October 17, 2003

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This is reserved solely for comments about lunch.

Posted by Tim Blair at October 17, 2003 07:36 AM
Comments

I like tuna with potato chips (crisps).

Posted by: yester-me at October 17, 2003 at 07:58 AM

I'm having pizza. Mmm, pizza...

Posted by: Alice at October 17, 2003 at 08:00 AM

I posted my lunch comment under 'addiction'...I can't help it. I'd willingly sell my body to a rich rock star like Gwen Stefani for a grilled cheese sandwich and a bowl of soup!

Posted by: JDB at October 17, 2003 at 08:17 AM

I had a salad. Damn you Dr Atkins!

Posted by: Barry at October 17, 2003 at 08:37 AM

Sure, you'll be away for couple of days, Tim. A couple of days of LUNCH with plenty of EXPENSIVE WINE, I bet! So you can pretend you're a REAL JOURNALIST when all you can do is CUT AND PASTE.

We're still waiting for you to ENLIST and GO TO IRAQ. Make sure you don't choke on your CHICKENHAWK sandwiches when you have your LONG LUNCH with lots of EXPENSIVE WINE ... hang on, didn't I say that before?

Posted by: Bob Bunnett at October 17, 2003 at 08:42 AM

Had to skip lunch today. Too many meetings. Can't wait til supper.

Posted by: Chris Josephson at October 17, 2003 at 09:01 AM

I had Vietnamese Pho two days in a row. It's the best. Now if only I could get one of my co-workers to go get Indian buffet I'd be really happy. The place around the corner has the best masala I've ever had. For all their supposed open-mindedness Seattleites sure seem narrow minded about food, especially when it's spicy. "Owie, it burned my mouth"! "Dude, it's only an onion". Wow, right when I was writing this, a guy I work with asked me if I wanted to go to Indian buffet tomorrow! Tim Blair makes dreams come true! Now if we can work on the homliness of Seattleites and the way they drive like pussies...

Posted by: Ken in Seattle at October 17, 2003 at 09:02 AM

Hmmm. Donuts.

Posted by: Homer Simpson at October 17, 2003 at 09:03 AM

It's Boss' Day today in the US of A. My dept. took our boss out for Mexican food. I had the Enchilada Cancun lunch plate - lots of tortilla chips and salsa to warm up the palate. It was great!

Posted by: Polly at October 17, 2003 at 09:07 AM

Turkey. Turkey sandwiches are the best. I could eat them for lunch every day. In fact, I do most days. This is mostly because I make and take my lunch and I'm too lazy plan something.

If I could get someone to make my lunch for me I would ask them to put something exotic in there occasionally. Maybe a strange fruit or vegetable from another part of the world. But I'd still have turkey sandwiches.

Posted by: Keith at October 17, 2003 at 09:23 AM

Ken in Seattle,
You're supposed to be having smoked salmon and clams at Ivar's, not foreign kickshaws.

Posted by: Former Seattleite at October 17, 2003 at 09:28 AM

I only like salmon when it's sushi. I know, heritic. Wait an minute, there's a sushi place around the corner, too. Thanks for reminding me! As far as Ivar's goes, I've only been to the one at the mall. But I'm getting some fish 'n' chips at Pike Place Pub on Saturday along with their XXXXX Porter! Sorry, my fingers are slipping on the saliva on my keyboard...

Posted by: Ken in Seattle at October 17, 2003 at 09:48 AM

I had a nooner.

Hey, it was lunchtime so it counts. But now I'm hungry.

Posted by: Ken Summers at October 17, 2003 at 10:34 AM

Try the veal.

Posted by: Shrek at October 17, 2003 at 03:50 PM

Take some pieces of baby milk-fed veal 'scallopine'. Dust in continental flour and fry in butter and olive oil, couple minutes max either side. Toss in a dash of white wine and some cream and some cracked pepper, shake pan 'til it reduces, remove veal to plate, reduce wine and cream a little more. When a good consistency, pour over veal.

Serve with scalloped potatoes (baked in milk or cream and a little stock for an hour so), rabe fried in olive oil and garlic with a little cream or some fried polenta.

Any nice chilled white wine is fine, maybe a sauvignon blanc, whatever.

