There was a new post called 'Untitled'. Fascinated, I clicked on it. Alas it seems to have been deleted before it could see its first moon. I just couldn't let it die like that, even if it possibly was some horrid creation that needed to be snuffed lest people's eyes burn at the sight of its very intention.
So... on the Seinfeldian subject of nothing in particular I offer a resoundingly hearty POTATOES CAN BE VERY TASTY.
That's my two cents.
Here's to wondering what the post was intended to discuss. I think it was to be about potatos.
Moved to off-topic because it's funny.
Fair enough, but I'm never joking when I profess my love of the tato.
Question. A radio personality named Armand DeMille realized in his fifties soulsearched and realized that the reason he hated apples was probably because he'd learned as a child that DeMille meant apple. Similarly, does the name Teter make you dislike taters or does the deliciousness of the spud deny all claims against devotion?
I've known womenzizz who didn't care much for the potato. Though I could respect their intellects, I could not love them. No. I could not.
::sniff::
Well, I could love them, but then I got outta there before rush hour hit, ya know?
Frinch-fried pitaters.
I do a meant Slingblade impression.
POTATOES or potatos?I just want to be clear before we hash this out.
Don't think I didn't consider the Quaylian ramifications of spelling it the old way, with the e.
Funny how that got stuck in our collective long term memory. Well, at least the two of us anyway.
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POTATOES or potatos?I just want to be clear before we hash this out.
Don't think I didn't consider the Quaylian ramifications of spelling it the old way, with the e.
Funny how that got stuck in our collective long term memory. Well, at least the two of us anyway.
Yip. Qail's gid eatin. With frinch frite pitaters.
I've known womenzizz who didn't care much for the potato.Hemmingway's advice to women from "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
"Beware the Potato"
Menu/Horoscope advice to my girlfriend from my favorite Chinese Restaurant:
"Beware the Monkey"
Coincidence?
or evidence of the occult?
I believe it's clearly occulty enough to warrant a Time/Life book series. Funny you say Hemingway warned women to beware the potato. Back in the late eighties I was frontman for a hard rock group and I wore pants so tight that people called the resultant bulge The Potato. It was funny for a time until someone told my mother. She grinned and seemed proud.
I could live my whole life without my mother knowing about, or grinning proudly over, said potato.
Free therapy? Anyone? <:|
Yip. Qail's gid eatin. With frinch frite pitaters.
POTATOES or potatos?I just want to be clear before we hash this out.
Don't think I didn't consider the Quaylian ramifications of spelling it the old way, with the e.
Funny how that got stuck in our collective long term memory. Well, at least the two of us anyway.
I recall that while still VP Dan was in a South American country and, while strolling the thoroughfare, picked up a statue of a man with a branch-like stiffy and shook it at his wife. She scolded him publically.
It's not about potatos but then, maybe that's what this post was originally about... women who don't like engorged dolls shaken in their general direction. Who can know the ways of the Untitled Post?
The post that can be described
is not the untitled post.
The name that can be spoken
is not the untitled Name.from the Untitled te Ching
You are wise as I am foolish, teacher.
You are wise as I am foolish, teacher.Beyond the senses are the objects,
and beyond the objects is the mind.
Beyond the mind is pure reason,
and beyond reason is the Potato.
the rest is just gravy.from the Potato Upanishad
Your knowledge of the texts is inspiring. And here I thought you were going to go off-topic and quote from the Book Of the Five Onion Rings.
I'm all about the Big Steak and Egg Omelet at IHOP.
But hey, that's just me.
Thoth-Amon
You're IHOP?!
Little known fact that Imhotep, 'the first architect, genius, and physician known by name in written history', actually created IHOP. The missing M, T and E in his name then stood for 'make the eggs'. A Lithuanian corporatation bought the company in 1894 and changed the name to International House of Pancakes. This same company has been working with cloning for over a century in order to bring the old master back to life in order to convince him to figurehead the company on Rutti Tutti Fresh and Frutti TV spots. Sinister, ain't it?
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"Even a potato in a dark cellar has a certain low cunning about him which serves him in excellent stead. He knows perfectly well what he wants and how to get it. He sees the light coming from the cellar window and sends his shoots crawling straight thereto: they will crawl along the floor and up the wall and out at the cellar window; if there be a little earth anywhere on the journey he will find it and use it for his own ends. What deliberation he may exercise in the matter of his roots when he is planted in the earth is a thing unknown to us, but we can imagine him saying, 'I will have a tuber here and a tuber there, and I will suck whatsoever advantage I can from all my surroundings. This neighbour I will overshadow, and that I will undermine; and what I can do shall be the limit of what I will do. He that is stronger and better placed than I shall overcome me, and him that is weaker I will overcome.'" -- Samuel Butler
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A radio personality named Armand DeMille realized in his fifties soulsearched and realized that the reason he hated apples was probably because he'd learned as a child that DeMille meant apple.
I wonder if he also hated potatoes, seeing as how the French for potato, pomme de terre, literally means "apple of the earth."
-Vic.
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"Even a potato in a dark cellar...
Mindbending. Never thought about them like that. Hmmm. I suddenly respect the potato too much to eat it. That will probably go away soon, but for now... I want to learn from it.
Oh my lord, Gary... Best. Post. Ever.
A radio personality named Armand DeMille realized in his fifties soulsearched and realized that the reason he hated apples was probably because he'd learned as a child that DeMille meant apple.I wonder if he also hated potatoes, seeing as how the French for potato, pomme de terre, literally means "apple of the earth."
-Vic.
