<p>The Dude abides.</p>
<p>Are we sharing drink recipes now? This legal-to-drink-for-1/8th-of-her-life law student would love to share. :)</p>
<p>You mean are we going to listen to eachother babble and murmur on about various combinations of alcohol, dairy products, fruit juices, and carbonated beverages?</p>
<p>Um. Yes. Baited breath and all that....Actually AA, looking forward to it.</p>
<p>Um, no, Alumother - we're going to listen to each other babble about various combinations of alcohol, dairy, fruit juices - and then try them at home - the Sinner's Alley community has to test out these recipes before approving them for the entire frenzied-college-search world!</p>
<p>We can even develop a ranking system for rating the various recipes - ease of making, availability of ingredients in the standard household, taste, effectiveness at soothing "I just taught my S to drive a stickshift, uphill, in the snow" jitters, effectiveness at soothing "D's college applications are due in three weeks and she hasn't even decided where she is applying" jitters, and, of course, potency. :p</p>
<p>Someone please make me a mimosa (its early in the morning here for anything stronger). I want/need to rant. Son couldn't find his memory stick (had his HW on it and he was taking it to school to tweak it on the computer). So-- running late for the bus.. I stopped (albeit briefly) at an intersection and then pulled out (turned right)...right in front of a cop! The ticket made me miss the bus-- had to drive s. to school-- was in the wrong lane and missed the exit off the highway-- had to drive past it and turn around. Hrmmmph!! And, the ticket is probably bogus (claiming I didnt stop at the light) but not worth going down to the courthouse to fight. Arrrrgh. PS- s's memory stick was in his backpack after all..</p>
<p>Second rant (pales in comparison, but I'm on a roll...) Why do so many people on CC (none of us, of course.. :) ) post something when they clearly haven't read most of the previous posts? It's either related to some much earlier post that has been responded to and addressed, or the post repeats something that's been said a gazillion times already. It'd be nice if more people started their post with "I haven't read the entire thread, but..." before they add some non sequiter or repeat something for the umpteenth time. Or better yet, the poster could say which post # they are responding to. If we are on post # 1005 and they are responding to post # 22, its a little hard to follow...<br>
Now, of "course" I have read all 1485 of the posts in this thread......ahem.... :rolleyes: I hope no one has ranted about this earlier. If so, as Emily Litella used to say... never mind.</p>
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Yes, and we can rank them on an 800 scale, or should it be 4.0? :D</p>
<p>jym~ Or, as Roseanne Rosanneadanna used to say, "If it's not one thing, it's another thing. If it's not another thing, it's one thing....." :p</p>
<p>All hail the late, brilliant Gilda Radner.</p>
<p>OMG, my mind is blown. I just got off the phone, and somehow, D's b/f's parents are coming to Thanksgiving at our house. I was lucky we didn't end up having Thanksgiving dinner in their garage, because their kitchen is being remodeled! I am NOT kidding. He wanted to throw a turkey on the Weber, and we (meaning I) could cook and then transport everything else from my ovens to their house. As far as I can remember, and this just happened three minutes ago, I was about to get reeled in by this dude, and something inside of my head snapped. It may have been an artery, but I interrupted him, and the next thing I recall, I was inviting their family over here!</p>
<p>NO, no, no. Somebody hook me up to an IV with 12 bags of drugs at the other end. Find me a St. Bernard with a barrel of whiskey around his neck. Get me a hippie with a bag of weed stuffed under his knitted shroom hat. A guru with a hooka. An poisonous frog. Oh, jeez! Hook me up with my D's old binge-drinking roommates.</p>
<p>It wouldn't seem like such a bad idea if the b/f's father didn't fancy himself as Emeril Lagasse (BAMM!) and Alain Ducasse (a famous French chef I looked up on the Internet) rolled into one caustic, hypercritical, SOB in the kitchen. I'm like the Naked Chef and Rachael Ray, and I don't give a rat's a$$ how small my celery is chopped. Just throw it in! I'm gonna have to stab the man if he tries to season anything. </p>
