Meet and Greet

[Scotti]

weather forcast for Central Coast, Ca Tomorrow

AM Clouds/PM Sun
65°F | 53°F Bit cool here, but I like the temperate weather. Supposed to be warm and Humid in NY next week. Shorts t's and flip flops are on the packing list. Thinking about fed exing a few goodies to NY, avocado's, cilantro, fresh uncooked flour tortillas. Make some guacamole for the rest of the pack, see how that goes over. Might even throw in some Calif seasoning. Hopefully Q will leave off the Ketchup... Well now y'all don't want to get me started on the food and cooking thing. I ramble enough as it is.

Lets just say.. Get yourself a cast iron skillet, oil that sucker up and put into the oven. Follow the directions for "seasoning" the skillet.... Fry up a mess of bacon, after you have season the skillet... Drain the bacon drippings from skillet but leave a few tablespoons in the pan... Get a decent cut of steak, season it with salt, pepper, and garlicpowder.... Throw it in the pan on a med high heat.. searing the out side..cook how you desire.. red pink well.. Let me know how it goes... Good luck. Oh some folks put the skillet and steak in the oven at 450 for a bit to cook it as well...Me i leave it on the stove top and cook it...Your choice..

[RhB]

Thanks George for the info.
Funnily enough for a sauce with such Royal English origins, I've never come across it. Then again, I am not much of steak fan, so...
We are actually having nice weather here but nothing to rave about. I am looking forward to feeling a good 40 Celsius when I go to Athens. Haven't had real heat for so long...

[vnud29]

I must come to Andy's rescue. A-1 is amazing. It's almost good on everything. However, If the steak is seasoned enough...it really doesn't need the sauce. But I still like it

Oh...the weather talk...lol I should rename the thread to the Weather Update. Hmmm...maybe I'll stop by next time andy lol
Hello weinerway! *wave* Spain? Awesome If I had a couple grand i'd visit there lol I need to win the lottery...

Hope You guys had a great weekend!

RIP- Michael Jackson

[vnud29]

I can't believe my post died

Well, with my posting it will go back to the first page so I hope people will post again....at least I hope so. There's a lot of interesting people out there. Plus, most people just want other people to talk to.

[The Fallen]

Well, I'll try to help to keep the thread alive and active, Yuri.

I'm not really a lurker and I usually have a lot to say (I'm a bit of a big-mouth unfortunately) but I do just try to keep to myself. So I don't post very often. And a lot of the threads tend to be about searching for stories, which other people have more knowledge of than I, so I remain silent. I don't have much time to read (and if I read everything I wanted to, I'd never have time to write! ) so my fanfic knowledge is somewhat lacking.

I'm English originally but now live permanently in the States, so I like to think of myself as Anglo-American. It gives me insight to both cultures (although there are some serious gaps in my knowledge of both too, so it all evens out in the end). I live in the south(ish) and the weather here kills me. The winters are okay but the summers... I don't know how you guys down in Florida manage it. Me, I like the cold and the rain and grey days.

[silverwriter01]

Well I just spent an hour reading this entire thread. I laughed, I cried (stubbed my toe when I went to get make sure we still had A-1 sauce in the fridge)...Okay I made that up but it sounded good.

Where to start...First, Hello to everyone and hello to you, Yuri since you are the baby mama of this thread. I live in Georgia, just above all you lovely Floridians. Just got back from a vacation on Clearwater Beach and I could Florida bash too, but I don't think that would be polite. Tis a beautiful state though. You can call me Silver. My real name starts with an A. If you can guess it, you can use it.

I was worried about telling my age but since we have a mixture of all ages, I don't mind. I'm 21, going into my senior year of college. I've been reading uber/original/fanfic/etc since I stumbled across amazontrails when I was 16.

Lets see, random comments to things I've read in the thread.

The weather outside is hot and muggy, and I have to cut grass today

Yuri, your rant about what happened during your AP finals was fair. If anyone had tried something like that during my AP finals, I'd have blown a fuse. Still, I can understand the other side of the argument (from teacher and adult viewpoint) and trust me, you're in for more a battle trying to get colleges to accept those credits as you transfer.

Never tried gator meat before, but my six year old nephew has. He was eating some gator tail and when asked if it tasted like chicken, he replied, "No, it tastes like gator tail."

[Sinclair]

I'm so glad to see this thread is still alive! I was temporarily stationed in Kentucky and the place I was staying had little to no internet access so I had to go about 3 months without checking the forum or the xenafic website. Thats pretty much a record for me haha. Now I'm in Virginia and have internet access a plenty! Hopefully within the next few days I'll get to catch up on all the pages for this post, I think when I left there were 4 or 5 pages...now theres 10! Lotsa readin for me. But I do see the weather topic was brought up again, all I can say is that for the next couple days my location is looking at triple digits. This confuses me because the last I checked I was in Virginia, not hell. Florida isnt even this hot.

