

[Jizzelbin]

Nope. I inherited Baudelaire's loathing for Belgium (in fucking Bruges! it's like a fairy tale! dwarves OK I'll stop trying to remember things from that movie). Probably been through it, I guess.

TNP has been waiting for some amount of time for somebody to say something correctly, like, for example, the name of a certain cruciferous vegetable. I bet you people don't even like broccoli (the veg, not the movie producer).

[Jizzelbin]

Nope. I inherited Baudelaire's loathing for Belgium (in fucking Bruges! it's like a fairy tale! dwarves OK I'll stop trying to remember things from that movie). Probably been through it, I guess.

TNP has been waiting for some amount of time for somebody to say something correctly, like, for example, the name of a certain cruciferous vegetable. I bet you people don't even like broccoli (the veg, not the movie producer).

[Elendil's Heir]

No, I can't say that's kept me up nights.

TNP is wondering if Jizzelbin has cloned himself, given two double posts in a row.

[Jizzelbin]

No!!!!! Just a messed up internet connection. I blame (a) you (b) them (c) biting midges and (d) the internet.

TNP wants to go to Belgium. And, why?

[Trojan Man]

It's not a burning ambition of mine to visit Belgium, but sure, why not. BTW, you're spot-on about brussel sprouts. If the natural flavour is too much for you, it helps to add butter, salt and pepper. Salivating just typing this...

TNP has recently had some strange food cravings.

[Jizzelbin]

Yeah. Over the weekend I indulged with the rest of my crew in some ice cream sundaes, which I very rarely eat, and later that night made one of my favorite drinks -- yellow Gatorade, about 12 ounces of orange curac,ao, some half-and-half, and a whole bunch of Hershey's chocolate syrup. I like to think I was helping out by getting rid of the leftovers in the fridge.

TNP has never been a pregnant man.

[Elendil's Heir]

For me, as for half of humanity, this is true.

TNP wonders sometimes about what it would be like to be pregnant.

[Trojan Man]

False. I'm not that guy in Life of Brian, protesting his right to be a woman...

TNP has eaten a good bit of steak recently.

[Elendil's Heir]

A couple of weeks ago, yes. And I'm a philistine - it's the uncommon steak that can't be improved by adding A-1 Sauce.

TNP will be dining at a restaurant tonight.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

No, my kid's having a sleepover and ordering in.

TNP has no idea what they'll be eating tonight.

[Trojan Man]

True. but now you mention it, I will give it some thought.

TNP has enjoyed a major sporting event on TV recently.

[Elendil's Heir]

Yes, I've watched a little of the World Cup. Sorry Brazil got pounded so badly by Germany.

TNP has been to either Bonn or Berlin.

[Trojan Man]

False, but I'd like to rectify that within the next 2 years.

TNP has enjoyed an alcoholic beverage recently.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Well, I had a beer with my supper yesterday. "Enjoyed" might be a bit strong.

TNP has no idea what tumblr is.

[Trojan Man]

I have a vague idea. It involves some visual media stuff. I think.

TNP has an Android phone.

[Elendil's Heir]

False. Just a garden-variety Verizon LG phone.

TNP has had the same cellphone for more than three years.

[Jizzelbin]

Hey word up Verizon LG "Text" phone. It works, the battery works, whatever. It's fine.

TNP is kind of irrationally hostile to proselytes of gadgetry. My pencils and paper are just great.

[Elendil's Heir]

Definitely. Just because it's new or electronic doesn't mean it's better. What gets me is calendars: someone asks, "Hey, are you free for lunch next Tuesday?" I whip out my pocket calendar, flip to that page, and boom, I see my schedule. Takes all of three seconds. But someone else gets out their PDA and pushes this button and that, then flips through, tabs through, swipes past, etc. Takes three or four times as long, sometimes longer.

TNP still uses a paper calendar.

[Jizzelbin]

Yep. One on my wall, with nice pictures of my nephews, with red-letter days color-coded in Sharpie, according to how much I like the event (magenta is for best, and green is for worst) and for anything I need to schedule and/or remember, I whip out my breast pocket notebook and, thanks to years of practice, randomly scrawl details on some half-empty or fully-empty page, depending on importance, in a way that I can always recall. Never missed anything, ever, yet. Can be triaged according to dog-ears on pages, using ink instead of pencil, or, if fancy, one of the half-dozen or so colored Sharpies somewhere around here. The key is I sort all of these during odd moments at the end of a day at my desk, in between lightning rounds of Canfield solitaire or whatever. And also it all stays crammed in my peabrain. And also I'm not that popular so it's not like coordinating re-entry of a capsule or whatever.

