Another "What's that asshole making now?"

[Sqwertz]

Hint: It's melted marshmallows, pecans, ritz crackers, dried
apricots and cherries, soybeans oil, brown sugar, water.

https://i.postimg.cc/j2gS72W3/Con-TRAPtion.jpg

And Ribeye #2 with mashed potatoes and broccoli:

https://i.postimg.cc/vHKm81wc/Ribeye-Potatoes-Broccoli.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/MpjpnWzt/Ribeye-in-Cast-Iron.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/zXvB1CMs/Ribeye-Money-Shot.jpg

The front of that meat got a little too much flash reflection, but
look behind it. Is it medium, med-rare, medium-medium-rare, or
medium-rare-medium? Another borderline call, IMNSO. I think it's
Medium-Medium-Rare. Neither med-rare nor medium, but just short of
medium. It was perfect like the last one.

-sw

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Tuesday, July 11, 2023 at 11:10:43 PM UTC-5, Sqwertz wrote:
>
> Hint: It's melted marshmallows, pecans, ritz crackers, dried
> apricots and cherries, soybeans oil, brown sugar, water.
>
> https://i.postimg.cc/j2gS72W3/Con-TRAPtion.jpg
>

I give up.

>
> And Ribeye #2 with mashed potatoes and broccoli:
>
> https://i.postimg.cc/vHKm81wc/Ribeye-Potatoes-Broccoli.jpg
>

Don't go overboard on that broccoli.  😄

>
> https://i.postimg.cc/MpjpnWzt/Ribeye-in-Cast-Iron.jpg
> https://i.postimg.cc/zXvB1CMs/Ribeye-Money-Shot.jpg
>
> The front of that meat got a little too much flash reflection, but
> look behind it. Is it medium, med-rare, medium-medium-rare, or
> medium-rare-medium? Another borderline call, IMNSO. I think it's
> Medium-Medium-Rare. Neither med-rare nor medium, but just short of
> medium. It was perfect like the last one.
>
> -sw
>

I dunno, it looks medium-rare to me, mmmmmmm.

[Thomas]

Is it the correct pic? The bucket?

[Alex]

Cooked to perfection!

[Sqwertz]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 01:38:51 -0700 (PDT), Thomas wrote:

> On Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 12:10:43 AM UTC-4, Sqwertz wrote:
>> Hint: It's melted marshmallows, pecans, ritz crackers, dried
>> apricots and cherries, soybeans oil, brown sugar, water.
>>
>> https://i.postimg.cc/j2gS72W3/Con-TRAPtion.jpg
>>
>

> Is it the correct pic? The bucket?

Yes. The board game of the same name uses an upside down laundry
basket for the final piece IIRC.

-sw

[Sqwertz]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 22:01:34 -0700 (PDT),
itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:

> On Tuesday, July 11, 2023 at 11:10:43 PM UTC-5, Sqwertz wrote:
>
>> And Ribeye #2 with mashed potatoes and broccoli:
>>
>> https://i.postimg.cc/vHKm81wc/Ribeye-Potatoes-Broccoli.jpg
>>

> Don't go overboard on that broccoli.  ��

Have you SEEN the price of broccoli lately!!??!

It's the same as it was 5 years ago! It's another conspiracy!

-sw

[Sqwertz]

> Cooked to perfection!

These are the best Under $10 ribeyes I've ever had (and for
$4.20/lb). I'm practicing for the $100 Kobe Strip Steak Vs. The
Safeway $4.20 Ribeye Steak Showdown happening in just 8 more
days...

https://i.postimg.cc/0NCLC98w/Steak-Challenge.jpg

-sw

[Dave Smith]

That's a great idea for a mouse trap. Did you put about 6@ of water in
it. That would be enough that they would not be able to jump out.

I usually keep my kayaking gear in a plastic tub in the back of my SUV.
A couple years ago the car developed a funky smell and it got worse and
worse. One day I went looking for the source of the smell. I found a
dead mouse in the bottom of the bin. I guess he had gone exploring in
the car and ended up in the bin and was unable to leap out.

I am going to have to start keeping some moth balls in my car again. I
had not noticed the reducing air flow from my cabin air fan. Last
weekend it was time to replace filters in that car. When I was replacing
the cabin air filter I wondered about the white, blue and grey material
above the filter element. It was mouse nesting material. It was really
packed in there. When I turned on the cir circulation fans I was amazed
at the air flow.

[Sqwertz]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 12:02:07 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:

> On 2023-07-13 11:05 a.m., Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 01:38:51 -0700 (PDT), Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 12:10:43 AM UTC-4, Sqwertz wrote:
>>>> Hint: It's melted marshmallows, pecans, ritz crackers, dried
>>>> apricots and cherries, soybeans oil, brown sugar, water.
>>>>
>>>> https://i.postimg.cc/j2gS72W3/Con-TRAPtion.jpg
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is it the correct pic? The bucket?
>>
>> Yes. The board game of the same name uses an upside down laundry
>> basket for the final piece IIRC.
>>
>
> That's a great idea for a mouse trap.

And we have a winner! Ding Ding!

> Did you put about 6@ of water in
> it. That would be enough that they would not be able to jump out.

That's what most people do to drown them. I would have but the
bucket is one of my tomato planters and has small holes in the
bottom. I was just gonna throw them into the creek for snake
food.