Well anyway, I hope all of you are doing well and had a fantastic weekend. I'm just happy to be out of podunk kentucky and in a real city lol.

~Colz

[pippinfluff]

You lot in the states are lucky, I'm in the north west of england so far for are summer we've had about 5 days of sun shine with some heat, The rest has been wet, cold and windy, The heat wave we were supposed to get in August has gone bye byes to. I'm 43, Disabled so i don't get out much and since i found these wonderful sights with these great writers and stories it's been like a life line to keep me up because the weather sure don't. Love listening to you lot you guys are so funny at times.

[Scotti]

Hey Dudes, how's it going?

I am here on the Central Coast of California, weathers lovely, bout average of 68/72f with a morning fog that burns off round 10am. Beautiful sunny day on the Beach with lots of Surfers and Beach Volleyball players. (that's a nice visual treat I must say). I like to take my ebook reader and sit in the sun and have my brain candy for the day. It's always great to be able to read the stories from the Athenaeum on the go or sitting quietly in the Sun. A number of great local Cafe's to grab snax, coffee or iced tea. Geez just realized I sounded like a travel brochure. Well ladies I hope all are well and reasonably happy, thanks for the chats and the exchange of information bout different areas of the world. Take care..

Later Dude's

Scotti

[vnud29]

YAY!!! *jumps for joy and whatnot* its alive!!

oK got lots of people to talk to lol umm first...Fallen.Thanks for posting Surviving in Florida isn't too hard. Just stay inside in the nice cool air conditioning! I refuse to go outside right now lol Originally for England? Do you still have your accent? I know some people can lose their accents really fast when they move, while others never lose it. Oh and by the way....I'm reading The End right now Tis good yes!! Actually, its really really reaaaaaaaaaaalllllllly good. Thanks

Hello Silver! I did not know it takes an hour to read this thread lol But that's totally awesome if I do say so myself. I'll take a stab at your name..umm...Aryn?(Love this name and spelling which is why i said it lol). As for my Ap stuff, yeah I know I'll have a hard time with colleges accepting them but I figure the experience is worth it. I did get my scores back though! Two Fours and one five I'm proud of myself. Aahahah your nephew sounds hilarious. My nephew would say something like that too lol

Colz! Hey, long time no talk. But I can see why. That sucks you were stationed Kentucky and above that! No internet! The horror But now it's all well Now you can catch up and read again.

Pippin....you should move to the states lol You can enjoy the blisteri...I mean the lovely warm weather that's offered here

Scotti...You should be a traveling agent! lol I want to go to cali now. I bet the weather isn't as hot as those volleyball players I need to get me one of those ebook readers...

[silverwriter01]

Congrads on the two fours and a five, Yuri. What was the five in may I ask? Aryn hmm? Lovely name but not mine.

You're right Pippin, we are lucky. I'd miss the sunshine...but not the humidity.

I heard a joke today and decided to share it. I've changed it around a little and bare with me, it's a little long.

A nice lesbian seamstress was sewing by a river. She accident dropped her thimble in the water and before she could grab it, the water had rushed it away. She started to cry because that thimble had been in her family for ages. God saw her crying and came down to stand beside her. God asked, "Why are you crying?"

She replied, "Because that thimble was really special to me and I have to sew or my wife and I wont have money to live by."

God reached into the water and he came up with with a silver thimble covered in sapphires. "Is this your thimble?" She replied no. God reached into the water again and pulled out a gold thimble covered in diamonds. God asked, "Is this your thimble?" Again she replied no. God reached into the water and pulled out a lovely but plain thimble. "Is this your thimble?" She replied yes.

God was pleased and said, "Since you were honest, you can keep all three thimbles."

A few years later, the seamstress and her wife were walking along side the river. The seamstress's wife accidently fell into the river and was swept away before the seamstress could do anything. She started to cry. God saw her crying and came down. "Why are you crying?"

She said, "My wife fell into the river." God reached into the water and pulled out Angelina Jolie. God asked, "Is this your wife?" The seamstress replied, "Yes."

God frowned. "You lied to me." The seamstress said, "Well God, you have to understand it from my point of view. If I had said no, you would have pulled out Ellen DeGeneres. When I said no, you would have pulled out my wife and you would have been so pleased you would have let me have all three. Three wives is just too many God."

God saw the wisdom in her decision and let her keep Angelina Jolie.

[vnud29]

ahahah nice joke. I laughed lol I got a five in Psychology, and fours in Language and composition, and American History.

[Norsebard]

Fab joke, Silver *thumbsup*


Norsebard

[Sinclair]

First I must say, congrats on the AP test scores!

On another note, what an awesome joke! my friend emailed me one a few days ago but it is not nearly as funny. But here it is anyway, perhaps some of you have heard it before?

An athiest was walking through the woods. 'what majestic trees! what powerful rivers! what beautiful animals!' he said to himself. as he was walking alongside the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him.

