Hungry Friday!!

[Kool]

All you, Customer relating, On drugs, Looking at condiment packets, NIN downloading, Not liking graphic design anymore, Getting Hoffed, Awake and talking food, Feeling the crunch, Scared in the UK, Hittin 33333, procrastinating, Graphic designers!!!

Have a great weekend!!! http://koolsplace.com/images/eatdrink042.gif

Congrats on the new house Mynock http://koolsplace.com/images/woohoo.gif

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Piss off with your ruddy hob nob flaunting! You big git! I have a tunnocks caramel wafer (that isn't really mine, it's my husband's, but I'm going to eat a wee bit anyway, I mean what's he going to do, punch me? well, I suppose he might a bit, but it'd be worth it)

I knew that'd get a rise out of you. Hob Nobs are amazing!

I was doing the shopping the other day and realised I'd not had a Hob Nob in over a year. So I bought pack to indulge myself.

A cup of Yorkshire Tea and 5 Hob Nobs later. You can forget about sex, there is no greater feeling on this earth!

Economy got you down? Just scale back your expenses, you wastrels.

Take me (please!). When Valentine's Day came around this year, as it always does, I could have done the big corporations a favor and bought my girlfriend a colorful bouquet with entrancing natural fragrances. But instead I saved mucho dinero by presenting her with a fistful of grass that I pulled out of the ground. Not only was my gift economical, it had the personal touch.

Feeling the burn, Hallmark?

I'm going to put off procrastinating right now. Nah, on second thought maybe I'll put off doing that until later. Instead, I'm going to get right on not doing anything.

I put my picture as big as I can on my web site, that way everyone sees how big the picture is and says, "Wow, what a big picture. This guy must be important. We need to hire him right away!"

I think when he meant "win win" he meant that he would win because he'd get a well designed website and he'd also win because he didn't have to pay for it.


What's he doin' to that poor dog?

Hoffin' it.

It is effecting me, well, the hubbie anyways. The recession talk has put him into "penny pinching miser" mode. He's already started following me around the house turning off lights. This morning I thought the coffee pot was broke only to find out he had unplugged it. "It has those red lights on it that cost money light up" he said. Pretty soon he'll shutting off my compu

oh i thought that they were limiting the number of vowels you could post on the forum



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We're always nice... except me. And maybe Kittie... she acts all nice and friendly, but really under it all - she's really two angry midgets at a keyboard with a eye for trouble.

So... Welcome

lol that reminds me ... I saw a sign with a person's name on it... and the name was Mrs. Bobalola.

For the rest of the day I kept saying Bobalola in response to everything... or just randomly.

bobalola

To be honest, I'd much rather Rasterbate with help

[morea]

lmao @ "getting hoffed".

Great quotes, Kool! It must have been hard to narrow it down, because there was a lot of craziness this week. ;) Several of these made me laugh out loud.

Happy friday everybody!

[Virgo Nightingale]

Yay for Fridays!!! Good quotes, Kool!!

Nothing special going on at all this weekend for me, what are you all up to?

Aww, we miss mac so much we had to include him in the classic qotw just to get our fill.

[CkretAjint]

Happy Friday everyone!!! :)

[Danger_Mouse]

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE! Happy to say I have finally adjusted to the medication and haven't smoked in 6 days!

Have a great weekend!

[doctorfoz]

happy friday everyone!

a weekend of lawn mowing, hedge trimming and job-application-posting awaits me

[MyST]

Great quotes!

Am I the only one who feels he has to inhale deeply before reading the intro for fear of running out of breath before I finish reading it?
Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's because I'm asthmatic.

Happy friday!

[vtwin_gary]

well now that i've read the friday post i can get to work.
gonna be a long working weekend for me. spring is here (well at least in Florida) and that means art shows just about every weekend for the next 10 or 12 weeks. i hope the remaining snowbirds & the vacationist are not feeling the recession or i will be.

[Ben Kessler]

Happy Friday, everyone!

[Typically]

wahoooo it's been awhile since i made qotw =] i wish i could trick my brain into thinking it's friday everyday so i could wake up easier. its gonna get nasty here around 3pm so i'm lookin forward to a night of movies/video games and fish tank watching. if anyone is down for some call of duty 4 on the 360 let me know we'll get a game going.

[Craig B]

Great quotes. I especially liked Ben's ... "feelin's the burn" quote.

Good stuff as always!
bobalola!

