Bill Hunt Day

Stanley,

I caught that thread, but was blushing too much to respond intelligently.

Now, the dilemma is, what wine goes with Yoodles? I'm thinking a NZ Sauvignon Blanc? Perhaps we can get Craig (ShooterNZ) to donate from his Cloudy Bay stash.

Hunt

Not to be one-day-party killer, but...

I think that more or less every day is a Bill-Hunt-day for many people.

Dag

Oh great, now I find out today was Bill Hunt Day.

If I had known, I wouldn’t have showered and shaved this morning, and gone to work. Instead I would have gone to the beach; BBQ’d, chase Betties, and started drinking beer at 9am.

By this time of the day I would be calling someone up to drive me home, and then telling them they need ride their bike back to the beach with my car keys, to bring my car back.

Was today a paid holiday? And if I did work, do I get Holiday pay, AND pay for ignorantly showing up to work?

Hmm... the grill I ordered isn't here yet, so how's about I drive over to "Wings R US" and get a couple of buckets?

If I had known, I wouldn’t have showered and shaved this morning, and gone to work. Instead I would have gone to the beach; BBQ’d, chase Betties, and started drinking beer at 9am.

Is there a conflict there?

Get up, stumble in to the kitchen, make coffee. Crack open laptop, slam beer, flip ribs. Rinse and repeat.

Happy day, B-man.

Was today a paid holiday?

Only at the Official Adobe Compound.

Hunt

PS - I did not know about it either, but that might have been by design...

Yahoooo !!!  Let's PARTY !    ( jumping on furniture and bar top, wagging tail and barking furiously !!! )

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Now, the dilemma is, what wine goes with Yoodles?

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As referenced in many of the  "Rumpole Of The Bailey" books ( John Mortimer )...the inexpensive " Thames Embankment Ordinary " is good enough for ME....  or whatever

HAPPY BILL DAY !

Rod

Now I'm not sure. Along the Thames Embankment, Westminster side, I have had some really "ordinary" wines, though the prices did not reflect such. Though a couple of blocks over, on The Strand, I have encountered some wonderful FR whites, that might work too.

Hunt

Well, I for one am not picky....and in fact am now icing up some more beers....

I left the party for a second...cause I got called for a days work tomorrow...a strike of some location....and about 30 mins later I got laid off !   LOL....things happen fast in this biz....

So, back to the party, as I am very flexible....

Rod

You know what worries me the most - "snakes in a fridge!" Now, if they are in there long enough, their cold-blooded nature will slow them down significantly, but they might get one strike on ya.

Another photographer, un-named, did a great ad with some frogs. Things were absolutely perfect. I asked him about how he managed that (pre-PS days), as the frogs were exquisite and posed just right in the shot. He answered, "we just put them in the fridge for a couple of hours... "

Hunt

Interesting frog story....

This is true:

When very young we had pet snakes ( rare ones from Long Island that all the suburban building was killing off ).

We discovered a way to feed them by tricking them. They normally eat live frogs.

We would order frogs by mail order ( or go hunt them at night )...and put each frog in a plastic bag, and freeze them....we didn't feel too bad about this method of killing them as they went to sleep first and then just froze....

Then, when it was time to feed the snake ( once every couple weeks I think ---hard to remember ) we would defrost a frog and put chop meat into the frog to fatten it up ( freezing tended to shrink them a bit...and the chop meat made it more visually appealing as well as being more healthy for the snake...

Then we would take the stuffed frog and pull it by a leg or something in front of the snake to make it look like it was a live frog jumping around in it's cage...a talent you get better at the more you do it....you have to think a little like a frog when pulling it around or the snake ignores it...

Once it strikes you let go of the frog and it gets ate up by the snake....

After a number of years we grew older and lost interest in the now large snakes and donated them to the Bronx Zoo.  They were thrilled to get such nice big healthy specimens...and asked how we had fed them, as they didn't have much luck with their specimens of the same species....didn't live long and didn't eat well, etc...

The Bronx Zoo thereafter adapted our method of feeding our snakes and maybe some of its other snakes !

Rod

ps.   Our snakes had 2 ways to defend itself...  both of them pretty silly if you ask me....

1) flatten neck and rise up and hiss ......looking exactly like a cobra !   However, it woud not bite ....if it didn't scare you away it was sorta lost after that.

2) play dead ......just roll over on back and lay there and not move.....  yet another silly method of little use.

Today in the Café Adobe:

SOUPS ~ STEWS ~ CHILIS
Lobster Bisque

Today in the Café Adobe:

SOUPS ~ STEWS ~ CHILIS
Lobster Bisque

Hah!

As long as we're there...

BREAKFAST SPECIAL
Chorizo and Egg Scramble Quesadilla
Cal. 455 ~ Fiber 2g ~ Chol. 220mg
3.35

SOUPS ~ STEWS ~ CHILIS
Lobster Bisque
Vegan Minestrone
2.00/3.00

BISTRO SALAD
This station closed.