Posted by: pooh at October 17, 2003 at 04:19 PM

I like eggs...

Posted by: timks at October 17, 2003 at 04:26 PM

Tuna here.

Posted by: Tony.T at October 17, 2003 at 04:40 PM

Liver. With some Fava beans a nice chianti...

Posted by: Hannibal at October 17, 2003 at 04:41 PM

Aaron Boone ate Tim Wakefield's lunch tonight.

Posted by: Ryne McClaren at October 17, 2003 at 05:11 PM

I'm here til Friday

Posted by: Shrek at October 17, 2003 at 05:20 PM

I had FLIES for lunch... Mmmm... flies...

Posted by: TimT at October 17, 2003 at 05:59 PM


I'm drinking a beer -- Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Very tasty.

Posted by: Andrew at October 17, 2003 at 07:04 PM

Late Lunch for this student.. It's a toss up of..

a) Packet pasta and a cream of chicken cup-a-soup.

b) A walk to the local Woolworths for a slab of Pepper Steak. Or veal maybe.. - make something up myself.. Veal Alla Sera.. (I'm the best student cook I know, It's just such a pain in the arse though :D )

c) Red Rooster..

Posted by: Murdoch Software Engineer Std at October 17, 2003 at 07:55 PM

i had a shower for lunch.

i hate waking up late.

Posted by: Random_Prose at October 17, 2003 at 09:28 PM

It's a tie:
1. 4 beers and free buffet at the gentlemen's club
2. tuna on whole wheat, cheetos, and a Pepsi
3. leftover pizza
4. whatever your boss wants to buy you
5. call in during lunch and take the rest of the day off

Posted by: R at October 17, 2003 at 11:58 PM

Can anything beat Oportos?

Posted by: Fat Bstard at October 18, 2003 at 12:01 AM

I like a beer sandwich- hold the bread.

Posted by: Habib at October 18, 2003 at 12:21 AM

I prefer to engulf a whole bison, using a method similar to an amoeba.
(Mind you, breakfast sort of merges with lunch, which tends to run into dinner).

Posted by: Michael Moore at October 18, 2003 at 12:24 AM

Taco Bell, baby.

Posted by: ccwbass at October 18, 2003 at 01:13 AM

I've just photoshopped Michael Moore having lunch on the cover of his new book.

Posted by: EvilPundit at October 18, 2003 at 01:32 AM

It's lunchtime yesterday on the east coast of the US. I'll be the first: i had a hot dog with mustard and a half-dozen chicken wings with texas pete hot sauce. wing pieces, not whole wings.

yum. it got the stomach ready for a few yuengling beers tonight

Posted by: albo at October 18, 2003 at 02:38 AM

It's still about an hour until lunch here, so I'll post off topic.

Man, those Cubs and those RedSox sure can blow a lead, can't they?

Posted by: bitweever.com at October 18, 2003 at 02:42 AM

The bacon was cold so she dropped it in the deep fat fryer. Now it has a slight french fry / clam strip taste.

Quite pleasing, really.

Posted by: osmotw at October 18, 2003 at 03:34 AM

Red beans and rice left over from the Florida-LSU game last week. The tiger shrimp were gone the day of the game; not sure they'd be any good now anyway.

Posted by: David Perron at October 18, 2003 at 04:07 AM

We don't get Oporto's in Canada. Damn!

Posted by: Jonny at October 18, 2003 at 04:10 AM

Nobody else had a nooner? Ha! Be jealous, kids.

Posted by: Ken Summers at October 18, 2003 at 05:59 AM

Mmmmmm... Ivar's...

Posted by: Katherine at October 18, 2003 at 06:05 AM

A sandwich walked into a bar, and the barkeeper said, "I'm sorry. We don't serve food here."

Club sandwich, baked potato chips, & ice tea w/ cream and sugar.

Posted by: Adriane at October 18, 2003 at 06:17 AM

Peanut-butter sandwich & an apple. But I work on Mercer Island and there just aren't a whole lot of options. I already ate at the Chinese place this week and you can only get so many sandwiches at the grocery store.

Dinner will be better. Sigh.

