Thread Killer Champions: Franzbear & Moonbear

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In summary, Franzbear is the most prolific thread killer in the forum. He has killed at least 12 threads and is likely responsible for 21 more. His ability to kill threads is not a direct outcome of the evidence (number of last posts). You have to at least factor in the total number of posts by each person (posts in GD) to get a more accurate representation of the killer instinct. Franz and Moonie have so many posts here, they are more likely to be the winning killers. You have to divide the number of kills by the total number of posts during the same period to get a corrected distribution.
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I love sushi, but the worst sushi I've ever eaten was in Japan. This was the real thing, prepared by a master chef at the Hotel Okura, a 4 star hotel in Tokyo. I guess I am used to americanized sushi. :frown:

The worst Thai food I ever had was in Thailand. The real stuff just doesn't taste like american Thai food. :rolleyes:
 
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Huckleberry said:
Where is the jealous face when you need it? :cry:
:smile:

Sushi sounds delicious. I just had beef stew and French bread. :cry:
Yep, my friend came to my office and asked where we should go tonight (we already had plans to go out, but hadn't picked a restaurant). Since that picture of a giant sushi platter the other night, I've been seriously craving sushi. I didn't know there was a place closer than by the airport, so mentioned sushi but expected her to nix the idea as too far. As soon as I mentioned it, she said she was craving sushi too, and there's a place much closer! :-p :biggrin:
The miso soup sounds pretty good but I'm not sure about the tempura. With shrimp?
It was an appetizer portion, so some assorted vegetables and two shrimp. I thought it might get messy since there were three of us splitting it. Then one of my friends said she didn't care that much for shrimp. :biggrin: She didn't have to offer twice!

I had some icecream yesterday. My favorite is a tie between Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, or Reese's Pieces. :-p

Heh heh heh...neither of those compares to the ice cream shop we have here! (I'm so spoiled now, I'm going to have a hard time moving away from the good ice cream.) My favorite is raspberry chip, but I passed on that tonight for a turtle sundae with chocolate ice cream (caramel and pecan toppings). Must've been craving turtles too. :devil: :biggrin: Delicious!
 
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Evo said:
I love sushi, but the worst sushi I've ever eaten was in Japan. This was the real thing, prepared by a master chef at the Hotel Okura, a 4 star hotel in Tokyo. I guess I am used to americanized sushi. :frown:

The worst Thai food I ever had was in Thailand. The real stuff just doesn't taste like american Thai food. :rolleyes:

:smile: I don't know how Americanized the sushi and Thai food I eat is. I do know that most ethnic cuisines I've had are pretty strikingly different in flavor from the East coast to the midwest. It's all very bland in the midwest and much more flavorful when I order it back east. So, I don't know if it's a gradient from more authentic to more Americanized or just different forms of Americanized foods.
 
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Evo said:
I love sushi, but the worst sushi I've ever eaten was in Japan. This was the real thing, prepared by a master chef at the Hotel Okura, a 4 star hotel in Tokyo. I guess I am used to americanized sushi. :frown:

The worst Thai food I ever had was in Thailand. The real stuff just doesn't taste like american Thai food. :rolleyes:
Funny that you should mention this. The worst pizza I ever had was in Italy. You can't hold it in your hand like slices. They have few toppings. Sauce is way better there though, but it just doesn't have the satisfaction of some Chicago deepdish. :-p
 
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Moonbear said:
My favorite is raspberry chip,
Mmmm, raspberry chip sounds yummy!

but I passed on that tonight for a turtle sundae with chocolate ice cream (caramel and pecan toppings). Must've been craving turtles too. :devil: :biggrin: Delicious!
:smile:

I do know that most ethnic cuisines I've had are pretty strikingly different in flavor from the East coast to the midwest. It's all very bland in the midwest and much more flavorful when I order it back east.
Yep, there's a difference. Sushi and other ethnic/foreign foods are more likely to taste authentic the closer you get to either coast.

I remember years ago moving from Houston, TX to Washington DC and could NOT find a single Mexican restaurant, the ONLY Mexican food in the grocery store was a Banquet frozen Mexican tv dinner. My parents would send me monthly "care" packages of food so I wouldn't die.
 
