February 26th, 2010
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding.
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle (had them in something, not straight)
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (hot off the line)
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
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November 8th, 2008
It is not too much of a simplification to note that America is divided into two groups of persons: those who believe in their bones that what goes on in Washington is largely a serious quest by serious people to tackle serious problems seriously, and those who understand that what goes on in Washington is largely theater scripted so that the actors and actresses appear at first glance to be ‘public servants’ but in fact care for nothing nearly as much as maximizing their power and satisfying their megalomania.
Alas, the first group greatly outnumbers the second. This fact that means that those of us in the second group are forced to attend and watch – and participate in the large audience role required in – this absurd drama.
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October 24th, 2008
S&P has cut the NYTimes bond rating to junk. Please let the coming economic downturn sink the NYT. That would be beauteous. And if the Globe can go down the tubes too, so much the better.
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July 13th, 2008
Hoisted from the Althouse comments:
Obama is the messiah, he cometh with truth.
He taxeth the wealthy and giveth me new programs.
He taketh not my paltry earnings, but giveth me the money earneth by others.
He endeth the war and retreateth from victory.
He speaketh with mine enemies, both great and minor.
He asketh them to forbear and desist.
He taketh the profits of oil companies and keepeth it for the government.
He lowereth the price of gasoline by making it more difficult to drilleth for oil.
He opposeth fracturing the atom to generate electricity, but demandeth that my car be powered by electrons.
He transcendeth race by declaiming his whitheth mother and grandethparents who raiseth him after his blacketh father skeedaddleth back to Africa.
He associateth with radicals and crooks, both blacketh and whiteth, ignoring their color and loveth only their influence and money.
He promiseth anything in the name of vote seeking.
He lieth through his teeth.
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February 1st, 2008
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January 31st, 2008
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January 29th, 2008
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger
(and listen to the samples!)
“Doing-doing-doing-DOINNNNNG. Doing-doing-doing-DOINNNNNNG!”
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January 22nd, 2008
We’ve come a long, long way.
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January 22nd, 2008
Neat video of dolphins playing with bubble rings.
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