Posted by: Carol at October 18, 2003 at 06:46 AM

Brought a ham and cheese on whole wheat from home. Ate in the cubicle and chased with tap water from a reused Aquifina bottle. Jealous yet? O.K., the sandwich had grocery store brand dijon mustard.

Can you guess what industry I work in?

Posted by: Hudson at October 18, 2003 at 06:46 AM

Kevin! We must be long-lost brothers! Every single weekday, I have a turkey sandwich. This has been going on for the past 5+ years, and I have no desire to change. Now, I admit, some days I'm dragged out to a business lunch, but I still eat the turkey sandwich while driving home at the end of the day.

To make this an even stranger habit, here is the complete and exact menu I've been eating for lunch for the past 5 years running:

- Sandwich: turkey, white american cheese, a bit of honey mustard, on really really good white bread
- A single-serving can of Pringles
- A Coke
- A bag of Skittles

I eat that EVERY SINGLE weekday, and I love it. I even buy the Pringles and Skittles in bulk. Now, does that make me the weirdest, most boring, or most consistant human being on earth? Or all three?

Posted by: Tom K at October 18, 2003 at 06:47 AM

I'm doing Atkins and todays lunch is a punnet of strawberries and 250ml of cream and four sachets of sweetner. Atkins rocks!

Posted by: Motley Fool at October 18, 2003 at 06:50 AM

Katherine, I'm still new to Seattle, I always thought Ivar was an engine driver. I've only had mall Ivar's. Not so great.

Posted by: Ken at October 18, 2003 at 06:56 AM

I'm having 6 waffles followed by six chocolate and cream donuts washed down with a two pint strawberry milk shake, I will then proceed onto the starters of three bacon sandwiches 12 deep fried mars bars and a cheese crust pizza with anchovys. I will then have 36 packets of slimfast because I'm on a diet, to improve the flavour I will add 1 camel stuffed with a wild boar stuffed with a turkey stuffed with a toffee cheesecake with gravy. After this I will stop for dinner.

Posted by: Micheal Moore at October 18, 2003 at 07:37 AM

Hey Wakefield had the Yank's lunch all the other days> the last was Grady's fault! Has anyone seen my lunch? I had my name on the bag, why would someone steal my lunch?

Posted by: Two in the Hat at October 18, 2003 at 09:37 AM

Tom K,

By any chance are you an engineer? This sounds exactly like what I imagine Dilbert would have for lunch!

Posted by: Alice at October 18, 2003 at 11:38 AM

What's wrong with an eye-opener? I plan on being shitfaced by kick-off in Australia vs. Romania

Posted by: Habib at October 18, 2003 at 11:44 AM

Ramen noodles (at 10 cents a pack on sale...hey, who took the "cents" key off this typewriter?!?) yet once again.

Sometimes it's just no fun being a miser.

Posted by: TimothyL at October 18, 2003 at 01:25 PM

I'm having 6 waffles followed by six chocolate and cream donuts washed down with a two pint strawberry milk shake, I will then proceed onto the starters of three bacon sandwiches 12 deep fried mars bars and a cheese crust pizza with anchovys. I will then have 36 packets of slimfast because I'm on a diet, to improve the flavour I will add 1 camel stuffed with a wild boar stuffed with a turkey stuffed with a toffee cheesecake with gravy. After this I will stop for dinner.

Michael, this is way off-topic! This thread is about lunch, not mid-afternoon snackkies!

Posted by: TimothyL at October 18, 2003 at 01:31 PM

Hello all, is'nt it nice that NO ONE is being awfully serious?
ALICE posted 'to Tony K'-- "by any chance are you an engineer".
Alice my dear, the only engineers who get to stop for lunch are those employed by the Government.
I'm not so employed--- worse still, my slide rule has been infected by a worm. Ah, the hazards of high tech.

May you all have a good weekend--and do try to be nice to me occasionally!

Cheers Gadfly

Posted by: Gadfly at October 18, 2003 at 01:39 PM

Gadfly,

If you want nice, you're at the wrong site.