He turned to look. He saw a 7-foot grizzly bear charge towards him. He ran as fast as he could up the path. He looked over his shoulder and saw that the bear closing in on him. He looked over his shoulder again, and the bear was even closer. He tripped and fell on the ground.

He rolled over to pick himself up but saw that the bear was right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw, and raising his right paw to strike him. At that instant the athiest cried out "oh my God!"

Time stopped. The bear froze. The forest was silent.

As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky. 'you deny my existence for all these years, teach others I dont exist, and even credit creation to cosmic accident. Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?'

The athiest looked directly into the light, 'it would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask you to treat me as a christian now, but perhaps you could make the bear a christian?'

'very well.' said the voice.

The light went out, the sounds of the forest resumed...and the bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together, bowed his head and spoke, 'Lord bless this food, which I am about to receive from thy bounty through Christ our Lord. Amen.'

that joke made me giggle. I dont think you have to be particularly religious to get the humor.

And Scotti, all I have to say is, wow I really want to venture out to the west coast now lol. Virginia is hot but its not too bad, but you make central California sound like a paradise! I am now more determined than ever to see the west coast

[The Fallen]

first...Fallen.Thanks for posting Surviving in Florida isn't too hard. Just stay inside in the nice cool air conditioning! I refuse to go outside right now lol

Yeah, I have to worship at the altar of air conditioning. Even where I live the summers are unbearable without it. In one way, this makes it a good thing that I work long hours - it's a lot cooler in the dark hours of the morning when I leave for the office. And here am I, liking the cold, the rain, and the wintery weather. Sigh. Oh to be in England.

Originally for England? Do you still have your accent? I know some people can lose their accents really fast when they move, while others never lose it.

Yeah, I still have the accent, although it's funny how much my speech patterns have changed. I speak American but in English, if that makes sense. I say 'al-lum-in-um' instead of 'al-u-min-um', for example, and throw around words like trunk, hood, sidewalk, etc., instead of boot, bonnet, pavement, etc.. And the accent's a good icebreaker, if nothing else.

Oh and by the way....I'm reading The End right now Tis good yes!! Actually, its really really reaaaaaaaaaaalllllllly good. Thanks

Thanks for the compliment, Yuri. I won't waffle about The End here and now (probably the wrong place to do so) but I'm really glad you're enjoying it.

[silverwriter01]

lol, I've heard your joke before Colz, but it's still funny the second time around.

I have another joke. It makes fun of Baptists but as a Baptist, I don't care. It's rather true.

At school, some children were having a show and tell about their family's religion. A little girl walks up to front of the room with her item and said, "My family is Catholic and these are rosary beads."

A little boy went next and said, "My family is Jewish and this is the Star of David."

Another little boy went next and he said, "My family's Baptist and this is a casserole."

[vnud29]

Well I have never heard that one Colz lol but nice one! It is funny...in a weird sort of a way...lol
I think this is the Joke section of the thread now lol I love it.

No waffling? darn...Well I'll have to waffle somewhere else then! And now I want waffles...*narrows eyes at fallen*

I love laughing and listening to jokes and the such. And I'm told I'm funny. However, I'm fresh out of jokes! I feel left out now that I have nothing to contribute

Oh has anyone read Pride and Prejudice? I bet someone has lol Am I the only one who thinks it's a complicated read? I'm a fast reader but this novel is making it go so slow. I have to really think about what's said and how it would translate in the modern times to understand it. I'm getting frustrated gah.

[silverwriter01]

I've read Pride and Prejudice, but I must say I enjoy Karin Kallmaker's retake on it much better (Just Like That). I didn't find it a slow read at all. I actually read half the book in one night. It was for class. I doubt I would have read it on my own. Just think of Darcy as a woman and it reads like a drama filled lesbian romance novel.

Now Wuthering Heights was a slow read to me.

If you ladies are good while I'm away on a trip today, I'll tell you the best lesbian joke I know.

[heinerway]

I just love this joke...

An old cowboy sat down at the bar and ordered a drink. As he sat sipping his drink, a young woman sat down next to him. She turned to the cowboy and asked, "Are you a real cowboy?"

He replied, "Well, I've spent my whole life breaking colts, working cows, going to rodeos, fixing fences, pulling calves, bailing hay, doctoring calves, cleaning my barn, fixing flats, working on tractors, and feeding my dogs, so I guess I am a cowboy."

She said, "I'm a lesbian. I spend my whole day thinking about women. As soon as I get up in the morning, I think about women. When I shower, I think about women. When I watch TV, I think about women. I even think about women when I eat. It seems that everything makes me think of women."

The two sat sipping in silence.

A little while later, a man sat down on the other side of the old cowboy and asked, "Are you a real cowboy?"

He replied, "I always thought I was, but I just found out I'm a lesbian."

Perhaps we should start a joke thread.

[Irish Eyes]

Great jokes ladies...now I have to add my favorite lesbian joke....

What do you get when you put 40 postal workers and 40 lesbians in a room together?


80 people who don't do dick.....