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Moonbear said:
As soon as I mentioned it, she said she was craving sushi too, and there's a place much closer!
You know what they say, "Hungry bellies eat alike."
Then one of my friends said she didn't care that much for shrimp. She didn't have to offer twice!
In that case you can have my shrimp anytime. :rolleyes:
My favorite is raspberry chip, but I passed on that tonight for a turtle sundae with chocolate ice cream (caramel and pecan toppings). Must've been craving turtles too. Delicious!
Did you ask for seconds? :biggrin:
 
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Huckleberry said:
Funny that you should mention this. The worst pizza I ever had was in Italy. You can't hold it in your hand like slices. They have few toppings. Sauce is way better there though, but it just doesn't have the satisfaction of some Chicago deepdish. :-p
:smile: I remember a pizza I had in Palermo, Sicily. It came uncut and I could not cut it. My date (native Italian) saw my distress and tried to cut it, he couldn't either. Then we started hacking and hammering at it. We finally managed to break it into pieces, but then couldn't chew it. I occasionally remind him of that night. :biggrin:

Perhaps they noticed I was American when I ordered and made it "special". I think the crust contained cement.
 
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Evo said:
I remember years ago moving from Houston, TX to Washington DC and could NOT find a single Mexican restaurant, the ONLY Mexican food in the grocery store was a Banquet frozen Mexican tv dinner. My parents would send me monthly "care" packages of food so I wouldn't die.
I don't know about DC, but there aren't any good Mexican restaurants where I live. Maybe in Boston there are a few but I kinda doubt that too. Having lived in Arizona I think I was spoiled with all the authentic food.

There is authentic central and southern American food here on the east coast. You have to cook it yourself though. There are spanish and portugeuse and varios asian corner food stores that sell some pretty interesting stuff.
 
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Evo said:
:smile: I remember a pizza I had in Palermo, Sicily. It came uncut and I could not cut it. My date (native Italian) saw my distress and tried to cut it, he couldn't either. Then we started hacking and hammering at it. We finally managed to break it into pieces, but then couldn't chew it. I occasionally remind him of that night. :biggrin:

Perhaps they noticed I was American when I ordered and made it "special". I think the crust contained cement.
That is probably true. I didn't find the Italian crust to be tough. It was much easier to eat with a knife and fork because the crust was so flexible and fairly thin. Maybe the chef tried to make American pizza for the American?
 
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Huckleberry said:
I don't know about DC, but there aren't any good Mexican restaurants where I live. Maybe in Boston there are a few but I kinda doubt that too. Having lived in Arizona I think I was spoiled with all the authentic food.

There is authentic central and southern American food here on the east coast. You have to cook it yourself though. There are spanish and portugeuse and varios asian corner food stores that sell some pretty interesting stuff.

If you head into north Jersey, the Union City or West New York areas, you can find good restaurants with some South American food, mostly Columbian. And of course you can find authentic anything in NYC if you know where to look, but despite everything else around, Mexican is tough to find on the East Coast.
 
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Huckleberry said:
That is probably true. I didn't find the Italian crust to be tough. It was much easier to eat with a knife and fork because the crust was so flexible and fairly thin. Maybe the chef tried to make American pizza for the American?

Sounds like my homemade pizza! :smile: And I thought I just hadn't perfected the crust recipe yet, but maybe I've just been making a more authentic Italian pizza than I realized! :-p
 
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Pizza wheels and bicycle wheels.
 
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BicycleTree said:
Pizza wheels and bicycle wheels.
Is he talking to himself again?
 
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Moonbear said:
If you head into north Jersey, the Union City or West New York areas, you can find good restaurants with some South American food, mostly Columbian. And of course you can find authentic anything in NYC if you know where to look, but despite everything else around, Mexican is tough to find on the East Coast.
The closest Mexican food to me is Taco Bell. That doesn't even count. There's an On the Border not too far, and they are alright, but it's not even close to authentic. I didn't even realize how much I missed it until I started talking about it. I want a chimichanga now!

Sounds like my homemade pizza! And I thought I just hadn't perfected the crust recipe yet, but maybe I've just been making a more authentic Italian pizza than I realized!
I think there is a trick to getting the crust just right. You have to cook it just the right amount of time or something like that. I'll have to ask my brother sometime. He makes really good homemade pizza.
 
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I think that everyone should post only right around the hour, every hour. So we'd each have our designated minute, and we'd all post, and everyone but the last person to post would get an instant reply. Wouldn't that be nice?
 
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Hmm, if pizza had metal bicycle spokes in it, you could pick up the slices easier... they'd be stiffer since each would have a spoke or two in it. Then you'd eat it off the spokes like shish kebab.
 
