...It is members only, after all!

Hold thy peace, thou knave.

In Response to mkinyon (#30093):

i before e except after c.

In Response to unFalln (#30097):

Well, I trust you wouldn't have felt obliged to explain the joke to the person next to you, had you been at the original performance of that line.

At least back then, they didn't have to cope with cell phones ringing at critical moments.

In Response to mkinyon (#30101):

Being there is half the battle...

And horrendously overpowering pepper vodka is a good way to make enemies of your favorite bartenders...

In Response to zamphir (#30102):

What?!?!?

No, I don't want to know.

In Response to Rich (#30117):

It was a Halloween party..

I brought a trick instead of a treat...

In Response to zamphir (#30120):

Ah, so it was served; and not, well, spewn about for someone to clean up.

In Response to jettaboy20 (#30123):

It can be spewed after being served. Often is, in fact.

In Response to Llamarama (#30127):

You've never had my "secret formula" (and man, is that going to make for interesting Google ads for this thread...).

It's always considered the better part of valor to pass it through one's esophogus once, rather than risk passing it twice.

Well, a lot of people consider it the best part of valor to skip it entirely....

This particular batch was made of
1 bottle of Absolut Vodka
6 alley garden grown habenero peppers, quartered and placed in the bottle.
1 week + of steeping time
some food coloring

I only added food coloring to some of it, so I still have the bottle with the peppers.... if I get around to it, I'll post a snapshot...

Also
+1 Thread completely derailed

In Response to zamphir (#30130):

6 alley garden grown habenero peppers, quartered and placed in the bottle.

Nice. I had meant to ask you what kind of pepper you use, but it slipped my mind. HabAnero is a good choice.

+1 Thread completely derailed

It was on rails?

In Response to zamphir (#30130):

For some reason, I was picturing vodka with some ground pepper in it. Thinking about Absolut mixed with habaneros is making my throat hurt.

Attempting to get the thread back on its original rails...I like McGrue's theory. But that doesn't really explain why we're dicks on the other forums. Somehow, some of us manage to be dicks without being members, and that's a bit more complicated.

In Response to zamphir (#30130):

It's always considered the better part of valor to pass it through one's esophogus once, rather than risk passing it twice.

I saw this guy once pass a shooter of vodka through his esophogus (sic.) three times. It's something everyone should attempt just once in their life.

In Response to unFalln (#30141):

a shooter of vodka

I'd never be able to get the glass down the first time..

The vodka, sure.

So, was it Down, Up, Down...

Or, you know, UP, down, up?

In Response to mkinyon (#30132):

It was on rails?

Ruby makes for good Vodka management...

In Response to Dynedain (#30156):

Ruby makes for good Vodka management...

That must be why it's plugged as supporting "sustainable productivity".

In Response to mkinyon (#30158):

Ruby is the next Smalltalk.

In Response to zamphir (#30159):

You mean it's being promoted as a toy for teaching kids object-oriented programming?

In Response to mkinyon (#30161):

Not... yet.

But really, object oriented programming shouldn't be "taught". It should arrive naturally out of software design practices, particularly with kids.

In Response to zamphir (#30162):

object oriented programming ... should arrive naturally out of software design practices, particularly with kids.

I wasn't aware that any type of programming, object oriented or otherwise, arrived with kids. In that case, they'll have to stay in a motel; I don't have the room here.

In Response to mkinyon (#30164):

...don't have room for the programming? the kids? or either?

In Response to zamphir (#30143):

In that particular case it was the old boring down, up, down. However, what anatomical laws are there that state that the vodka has to go up before it can go down a second time? Sure, what goes up must go down (the reasoning behind the original situation) but there's no reason why something that has gone down has to come up again.

In Response to unFalln (#30168):

there's no reason why something that has gone down has to come up again.

Though if it's habanero vodka, it probably ought to come back up rather than bore holes throughout your digestive track...

In Response to Llamarama (#30169):

At least it would be easier to catch at the other end.

I mean... if you were standing in a large bucket or a vat or something.

...and you didn't mind separating it from all the organs that spill out along with it.

"You're going down a path that I just can't follow!" *sob*

In Response to unFalln (#30168):

there's no reason why something that has gone down has to come up again

....

Mine always does...

In Response to unFalln (#30167):

In the house, no room for (more) kids. In my brain, no room for programming until I finish this cup of coffee here in front of me. Which I just noticed is way too close to the keyboard...

There. I'm ready to be programmed. Or maybe I should just say "Working" in my best Majel Barrett voice.