November "I FORGOT MY MANTRA" Low Content chit-chat thread

[katyseagull]

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i'm pretty excited about this month. I'm going to drink so much Pinot Noir that I may end up getting sick of it. My work is having a pinot tasting on friday, I'll be going to Pinot Days(first time they are hosting it in chicago. Here is a link to what's gonna be there), and then my tasting group is having a blind california pinot tasting at the end of the month. The only downside to it all, is that it's going to be almost 75-80% cali pinot that I'll be having instead of oregon and burgundy. I'm gonna make up for that with drinking a whole bunch of burgs on my own [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Why is your work having Pinot tasting on Friday? That sounds like fun. Do you work in the food and wine industry?

[Popinjay]

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I had been thinking of things dictators or other self-serving maniacs would say or do, like Nixon's Outside Agitator's thread, or Stalin's Quantity Has a Quality of Its Own thread, or Hitler's The Lounge Solution thread, or Pinochet's The Disappeared Thread, or Westmoreland's Pre-Dawn Vertical Insertion thread, or Genghis's Salting the Earth thread, or Phillip Morris's The Science Isn't In Yet thread, or Tyson's Cartilage Chomp thread. You know, a thread where excessive formality or worries about content would be looted, peed on, burned to the ground, poked in the eye like a wayward Stooge, dissembled, sabotaged, and have its pets tormented. All for the betterment of humanity. It's not like we'll run out of villains or hypocrisies for the concept anytime soon, and thinking them up might be fun.

Or it might be too violent or whatever. Just a cute thought, I figgered.

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Totally confused by this post. I assume all these things are on wikipedia? And by thread you don't mean a forum post...

[KDawg]

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Why is your work having Pinot tasting on Friday? That sounds like fun. Do you work in the food and wine industry?

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about 6 weeks ago I started working for Binny's. We're one of the bigger chain wine&spirits stores in the midwest and our store is one of the bigger ones in chicago(well, all of our stores are based around chicago). I'm hoping that working here while I finally finish up college can hopefully have me end up working for a distributor in the midwest

[katyseagull]

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about 6 weeks ago I started working for Binny's.

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Cool. Sounds like a fun place to work. Nice perks anyway. Take some photos of your wine tasting and report back.

[ElliotR]

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November 5th here in a few days, where they'll be a ton of fireworks and bonfires, many of which will have an effigy of Guy Fawkes on top of it.

1605 it was, and we've never really forgiven the papacy for supporting the plot to overthrow the English parliament. Ya don't mess with the English and get off easy.

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402 years and still holding a grudge! I love the UK!

[Blarg]

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I had been thinking of things dictators or other self-serving maniacs would say or do, like Nixon's Outside Agitator's thread, or Stalin's Quantity Has a Quality of Its Own thread, or Hitler's The Lounge Solution thread, or Pinochet's The Disappeared Thread, or Westmoreland's Pre-Dawn Vertical Insertion thread, or Genghis's Salting the Earth thread, or Phillip Morris's The Science Isn't In Yet thread, or Tyson's Cartilage Chomp thread. You know, a thread where excessive formality or worries about content would be looted, peed on, burned to the ground, poked in the eye like a wayward Stooge, dissembled, sabotaged, and have its pets tormented. All for the betterment of humanity. It's not like we'll run out of villains or hypocrisies for the concept anytime soon, and thinking them up might be fun.

Or it might be too violent or whatever. Just a cute thought, I figgered.

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Totally confused by this post. I assume all these things are on wikipedia? And by thread you don't mean a forum post...

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I was thinking of the lounge tagline naming discussion actually. I just came up with the suggestions from memory of various baloney ancient and modern.

[Blarg]

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November 5th here in a few days, where they'll be a ton of fireworks and bonfires, many of which will have an effigy of Guy Fawkes on top of it.

1605 it was, and we've never really forgiven the papacy for supporting the plot to overthrow the English parliament. Ya don't mess with the English and get off easy.

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402 years and still holding a grudge! I love the UK!

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They're just biding their time until they take the colonies back ... better sleep with one eye open ...

[katyseagull]

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Nixon's Outside Agitator's thread, or Stalin's Quantity Has a Quality of Its Own thread, or Hitler's The Lounge Solution thread, or Pinochet's The Disappeared Thread, or Westmoreland's Pre-Dawn Vertical Insertion thread, or Genghis's Salting the Earth thread, or Phillip Morris's The Science Isn't In Yet thread, or Tyson's Cartilage Chomp thread.

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Blarg cracks me up. What kind of stuff would go in these threads? I demand a few examples!

[tarheeljks]

don't forget to set your clocks back

[Kimbell175113]

So there's a thread that The Lounge needs, but I want to discuss a bit before starting it, to make sure we do it right. As has come up in a bunch of disparate discussions both recently and in the past, Dom and me and daveT and others have a soft spot for female singer/songwriters. I'm sure I could summon up endless paragraphs of my love for Aimee and Neko and Bjork and countless others, but what form do you guys think the thread should take? A contest like the hot movie people, or a critical discussion of albums, or 'link to an artist no one has heard of,' or...?