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Contrary to popular belief, pigs are unable to sweat; instead, they wallow in mud to cool down. Their mucky appearance gives pigs an undeserved reputation for slovenliness. In fact, pigs are some of the cleanest animals around, refusing to excrete anywhere near their living or eating areas when given a choice.

Pigs also carefully keep their sleeping area clean, and will designate a spot as far from this area as possible for waste. Even piglets only a few hours old will leave the nest to relieve themselves.

Those who know pigs can't help but be charmed by their intelligent, highly social, and sensitive nature. Like dogs, piglets learn their names by two to three weeks of age and respond when called. They are also very discriminating eaters, and are particular about their living space. Pigs enjoy novelty and are extremely active and inquisitive.

Oink.

excessive lamb pot...

Rocks' naked bollocks appal,

o linger ye not.

Nosh Mob

  
Like a Flash Mob, only fattier and correspondingly slower to agglutinate.

I have yet to read the thread that gave birth to this one, as I am indolent and, frankly, somewhat inebriated.

But I do recall a passage from Tony Bourdain's Les Halles cookbook on the topic which claims:

"The truth? I don't know any restaurant, have never in twenty-eight years seen any U.S. restaurant -- no matter how good or prestigious -- use fresh snails."

Of course, I make no claim that this represents an unimpeachable source.

According to my Opentable profile, I ate dinner at the Blue Duck Tavern on July 29, 2004.

I would be happy to report back on it but, as The Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy notes, the major problem of time travel is grammar and I lack the necessary tense formations.*

* Readers who are not aficionados of comic sci fi may prefer to conclude that Opentable simply substitutes each new iteration of a restaurant in its database for the one which preceded it, in this case Melrose.

Had a very enjoyable dinner at Le Soir out in Newton Highlands last night. Regularly voted best "neighborhood place" in the Boston suburbs, and I can see why. Nice wine list, good buzz in the dining room, Mark Allen was running food out of the kitchen himself.

Highlights:

Whole roasted Monkfish with carrots and lardons.

Wasabi deviled eggs.

Pork chop with black pepper pineapple and sweet and sour cabbage. (Sounds odd, works great.)

Definitely worth a half hour ride out of town on the D Green Line. (Newton Highlands T stop.) Or, in our case, the half hour drive in on the Pike from High Chair and Cheerios land.

I'm going to live forever!

Light up the sky like a flame.

I'm going to live forever!

Wish I could remember my name.

Remember, remember, remember...

For heaven's sakes,

Don't burn the cakes!

It's not like you're creeping down Fairview Park Drive at 5 mph, squinting to see the house numbers as you try not to sidescrape the parked cars.

I dunno. Apart from the house numbers part, it sounds like a pretty accurate description of a few of your getaways, dude.

$5 says it still opens before Ray's Classics.

Actually, Don's commitment to proper indentation has been universally recognized.

The Rockwell scale characterizes the indentation hardness of materials through the depth of penetration of an indenter, loaded on a material sample and compared to the penetration in some reference material. It is one of several definitions of hardness in materials science.

I'm too drunk to go back through the thread, but I assume someone has already spoken up for the Tune Inn?

I just had a frozen supermarket pizza for lunch. I'm crying tears of blood here!

Lighter fluid.

It's been one of those days.

2002 Mulderbosch Beta Centauri. Nice, but $80 a pop, no.

Founders Centennial IPA.

Have never wanted to visit Grand Rapids before now.

"One Thousand One Hundred And Eighty Seven Guys" is going to be hard to screenprint onto the souvenir baseball caps.

We're doomed, doomed I tell you!

Does anyone know if Hoegaarden was bought out by another company?  It seems that it is now becoming more available (not that I'm complaining about that) and I was wondering what it might be attributable to?

The conglomerate that owned Hoegaarden merged with another conglomerate in late 2004 to form an even bigger conglomerate. The upshot of this is that the Hoegaarden brewery in the town that gave it its name is currently being closed down and production is being moved to a new industrial plant in Southern Belgium. Consumers are assured that this will in no way affect the quality of the beer itself. They are also urged to buy this here bridge, which I have for sale quite cheaply.

Hey, even when there are English translations at hand, something important can still get lost...

(Edited to add, this is not intended to be racist, only tasteless.)

Don't forget to bard it with bacon!

I find the idea that the Lounge would have an executive chef rather trite.  I mean there are just certain places that should not have anything more than a cook, The Capitol Lounge is one of them.

Agreed. Ideally, he should sweat into the food too.

The atmosphere is nice, the service is friendly, the kabobs and rice are quite good, but there's just nothing to do before they arrive except nibble and sip.

Someone at the table next to me ordered the Utah roll (never tried it, don't know why it's called that) and it looked great.