Posted by: S Whiplash at October 18, 2003 at 02:02 PM

Hi, S WHIPLASH,
For a period of my life when I worked in the USA, I had a colleague whose retort to anybody who was not being "nice" was " go stick your head up a dead bear's bum". But, I would never be so crude.
If you read all postings on this site you will see that most are intelligent, "nice" people.
Ergo; I am on the right site!

Keep smiling Gadfly

Posted by: Gadfly at October 18, 2003 at 02:24 PM

Gadfly:

I highly recommend Ramen noodles.

They are cheap, portable, and slurpulicious!
Just remember to keep the slurping spoon to the right (or the left)(or downwind, for that matter) from the keyboard.

If I could only find some more of the Chicken Curry flavor...at least they've added Chili...

Posted by: TimothyL at October 18, 2003 at 03:02 PM

Though in deference to health I rarely eat them....the best junk sandwich is crunchy peanut butter with Miracle Whip© on cheap white bread.

But the world's tops is a good meatloaf sandwich with Miracle Whip© on cheap white bread. Scwooshed down so it kinda' get's the bread moderately soggy.

Posted by: wallace at October 18, 2003 at 03:51 PM

Gadfly, I am too an engineer! Very perceptive of Alice, I should add.

And Gadfly, I whoever said I stopped to eat lunch? I do eat lunch, yes, but I'm surely not the only person to eat and work at the same time? What about you, then? Are you skipping lunch? Can't be much of a right-wing death beast if you're fatigued and muddle-headed half the day. You need to keep up your energy to better oppress the people! You'd best not be slacking. You know we've all got our quota to meet, and that dissent isn't going to crush itself.

Posted by: Tom K at October 18, 2003 at 04:05 PM

Tom K,
Hi fellow engineer. I'm a bioengineer in private practice. Eating lunch through a surgical mask is very difficult & it tastes awful after being through an autoclave!
Usually, I wait until evening before oppressing the people--but this is Saturday!
Yours nicely in blogging, Gadfly

Posted by: Gadfly at October 18, 2003 at 04:52 PM

Oh thank you Wallace for bringing up the thought of meatloaf on cheap white bread (w/MW©)...the chances of that...even if it wasn't 2:45 A.M. here what I wouldn't give for a slab of good meatloaf...sigh...

Wallace, did they slip a couple of slices of bacon on top of it before they put it in the oven? Did they drizzle a little ketchup on that little loaf?

Torment me more, brother!

Posted by: TimothyL at October 18, 2003 at 05:49 PM

err..."torment me no more"

well, unless you have a spare meatloaf sandwich you can get to me ASAP...

Ramen for meatloaf! Ramen for meatloaf...1 pack of Ramen for a Slice...uh...2 packs for a slice...3...4...5...

Posted by: TimothyL at October 18, 2003 at 06:03 PM

You pathetic bunch of timewasters. Your fearful leader(!) gone, all you sheep can do is mooch. What a lame state of affairs on the blogmire. Without "journalist" Tim to cut-and-paste the world into nasty little edible chunks for you, you all go to directionless pieces. This aint the new right, its just a sad little backwater blog for lonely guys. OK, group hug!

Posted by: Miranda Divide at October 18, 2003 at 08:51 PM

One large tin of WEIGHT GAIN 4000

"Beefcake....BEEFCAKE!"

Posted by: Richard at October 18, 2003 at 10:04 PM

what the fuck is wrong with beer?
What sort of pansies are you if you want anything else?

A six pack for lunch is civilisation at it's peak.

If you want a seven course lunch, it's easy; a pie and a six-pack.

Posted by: Habib at October 18, 2003 at 11:32 PM

What's the matter, Miranda? Didn't collect enough at the corner to be able to afford lunch?

Posted by: Andrea Harris at October 19, 2003 at 12:07 AM

Chinese food today, fried dumplings, pan fried noodles, and chick. Mmm.

I've always thought the most pathetic thing in the world is someone who spends their time claiming that someone else is wasting their time. Don't you think so, Miranda?

Posted by: John Nowak at October 19, 2003 at 01:54 AM

Tom K,

Glad to know my instincts were correct. :)
Yours,
A.

Posted by: Alice at October 19, 2003 at 09:36 AM

For the last two days I've had lunch at the Australian MotoGP at Phillip Island. I plan on having lunch there again today for the race. For those of you who cannot be there you have my pity.

