What Do You Think Today?

[Menolly]

Those who experienced this sandwich (replete with onion, pickle and coarse mustard) at the Friday night Elohimfest cookout can attest to the goodness thereof.

Except for the fact that I would have to pass on the pickled cucumber slices, that sounds like an excellent sandwich. I would probably substitute some sauerkraut on it, though.

The pickles have to be polski wyrob dill pickles, Hashi. Those may just might replace the sauerkraut for you. I, too, am a kraut girl when it comes to just about any other type of sausage, especially hot dogs. But a good fresh double brat needs those polski wyrobs...

[peter]

Why are hot dogs sold in packages of 10 while hot dog buns are sold in packages of 8?

What does it look like inside the Schwarzchild radius of a black hole?

Who was the Babushka Lady and where are the pictures from her camera?

Well - the sausage/bun paradox is easily atributable to either lack of communication between the respective producers (As a shelf-stacker I have often asked why the retail industry cannot organize it's shelf size and product packaging to conform to an agreed whole number relationship) or, more sinisterly, it could be a cruel marketing ploy to ensure you always spend more/waste more than is neccesary when engaged in the hotdog buyingconsumeing process.
The black-hole is an example of an object which is smaller than it's Schwartzchild radius and as such no light can escape from it and it is effectively invisible. So, from outside the radius the inside has no look at all; from inside - well from outside, the question 'from inside' has no meaning and thus isn't really a question at all (like asking what is happening in paralell universes has no significance or meaning in this one).
The Babushka Lady - well someone for sure knows the answer to this one and they currently aint telling - but they will. One day when the time distance is great enough and the financial inducement high enough, they will.

(These partial answers result from 5 minutes work on the internets - but I do agree there are questions and there are Questions).

[I'm Murrin]

The buns thing is just differing industry standards. Once you're manufacturing all your baking trays with 8 slots and making everything else to suit those trays it's hard to change just because someone in an unrelated industry decided they can fit 10 hot dogs in a can.

[Vraith]

they can fit 10 hot dogs in a can.

Wait...your hot dogs come in cans?
What kind of messed up world to you live in????

[Hashi Lebwohl]

The pickles have to be polski wyrob dill pickles, Hashi. Those may just might replace the sauerkraut for you. I, too, am a kraut girl when it comes to just about any other type of sausage, especially hot dogs. But a good fresh double brat needs those polski wyrobs...

hrm...well...I suppose I could try them again. I haven't had that style of pickle since 1995. I think the German deli here in town carries them so they won't be difficult to find.

I suspect that inside the event horizon it would be extremely bright--not only is the object itself giving off an immense amount of energy from being so compressed and superheated but all the energy trying to leave falls back to the object as it cannot escape.

[I'm Murrin]

they can fit 10 hot dogs in a can.

Wait...your hot dogs come in cans?
What kind of messed up world to you live in????

What should they come in?



Edit: I just realised this can has 8 hot dogs. Woops.

[Vraith]

The pickles have to be polski wyrob dill pickles, Hashi. Those may just might replace the sauerkraut for you. I, too, am a kraut girl when it comes to just about any other type of sausage, especially hot dogs. But a good fresh double brat needs those polski wyrobs...

hrm...well...I suppose I could try them again. I haven't had that style of pickle since 1995. I think the German deli here in town carries them so they won't be difficult to find.

I suspect that inside the event horizon it would be extremely bright--not only is the object itself giving off an immense amount of energy from being so compressed and superheated but all the energy trying to leave falls back to the object as it cannot escape.

I never put pickles on dogs/sausages...except occasionally pickle relish if the dog itself is sub-par. But I put them on/in many other things.

I've never heard anyone say that about "inside." It make sense, maybe, if you can "see" in the right spectrum. I suspect [just off the top of my head] that emissions from the body would be extremely infra-end, and energy sucked in from outside very quickly jumped up to the ultra-end. Not much room for visible range...though maybe there would be narrow "layers" of light vertically, like an energy-version of atmosphere. Maybe. Talking out of my A....er....hat, yea, hat....here.
Speaking of my...ummm...hat...I think it's interesting that FCC is considering loosening language/nudity rules on T.V.
Apparently lots of folk are upset about it.

[Hashi Lebwohl]

Talking out of my A....er....hat, yea, hat....here.
Speaking of my...ummm...hat...I think it's interesting that FCC is considering loosening language/nudity rules on T.V.
Apparently lots of folk are upset about it.[/color]

Most FCC rules apply only to network television stations. Do people still watch network channels? I suppose they do for local news or weather but aren't those kinds of stations mostly dead? (what do I know? we don't even have a television set, which would have been unthinkable 30 years ago).

