<p>Be sure to aim low! :D It's a long way down to sluggdom.</p>
<p>Let's see: how low can we go....?</p>
<p>Anyone for a limbo? I've still got my son's vicodin from about page 50 of this thread! ;)</p>
<p>LOL you denizens of the alley. Whacking with a stick, huh? I finally had a heart to heart with my D on her last visit. I told her she just had to be nicer to me if she didn't want me to think that her heart's desire was that I never, never, never initiate a conversation with her.</p>
<p>She insisted that isn't what she wants. As she is quite pleasant over IM I am thinking of how to install AIM on her forehead.</p>
<p>How can Intelligent Design be catching up with the Sinner's Alley in number of posts? Is the sky falling or what?</p>
<p>Cheers - maybe we should offer those ID posters a libation. That might slow them down.</p>
<p>Righteous drunks!!?? Are you mad, over30? I have never even opened that thread. They may be hammered for all I know....</p>
<p>I try not to let my cursor even run over that other thread. Mortally afraid that spontaneous combustion would result. We really must get busy here in the Alley. I take some solace in noticing that SA has way more lurkers and viewers (2x as many, in fact) as that other thread. I suppose that means that only the fanatics, and the hapless souls who believe they can actually beat .. I mean, talk... some sense into them, inhabit that other thread. Where is slugg? She needs to invent an Unintelligent Libation for us here in SA, to take our minds off this revolting development.</p>
<p>I hope she's not too busy developing potions designed to fend off the evil BF's evil father.</p>
<p>Well yes, I probably am mad. And I've only ventured over there once. I may be mad but I'm a quick learner.</p>
<p>I will try my hand at an Unintlligent libation.</p>
<p>Lat's call it a "Dumb as Sh**"</p>
<p>1oz vodka
1oz everclear
1oz kahlua
1 brownie
1 scoop chocolate ice cream</p>
<p>blend and pour into martini glass </p>
<p>garnish with tootsie roll</p>
<p>In the spirit of Intelligent Design, Puritan revivalists, and large quantities of cocktails that make people take leave of their senses, how about an industrial-size bowl of punch? Start by renting a great hall and a medieval bishop.** :p </p>
<p>Bishop Wassail </p>
<p>Ingredients:
one unpeeled orange
12-18 whole cloves
brown sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
pinch powdered cloves
pinch mace
1/2 tsp. allspice
1/2 tsp. ground ginger
1 strip lemon peel
1 cup water </p>
<p>1 quart port wine
1 quarter cup brandy: heated
nutmeg</p>
<p>Instructions:
Stud orange with whole cloves. May also include a whole lemon baked and studded in the same way. Pack thickly with brown sugar. Roast in 350 degree oven until sugar caramelizes and forms a crust on the orange. Cut orange in quarters and place it in a punch bowl. Simmer remaining spices and lemon peel in the water until water is reduced by half. </p>
<p>Heat the port wine until hot, but not boiling. Combine spiced syrup, wine, and heated brandy in punch bowl with the orange and sprinkle with nutmeg to taste. Some recipes delete the brandy and nutmeg. </p>
<p>**To make this an "Archbishop," substitute claret or table wine for the Port. Recipe may be increased to uneducate more people. We, in Sinner's Alley, invite all who are dedicated to true thanksgiving and celebration to join us. Admission is generally one bottle of a liquor. Provided are meat pies and a large pot of wassail. Slugg on! :)</p>
<p>It's a Post-A-Rama here in SA! :) Between now and New Year's Day, post, post, post, and post some more! At the moment, I have been invaded by 4 large, noisy boys who have the entire Thanksgiving week off. And, they're using my beloved espresso machine to make coffee drinks. Before these guys got jobs at Starbuck's and various other coffee establishments around town, they paid no more attention to my espresso machine than they did to the rice steamer. It was just another ordinary kitchen appliance. </p>
<p>Now, it's the star attraction, with the garage refrigerator running a close second. They tank up on espresso drinks, and then, they get very, very LOUD. Is someone dancing the Flamenco on the wood floor in my kitchen? I just heard something snap, and it wasn't castanets. Do I smell food cooking? I have no food in the house, so I wonder what they captured or foraged. Tough luck, squirrels and gophers in my yard. Does the mother of the ninth grader in this band wonder why her son returns home from band practice and can't go to sleep until 3 a.m.? There was a time when I cared about such things, but I got over it. </p>