Posted by: Jake D at October 19, 2003 at 09:40 AM

I was going with Tex, but couldn't get out of the office for a week. Fucking rat's cocks.

Posted by: Habib at October 19, 2003 at 11:46 AM

Hey andrea, I thought you were at the rugger with your boyfiend. Not so free blogginf after all. Er, can you post my IP address this time, I can;t be bothered. BTW I got my own place now... it's really neat. But seriously, just thought i'd drop in on the og-so-radical right for some more vicarious laughs. Sadly I only find a bunch of sheep let loose in the back paddock.

Posted by: Miranda Divide at October 19, 2003 at 01:03 PM

is miranda divide another guise of that rump rider uni-lecturer who impersonates pauline hanson? my lunch today was a mixed grill, can of coke and a pack of PK chewie. oh.. i also picked up a copy of the truckie's bible, PICTURE magazine. hope 'ole MIRANDA isnt in the homeboys err homegirls section.

Posted by: roscoe p coltrane at October 19, 2003 at 01:53 PM

Yeesh. The person doing "Miranda" today is seriously under par. Please get off the computer and give us back our (by comparison, anyway) smarter Miranda Divide.

PS: glad you've got your own place. I hope it's a nice, big refrigerator carton this time.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at October 19, 2003 at 02:15 PM

To TimothyL I mostly eat meatloaf sandwiches at home, prepared from leftovers of my famous homemade delicacy loaf. No bacon, but sometimes a little dill relish, sliced onion being from Texas......a dab of Tabasco©!

Posted by: wallace at October 19, 2003 at 03:49 PM

Miranda said:
You pathetic bunch of timewasters. Your fearful leader(!) gone, all you sheep can do is mooch. What a lame state of affairs on the blogmire. Without "journalist" Tim to cut-and-paste the world into nasty little edible chunks for you, you all go to directionless pieces. This aint the new right, its just a sad little backwater blog for lonely guys. OK, group hug!

You're so right...I feel your pain!
But when Tim Blair, setting up this thread ordered us that This is reserved solely for comments about lunch. he didn't mean we'd spill the beans about all the secret agenda stuff we talk about at lunch!

wallace, how 'bout that recipe? Enquiring Michiganders want to know. Ever try a mix of ground beef and pork? Maybe a little venison? Funny, I love the onions inside the loaf, never thought of a slice outside...and I've never found any dish (except corn flakes and milk) that a little Tabasco© didn't improve!

Posted by: TimothyL at October 20, 2003 at 08:48 AM

Tabasco (funny little copyright symbol) is three of your four basic food groups.

Posted by: Ken Summers at October 20, 2003 at 10:15 AM

Habib I suggest a Bundy and coke as desert for your Seven course meal. I've got a taste back for the bundy since the RWC started and its the official drink so I had to. And make sure you don't have a pie with anything to lumpy in it otherwise it hurts more when you throw up.

Posted by: Razor at October 20, 2003 at 02:23 PM

Doesn't matter as long as you vomit on a Pom or a Kiwi.

Posted by: Habib Bickford at October 20, 2003 at 03:29 PM

Lunch? Lunch is for poofters. I've just scoffed a huge plate of spag bol (with said bol made by yours truly, recipe on demand). I'm washing it down with a bottle of Chilean Sauvignon Blanc*, on the principle that anyone that says that S.B. doesn't go with Italian needs a smacking.

*2002, yes I know, bit variable and somewhat tannic but it's clean and crisp enough to go with run-of-the-mill Eyetie nosh, so bugger off. If I could've found a 2000 SB for less than $20 I'd've jumped on it. Hence 'bugger off'.

Posted by: David Gillies at October 20, 2003 at 03:39 PM

Actually it was linguini bol. So double bugger off.

Posted by: David Gillies at October 20, 2003 at 03:42 PM

Had Turkish food at Cafe Istanbul off Lovers Lane outside Dallas.

I couldn't pronounce any of the dishes, but lamb and, I think, donkey sausage was outstanding.

Then a cup of Turkish coffee. Who needs to sleep for the rest of the week?

