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Paco

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  1. When I used to work at some of the top restaurants in LA I was "fortunate" enough to cook for many celebs.  In hindsite I wish I had taken notes on what they ate and how the presented themselves.  It would have made a good book.  One in particular.....Elizabeth Taylor in 1983..... :)

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    Chef, not to get too far off topic, but where did you used to work in LA?

     

    I picked up the Chasen's cookbook, primarily for their chili recipe. Apparently in 1962 when in Rome shooting "Cleopatra," Liz Taylor had Chasens ship her ten quarts of their chili. (And it's the best chili I've ever made.)

  2. This may be something of a skewed view, but I think this is total BS. The fact of the matter is...at least to me...there have ALWAYS been Salvation Army people sitting outside stores during the holiday seasons...bundled up, ringing their bell, never asking for a thing. It's a part of the holiday flavor to me. Christmas decorations, caroling, Charlie Brown, Grinch, Wonderful Life, and Salvation Army folks.

     

    Those bells say it's Christmas time.

     

    Whomever pushed to make this stop needs a visit from the "Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come."

  3. Chris Mortensen: (11:08 AM ET ) You have to watch McGahee to understand why he's a difference maker. He is making three yards when there is nothing there.

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    Thanks for posting those, Rico.

     

    More than anything else, I think Mort makes a good point about McGahee. At least as I've watched him, he always seems to make something out of nothing. More often than not, just when I think he's down, he's not. He may only average 3.something a carry, but he seems to get three on FIRST DOWN pretty consistently. Given what we've been through, I'm pretty pleased to be seeing a decrease in the numbers of 1st and 15s and increase in the number of 2nd and 6s.

     

    There's good stuff happening. Not just McGahee. The line is better. Bledsoe is better. Defense is better. Special Teams is better. We just seem to keep getting better, and as much as I hate to say it, I'm more interested this weekend in seeing us play a good, solid game...see us build on what improvements we've seen... than I am in seeing us win.

     

    Just show me that this 'getting better' thing falls easily under the belief that "once is an accident, twice is coincidence and three times is a trend."

     

    And let's face it, we were much, much worse when we first hooked up with them, and almost pulled it off, until we became much, much worse again. If we can keep mistakes to a bare minimum, and keep doing what we've been doing, we can win this game.

  4. I don't think the millisecond he spent running forward trying to adjust the ball made a difference in the play, considering the offensive line got absolutely zero push at the point of attack.

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    That play had bad written all over it from the beginning, starting with Moorman's kick. You could immediately see us push off the line and drive them back, and I'd go so far as to question whether he would have made it had the exchange been dead on accurate.

     

    I will, however, agree with stevestojan in that Carter was a good pickup. I was never completely sold on the coke thing with him, in part because he pulled off 10 wins last year with a new everything. Did he do some? Probably. Is he a cokehead? Probably not. If he can fit into the Jet's offense quickly, he can keep them alive. It was a good pickup for them.

     

    He'll get his ass stomped this weekend though because the last thing he needs right now is Ray Lewis and Company chasing him down. I'll be curious to see who shows up; Quincy Carter who won ten games last year, or Quincy Carter turned Ray Lucas.

     

    Should be fun to watch.

  5. Pompous a**hole Exhibit's A-Z.

     

    Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot. Paco doesn't watch TV. He sits in his studio apartment and reads books about world history and politics all day so he can look smart to a bunch of guys on an internet message board.

     

    hahahaha

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    I am stunned at how incredibly quick you are at demeaning other people in your quest to demean me.

     

    Is there something wrong with living in a studio apartment? Is there something wrong with reading about history and politics? Is there something wrong with taking the initiative to be informed about the things affecting the world today?

     

    By an accounts of all your posts, the answer to all those questions is a resounding "yes." You clearly look down upon people who either have to or want to do any of those things.

  6. My problem with the hot pocket is that they are impossible to cook and eat like you see on the commercial. On TV, the guy picks it up, takes a bite, end of story.