<p>Update on the BFIL (Bast**dFutureIn-Law)...After successfully avoiding all contact for a week, I finally had to come out of hiding and talk to this guy. I appealed to his vanity and asked him to bring something. Whip up a gourmet dessert with no kitchen, no pots, and no cooking utensils? Of course! I knew he wouldn't settle for a store-bought pie and ice cream. I'm sure it'll be flaming, whatever it is. ;)</p>
<p>It is nice when the kids obtain "professional" skills, isn't it, Slugg? DS has had two summer jobs in the Ice Cream Scooping biz. Suddenly, my amateurish hacks at the ice cream carton with whatever kitchen utensil was handy became an embarrassment. Fine! I'll just sit here on the couch and wait to be served. Those perfectly shaped scoops produced by the Professional Grade Scooper do taste better :cool:!</p>
<p>Hi all,
Doddsdad and I made the big move this weekend to our new house. Us, our two teenagers, some very good friends (ya got to be a good friend to move other people's furniture all day!), and some willing high schoolers toted and carried all day Saturday. The unpacking began Saturday night and we were able to sleep at the new house amid the boxes and displaced furniture. Now we just have to clean up the house we moved out of by November 30th and unpack and settle in the new house. I hope to be unpacked and box-free sometime during Winter Break. Wish me luck!</p>
<p>Oh, and thanks to all of you would made sacrifices to and prayed to the weather goddess on our behalf. The weather was dry and sorta chilly during the move...decent moving weather.</p>
<p>I commiserate with you! Spent whole summer moving my folks and then a couple of weeks in November! It partially feels good though, doesn't it? It forces you to clean house, get rid of "keepsakes," and start a new chapter. I'm sending you good thoughts from the south for a quick turna round.</p>
<p>Here's to real friends who help us move, doddsmom! :) The cardboard box made the Toy Hall of Fame this year, along with Candyland and Jack-in-the-Box. Can we all come to your house and play with the leftover boxes? Huh, can we, huh? Pretty please, with sugar, whipped cream, and a cherry on top? If doddsdad says it's okay? :D</p>
<p>I'd rather do that than clean my house today. Now, where did I leave my Domestic Goddess cape? It's been a while...</p>
<p>Intelligent Design was thought up by people who don't clean house. Behind every sparkling, crystal-clear window is a person with a roll of paper towels and a bottle of potpourri-scented Windex. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Anyone expecting pesky and difficult relatives? I have a total of ten-- including D's Bio Mom, H's Mom, & MY Mom. :eek: :eek: :eek: Only H's mom is on the requisite pharmaceuticals to actually be quite fun to have around. </p>
<p>How many tureens of wassail do you think will be required put me beyond the point of caring and impervious to stress? Or will I need harder stuff?</p>
<p>Good work kids. Intelligent design is off the first page.</p>
<p>SBmom, you can use wassail but you might need to take up drinking games though I don't know any. Of course not, not as a good CC parent, I wouldn't know of a single funny drinking game.</p>
<p>ummm
*
Of course not, not as a good CC parent, I wouldn't know of a single funny drinking game.*
well we will have to remedy that!
We could play Hi Bob!
( Bob Newhart)
<a href="http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/2005/08/idea_for_a_drin.html%5B/url%5D">http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/2005/08/idea_for_a_drin.html</a></p>
<p>Flipping through my new New Yorker I have discovered the solution to both my & sluggbugg's Thanksgiving dilemmas.</p>
<p>Roz Chast's cartoon, p74, features "Prescription Air Fresheners."</p>
<p>Valium Bouquet: "A no-nonsense freshener that takes care of just about any problem"</p>
<p>Prozac Mist: "Light yet effective: perfect for everyday use."</p>
<p>Thorazine Meadow: "When you don't want to fool around, reach for the Meadow."</p>