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Sounds very possible, Vic, but all these tie-ins... the way they spiral back to the tuber itself, are getting kind of creepy in a Lovecraftian sort of way. I think in we just may be decoding some kind of Spudonomicon.
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Oh dear, I seem to be back where I started! Just look at this old thread! (I tried and failed with the hyperlink)
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/dnd/general/archives/youAreWhatYouEat
www.bonsaipotato.com
"zen without the wait."
At the risk of seeming spammy....
According to The Art of the Bonsai Potato, Bonsai Potato is "the art of nurturing the artistic vision of a potato through various forms of encouragement and manipulation." To me, a Bonsai Potato can be so much more.
I find that the 30 to 45 seconds that I spend trimming, whispering encouraging remarks or just admiring my Bonsai Potato are the most relaxing moments of my day. I get a sense of accomplishment and camaraderie when friends and family look at my potato and say "...um...wow," and I always have plausible evidence for an insanity plea, "just in case."
That is an adorable site.
On a seperate note: thanks to the hyperlink elves for fixing my sicheashun earlier.
My personal favorite koan:
"what is the sound of one potato clapping?"ah.....nirvana.
I hate to be herded by my own suggestion type effect but you do realize I am now compelled to cook a potato product of some kind, don't you? Not that it took much convincing.
Drat. I mean Baaaaaa!
www.bonsaipotato.com
"zen without the wait."
At the risk of seeming spammy....
Oddly enough, the guys who brought the bonsai potato to market also built my home theater.
-Vic.
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Did their company mass produce your home theater or did they came into your home personally and custom build you some kind of audio/visual monstrosity?
Subwoofers. Luckyyyyyyy...
Having a Napoleonic Dynomitic moment there.
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Oddly enough, the guys who brought the bonsai potato to market also built my home theater.
-Vic.
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I can just imagine the thought process here.
Guy is cleaning out his pantry for the first time in months.He finds this bag of potatoes from the Pleistocene Epoch, opens it, and when the cloud of mold clears he sees eight mummified spuds amidst a writhing sargasso of tubers.
"hmmmm....bonsai potatoes?"
Three days later an internet cottage industry is born.
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Having a Napoleonic Dynomitic moment there.
"Son, your grandmother is in the hospital. She broke her coccyx." I tried to spell coccyx phonetically with the pronunciation from the movie, but it got edited out for being a swear word. Oops, I really try not to swear when posting.
Now there's single manhood at it's worst--eating steak for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for a week without vegetables of any kind or even a potato.
"There is no potato."
"dude."
Oddly enough, the guys who brought the bonsai potato to market also built my home theater.Oh man. If you've seen Vic's home theater you'd know just how freaking scary that bonsai potato must be.
Vic's home theater doesn't have a subwoofer. It roundhouse-kicks you instead.
You never forget one of those rooms. Anything lesser sounds like Mr. Microphone through a squeeze box ever after. I'm still haunted. It's like forbidden lore, once exposed you become farspawn.
all these tie-ins... the way they spiral back to the tuber itself, are getting kind of creepy in a Lovecraftian sort of way. I think in we just may be decoding some kind of Spudonomicon.
"...there did writhe a mass of withered tentacles, too numerous for mortal comprehension, and from behind this phantasmagorical tumult watched a thousand eyes, peering beyond the abyssmal darkness to the limits of imagination"
from H.P. Lovecraft's "The Whisper from the Pantry"
Can't talk about [italic]The Whisper from The Pantry[/italic] without Jimmy Jacobs chiming in to tell us that is was heavily inspired by Ambrose Bierce's [italic]The Devil's Potato Cookbook[/italic]. The Paizo staff is freakishly literate.
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Did their company mass produce your home theater or did they came into your home personally and custom build you some kind of audio/visual monstrosity?
They created it based on designs I had commissioned from Doug Chiang, who was the lead designer on Star Wars Episodes I and II.
You can see it here. (Don't miss the links on the top of the page.)
-Vic.
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They created it based on designs I had commissioned from Doug Chiang, who was the lead designer on Star Wars Episodes I and II.
You can see it here. (Don't miss the links on the top of the page.)
-Vic.
Mfgrk...fffttt...EEEE!
Such awesomeness!!! Do you rattle the neighbors' windows? :D
They created it based on designs I had commissioned from Doug Chiang, who was the lead designer on Star Wars Episodes I and II.
You can see it here. (Don't miss the links on the top of the page.)
-Vic.
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DUDE! THAT IS F*&@#%@ INSANE! <:O Really!
I have only inappropriate questions.
You've done a good thing, letting her be built and footing the bill. Someone had to. BTW, I'm in my thirties but I am available for adoption. It might be hard to explain at parties but hey, I can change my own diapers.
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Did their company mass produce your home theater or did they came into your home personally and custom build you some kind of audio/visual monstrosity?They created it based on designs I had commissioned from Doug Chiang, who was the lead designer on Star Wars Episodes I and II.
You can see it here. (Don't miss the links on the top of the page.)
-Vic.
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Dat's tha bomb.
You seriously need to get up on that Cribs show with that.Daaaaaang.
Dat's tha bomb.
You seriously need to get up on that Cribs show with that.
Daaaaaang.
Word.
Wow!!! (sorry for the unhip venacular, just be glad I didn't say "keen")
Such awesomeness!!! Do you rattle the neighbors' windows? :DHeh. Their closest neighbors are like a quarter mile away (or maybe even further?). The house is... most impressive. ;)
Wertz... Wertz... hmm... from the Willingsworthafordshire Wertzes? Old money I recall... made their fortune selling pyrite in the Yukon I believe.
I'd love to see the house too. I'm all about the HGTV and TLC shows that invite you in to see amazing architecture.