     

    Real life: If you want to be able to even hold the damn thing, you can only cook it for like 90 seconds. Then, its not too hot to hold, but only the two ends are warm. The middle is still cold, and not melted.

     

    So, you put it in for 30 more seconds. Now, the outsides are hot, the middle is luke warm, but when you pick it up and bite it, the sauce either 1) shoots out like a rifle of pure heat, 2) or nails you in the chin (god, if that last sentence isnt just asking to be torn apart by the perverts here).

     

    Or, you can do what most do. Put it in the microwave for like 2 hours, let everything get nice and melty, and then use a knife and fork.

     

    Oh yeah, and I guess some towel head died today huh? Big loss.

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    Hot Pockets Exhibit B.

  7. WTF is  a hot pocket...

    As it is referred to here, Hot Pockets is short for referring to "the American Idol crowd with the Hot Pockets mentality." In some circles it is more appropriately referred to as The Extraordinary League of the H.O.T.P.O.C.K.E.T. F.O.O.L.S.

     

    We're a lazy country and a lazy people, and we're at the point now where we can only ever stay focused on anything of importance for mere nanoseconds before our attention is off to the next topic. And what matters most to us is immediately gratification. We can't even make a sandwich anymore. We have to cook one in three minutes because if we don't get it done quick enough, we'll miss the next installment of American Idol.

     

    Classic example: someone of global significance dies...a person whose very death can change the future of the Middle East for all eternity, and everyone is upset that their show was pre-empted to the point where the station has to run the episode again to appease the Hot Pockets. We had a similar thread during the Presidential debates, where someone was upset because it preempted their TV shows. Heaven forbid we should wonder what the ramifications are of Arafat's death. Or what comes out of the presidential debates.

     

    That's what we mean when we refer to Hot Pockets.

  8. who the hell cares about this wothless piece of stevestojan!!!!

     

    he's been dead for over a godamn week....WTF?

     

    All I know is I'm watching CSI last night and 5 minutes before the mystery is solved CBS breaks in to tell us that this muderous !@#$ is dead... No fugging stevestojan!!! and they couldn't wait 5 godamn minutes for the 11pm news to let that out??? No.... they've got to say fugg you to 6 million people who were watching CSI... Well CBS can kiss my big hairy ass.  I'll never watch another CSI show as long as I live you sonsabitches.... I wasted a whole damn hour.

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    Yes, the ramification of Yasser Arafat's death in the global scale of things clearly pales in comparison to the hour you wasted. Hell...everyone knew he was about to die. Why couldn't they just pre-empt CSI and just schedule a re-run. Oh, wait. They pre-empted primetime TV during the presidential debates, and if memory serves, certain people were upset about that, too.

     

    There is no pleasing the Hot Pockets crowd.

  9. What an incredible bio. When you look around today at the makeup of our country, and use this as a backdrop, it's simply amazing to me that we don't spend more time respecting and honoring people like this. One of the greatest things a person can do in this world is understand and embrace the concept of selflessness, because from selflessness is borne other, more dramatic traits of humanism. Being selfless is quite possibly one of the....ummm...one of the...ummm...uhhh...

     

    Sorry. I Tivo'ed 'Lost' and have to get going.

     

    Ding. Attention span over. :doh:

  10. Fox News has a picture of Arafat's coffin being carried by the French Military Honor Guard!

     

    Are you kidding me????

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    French...Military...and Honor.

     

    Never figured those three words would ever be put together.

  11. I never thought I'd defend Michael Moore, but the following quote from the article is pretty accurate.

     

    Moore says. "Fifty-one percent of the American people lacked information (in this election) and we want to educate and enlighten them. They weren't told the truth."

     

    Moore is 100% right. Everyone who saw his movie were not told the truth.

  12. Sunday Night Woes: In their last three Sunday night games the Bills have been outscored 90-12 in San Francisco, Miami, and Kansas City.

    A Stat from Bills Daily.com

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    And the result of the Washington Redskins final home game before an election has been 100% accurate in determining the next president...and the Red Sox haven't won a World Series since 1918.

     

    These things mean nothing anymore, and neither does the stat you cite.

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