TNP has never, to his or her knowledge, been late for anything (not counting, say, five minutes here or there due to some other idiots, and absolving cases where one phoned ahead and averted the person in question one were running late...eta just remembered this does not describe me because of a shitload of cases, but not for anything I cared about, or for anyone).

[Trojan Man]

True, I am extremely punctual.

TNP thinks Argentina will win tomorrow.

[Jizzelbin]

Yep. One of two or maybe three SA countries I actually am friends with people from. Argentina needs a win, I would say. Give it to them, corrupt game ambassadors. If you can count that high.

TNP really doesn't like pizza hut night managers of a sobering station being put in any kind of authority, and *. Yeah whatever. But you know, it would be too bad, because they work hard.

[Elendil's Heir]

Sure, why not.

TNP doesn't really care about the World Cup.

[Jizzelbin]

Yep.

TNP is humbled by the display of humanity and spiritedness, and is really despairing of the great lacuna until the next summer Olympics. Because that is going to be great.

[Elendil's Heir]

To the extent I'm paying attention at all, yeah, sure.

TNP wants to see the controlled demolition of a bridge: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index..._belt_bri.html

[Jizzelbin]

<roy scheider in *Jaws*>Oh yeah.</roy scheider in *Jaws*>

TNP enjoys the daily variation in weather living near the great lakes provides -- temperance is unsatisfactory, when it comes to life and weather.

[Elendil's Heir]

Quite so, I do like the change in seasons, although summer is my least favorite. It gets so hot and sticky and there's only so much you can take off and not get arrested.

TNP is already yearning for snow.

[Trojan Man]

I yearn for snow daily.

TNP wants to eat beetroot.

[Elendil's Heir]

Nope. No interest whatsoever.

TNP thinks "beetroot" is a funny-lookin' word.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Yeah, somehow it always looks odd to me.

TNP is going to be watching the Home Run Derby.

[Elendil's Heir]

Nope. Don't care.

TNP has ridden a bicycle in the past month.

[Trojan Man]

True. 12 hours ago, and again in about an hour.

TNP likes cottage cheese.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

No, can't say as I do.

TNP likes lasagna.

[Elendil's Heir]

Very much, and my wife makes a good one (leaving out the spinach): http://barrslastcall.blogspot.com/20...h-lasagna.html

TNP loves spinach almost as much as Popeye.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

No, it falls into the "I like it OK" category.

TNP likes spinach on pizza.

[Jizzelbin]

Fucking a hell yes. A nice white pizza, spinach and feta, or streaky bacon and spinach. Spinach is probably the best vegetable, next to peas, carrots, leeks, onions, garlic, peppers, and cauliflower.

TNP is tired of being a fatass so for getting rid of twenty pounds is going to be all h***erotic about food and stuff.

[Elendil's Heir]

I wouldn't mind losing a few pounds, but no, not like that.

TNP has been to the Jersey Shore.

[Trojan Man]

Don't even know where it is...

TNP like the Corr's version of Erin Shore.

[Jizzelbin]

No can't stand Irish people. They Corr people sound oirish enough to me.

TNP has been bitten by so many things over the past few weeks it's not funny. And now I am out of diphenhydramine chlorowhatever and itches and, in the reality of this commentator, seeing a crazy-ass hobo spider literally crawl out of the spine of my Blackwell *Companion to Philosophical Logic* for getting to sleep and smashing it then these things keep. Yeah I blame my downstairs neighbor with her stupid-ass dog, probably some fucking fleas or whatever.

[Trojan Man]

Dude, I live in Australia. I get uncomfortable when I'm NOT getting bitten...

TNP has had a really good stirfry recently.

[Jizzelbin]

You know, sort of. My mother treated me to lunch with my older nephew (turning 6! that stuttering prick, but he's pretty smart, and he says funny stuff, and he doesn't think I'm a retard so he's cool) at a Thai restaurant. Wasn't really stirfry -- he got some of those chicken skewers with peanut sauce and I got a curry which, on my insistence, was "We'll make you cry, OK, you sure!" and my mom got something I can't remember. Close enough.

TNP agrees with Steingarten, food writer and former legal technician, that Thai food like Thai people are just about the good ones. And then came the hipsters.

TNP-non-tl-dr-style thinks eating spicy (but edible) dishes is hilarious, and therefore good to eat.