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yomamma said:
Is he talking to himself again?
Well, I'm reading his posts, but they don't seem to be directed at anything in particular so I don't really know what to say or feel any compulsion to respond. I think of it as interludes of Deep Thought by Bicycle Tree.
 
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Just read his last 2 posts, he's talking to himself... :frown:
 
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The bicycle spoke pizza shish kebab idea is great, you have to admit.
 
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The only trouble would be that the pizzeria would be sued by people who poked their eyes out through careless eating.
 
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Huckleberry said:
I think there is a trick to getting the crust just right. You have to cook it just the right amount of time or something like that. I'll have to ask my brother sometime. He makes really good homemade pizza.

I don't even think I've found the right recipe yet, let alone worrying about adjusting the cooking time. I want to make an authentic NY style pizza crust! I miss that so much! :cry:

Cronxeh, next time you're in this thread, bring pizza!
 
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yomamma, basically, shut the hell up. That was also a very neat idea.
 
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Moonbear said:
I don't even think I've found the right recipe yet, let alone worrying about adjusting the cooking time. I want to make an authentic NY style pizza crust! I miss that so much! :cry:

Cronxeh, next time you're in this thread, bring pizza!
Hmm, I think I will talk to my brother about this. There might be a place where you can order the right dough from. I think that's the hardest part of making the pizza.

Have you ever tried Greek pizza? Oh, that's delicious. :-p
The sauce is sweeter and I like the way it goes with the tomato. There used to be a great Greek pizza place right nearby me but they have new ownership now and the quality just isn't the same. That has happened to so many mom and pop joints that I used to love so much when I was younger.
 
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Huck, the last two times you posted, you posted in the same minute I posted, directly after.
 
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BicycleTree said:
yomamma, basically, shut the hell up. That was also a very neat idea.
Can that theory explain this smiley? :devil: Why would demons eat the devil. And this :bugeye: is to big to eat. :approve:
 
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Huckleberry said:
Hmm, I think I will talk to my brother about this. There might be a place where you can order the right dough from. I think that's the hardest part of making the pizza.
But that defeats all the fun of making the crust myself. :frown:

Have you ever tried Greek pizza? Oh, that's delicious. :-p
The sauce is sweeter and I like the way it goes with the tomato. There used to be a great Greek pizza place right nearby me but they have new ownership now and the quality just isn't the same. That has happened to so many mom and pop joints that I used to love so much when I was younger.
I wonder if that's what they make around here. I don't like the local pizza because the sauce is all too sweet instead of spicey! We do have a large-ish Greek community around here, so maybe that's where it comes from. Of course, it's hard to even find a mom & pop pizza place around here. Everything has been taken over by these chains that serve awful pizza. I don't know why people would buy from a chain instead of a mom & pop place for pizza.
 
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Silence for 5 minutes, and suddenly 3 people post at 11:10 (US eastern time).
 
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Huckleberry said:
The closest Mexican food to me is Taco Bell. That doesn't even count. There's an On the Border not too far, and they are alright, but it's not even close to authentic. I didn't even realize how much I missed it until I started talking about it. I want a chimichanga now!
On the Border is cr@p. I hate to tell you this but chimichangas aren't Mexican, they're american, several claims to the first one, but probably from Arizona. Sorry. http://www.azcentral.com/home/food/mexico/articles/0427chimichange27-CR.html
 
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It might be interesting to determine whether the variance of posting times within any given 5 minute stretch in which two posts occur is greater than the expected variance assuming the posting times are independent.
 
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BicycleTree said:
Huck, the last two times you posted, you posted in the same minute I posted, directly after.
I'm keepin an eye out for you. Makin sure you don't hurt yourself stalking the thread.
 
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You did it again.
 
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Evo said:
On the Border is cr@p. I hate to tell you this but chimichangas aren't Mexican, they're american, several claims to the first one, but probably from Arizona. Sorry. http://www.azcentral.com/home/food/mexico/articles/0427chimichange27-CR.html
It's okay. That actually makes sense. Arizona is where I first encountered them. But at least they were made by authentic Mexicans. :smile:

Wow, the place I used to eat was only a few miles from Nogales. Different name though. Can't remember off hand.
 
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Yawn. I have made a picture in Paint that I saved as "plink" and most likely no one will ever know what the picture is about except for me.
 
  • #4,830
Just think of all the things that people do that nobody else ever knows about. I wonder what percentage of human actions are only known about by the person performing the action.
 

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