<p>Gawd, and they don't drink. We enjoy lovely wines with our delicious meal. It's part of the celebration. Oops, I forgot to mention. They get snockered on Manischewitz and Kir during certain religious holidays. Their son has been drinking and learning about good wines at our house for the past three years. And, don't tell me that Manischewitz is good, not even those flavored, berry ones. "Vile" is the word that comes to mind. I've used Kir for special, fancy deserts, but I would rather French-kiss my dog than drink a glass of Kir, straight. Make me a champagne cocktail out of the wretched stuff, and I'll consider it, maybe...No, I won't. </p>
<p>Combining Thanksgiving with relatives is tolerable. Unfortunately, the mother always goes nuts, but it's part of the deal. As long as Mom is surrounded by her loved ones, she doesn't mind cutting herself 15 times with a paring knife while trying to carry on a 4-way conversation while the TV is blasting the football game to neighbors 3 blocks away. No problemo! Besides, moms are used to trading off their sanity when it comes to family functions. ;)</p>
<p>But, having Thanksgiving dinner with people whose elderly parents would rather eat at the Home for Decrepit Old Farts, which happens to be located in a different country every year, is not a good idea! Okay, put on your thinking caps, clever barflies. I need at least 2 good excuses to get out of this dinner, the main excuse, and then, the backup. Bird flu? Female problems? Some kind of weird, family surgical procedures? Emergency kitchen remodeling? HELP ME. :eek:</p>
<p>slugg - I can't believe and, frankly, I'm quite offended that you forgot you're coming to MY house for Thanksgiving. Do you want me to call Emeril-manque to tell him or will you?</p>
<p>Temporary amnesia! Yes, thanks, jmmom! I just remembered that he's a doctor, some sort of Chief, High-Muckitty-Muck of Lower Orifices. Make the diseases real exotic, then. I should check with my Klingon comrades.</p>
<p>Move and leave no forwarding address. Bonus - you get away from psycho neighbor.</p>
<p>Good one, over30.</p>
<p>I was going to say, "but then, what would slugg come here to talk about?" Silly me, she'll never run out of ammunition.</p>
<p>I believe Manischewitz is in the cough syrup family, not the wine family.</p>
<p>Slugg, we had D's jewish BF & family for Christmas dinner one year- they weren't doing anything anyway!!! Dad is a bit, shall we say, bombastic and loud, but it went fine. Can you invite others and assign each person to keep him busy for a while and out of your hair or can you give into his amazing (!) chef talents and actually assign him some portion of the meal, wait, have him cook the whole darm thing in your kitchen!! If he enjoys it so much, then let him do it :p You sit and drink wine and enjoy the rest!</p>
<p>somemom,</p>
<p>Could your daughter give my daughter some tips on how to get a Jewish boyfriend? So far, all have been goyim, but may have better odds in college. ;)</p>
<p>Audio:</p>
<p>After that relationship ran it's course, we gave her a little talk about how much simpler life will be, once you're married and have kids, if the person is the same religion. </p>
<p>The funny thing is that the guy went to church with us more than he went to temple (cuz his family never goes, no Bar Mitzvah, etc.) and his grandma was quite perturbed to hear he had gone to church!</p>
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Amen. My cousin (Jewish) still talks about how much more enjoyable Passover became when she and my father (goyische) discovered that they could pour Merlot/Cab/Pinot quietly into their glasses, with no one else the wiser ;). I was still at the "kids" table :(.</p>
<p>Audiophile:
Well, I'll ask <em>my</em> older daughter, if you like. Both her BF's have been Jewish, and we are as goyim as you can get - born<em>Hindu</em>now<em>firmly</em> agnostic. We can pronounce "Mazeltov", "shiksa" and "Oy vey", but that's about it.</p>
<p>SomeMom:
We tried that same little talk. She basically told us to take a long walk on a short pier, and that she would bust her BF's of any religious ideas they had, PDQ. Kids. They're so UPPITTY nowadays.</p>