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Old 01-12-14, 08:11 PM
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Hour on the trainer. Clerks playing on the TV.
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Hour on the trainer. Clerks playing on the TV.
'bent on the trainer?
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I had Guinness with my cheeseburger today.
I wish I'd felt up to eating a cheeseburger today. I've had a bad cold for the last week but today I felt lower than a Basset's flews. I'm suspecting it was a migraine and now that I have health insurance I'm going to make sure I have anti-nausea pills on hand at all times. LoP kept saying "Are you going to be okay? You're awfully quiet." I said "Savor these moments and think of them fondly when I'm back to normal." Which I figure I'm only a Little Debbie's cherry pie, a can of cranberry Red Bull, and a cup of Starbuck's away from being.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
'bent on the trainer?
Mrs. rjones28 was on the 'bent on the trainer. She did about 1/2 an hour.
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Mrs. rjones28 was on the 'bent on the trainer. She did about 1/2 an hour.
Y'all need to set up some generators and battery packs - go off the grid!
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Clerks has, in my humble opinion, one of the best first halves of any movie. It losses steam in the second half, although the discussion about union workers in the partially built Death Star is fairly funny.
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Little Debbie's cherry pie is inferior to the Hostess version. Must be insufficient lard content.
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Clerks has, in my humble opinion, one of the best first halves of any movie. It losses steam in the second half, although the discussion about union workers in the partially built Death Star is fairly funny.
Clerks II has, in my opinion, one of the best middle 1/32nds of any movie when Rosario Dawson is [strike]dancing[/strike] bouncing on the rooftop.
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Clerks has, in my humble opinion, one of the best first halves of any movie. It losses steam in the second half, although the discussion about union workers in the partially built Death Star is fairly funny.
The Chewlies rep scene was a highlight.
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51mi .. insane wind.. like 15-20 with higher gusts.. down by the water.. poor route choice. got a flat with 8mi left. and apparently cracked my rim in the process. now i have to use my good rear wheel or the N+1 rain bike.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Yeunglings was.my.fave east coast.johnny lunchpail brew. I guess Henrys is my fave out here.

Daily Bread by Everybody's Brewing was my all time favorite beer on the planet.
i get yuengling whenever i'm someplace where it's available. pbr is usually the cheap beer of choice though. lately i've been drinking a lot of angry orchard variety packs. (it's the only way to get the cinnamon and ginger flavors)

otherwise the usual household brew is something from new glarus, typically spotted cow. fat squirrel (nut brown) is a seasonal that's available now so i've been getting that, along with the other seasonal cabin fever (honey bock). you can only get these behind the cheddar curtain. i smuggle a lot to friends in chicago.
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Originally Posted by Ramona_W
Little Debbie's cherry pie is inferior to the Hostess version. Must be insufficient lard content.
Little Debbie lemon pies rule.
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51mi .. insane wind.. like 15-20 with higher gusts.. down by the water.. poor route choice. got a flat with 8mi left. and apparently cracked my rim in the process. now i have to use my good rear wheel or the N+1 rain bike.
that is not "Insane" wind. That is windy. Come to the plains, and you will understand
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that is not "Insane" wind. That is windy. Come to the plains, and you will understand
Yeah. That's pretty moderate.
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Once you've tried Hunaphu's Imperial Stout... pretty much everything else tastes like pee.

"Pours extremely dark in color with a brown head with notes of big chocolate and espresso, moderate notes of vanilla and cinnamon and a mild tinge of tobacco and chilis. The flavor opens with a big blast of chocolate and moderate espresso with elements of dark toffee and interjecting threads of vanilla with lingering hints of cinnamon and tobacco and chillies notes with a mild scoville heat in the finish." -Head Brewer Wayne Wambles

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well i didn't have a wind gauge so who knows what it actually was. but riding 36-25 on flat ground at like 10mph is pretty evil to me.

at 125lbs on a 17lb bike i was being blown around quite a bit. i disagree that wind=hill. wind is much more unnerving and messes with your form.

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Originally Posted by Herbie53
Some coffee stops are better than others. The mocha at today's was exceptional and worthy of a photo.


skinny latte for me. thanks.
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Originally Posted by TampaRaleigh
Once you've tried Hunaphu's Imperial Stout... pretty much everything else tastes like pee.

"Pours extremely dark in color with a brown head with notes of big chocolate and espresso, moderate notes of vanilla and cinnamon and a mild tinge of tobacco and chilis. The flavor opens with a big blast of chocolate and moderate espresso with elements of dark toffee and interjecting threads of vanilla with lingering hints of cinnamon and tobacco and chillies notes with a mild scoville heat in the finish." -Head Brewer Wayne Wambles

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Frufru beers do not deserve the moniker of Stout. Guinness is stout. If any other "stout like substance" begins to resemble an actual stout, Guinness crushes them. If you have never heard of Beamish, this is why. I do not want my stout to taste like chocolate espresso vanilla tobacco cinnamon. I want my stout to taste like stout.

Milk stout is not stout. Oatmeal stout is not stout. If people want to be "crafty", they have free reign in Porters. Stout needs to be left to the professionals.
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Empire Brewing Co. makes a stout that compares favorably to Guinness.
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All this beer talk in the morning. Now I want to go get toasty.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Empire Brewing Co. makes a stout that compares favorably to Guinness.
Yes, but......... they have, IMHO, a high amount of variability batch to batch. The stuff we had post Point-2-Pint was excellent, but I had tried their stout on 2 prior occasions, and not been remotely impressed. The wonderful thing about Guinness is that it is Guinness every time.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
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