New Threat to National Security

**rideit** · 06-05-2008, 01:58 AM

Pernod is bloody good, as well.
I haven't tried the Absinthe, though.
I love the traditional, with ice and a splash of water...

**Rasputin** · 06-05-2008, 02:05 AM

Originally Posted by rideit

Pernod is bloody good, as well.
I haven't tried the Absinthe, though.
I love the traditional, with ice and a splash of water...

I am not familiar with it, another aromatic aperitif?

**rideit** · 06-05-2008, 02:08 AM

I guess that is a perfect description.
Seriously, get a bottle, try it.
2/3 Pernod, and 1/3 water, on ice. Its cool...it clouds up with the introduction of the water...good stuff.

**philippeR** · 06-05-2008, 02:55 AM

Originally Posted by rideit

I guess that is a perfect description.
Seriously, get a bottle, try it.
2/3 Pernod, and 1/3 water, on ice. Its cool...it clouds up with the introduction of the water...good stuff.

Pernod, Pastis 51 ... Mandatory aperitif in south eastern France. A way of life...
Also avalable as anisette, sweeter and less alcohol.
It's usualy drank as a long drink : 2/3 Pernod is rough. 1/5 to 1/10 pastis is the norm. (We're talking 45° alcohol here).

Hmm, served with some tapenade canapés, dry sausage, olives in various dressing, dry tomatoes. Some raw anchovies maybe.
Summer is just around the corner...

**rideit** · 06-05-2008, 03:36 AM

Originally Posted by philippeR

It's usualy drank as a long drink : 2/3 Pernod is rough. 1/5 to 1/10 pastis is the norm. (We're talking 45° alcohol here).

...

Bloody pussies. When I drank with the old drunks in Marseille, damn straight it was 2/3rds Pastis. Man, I miss those old frogs.

**karpiel** · 06-05-2008, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by Rasputin

I am not familiar with it, another aromatic aperitif?

Yup. I believe it was created when absinthe was banned. It is very enjoyable, but very easy to drink a dangerous amount due to the lower alcohol content and the flavor.

**karpiel** · 06-05-2008, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by rideit

Pernod is bloody good, as well.
I haven't tried the Absinthe, though.
I love the traditional, with ice and a splash of water...

I am glad they started making absinthe again.

**gregm** · 06-05-2008, 02:34 PM

actually the newest threat to national security is Ali Lohan:

with a name like "Ali" she's probably a muslim extremist. combine that with her sister's hard partying ways and you've got a combination that could rock this great nation down to it's foundations.

**Jer** · 06-05-2008, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by Rasputin

It's been nice ignoring the utter waste of breathable air that is Nanuq. I'm glad others found his remarks as loathsome as I did.

Go away Nanuq, you are not funny, and have no redeeming value that I've seen (no, target for justified insults doesn't count). You don't even seem to understand that the trash talking on this board has never involved describing molestation people's offspring, and don't have the good sense to immediately apologize once your error is explained to you. You are a real loser, not just someone called a loser during a flame war, just a morally depraved clown who doesn't have a sense of right and wrong, nor a willingness to learn. Just go away.

Am I seeing things again, or did you just type out two paragraphs of your usual innane drivel to someone you have on "ignore"? Way to "ignore" somebody, Grigori! Sadly you won't be reading this post because you have Jer on your ignore list. I'm sure that won't stop you from posting some long-winded rebuttal, tho.

Anybody remember Ali Score - the drummer in A Flock of Seagulls? He looked like a mass murderer.

bottom right

**P_McPoser** · 06-05-2008, 08:19 PM

Telebobski: Yer daugher has bigger problems to worry about since it appears that she is a student at Arizona State. Sorry for your loss, man.

**TBS** · 06-05-2008, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by sftc

Don't take it personally, I'm just a frustrated frequent flier and it kills me how many people think they can be the single exception to the rules when dealing with the TSA, as you have recently witnessed. The TSA is truly a bunch of idiots, but as long as they are running the game we all have to play by their stupid rules, with unfortunately no exceptions, even for an unarmed snow globe.

No argument there - hope I didn't come across as calling you out

Originally Posted by sftc

Your daughter sounds like she's got a good head on her shoulder and can see the sad state of Nanuq's ugly life. It's good to hear that she (and you) weren't seriously offended by his crude fantasies.

At times like this I think of something my grandfather told me when I was little - "God dammit Bobby, don't get in a farting contest with a horse's ass". Wisdom I've tried to pass along.

Thanks to you mags who spoke up

**TBS** · 06-05-2008, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by P_McPoser

Telebobski: Yer daugher has bigger problems to worry about since it appears that she is a student at Arizona State. Sorry for your loss, man.

Yup, sometimes things don't turn out like you hope. She was accepted to Westminster in SLC. They have a quad room in the dorms set aside for parent visits. I was already scheming a justification to my wife for a season pass at Alta and here at home. But nooooo...

**Rasputin** · 06-05-2008, 09:58 PM

Originally Posted by telebobski

Yup, sometimes things don't turn out like you hope. She was accepted to Westminster in SLC. They have a quad room in the dorms set aside for parent visits. I was already scheming a justification to my wife for a season pass at Alta and here at home. But nooooo...

Kids these days!

Liberal Genius · 06-05-2008, 10:01 PM

This.thread.is.shit.

**rideit** · 06-05-2008, 10:04 PM

Could we all take turns 'pretending' to be her parents?

Wait...that sounds creepy...sorry.

(Seriously, the Westminster campus is a GREAT location, I am ~5 blocks away from there right now. Good school, too!)

**Aussie_ripper** · 06-05-2008, 10:15 PM

No Shakes. Where are you baby? Puss out?

**Tunco** · 06-05-2008, 10:18 PM

My 4.5 year old son is on the no fly list. His name sounds too Irish

**bossass** · 06-05-2008, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by sftc

willing to eat Mexican food that is made north of Canada

Best Mexican food I ever had was in Haines, AK. I'm serious.

**Rasputin** · 06-05-2008, 10:35 PM

Originally Posted by Aussie_ripper

No Shakes. Where are you baby? Puss out?

I told him to go away, and such is my power, that he was compelled to comply.

**Prophet10** · 06-06-2008, 06:29 AM

Originally Posted by sftc

telebobski,

Don't take it personally, I'm just a frustrated frequent flier and it kills me how many people think they can be the single exception to the rules when dealing with the TSA, as you have recently witnessed. The TSA is truly a bunch of idiots, but as long as they are running the game we all have to play by their stupid rules, with unfortunately no exceptions, even for an unarmed snow globe.

I am 100% with you here. I fly a couple roundtrips a week (give or take) and nothing irritates me more than the guy that has a "special circumstance" that means he doesn't have to take his shoes off.

As if the 45 year old TSA agent who earned his GED last week is going to understand any logic or risk his first job in 4 months for a 10 yard walk without shoes. The rules are what they are. We must play by them b/c anything outside of the rules will just delay my trip through security.

Airport security is a giant scam that is only there to make the masses feel better about flying. TSA has only been effective in adding to the time it takes to get to the gate.