A LA MINUTE
Thai Chili Pork,Leeks,Zucchini,and
Cal. 477 ~ Fiber 4g ~ Chol. 22mg
5.60/6.45

BRICK OVEN
Chipotle Chicken, Red Pepper & Jalapenos
Cheese, Pepperoni Pizza
4.45

MARKET SPECIALS
Tandoori basa with mushroom mutter,
Cal. 512 ~ Fiber 5.5g ~ Chol. 65mg
5.75/6.75

CHARBROILER
Angus Burger with Provolone and Pesto
Fish and Chips
5.55/6.75

HEALTHY CHOICE/VEGETARIAN
Zucchini and Fresh Herb Fritter with a
Cal. 300 ~ Fiber 3.5g ~ Chol. 110mg
5.75

BISTRO PANINI'S
This station is closed today.

It's also Beer Friday - really

LOL....    what a great menu !

mmmmmm.... my tongues hanging out !

However ( and I hate to admit this because it might make obvious my lack of class ) .....what the heck is .....

*MARKET SPECIALS*
Tandoori basa with mushroom mutter,

???  basa ? mutter ?

just wondering.  I bet it smells good though....boy, I am REALLY hungry now....( time to buy you all a beer !  happy Bill Hunt Day !  )

Rod

The basa fish, Pangasius bocourti, is a type of catfish in the family Pangasiidae. Basa are native  to the Mekong River Delta in  Vietnam and Chao Phraya basin in Thailand.^[1]

Mutter is green peas

Sounds good to me! Guess we need a full range of wines, beers, ales and maybe a few stouts, or Porters?

Hunt

Ah, now Thai basa might be might go well with an IPA, or perhaps a Rosé sparkler/Champagne, or maybe a Kabinet Riesling.

For the mutter, I'm really not sure. With smashed peas (usually with me fish and chips), I rather fancy something like a Strongbow cider. That goes well with the cider vinegar on the fish and chips too.

OK, so we add a few ciders too. Heck, I'm easy.

Hunt

mmmmmm, this is GOOD....but please ask the chef to remove the fish head OK...  it's looking at me like my ex-wife used to after refusing to go shoe shopping with her.

Rod

>refusing to go shoe shopping

And of course, new shoes just HAD to mean a new purse!

LOL...

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And of course, new shoes just HAD to mean a new purse!

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and.....new earrings to MATCH.....AAAAAAAAAA !!!!

hehe..reminds me...do you by any chance know the CNBC show with the hosts Mark and Erin ??  They were talking about the discovery of that SHOE recently found that dates back a zillion years....  earliest known shoe ever found....  and Mark says, " Must've been a man's shoe...cause if it was a Woman's there would have been at least a dozen ! "

Yeah, I hate fish heads, that look at me that way. Went to a big charity event at the New Orleans Aquarium, some years ago. Our tables were set around one of the large tanks, with picture-windows, looking into the tank. My back was to one of those, and the menu was all seafood. Just after I was served, I glanced over my shoulder, as I felt that I was being watched. In that picture-window it appeared that every fish in the tank was there, staring at me. I could swear that they all had tears in their eyes, as they surveyed my plate. Had I just been served their best friend, Harry?!?!?!

Hunt

Good line! Was it Leno, or other, who just quipped, that the referenced shoe was found on a "Grand Slam Breakfast" plate at Denny's?

Hunt

Aujourd'hui, le jour de Guillaume, chez Denny's:

Le Grand Slam Breakfast

- têtes des poissons Basa

- sauce tandoori

- crêpes de babeurre

- oeufs et mutter

- fruit

- café

- appareillement de vin: screwdiriver

Hunt

It appears that video of that shoe has just surfaced. There was a National Geographic film crew handy.

Shoe Discovery.

Hunt

I haven't seen that in a long time

The shoelace spaghetti gets me every time.

Even after the Leno bit, and some initial comments, it just came to me. I think that was one of the first films that we studied, in Film School. Of course, back then, it had just been released! IIRC, Chaplin and D. W. Griffith were both guest lecturers.

Hunt

wow...  talk about good guest lectures...

speaking of which....did you like that movie with Robert Downey Jr as Chaplin ?

I did...thought he did a great job....funny bit with the potatoes "dancing" ....

Rod

Do you mean THIS Chaplin scene? Chaplin recreated that for our class. Two classmates, Al Hitchcock and some kid named De Mille, really enjoyed it.

Hunt

PS - did not see the Downey movie, but I did hear that it was good.

LOL....yes !    but in the movie with Downey there were like "businessmen" at the table, trying to talk about serious stuff...about making movies etc and he kinda drifts off and does that routine....and some of the guys at the table look at him like he has 3 heads....funny as heck....

hehe...

ps....if you can rent it or whatever...I think you'd love seeing that movie with Downey...he'll never do anything better and technically I thought the movie was really great....you would love it !

Where's Bill ???   ----   could be the title of a new movie with Uma Thurman ....sans Carradine ( poor grasshopper's demise in the closet comes to mind )

Hope he is OK !  Not used to a couple days going by without Bill in the lounge...

Rod

Word has it that he's doing fine, but had to head over to New Mexico on business. If reports are correct, he's back in PHX, at least for a few days.

Hunt

>back in PHX

Ah... so THAT was the sound I hear from the SouthWest... the sound of corks popping!

Yes. The wine selections in Durango, CO and Navajo Dam, NM, were not that great. Opened a nice lower-end Puligney-Montrachet (Louis Jadot), when I returned.

Hunt