Comments on: Miss? Another cocktail.

By: Gasman

Gasman — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:42:03 +0000

Ricardo,
It takes three ingredients to make Scotch: water, malted barley, and yeast. The ingredients are strictly regulated and you can be sure that any Scotch you buy is going to be free of unknown impurities.

Unless you grow your own dope you have no idea what the hell you are smoking. You assume that the growers aren’t adding nasty-ass chemicals like fertilizers and such. That is foolish. The crop, after all, is illegal. It’s not like producers have much to fear from the FDA.

Scotch is health food compared to dope.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:08:37 +0000

I say to the critics of Michael Phelps: Next time you go to the Olympics instead of Michael Phelps. You better come home with multiple gold medals, otherwise keep quiet.

As for pot, it comes out of the ground and you smoke it or ingest. What could be more natural than that? How many ingredients and how much processing does it take to make scotch?

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:25:33 +0000

Alex would say (and he begins to sway me!) Danny has been leaving his mark here under a nom de plume

By: LA Mary

LA Mary — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:54:38 +0000

MichaelG,
I have done the same errand in a 1980 Dodge Colt. Water heater in the Colt and an olive tree in the other car, which was a 1974 Karmann Ghia. There must be something in the water here in CA.
Speaking of which, where’s Danny been lately?

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:50:52 +0000

Brian, kudos to you for having the courage to put your editing quiz answer out there for all to see. Believe it or not, I would have changed that comma to a semicolon and left the “just,” too, but I have been paid for a long time to figure out such things “Just” is overused, but it serves a purpose there, I think.

I didn’t get serious about answering the others, but I did give them a look, and they’re definitely tough ones.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:26:19 +0000

Well, hell. I comprehensively failed that editing quiz

http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/quiz-answers-2/

but the unkindest cut is that they just could not care less about the word “just” in the first problem. I fooled and fooled with that paragraph, and do you know what the sum total of their fix was?

1. The last sentence includes a so-called comma splice: two independent clauses joined only by a comma. A semicolon or perhaps a dash would work.

That’s it! There ain’t no more! I now admit to myself that copy editing isn’t in my future (let alone my ‘present’!)

btw MichaelG – all I meant about the sexting thing was that I DO want a vigorous official (criminal justice) response or interest in these cases, so as to keep it rare. I’m all for flexibility within that response, but in essence this seems to reduce to “sexting” = “child sexploitation”

By: Dexter

Dexter — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:15:17 +0000

whitebearduka, I feel ya on those effin’ pipes…my upstairs faucet is running a solid stream and I am about to check it again.
It’s cold here, too…must be zero again, but no wind until daylight, I think the man said. Saturday cannot get here quickly enough…I have to bust-up that ice dam on top of my eavespouting.
I have been one of the crazy-old-guys-on-a-bicycle-in-the-winter for over thirty years in this town, but not this winter.
Since this stellar season visited its damnation upon us, I have cycled exactly 1/4 mile. Ice everywhere, snow piled high, it seems it’s always about 8 degrees…
well sir, Gasman doesn’t like me staying up this late, he gave me hell last night, told me to GO TO BED !
I am scared he will chastise me again…off to Facebook and Twitter a while!
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Eddie Schwartz has died in a Chicago nursing home. He was a media junkie and long-time radio personality, and he was great on the radio…dead at 62.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-hed-edschwartz-05-feb05,0,3097446.story

By: whitebeard

whitebeard — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:53:44 +0000

The coldest capital is not Moscow, to get really cold the Russians must travel to Ottawa and experience the Canadian air masses first hand. I expected warmer weather when I moved to Connecticut years ago but we have had the coldest January in 15 years and the temperature now is zero and the bathroom pipes have frozen again (about the 10th time this dreaded winter of winters).
I am running the electric fan/heater in the bathroom to thaw the pipes and thinking of the 45 degrees forecast for Chicago next week when I am there for the auto show press previews.
I am not too worried about leaving the house for Chicago because we have our handyman living with us in the depths of winter while his house nears foreclosure and the Grand Old Public utility has cut off his electricity.
Isn’t this depression great, just what we needed to cleanse the economy, the markets, the hedge funds and the obscene bonuses from our system.
Katrinka has a nice ring to it, with a hint of mischief in the air.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:48:56 +0000

Good story, moe99. I used to be friends with an old man who was a WWI veteran. He had a keen interest in the world, and he subscribed Soviet Life Magazine for me for several years. I learned a lot from that magazine, but the claim they made that Russians always drank water glass sized tumblers of vodka for breakfast, to wash down their pickled cucumbers , turned out to be not universally true. Most Russians drink a glass of yogurt for breakfast, and have a hunk of sour rye bread and maybe have tea.
If you want a primer on Russia, this is as good as I have found:
http://www.answers.com/topic/russia

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:35:12 +0000

So when my cousin calls me Katrinka, is that a nice thing?