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There once was a lady from Bude
Who went swimming one day in the lake.
A man in a punt
Stuck his pole in the water
And said "You can't swim here -- it's private."

Nigel bumped the thread

http://www.maybelogic.net/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=38&func=view&id=4462&catid=3&limit=15&limitstart=105

she had some nice things to say about us.

then Bogus replied to give his rehash of the whole matter (which cain posted)

nothing really exciting is going on there at the moment.  Though from what I read, they apparently got attacked by a spam bot and think that's somehow connected to us? I don't recall anyone going over there to imagebomb or anything, so I suspect it's a great demonstration of the Law of Fives.

There was a lazy bastard named Cramulus

There once was a man from the sticks
who liked to write limericks
but he wrote them too short

Get 2 tenderloins of beef.  If you can find anything grass-fed or dry-aged, get that instead.  Yes, you can taste the difference.  Warning: this will probably cost $20/lb

Also get a stick of butter, a bunch of asparagus, ground cumin, and some fresh sage.

If you enjoy starches, some couscous or rice pilaf is fine.  Instant/just add hot water will do.

Turn on the broiler, and let it get really hot.

Let beef come to room temperature, drizzle a tiny bit of olive oil on then, then liberally season with salt and cumin on all sides.

Trim an inch or so off the bottom of the asparagus, and place in a roasting pan.  again, drizzle with oil, and season with salt.

(prepare the starch, if you want).

Leave the butter out to get soft (not melted), and mince the sage.  In a bowl with a fork, mix the sage into the butter.  place herbed butter on some wax paper, roll it into a tube, put in freezer to harden back up.

place the pan with the asparagus under the broiler, and broil for about 6 minutes, or until it browns slightly.  Remove, and keep warm.

Broil tenderloin for about 3 minutes a side, depending on thickness (about 1.5 inch) for rare.

Season asparagus & steak with pepper to taste*.

Slice a disc of herb butter, and place on top of steak.

Serve.


Estimated total cooking time = 15 minutes.









* if you add the pepper before broiling, you will burn the pepper, and it won't taste very good.




[edit to add the herb butter]

lmno,

from the bottom of my anus,

thanks for this awesome recipie.

We just finished, and are about to do dishes, but I wanted to give credit where credit is due for this really really great meal.
and say Hi and Happy Valentines Day to Mrs. LMNO on behalf of Chloe and I. 

sorry badger, you've walked into a whole bunch of in-jokes and references.

AKK was a legendary poster who was pretty much unanimously despised by the PD gang.

Try to sniff around in some other threads - I'm sure the in-jokes will be slightly less bewlidering there.

of course i have absolutely no way of confirming this, but Colbert gives me the impression that he's on the Colboards at least sometimes...whenever he advertises the board on his show, he mentions "i'll be watching you."

if we could somehow introduce a large "illuminati" or "discordian" presence that is recognised on the boards, we might be able to get his attention that way, assuming he's not here, now, reading our plans already (as hoopla suggested a time ago)...

I think that's a gimmick. The people at Colboards seem to think that if he DOES have an account, he hasn't made it known to anyone.

There are, by the way, quite a few Discordians on that board.

[Bogus wrote:]

Over at MLA (Maybe Logic Academy) he did say he was being intentionally argumentative.

Here's some snippets from his posts at MLA, during this incident:

Bogus wrote:

I started one slightly venomous sarcastic thread [I'd just been beaten up like my friend who just got mugged for the fifth time in Springfield, Illinois] for newbies to hang out in, and now it won't go away, and I started a fucking war, it seems.  Believe it or not, I empathise with Bush/Blair for a moment. :woohoo:

The PMs I have had back from ppl make it sound as though I could fit in, but if the job involves kicking new people then I don't want it.  I like to welcome new people in, and find how to get them to tune in, so we can have some fun! People I don't like I either ignore or walk away from. Simple stuff, seems like there's loads of room.

It reminds me (did Borsky call it Beirut out there?) of my month in Israel (oh, dunno, back in the 80s) when I simply couldn't find what the fight was about, between two Semitic peoples with slightly different belief systems  - based on the same stories! Cousins. Living in a tough climate.  But I don't have any knowledge of how you solve these things. The Brits haven't sorted out Northern Ireland in 300 years. (oh, cousin religions again, can I see a pattern?)

Planet of the Apes, mate.  But I do regret it if I have raised the MLA profile (now we have a public side) when we had such a civilized place going on.

Read Huxley's last novel (forget Brave New World) - "Island" - he imagines a mini-paradise of psychedelia and rational/emotional education, but at the end the tanks come rolling in, or is it the oil-prospectors, I can't remember?

I fucked up guys, through my unarmoured (yet sarcastic) approach, and I hope I didn't drag MLA into it. But mosbunall of them don't accept apologies over there.

I'll still go visit the smart and intelligent posts, but now I set off the 'Rottweillers with nothing else to do' you may still get a few more visits.  Hey ho. So it goes.

You may hate me now.

LOL

Bogus wrote:

Meh, they see us as a cosy little group, living in a bubble. I've had PM exchanges with a few, and so on.

I explained we knew about the 'cosy' part, and several of our people had mentioned it in previous MLA forums (especially if you have no money for a subscription), but I figure that's why Admin opened it out.  In other words, their impression of us remains out-of-date. So perhaps some good may come of this anyway. It'd better, I have stayed up until 4 a.m. (local time) when I still have to go work in the morning.

Now they gave me a moustache job I almost feel welcome!

And I really did act like a dickhead, but boy I had fun - don't you just love getting pointlessly malicious and argumentative some times?  Perhaps I finally got tired of acting polite and responsible around here...

Or maybe I really 'am' a dickhead. I just find that a very limited form of abuse.

Like Steve Martin in Roxanne I want to go the dartboard, and then offer 20 better insults than 'big nose'.  But not right now, I gotta get some sleep.

G'night.

and now I repost this image

IA! IA!
OUABACHE FHTAGN!

Salad, anyone?

Baby spinach leaves with a walnut oil-champagne vinaigrette garnished with whole walnuts and gorgonzola always pleases.  I'm in an odd mood, so I'll only post it if you want me to.

??

didn't you just post it?

Amongst the WOMP Cabal I had proposed the theme "Sexy Robot Future". Regardless of what it is, it needs some funny theme to pull it all together.

lol @ chicken boobs
THAT's now entering my vocabulary. And my cookbook.

That also sounds delicious, LMNO. And well within my limited capabilities.



These are some great ideas!

Over at the WOMP Cabal HQ, I have numerous posts and parables and gibberish which I think are "funny" and belonged in some sort of LOLLERCAUSTesque publication. At request, I will release them from the vault and dump them somewhere.

[Valentine's Day]

Alright spags, the day has finally come where I use this subforum for actual food related posts.



So today is Valentine's Day. I get back from work at 5:30 and my girl has class from 6 to 10, so I volunteered to cook some candlelit dinner type thing.

Problem being that I have very little practice in the kitchen other than really simple stuff (pasta and meatsauce, burgers, chicken, etc). I'm hitting the grocery store after work to pick up materials and then making ... something...

Any ideas for what I should make?

The most complicated thing I've ever made is this dijon tarragon chicken dish which was great. But I had my girlfriend's help (truth be told she did most of it). This time I'm flying solo.

Exclude the following ingredients: seafood, mushrooms



HALP

I thought about that. What do you guys think? I'm worried that they would take all the credit if this thing works. But then again - does that really matter?