[balou]

Happy Friday! Great quotes Kool...and a Mac.Finn classic trifecta!

well now that i've read the friday post i can get to work.
gonna be a long working weekend for me. spring is here (well at least in Florida) and that means art shows just about every weekend for the next 10 or 12 weeks. i hope the remaining snowbirds & the vacationist are not feeling the recession or i will be.
Hey Gary, what kind of art do you sell?

[Mynock]

The deed is done! The papers are signed. I'm a howeowner!!!

[Sweet Tee]

Happy Friday everyone! Hope everyone has a great weekend!

[balou]

Happy "First Friday" Sweet Tee!

The deed is done! The papers are signed. I'm a howeowner!!!

Woot!

[Riya]

Congrats Mynock!

I'm off to work here in a little bit. The boss said yesterday that he wanted to talk to me about some "things". We will see how that goes.

Happy Friday.

[Typically]

The deed is done! The papers are signed. I'm a howeowner!!!

congrats man! Cheers to that!
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[captain spanky]

yeah, where is MacAppleHeadFinn?
Happy friday all!!!
it's actually sunny for the first day in about 6 months!

[MikeHun]

TGIF
installing vessel sink in half bath,painting living room olive green from navy blue......
beer in hand.
Congrats on the house Mynock...
now you're House poor like me, remember to pay your property taxes:confused:

[Bladez]

Congrats Mynock! :D

I really do need to start being around more. Some of those quotes were awesome! Had a job interview yesterday and if I get it I may not have any time for this at work anymore tho...guess that just means the social life out side of work has to get pushed back for my GDF time

Have a good weekend kids! Wooo for Flames game/BBQ/Beer tonight! It's gonna be fun!

[frankster]

Happy Friday all!

[MikeHun]

BTW what does qotw stand for?

[Virgo Nightingale]

Congrats on the house, Mynock!!

My future in-laws may be buying a condo soon and my fiancé has had such a hard on for the idea of buying their house. We sure as hell can't afford to actually buy it now, but they want us to rent it from them until we can actually afford to buy it (and a portion of the rent will go towards the purchase of the house).

[Virgo Nightingale]

BTW what does qotw stand for?
Quote of the Week

[CkretAjint]

Hey Gary, what kind of art do you sell?

Yah! I am curious too!!!

My friends mother travels around selling in the art shows around FL. She makes glass bowls, plates, candle holders and glass picture art. Would be cool to see if they sell at an art show you sell at one time. Would stop by and say 'HI' one time!

[Typically]

glass bowls ehh? hehe :D

[CkretAjint]

Not those bowls! LOL.... like huge wavey 'artsy' bowls. I have one at home she gave me when I got my apt. I'll take a pic later and post it.

[Satchel]

Happy Friday! Great quotes, I enjoyed this weeks a lot!

Congrats again Mynock!

[Typically]

haha i figured that much =] thats cool though there is a place that you can take lessons blowing glass about 30 mins away from here. i was thinking about taking a class but its $500 for a 4 weeks session. cool but not that cool =]

[garricks]

Happy Friday everybody! W00t!

Congrats on the house, Mynock. Now you get to do all sorts of fun things. Like today, I'm sitting at home reading GDF instead of working while the gutter guys put new, seamless covered gutters on my house! I was gonna do it in April, but the old ones collapsed at the end of February during a sleet/snow storm. Gotta love homeownership!

[Red Kittie Kat]

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Have A Great Weekend Everyone!!


Awesome Quotes Kool and congrats Mynock!! :D

[Mynock]

Those sparkles are a little too fast for a snail.

[Red Kittie Kat]

sparkles must move fast or it could throw off the time continuum :D

[tuliptree]

ooh, you're right, slow sparkles would be a really bad sign.

happy friday everyone!

a weekend of lawn mowing, hedge trimming and job-application-posting awaits me

Save those grass trimmings, I hear from Ben they make awesome bouquet alternatives!


Happy Friday everyone, I wasn't here nearly as much as I had wanted this week, but I've been a busy girl, and I think I may have a new freelance job thanks to the printer I worked with on my last project. Whether or not I get it is one thing (a good thing of course) but I am doing cartwheels just knowing he recommended me to someone! Thanks again to ya'll, I still owe so much to the good folks at GDF for all the knowledge sharing, advice, and helping me getting my feet on the ground. Now wait til I get drunk later I'll come on and post really sappy drunk stuff to you. :D

[Red Kittie Kat]

I can hardly wait :D

[tuliptree]

I can hardly wait :D

Hmmm...looks like I'll have to get drunk now!

