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I'm mostly suspicious of people who don't like chocolate much.

― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

scallops are so good! such crazy you people talk.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, apart from the butter lobster never has the texture I expect when I bite into it -- it's always WAY chewier than I'm prepared for. Scallops win.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Scallops kind of remind me of pencil erasers, but not in a good way.

Everyone else loves them; I must be missing something.

― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

mussels are where it's at

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

A pedant writes:

proscuitto, bayonne, serrano etc. are all ham

Also Cooked Ham in the US does suck, you want some proper british smoked cooked ham.

JJ I WANNA BIG MUFF

I sometimes get to play with Kate's Big Muff but I have her Flange(r) on long term loan (A vintage Electric Mistress). Personally though, I want a pedal without innuendo and want Dr Scientist to make me a phaser.

― Ed, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

my older sister and i had an addiciton to scallops when we were kids. from roughly april until november we would pester our parents daily to drive the 20 minutes to either ipswich or salisbury or seabrook to get some. we rarely did but holy christ did we love them.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Congressional Quarterly's Crawford: "I've been on the show nearly 70 times in the last three years. He's called me half a sissy, a communist, a pink liberal, even white trash. I didn't take offense" ("Scarborough Country," MSNBC, 4/10).

you know, Craig Crawford, I like you personally, but...

WHO WANTS TO BE THE FIRST TO GUESS WHO SAID THIS

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

JJ I WANNA BIG MUFF

my friend L bought a vintage 70s one, used it at one gig and then lost it during load out.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

You need to come over and come down to whitstable the shellfish capital of the southeast.

― Ed, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

guys i'm eating a blt :D

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I am basically dead if I loose Kate's Mistress. It eats batteries like a bastard and does not seem to want to work off power supplies and is a bit of a pain but it does sound nice.

― Ed, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

guys i'm eating a blt :D

Big Muff or scallops?

― Ed, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

bacon lettuce tomato, do keep up

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

guys i'm eating a big muff :D

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I WANT THE FENDER BENDER

― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I am consistently confused about the differences between chorus, flanger, delay and phaser, since at a base level they also seem to do the same thing. am not an electrical engineer however.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't think i've used a flanger since i quit smoking pot.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

The "flange" effect originated when an engineer would literally put a finger on the flange

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

electrically (havibng looked at a few homebrew designs) I think chorus and phaser are very similar, the others not. I like the sound of phase the best it works really nicely with the slight phase you get with double coursed strings, flange is good too but turn the Mistress up too much and I feel seasick, Delay and chorus get too messy with the mando but this may have something to do with my lack of aplomb at the strings.

― Ed, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

THAT'S something i should sell on eBay. i should start making a list.

flanger
vibrato pedal
either/both of the b&o turntables
the boxes and boxes and boxes of cds that i never listen to.
my books
microwave
a kidney

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

so anyway scallops are notoriously difficult to cook, so ppl who don't like scallops might just be getting poorly cooked ones? i mean what is being described here sounds like overcooking to me.

awesome application of scallops: add to a seafood stew. you still have to be careful but the liquid helps keep them from overcooking.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recordings_with_a_prominent_flanging_effect

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Scallops are one of those things that :

a) really suffer from freezing
b) need a cooking of about 20secons a side on the hottest skillet you can muster
c) really need to be bought alive in their shells or only just dead.

― Ed, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

NI guitar rig is great for finding out what all of these effects do.

― Ed, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

if you throw it into Ableton Live I think there's a plugin for adding or subtracting aplomb at the strings however you please

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

it depends on the freezing process, i've actually found, and of course the variety of scallop you get (the small bay scallops or japanese scallops seem to do better?). i've had great success with marinating fresh ones in a thai chili preparation and then skilleting them.

i would not wrap them in bacon though, that is something to be done to shrimp and perhaps oysters.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

scallops are so awesome.

i still want a fender blender maybe i will buy one with my income tax refund, also a phaser/flanger/tremolo/ring mod/everything else in the world ever.

― pretzel walrus, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

i had leftover beer and pizza for lunch that was excellent

― pretzel walrus, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

just go buy one of those $1000 Roland V-Dickhead boxes and save the earth a few trees for packing and shipping yo

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i do not mind the scallops/bacon combination.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

the problem with wrapping any of these sea creatures in bacon is that there are vastly different cooking times between pigs and sea dwellers. you can partially precook the bacon, but then you run the risk of the bacon becoming overcooked. large shrimp take the longest out of all of these creatures to cook so it's the best one to use, i think.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Roland V-Bacon

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Based on my fiddling with GR I want to get a Phaser, Resonant Filter and possibly a stereo tremolo. I haven't played with the oktaver enough to know whether I like it or not.

just go buy one of those just go buy one of those $1000 Roland V-Dickhead boxes and save the earth a few trees for packing and shipping yo000 Roland V-Dickhead boxes and save the earth a few trees for packing and shipping yo

You have no soul.

― Ed, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Composite Object Pig Modeling

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

just go buy one of those i000 Roland V-Dickhead boxes and save the earth a few trees for packing and shipping yo

NO! I WANT SEPARATE MACHINES FOR SEPARATE FUNCTIONS! except for the interstellar overdriver supreme, that thing is a little 6-effect bro in a box.

― pretzel walrus, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

if i could get the guitar tone from the lily's 'ginger' i'd stop trying. but i can't so i still fiddle.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Give me analogue or give me death.

― Ed, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

give me analogies or give me death.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

dedicated hardware is for astronauts

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

the trickiest is oysters en brochette which is when you wrap the fuckers in bacons and then skewer them because i really, really enjoy the taste of those two foods together but THE TEXTURE BOXCAR NO NO NO

guys i'm trying to change the subject and failing, i'm gonna go back to imdb.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

here's a subject i was thinking of while sort of drunk last night: "DC dudes: name your reasons they are so bad and hated"

― pretzel walrus, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

ALLY I HAD SOME FUCKING FANTASTIC OYSTERS EN BROCHETTE AT MY STUPID DINNER PARTY LAST MONDAY

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

also seriously do you guys seriously believe I am taking a nonironic stance on a digital roland product

I mean zack you have like $1500 Ebay Dollerz of my crap at your house and NONE of it sez ROLAND on it anywhere, much less EDIROL or anything else horrid like that

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

ALSO PRETZEL WALRUS WE ARE BELOVED BY ALL

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

DC dudes, like the dudes in this thread? they are not bad and hated!

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

DC dudes=DC bros on this thread?
DC dudes=Marion Berry?

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

beartrap

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

my boots are soaking wet and my toes are pruney, i can feel it. but on the plus side i probably only have another 8 and a half hours of work left today.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

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