But I either already killed them or they moved out. I saw a
litter of them as I was moving some plywood in/out of some slots
and I got one of them - a big baby, but may have smashed the rest.
Oh well. I'll know in a couple of days with the garage getting up
to 110F in the daytime.

-sw

[Alex]

My money is on the $10 ribeyes!

[Leonard Blaisdell]

On 2023-07-14, Alex <Xel...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sqwertz wrote:
>
>> https://i.postimg.cc/0NCLC98w/Steak-Challenge.jpg

>> -sw

> My money is on the $10 ribeyes!

I would still like to eat Wagyu beef before I die, along with a big
helping of Beluga caviar, just to say I did. Once upon a time, I wanted
to eat lobster until I was stuffed. I did that, but my boss paid, and my
wife ordered steak and lobster and didn't want her lobster.
She's a country girl whose taste developed gradually. I had ordered two
lobster tails before I hit the jackpot with hers. 'Twas enough!

[Alex]

I've had Beluga caviar and it's good, but not worth the money.  I would
try a Wagyu steak but if I didn't grill it right, I wouldn't know if it
was me or the beef.  I'll pick up a whole USDA Prime tenderloin when
it's on sale.  $150 for 8-10 large steaks isn't bad at all.

[Leonard Blaisdell]

On 2023-07-15, Alex <Xel...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've had Beluga caviar and it's good, but not worth the money.  I would
> try a Wagyu steak but if I didn't grill it right, I wouldn't know if it
> was me or the beef.  I'll pick up a whole USDA Prime tenderloin when
> it's on sale.  $150 for 8-10 large steaks isn't bad at all.

My supermarket did the whole tenderloin for a few years at Christmas.
Then they quit. The last one I bought was three years ago at about
ninety-five bucks. Ain't inflation great!
I cut it into steaks too.

[Bruce]

On 16 Jul 2023 19:54:11 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell

Is it Biden's fault?

[Thomas]

It is the government of the United States fault.
Better?

[Bruce]

The Press Was Complicit in Biden’s ‘Uncle Joe’ Myth

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/07/the-press-was-complicit-in-bidens-uncle-joe-myth/

After 50 years in public office, there’s an abundance of evidence demonstrating that Biden is a spiteful, petty, little man.

He is a chronic liar and a self-serving career bureaucrat. He’s short-tempered, vindictive, and mean-spirited.

"Uncle Joe" was one of Josef Stalin's monikers.

One would think both the slobbering press and Joe Biden-his-time would have borne that in mind.

But, that would be normal. Nothing about Joe Biden is normal. Never has been.

There is no “Uncle Joe” without media complicity, and the fact that newsrooms helped the narrative to succeed,
despite knowing full well it’s total nonsense, is a scandal

[Bruce]

Joe Biden Is an Asshole

Always has been, always will be.

Biden is a decrepit, dishonest, unpleasant blowhard.

He’s a nasty, corrupt, partisan fraud.

He is, as Shakespeare had it, “a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.”

Biden is twice as irritating as he believes himself to be, and half as intelligent into the bargain.

From the moment he arrived on the scene — nearly 50 years ago, Lord help us — he has represented all that is wrong with our politics.

A century hence, his name will be set into aspic and memorialized under “Hack.”

There is nothing the man won’t lie about.

He lies about inflation. He lies about gas prices. He lies about the deficit. He lies about the border.

He lies about having been arrested for his civil-rights activism, and about having been raised by Puerto Ricans and Greeks and Jews,
and about having traveled to Afghanistan to pin a Silver Star on a Navy hero, and about his son’s death, and about the crash that
killed his first wife and baby daughter, and about the small kitchen fire that he had 15 years ago, which, in his inimitable style, he
has managed to transmute into “having had a house burn down with my wife in it.”

In 1987, he plagiarized a speech by the British politician Neil Kinnock that contained a completely different backstory
from his own.

In 2012, he accused Mitt Romney of wanting to put African Americans “back in chains.”

Push a pin into a history book, and you’ll find Joe Biden lying about something.

[Bruce]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 13:30:41 -0700 (PDT), Thomas <cano...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Well, that's Biden's government at the moment. By the way, what has
the weather been like under Biden?

[Leonard Blaisdell]

On 2023-07-16, Bruce <meator...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The Press Was Complicit in Biden’s ‘Uncle Joe’ Myth

> https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/07/the-press-was-complicit-in-bidens-uncle-joe-myth/

I know you're not "my buddy" Bruce, and I hit a wall in the above URL.
However, the press was stupid enough to tout 'Uncle Joe' as a positive
term. Snot nosed younger journalists ran with 'Uncle Joe', because the
term seemed convivial. Their paymasters waited to see if there was any
fallout.
Apparently, some older historian mentioned to the idiots that 'Uncle
Joe' meant Joe Stalin. The 'Uncle Joe' hubbub has mostly disappeared.
Imagine that! A bridge too far...for the time being.

[Bruce]

On 17 Jul 2023 04:50:27 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell

Yes, my history teacher at highschool always spoke of Uncle Joseph.
That wasn't a term of endearment.

[Thomas]

I should ask how FEMA helped those in the US after a hurricane compared to those in Ukraine helped by the same government.

[Bruce]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 01:43:48 -0700 (PDT), Thomas <cano...@gmail.com>

Two things you can't really compare.