By the way, congrats Mynock!! Very very cool!



Happy Friday Sweet Tea! Tell cornfed hello! :)

[Ben Kessler]

Tuliptree, I beat you to it...

I love yu, GDF, youre th best man, we should hang OUT. Why dpnt we hang OUT more man. What, what you say. No man, I'm not, this isnt cos I'n drnk man, thats not what ir is, I wuld sy this anyway. I totslly Fine Finw Forget you man Yu don't youre not you SUCK mn you youre like not like whatev oh mn I dont feel so BLAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH

Oh. Man. Your shoes. Oh sh*t your pants man. I'm sorry. I cant belive I did that to yu man. I love you ,an.

[Red Kittie Kat]

oh dear ... some one pass me a tissue ... I feel a tear coming on

Ben .. you are beautiful man

:D

[MikeHun]

is this a clique excluding old fart boobs... er noobs like me?
i started @ 12

[Bladez]

Drunk posting is always so amusing for the readers! :D

Depending on how the night goes and how the hockey game goes, I may have to get in on that hahahaha

[Red Kittie Kat]

is this a clique excluding old fart boobs


well since I am the proud owner of a set - I don't think so :D


but... they don't pass gas :D

[MikeHun]

Ah camaraderie so lively and entertaining don't you think?
have the pay checks come around yet? I feel a thirst needing quenched...

[morea]

new guy's buying!

I'd kill for a white russian... it's been years.

[Typically]

haha send a jack and coke this way!

[Virgo Nightingale]

It's been years since you killed a caucasian Russian? :p

[CkretAjint]

jack and pepsi with lime this way please! :)

[morea]

It's been years since you killed a caucasian Russian? :p

don't be hasty, I was acquitted. I've been kahlua deprived since I moved. Actually, I haven't had anything any stronger than wine or beer since I got to QC because the alcohol sales are controlled (and heavily taxed) by the government here, and I just can't afford the "good" stuff!

Make with the white russian... seriously!

[Virgo Nightingale]

If all there was was beer, I'd be fine. That's pretty much all I drink anyway. I would have to have Bacardi available too. This borincua has to have her cuba libres!! :D

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[morea]

I have since started making my own beer. Really! If you're ever up this way, you'll have to stop in and try one. Deeelicious brown ale... *drool*.

[Typically]

really? that's awesome how long does it take to get a batch done? how many brews from a brew?

[CkretAjint]

Is it really as hard as they say to do Morea? I've thought about brewing my own. But everyone bitches about how A) hard it is or B) nasty it turns out.

[CkretAjint]

Might wanna start a new thread on brewing!!!! :p

[Ben Kessler]

Beer bad, jack & coke good. I also like margaritas.

Someone hit me up! It's almost quittin' time!

[Virgo Nightingale]

You want someone to hit you upside the head? You're not worried about brain damage?

[frankster]

Elderflower wine is easy. You just need a lemon, some white wine vinigar, a few heads of elderflower, lots of sugar and some old plastic soda bottles, something to strain the mixture in to the bottles with after it's sat in a large bucket for 24 hours and about 6 to 8 weeks depending on if you want it to be just fizzy or actually alcoholic. Yum.

My dad used to make wine at home. Damson was the only one that failed and was undrinkable.

[MikeHun]

Okay this round's on me

[morea]

There's a place here that sells "kits" to make your own wine/beer. I've made wine, too. You just can't use the same plastic jug to make the wine, because the beer is so strong that it can seep into the plastic.

It's pretty simple the way I do it. I think that Spug brews his own in a variety of flavours, but I don't know if his way of doing it is at all like mine.

Since, as I mentioned earlier, alcohol sales are government regulated here, the prices are ridiculously high. For example, a cheap box of wine at home was $12 for 4L. Here, the cheapest one you can find is $30 for the same amount, and it doesn't taste nearly as good. I was surprised at how much higher the cost of living is here than where I lived before. (A block of cheese that cost about $4 at home costs $10 here!)

First you need the kit:

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Then you just choose the sort of beer you want to make, and buy that. You pour the beer mix into the bucket and stir in some little pre-packaged ingredients, let it sit for several days, and add ingredients occasionally. Beer is easier (less steps) than wine. The directions are very easy to follow, and the whole process is quite simple.

When you're ready to bottle it, you go to the store where you buy the supplies and borrow the equipment you need for bottling. You can buy bottles and caps at the store if you need them.

