Dubya Dared To Retaliate With Nuclear Wedgie

[shereads]

This can only turn out one way.

Perhaps it's time to cash out my IRA, sell the house, buy a one-way First Class ticket to Europe and begin a leisurely driving tour of Michelin-starred restaurants in a leased Jaguar XK. I've never driven on the left, so be forewarned.

Question:

Should I start with one-star restaurants and work my way up, or cut to the chase and assume I'll have just enough time to hit a few five-star establishments before radiation poisoning effects my appetite?

What are your plans?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

This can only turn out one way.

Perhaps it's time to cash out my IRA, sell the house, buy a one-way First Class ticket to Europe and begin a leisurely driving tour of Michelin-starred restaurants in a leased Jaguar XK. I've never driven on the left, so be forewarned.

Question:

Should I start with one-star restaurants and work my way up, or cut to the chase and assume I'll have just enough time to hit a few five-star establishments before radiation poisoning effects my appetite?

What are your plans?

The only place in Europe that you have to drive on the left is the UK. Start with the 4 stars and work your way up to the 5 stars.

 

[shereads]

The only place in Europe that you have to drive on the left is the UK. Start with the 4 stars and work your way up to the 5 stars.

At what point in the Chunnel do I start driving on the opposite side of the road?

 

[shereads]

The only place in Europe that you have to drive on the left is the UK. Start with the 4 stars and work your way up to the 5 stars.

Your AV makes my eyelids flinch. Yikes.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

At what point in the Chunnel do I start driving on the opposite side of the road?

On the French end where you can turn in your left drive car for a right drive car. Check with you rent a car agent. *shakes head knowingly*

Same going back - turn in your right drive for your left drive.

I really think my AV is cool.

 

[neonlyte]

This can only turn out one way.

Perhaps it's time to cash out my IRA, sell the house, buy a one-way First Class ticket to Europe and begin a leisurely driving tour of Michelin-starred restaurants in a leased Jaguar XK. I've never driven on the left, so be forewarned.

Question:

Should I start with one-star restaurants and work my way up, or cut to the chase and assume I'll have just enough time to hit a few five-star establishments before radiation poisoning effects my appetite?

What are your plans?

Europe is a good choice - the prevailing wind is usually from the west, so as long as you keep to the Atlantic coast, you should be OK.

I'd miss out on UK and all that confounded left/right driving nonsense. Head straight for France, Brittany to be exact. Wonderful food, beach front restaurants - I'll compose a guide for you. I suggest we meet at Manoir de Lan-Kerellec, Trebeurden, Côtes-d'Armor. We ought to try the Menu Dégustation, a bargain at €65,00.

They have been kind enough to supply a recipe for your leaving do (sorry about the language):

Before you ask, I have no idea what a filet de vinaigre is, and I suggest you wash the chinois before adding the cream infused with mint.

** RECETTE **

LA DENTELLE DE FRAISES, CRÈME ET SORBET MENTHE
(8 personnes)

Coupole
- 2 feuilles de pâte à brick

Couper des cercles de 14 cm de diamètre, les enduire de beurre clarifié.
Les mouler en coupole avec un cercle à tarte (en inox) et un autre cercle, dessus, pour les tenir.
Les colorer au four sur du papier sulfurisé.

Marmelade de fraises :
- 2 pommes Grany
- 1,5 kg de fraises
- 12 belles feuilles de menthe
- 25 cl. de coulis de fraises.
Faire des dés de pommes.
Les suer légèrement au beurre.
Ajouter les fraises lavées, équeutées et grossièrement coupées.
Cuire légèrement.
Ajouter la menthe hachée et le coulis de fraises.
Egouter.

Sauce menthe
- 1/4 l. de crème liquide
- 1/2 bouquet de menthe
- 70 g. de sucre semoule
- 10 cl. de Jet 27
- 1 filet de vinaigre
Bouillir 1/4 de crème liquide.
Ajouter le 1/2 bouquet de menthe et laisser infuser 2 heures.
Faire un caramel blond à sec, avec un filet de vinaigre.
Réduire avec la crème infusée de menthe préalablement passée au chinois.
Ajouter le Jet 27.

Sorbet menthe
- 1/2 l. de lait
- 140 g. de sucre
Faire bouillir le lait et le sucre.
Ajouter 1/2 bouquet de menthe fraîche, laisser infuser et refroidir.
Turbiner après l'avoir passée au chinois.

Dressage
Placer la corbeille au milieu de l'assiette.
La garnir de marmelade de fraises, un cordon de suce menthe autour.
Déposer quelques gouttes du jus de fraises récupéré dans la sauce menthe.

Tuesday OK for you?

 

[shereads]

What? No freedom fries?

I've decided to use a hired limo and chauffeur for my tour of the UK. When we reach France, Jeeves can drop me off at the nearest Jaguar dealership.

Will the French be rude to me? Two French people in Miami have been rude to me so far, and that's not counting waiters. Maybe they knew about the pigeon I picked up on a Paris sidewalk and tried to smuggle into our hotel when I was five years old, but if they did they didnt' say anything.