Posted by: Kim du Toit at October 20, 2003 at 03:50 PM

Doner Kebab is not donkey sausage.

At least I hope it wasn't.

Posted by: pooh at October 20, 2003 at 04:06 PM

Habib - Bob Carr will shipping you and yours back to the homeland any day now so you can vomit on the family.

Posted by: Shrek at October 20, 2003 at 04:44 PM

Sauvignon Blanc goes with Italian cuisine? Perhaps, but I am sure it goes best with a toilet bowl followed by a firm flushing. I cannot begin to comment about the Chilean aspect.

Spag Bol demands a good red. A McLaren Vale Shiraz of around 6 years age should be just fine or, at a pinch, a young Cotes du Rhone (ever so slightly chilled - just let the ice scare it).

Posted by: Greg at October 20, 2003 at 05:15 PM

Best pizza I ever had was outside of York, a doner pizza from a place called Chicago Pizza. Give those folks a World Map and they couldn't find Chicago, but they made a pizza that lives in my dreams...

Posted by: TimothyL at October 20, 2003 at 05:26 PM

I tried crispy pig penis in a Thai restaurant on the weekend.

I've had better penises.

Posted by: Freddyboy at October 20, 2003 at 05:48 PM

TimothyL,

As a native Chicagoan,and although it's breakfast time Monday in the States, I'll discuss the merits of real Chicago pizza anytime.

If you're ever in this great town, I recommend the original Uno's--not the franchise locations--or Due's. Great crust, sauce with a zest to it, and for the vegetarians among us, a spinocoli pizza that is beyond compare.

As a close second is Lou Malnati's. Simply awesome.

Posted by: joe at October 20, 2003 at 10:35 PM

I think I've had a pizza from those doner merchants near York (I used to live in Yorkshire). I reckon it would've gone well with a 2002 Chilean Sauvignon Blanc.

Posted by: David Gillies at October 21, 2003 at 02:32 AM

joe:

Mmm, Uno's. Generations of initials carved in the tables, crunchy granular crust from the olive oil, getting ready to dive in after a long wait for proper cooking of a deep dish....lucky I haven't lived in Chicage for 10 years or I'd weight 250 by now. I now live in NY, where the height of the pizza art is the super-thin brick oven crusty -- affectionately known as tomato sauce on a shingle.

Posted by: Daniel Calto at October 21, 2003 at 02:43 AM

I don't know why people eat sushi. It's raw fish. fish are notorious for having worms and other parasites. Think of how many worms and parasites you sushi eaters have ingested. Some can make you violently ill. This is why civilized people cook their food.

Posted by: Hugh Wyatt at October 21, 2003 at 03:08 AM

Daniel,

You've captured the essence of Uno's ambience. Truly a great thing.

I'm with ya, a constant diet of Uno's pies will make one look like Michael Moore. What a great idea! Send him to Uno's and have him eat until he explodes!!!

Probably too good for the schmuck.

Regarding the tomato sauce on a shingle--it travels quite well.

Posted by: joe at October 21, 2003 at 04:08 AM

I subscribe to the philosophy of the Holy Lunching Friars of Voondoon (as set down by the holy scribe Douglas Adams):

* Lunch is the center of your temporal day
* Your temporal day is an analogue for your spriritual day
* Therefore lunch is the center of your spiritual day, and thus should be held in jolly nice restaurants

Posted by: Craig at October 21, 2003 at 04:10 AM

Lunch is an invention of the bourgeiosie for oppressing the proletariat. Lunch costs money, and lunch away from work (another bourgeios trickery) costs the workers even more of their meager earnings. A worker who wants to save money turns to his wife to make him a lunch, further contributing to her domsetic enslavement. Consuming a large lunch makes workers lethargic and more prone to error for a few hours while the meal digests, giving the capitalists an excuse for arbitrarily firing workers.

Under socialism, lunch will not be necessary, as adequate nutrition will be provided to workers at breakfast and supper. Workers will no longer need to squander their scarce earnings on food of dubious nutrition and travel to shops of dubious sanitation run by the most petit- of the petit-bourgeios, who are called the "cockroach capitalists" by the noted social critic R. Ward. Working through the day without the interruption of thought and of bodily processes that lunch entails will enable workers to reach ever greater heights of productivity, which, in a socialist society, will directly enrich their lives.