The beer is flat when you bottle it, you have to let it ferment in the bottles for about a week before you drink it. The first one I drank was nasty because I didn't wait long enough, but it actually turned out pretty well.

We bottled it in 20oz bottles and the single batch made about 24 bottles, if I remember right.

Apparently it's not as popular in the US as it is here because you can buy alcohol so much cheaper in the States.

[garricks]

Almost time...Scotch & water. The cheap stuff, pretending it's Johnny Walker Blue, which I shall taste before I die! (I checked yesterday...it's US $217 a fifth.)

[balou]

I'm makin' some happy meals if anyone's interested...

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/4217/bloodmary1mz0.jpg

[Tea]

Ooh...Garricks...scotch. I tend to stay away from it now, but boy oh boy, yummo. Now I stick to the Limon Bacardi and Diet C or wine, but I did buy some peach mango rum, that sounds tasty. I'm just not sure how I want to serve it up.

It's been such a busy week so I have no idea what any of the QOTW's even reference. But maybe I'll come back after I've had a few! It won't matter so much then!:D

Happy Friday to everyone!

[frankster]

Dad used to use glass demijohns for the wine. Can you use those to make beer? That would avoid the seeping into the plastic wouldn't it? He got all his second hand from charity shops.

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[Tea]

Oh I forgot..Congratulations Mynock on the house! That's great!

[Tea]

Dad used to use glass demijohns for the wine. Can you use those to make beer? That would avoid the seeping into the plastic wouldn't it? He got all his second hand from charity shops.

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Yes.

I use glass carboys for my beer brewing. I make a dark ale and a really heavy bock beer that was fabulous. I've been meaning to search out a couple sites to order supplies and do this again.

[morea]

it sounds like that would solve the problem. I haven't seen any glass ones around, but it's a good idea to check secondhand shops - thanks for the tip frankster!

[Bladez]

OMG....all this talk about beer and such is making it really hard to concentrate at work! Only and hour and a half left! And there's Guinness at home with my name on it...

[tuliptree]

LOL! You guys got to work before I could even say teq . . .

!! Ben your post is hilarious. I only hope I sound half as good.

Morea, my husband brews too, he's perfecting belgian ale right now. We need a brew thread, I'll get him to join here and you and Spug and he could swap notes!

[garricks]

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a249/garricks/GDF/450px-GuinnessBeer.gif
Should we start a lolHops thread? :D

[budafist]

Happy Friday kids!

I'm posting from Saturday evening and it's fixing to be a lovely weekend. We continued unpackig and movings stuff around the house today and then went for a swim at a beach I'd never been to only about 40 minutes away.

I only just noticed (with the beer pic posted above) that I've not had a single drop of booze this week. I guess having a virus might have had something to do with it, but I don't plan on staying dry all weekend! I don't actually feel sick, but a stiff neck and a fever and getting tired easily has stopped me from going out. Still a quiet beer or 2 at home can't hurt.

Our house is looking better every day as we find homes for all our stuff. How on earth we accumulated so much stuff is beyond me. I own more furniture than anyone I know (my age).

[budafist]

I'm makin' some happy meals if anyone's interested...

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What on earth is in that? It looks like you wouldn't need dinner after one of those :)

[garricks]

What on earth is in that? It looks like you wouldn't need dinner after one of those :)
That appears to be a fully-loaded bloody mary. V-8 on crack!

[Virgo Nightingale]

Blech. I know many people love bloody marys, but I can't stand them. I love shrimp cocktail (a good bloody mary kinda tastes like watered down cocktail sauce), but to me something that tastes like that should be solid and chewable.

[budafist]

I would never order a bloody mary at a bar, but it's become my new airplane drink.

[Red Kittie Kat]

mmmm I love bloody Marys :)

[sierng]

Bloody Marys are nice with seeded mustard.

[budafist]

I've not had it with mustard. Sounds good.

I had a few bloody marys last night. We had a huge bbq with loads and loads of food. There was only 6 of us and we had hamburgers, chicken drumsticks, lamb chops, pasta bake, mussels. I had 2 with tabasco and then 1 with wasabi, but I found that the wasabi just fell to the bottom and didn't mix. Apparently the trick is to use powdered wasabi.

Bloody Marys are great with bbq food. Maybe because we put tomato sauce on just about everything here. It's illegal not to have tomato sauce at a bbq in New Zealand.

Oh, by the way, when I say bbq, it means the same as grill in American-speak. What we call grill is what you call broil.

[Bladez]

*LOL* That was awesome garrick! Mmmm....guinness