Random Thought Thread

[carnifex knifeworks]

Microwave is fixed! Replaced the magnetron and presto! Problem solved!

Fingers crossed that the rest of this weekend goes as smooth

 

[Gusbuster]

Happy Birthday Mrs Blues. I use to get the best cheesecake at Wolfie’s in Miami Beach.

 

[Blues]

Been a long time since I went to Wolfie's.

 

[Non.Nisi.Te]

Mike157 and Non.Nisi.Te

Sweet! I was looking for this photo to ask you to make mine as well

 

[Non.Nisi.Te]

Last thing I'll add is, this was a genuine dilemma I had. Mother in law is in town so I can't bring Colombian sweet bread home without guilt.
Some parts were dramatized. Fun to see where everyone rolled with it though.

Switch the bags and gaslight everyone into thinking the Colombian one is actually the Brazillian one and convince them to actually change the recipe

 

[dtmbinb]

Happy Birthday Mrs Blues. I use to get the best cheesecake at Wolfie’s in Miami Beach.

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I used to get the best Columbian powder, uhh, I mean Columbian Cheese Bread in Miami Beach.

 

[Retired UPS Driver]

In my teens, Miami Beach rocked

My gram lived there

 

[dtmbinb]

Lots of grams there. No pun intended.

 

[Blues]

I used to get the best Columbian powder, uhh, I mean Columbian Cheese Bread in Miami Beach.

Porque no los dos?

(Colombian, by the way...common mistake.)

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Fun to see where everyone rolled with it though.

So, to be clear. No cocaine.

 

[dtmbinb]

Porque no los dos?

I lost my appetite for the cheese bread. Lol.

(Good catch correcting my spelling. Doh!)

 

[Gusbuster]

Yeah I remember when square groupers use to wash up on the beach.

 

[dtmbinb]

So, to be clear. No cocaine.

We could tweak the recipe and have Delta Blow.

 

[Gusbuster]

I lost my appetite for the cheese bread. Lol.

(Good catch correcting my spelling. Doh!)

Yeah I believe somebody told me the Peruvian flake imported by the Colombians wasn’t very good for your appetite.

 

[Gusbuster]

Been a long time since I went to Wolfie's.

Unfortunately it’s not there anymore.

 

[Blues]

So, to be clear. No cocaine.

Cocaine?

This was the largest cocaine case we worked in Miami while I was working in the Florida Joint Task Group (Customs / DEA). (They referenced the operation on the Netflix show "Narcos".)

Federal Agents Seize Cocaine Shipment Hidden With Broccoli

Almost 15,000 pounds of high-grade cocaine that had been shipped to Miami in a container packed with frozen broccoli has been seized in the culmination of what federal drug agents say is a two-year investigation of the Cali, Colombia, drug cartel.

www.latimes.com

Operation Cornerstone​

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"Operation Cornerstone" began in 1991 with the seizure of 12,000 kilograms of cocaine related to the importation of concrete fence posts. The source of this cocaine was Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela, one of the Cali mafia bosses, and information resulting from Operation Cornerstone unveiled his south Florida distributor, Harold Ackerman. Information gathered during the course of this investigation resulted in the DEA Miami Division seizing over 29,000 kilograms of cocaine from the Orejuela organization.

Most significantly, several of those charged in Operation Cornerstone were prominent American lawyers who served as attorneys for the Rodriguez-Orejuela organization in the United States, including a former chief of the Office of International Affairs at the Department of Justice, two former Assistant U.S. attorneys, and 56 other individuals.

The indictment charging them alleged that many of these attorneys participated in offering, arranging, and delivering monthly subsistence payments to the family members of traffickers arrested as part of Operation Cornerstone and related investigations. In addition to the subsistence payments, the Rodriguez brothers paid the legal fees for these criminal defendants, such payments being contingent upon the defendants remaining silent about the organization.

The indictment further charged that many of these lawyers also laundered narcotics proceeds on behalf of the organization. By their actions, the lawyers inhibited efforts by law enforcement to neutralize the organization's cocaine trafficking activities, and enabled the Rodriguez-Orejuela organization to continue their criminal operations.

The final phase of Operation Cornerstone culminated in June 1995 with the indictment of 61 members of the Rodriguez-Orejuela organization.

 

[dtmbinb]

Party pooper.

 

[Philthy3]

So, to be clear. No cocaine.

NO COCAINE
Everyone is making it so difficult...

My probation officer is already on to me

 

[Lorien]

I'm disappointed... everyone made light of my conundrum

I should have asked in Opinel. Those people have values.



***edited: can't tell if Opinel or Buck would be funnier

Opinel sounds funny, but Buck rhymes with my favourite word

 

[Philthy3]

This was the largest cocaine case we worked in Miami while I was working in the Florida Joint Task Group (Customs / DEA). (They referenced the operation on the Netflix show "Narcos".)

This is amazing!

But why broccoli?
I wonder if they would have gotten away with it if they'd used cauliflower.