Fight Capitalist Oppression! Down With Lunch!

Posted by: Anthony at October 21, 2003 at 08:45 AM

I am having:

2 all beef patties, special sauce, cheese, lettuce, pickles on a sesame seed bun. All washed down with cherry coke. Mmmmmmm, burger and coke.

Posted by: Ben at October 21, 2003 at 09:45 AM

Ho hum. Another lunch hour, another nooner.

Posted by: Ken Summers at October 21, 2003 at 10:19 AM

Not to brag or anything.

Posted by: Ken Summers at October 21, 2003 at 10:19 AM

Tomorrow, it's 10 pm in the States, I'm starting a US chapter of the Holy Lunching Friars of Voondoon, hoping that starting a chapter without formal approval is not considered blasphemous.

And yes, there are jolly nice restaurants in my locale.

Followed by a nooner.

Posted by: joe at October 21, 2003 at 01:05 PM

If it comes to choosing between pig's pizzle, donkey sausage or raw fish, I could almost agree that lunch is a capitalist plot to destroy the workers.

Posted by: Max at October 21, 2003 at 03:51 PM

Habib,

You guys missed a great weekend (except for Sunday which was a bitch because of the weather).
Shame about Troy though, maybe next year.

Posted by: Jake D at October 21, 2003 at 04:31 PM

Hate to interrupt your lunch, but 34 more dead bodies to report in free and democratic iraq. don;t choke on a wishbone now, will you.

Posted by: Miranda Divide at October 28, 2003 at 02:15 AM

Miranda, here's the deal--

The IRC bombing is deplorable, but until you and your buds can come up with a better plan--and don't say the UN--cause if that sorry ass bunch with Kofi The Skimmer at the helm carried any weight in the world, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

Until such time, shut up. I can hear the whiny tone from here.

Jeez. Go have lunch will ya?

Posted by: joe at October 30, 2003 at 07:19 AM

Oh, so you want me to shut up? Gee, OK.

But before i inexplicably acquiese, on the topic of iraq, how's this for a plan.

Get out of iraq now. Get out while you still can. Get out and let the iraqis work out the shitty mess you left behind on their own. After all, with Saddam gone [as you keep saying he is] Iraq's a vastly better place, isn't it? So you've done your good deed, show how selfless you really are and get out of that country and let them work it out themselves.

But, doh! I forgot. What about Bechtel? Oh well, a deal's a deal I guess.

Posted by: Miranda Divide at October 30, 2003 at 12:25 PM

Miranda seems to have been replaced by a twelve year old.

Posted by: John Nowak at October 30, 2003 at 02:59 PM

Maybe I will finally be able to get thru to you. You need saving from yourself.

Posted by: Miranda Divide at October 30, 2003 at 10:29 PM

Yep, crackpot with delusions of being the Messiah.

Posted by: John Nowak at October 31, 2003 at 02:53 AM

Miranda,

Great vocabulary, but I'm still waiting for a plan.

It's Halliburton, get it right, will ya?

Oh yeah, and like you're the Supreme Messiah.

Posted by: joe at October 31, 2003 at 04:04 AM

To be fair, Joe, Miranda did give a plan: pretend that the French Foreign Minister never declared the US was "in the hands of Israel", cower under a table, and hope the bad men never come to get us.

Posted by: John Nowak at November 1, 2003 at 04:10 PM

Well, 18 more Americans going home in a box since my last post to your fascist feast. Will you never listen? Bring me the head of Saddam Hussain! Show me the rotting corpse of Osama bin Laden! Your mission isn't accomplished, it's in tatters. How the fuck are you going to get out of this mess? You've chucked a bunger in a tinderbox and you sit around mouthing "we must stay the path, we will not yield"! Meanwhile the whole shithouse is going up in flames! Get real, turds, you;ve fucked this up big time.

Posted by: Miranda Divide at November 3, 2003 at 01:54 PM

Miranda hasn't even noticed that the real fascists are on her side. What a clever girl she is.

Posted by: John Nowak at November 3, 2003 at 03:30 PM