[peter]

Yes - there's no limit to the amount of simulated and graphic violence we may be subjected to but the sight of a bare boob or butt drives the naysayers into a frenzy. It's odd is what it is!

[Avatar]

The Americans are strangely prudish over both nudity and swearing on television.

--A

[aliantha]

Yes, we are. We don't want any kids whose moronic parents let them stay up and watch TV at 9pm to hear the kind of language they hear on the school bus every day.

they can fit 10 hot dogs in a can.

Wait...your hot dogs come in cans?
What kind of messed up world to you live in????

What should they come in?



Edit: I just realised this can has 8 hot dogs. Woops.

Eww! No no NO. Hot dogs do not come in a can, packed in brine. Eww. Now this is the proper kind of hot dog packaging:

They're in the refrigerated case, next to the packaged sandwich meat.

[Savor Dam]

Those franks packed in plastic are better than getting tinned hot dogs...but the best of the wurst is bought from the butcher case by the link, and wrapped in kraft paper for the trip to home...or cookout.

[sgt.null]

[peter]

"Hot dogs - Hot dogs! You know what they make hot dogs out of - lips and assholes!"
(Dan Ackroyd, 'The Great Outdoors', 1988)

[sgt.null]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbzavAN2Bgw

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-nqnhc2Txg

how hotdogs are made.

[Damelon]

I ate the oddest hot dog in London. I bought it from a stand outside of the British Museum. It was rather phallic. They took a long thin baguette roll, where they had cut an end off and bored out a hole in it. They squirted mustard (they also offered ketchup, but I'm older than 5 and so don't eat ketchup with a hot dog) down the hole and inserted the hot dog. There was no mustard eating into it at first it was all at the end of the bun.

[Linna Heartbooger]

The Americans are strangely prudish over both nudity and swearing on television.

You know, when you use a word with negative connotations like "prudish," it sounds like you're just trying to provoke.

(though I guess seeing what gets a rise out of someone can be a productive tactic for discovering some things!)

Yes - there's no limit to the amount of simulated and graphic violence we may be subjected to but the sight of a bare boob or butt drives the naysayers into a frenzy. It's odd is what it is!

I can't speak for the many people who established the historical precedents, or even for "Americans" in general.

But I can speak for myself - what I think - as far as a Christian perspective on that, if you're curious.

(Otoh, maybe you were just musing on something that just seems so different, inexplicable, foreign! ...or seems inconsistent to you.)

[Hashi Lebwohl]

In this instance, I will have to disagree--we really are still quite prudish when it comes to the subject of network television. For the most part, network TV still operates as if it were 1958, except that shows may televise a married couple lying in the same bad, the interior of a bathroom, and some slight cursing may occur. Ostensibly these rules are so that TV shows do not offend those with more sensitive tastes or display inappropriate images to children despite the fact that those children are probably watching cable shows or browsing the Internet where nothing is forbidden.

(though I guess seeing what gets a rise out of someone can be a productive tactic for discovering some things!)

Contrary to my offline nature, which often finds me being quite the flirtatious scoundrel, I am not going anywhere near that statement.

[deer of the dawn]

I ate the oddest hot dog in London. I bought it from a stand outside of the British Museum. It was rather phallic. They took a long thin baguette roll, where they had cut an end off and bored out a hole in it. They squirted mustard (they also offered ketchup, but I'm older than 5 and so don't eat ketchup with a hot dog) down the hole and inserted the hot dog. There was no mustard eating into it at first it was all at the end of the bun.

Oh, the depth of allegory in that hot dog.

I am not a fan of hot dogs and you couldn't PAY me to eat a canned hot dog. But THESE.... are DAWGS:


Hashi, we recently watched "Pillars of the Earth" and were surprised to see completely naked couples in extremely intimate poses. I was like, how is this not porn (except that the actors probably weren't actually doing it)? So I don;t think you can say that TV hasn't changed since 1958.

[peter]

I ate the oddest hot dog in London. I bought it from a stand outside of the British Museum. It was rather phallic. They took a long thin baguette roll, where they had cut an end off and bored out a hole in it. They squirted mustard (they also offered ketchup, but I'm older than 5 and so don't eat ketchup with a hot dog) down the hole and inserted the hot dog. There was no mustard eating into it at first it was all at the end of the bun.

Serves you right for eating a hotdog in a town that has some of the best restaurants in the world (:)). Next time you're there go for the buisiness lunch in Le Gavroche and learn the true meaning of ecstacy!