The final Snarkdown!

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Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday holy crap I'm fiiiiiiifty, happy birthday to me.

I made it to oldsville.
 
Thanks guys, appreciate it. Have family coming over at around 5:30. Should be fun. Wife is whipping up a batch of her Sicilian spaghetti. I never even liked Italian food until I ate my wife's cooking. Love that stuff now.
 
The Warrior said:
Thanks guys, appreciate it. Have family coming over at around 5:30. Should be fun. Wife is whipping up a batch of her Sicilian spaghetti. I never even liked Italian food until I ate my wife's cooking. Love that stuff now.
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The secret to sicilian cooking is the blood :D Or so I've been told.
 
The Warrior said:
Thanks guys, appreciate it. Have family coming over at around 5:30. Should be fun. Wife is whipping up a batch of her Sicilian spaghetti. I never even liked Italian food until I ate my wife's cooking. Love that stuff now.
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Italian food is very dependent on the maker it seems. Its not my favorite, but with the right person making it, it can be quite delicious.

Hope you enjoy the day bud!
 
Guyon said:
Happy Birthday!
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Thanks man.
worldwood said:
Italian food is very dependent on the maker it seems. Its not my favorite, but with the right person making it, it can be quite delicious.

Hope you enjoy the day bud!
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Like I said, I never liked it at all. My wife makes the best sauce on the planet. Her pasta is always done to perfection too. I hate soggy pasta. :barf: Today she's making it with sweet Italian sausage, and meatballs. My son doesn't like sausage, so she's making meatballs as well. Her meatballs are freakin' killer. :thumbup:
 
Doc_Savage said:
I'll tell you why he might have wanted the buffet. And I am not suggesting that you should have gotten it for him, but I do know why some may want the buffets.

My wife has been in the restaurant business her entire working life. She has been working in a buffet for over 20 years now. She sees this behavior almost daily. Most of the homeless that come in to the buffets are there to gorge. They can sit there all day and eat almost nonstop. (some make you leave between lunch and dinner) They gorge because they do not know when they will get their next meal, so they stuff face for hours. Some of them apparently have a mental issues because they come in, eat until they can't move, then go to the restroom to blow chunks (purging) and come back to stuff face again. They will do this all day. How does the wife know they are blowing chunks... someone is usually in there and complains to management, or someone walks in after they come out and complains about the new wallpaper.

The last reason they like buffets is so that they can try and steal food to take home. This isn't just homeless people, but surprisingly quite a number of apparently regular ole' people too.

I also want to say that not ALL homeless people act this way, but these are some observations from within the industry. Its kind of sad, really.

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that's pretty much on target...

as well, they can stay a long time, drink hot drinks, get warm... and also line their coats with bread, and food that will keep, probably 50 leave heavier. plus the eating. you can east a lot of food, and really, you don't need to eat EVERYDAY, so that will keep you going, $5 will, more than a $5 sub that's mostly carbs - not that such a thing IS a generous offer or that an actual hungry person would turn down. but if i was the scammer and knew that the next $15 buffet load was only an hour or two away? i would.

and yeah, some of them are sickos. i went to a chinese buffet actually, last night. there was this bunch of people, kept leaving the place "to smoke", but apparently what they were doing was drinking from their paper bags stashed in the bushes, because they were too cheap to buy drinkies inside. at least one of them got really wasted, and threw up their king crab legs in a great big mopping pile outside the door. nice. possibly a purge so they could go back and gorge more roman style.

as far as regular people at buffets, there was a guy in there. kinda rough looking, but probably just weird... all he ate was "fish" stuff. shellfish. shrimps. crabs. crawdads. sushi. seriously, he was there before me by a bit, and left only minutes before (and no, it wasn't his puke i saw, he just drove off). he dominated that crap tray. anytime new crab came out, he snagged half of it. and he ate. and he ate. oh, how he ate. no fillers. just fishy thing. i was wondering if he had a thing for fish ;)
 
granitestateofmind said:
I would. But this time, I had a little before I put it on the table. That way I can seem like the greatest dad ever: "no, you guys can have all of it."
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nobody knows that dad has a bacon jar. that first rasher of bacon, and everyone after that, he takes 1-2 pieces from, and sets them aside. he has more bacon than we do. yup. but nobody knows.

course, they don't also know that you have a private stash of bentons mail order bacon in your sneaky locked garage fridge, and cook it up when nobody is home :D

they ALSO don't konw about that time at the docks. but they WILL know... send more knives :D
 
Guyon said:
trade, here's a real page-turner about the homeless. I think you'd really enjoy it.

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That looks like a good read right there. When a bum approaches us, I have Kay start taping my hands and I say "Remember, give me three minutes on the clock".
 
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