Europe is a good choice - the prevailing wind is usually from the west, so as long as you keep to the Atlantic coast, you should be OK.

I'd miss out on UK and all that confounded left/right driving nonsense. Head straight for France, Brittany to be exact. Wonderful food, beach front restaurants - I'll compose a guide for you. I suggest we meet at Manoir de Lan-Kerellec, Trebeurden, Côtes-d'Armor. We ought to try the Menu Dégustation, a bargain at €65,00.

They have been kind enough to supply a recipe for your leaving do (sorry about the language):

Before you ask, I have no idea what a filet de vinaigre is, and I suggest you wash the chinois before adding the cream infused with mint.

** RECETTE **

LA DENTELLE DE FRAISES, CRÈME ET SORBET MENTHE
(8 personnes)

Coupole
- 2 feuilles de pâte à brick

Couper des cercles de 14 cm de diamètre, les enduire de beurre clarifié.
Les mouler en coupole avec un cercle à tarte (en inox) et un autre cercle, dessus, pour les tenir.
Les colorer au four sur du papier sulfurisé.

Marmelade de fraises :
- 2 pommes Grany
- 1,5 kg de fraises
- 12 belles feuilles de menthe
- 25 cl. de coulis de fraises.
Faire des dés de pommes.
Les suer légèrement au beurre.
Ajouter les fraises lavées, équeutées et grossièrement coupées.
Cuire légèrement.
Ajouter la menthe hachée et le coulis de fraises.
Egouter.

Sauce menthe
- 1/4 l. de crème liquide
- 1/2 bouquet de menthe
- 70 g. de sucre semoule
- 10 cl. de Jet 27
- 1 filet de vinaigre
Bouillir 1/4 de crème liquide.
Ajouter le 1/2 bouquet de menthe et laisser infuser 2 heures.
Faire un caramel blond à sec, avec un filet de vinaigre.
Réduire avec la crème infusée de menthe préalablement passée au chinois.
Ajouter le Jet 27.

Sorbet menthe
- 1/2 l. de lait
- 140 g. de sucre
Faire bouillir le lait et le sucre.
Ajouter 1/2 bouquet de menthe fraîche, laisser infuser et refroidir.
Turbiner après l'avoir passée au chinois.

Dressage
Placer la corbeille au milieu de l'assiette.
La garnir de marmelade de fraises, un cordon de suce menthe autour.
Déposer quelques gouttes du jus de fraises récupéré dans la sauce menthe.

Tuesday OK for you?

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Will the French be rude to me? Two French people in Miami have been rude to me so far, and that's not counting waiters. Maybe they knew about the pigeon I picked up on a Paris sidewalk and tried to smuggle into our hotel when I was five years old, but if they did they didnt' say anything.

It's been my experience that they only want to make-out. I'm sure you'll be fine. Please drop by my place in Arles while on your travels, by then I'll have sold my shit and taken up with a chalet of man ho's.

 

[matriarch]

.......

I've decided to use a hired limo and chauffeur for my tour of the UK. When we reach France, Jeeves can drop me off at the nearest Jaguar dealership.

.........

I'll be standing by, you just tell me where and when to meet you, and a guided tour will be available....with the gosling riding shotgun !!

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Will the French be rude to me?

Honey, the French are rude to EVERYBODY.

 

[neonlyte]

Honey, the French are rude to EVERYBODY.

You've not been to Denmark then? French scorn pales into nothing alongside Danish scorn.

The French are loosening up - now that they know they are superior, they no longer need to pretend though I personally think it is more to do with the wine. Consumption has dropped - which means they are actually aware of what they are saying and doing, and much of the rest of the world has discovered it can make as good or better wine than the French - a double sobering whammy.

Incidentally - the UK was recently voted the best European country for food. I can only imagine they didn't eat in Yeovil, as we had to some three months back when returning from an exhibition opening. The choice was Indian or Fish and Chips, since curry is not advisable when you have two hours driving ahead of you, we plumped for the fish and chips - cooked several weeks earlier in rancid oil and kept warm just for us.

 

[shereads]

It's someone else's turn to share how you plan to max out your credit cards before the impending round of punitive and retaliatory thermonuclear missile strikes.

Cars? Travel? Gigolos? Duct tape?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The Chicago Litogether in 2007 sounds like a place to do that.

If we last that long!

 

[cloudy]

You've not been to Denmark then? French scorn pales into nothing alongside Danish scorn.

They were nice to me when I was there.

(maybe it was because they were too busy laughing at my attempts at Danish. They said I was "charming." )

 

[Raine D8]

Question:

Should I start with one-star restaurants and work my way up, or cut to the chase and assume I'll have just enough time to hit a few five-star establishments before radiation poisoning effects my appetite?

What are your plans?

Isn't this like starting with no orgasm or awful sex? Why waste time? GET TO IT, GIRL!!

 

[Svenskaflicka]

You've not been to Denmark then? French scorn pales into nothing alongside Danish scorn.

Danes aren't rude, they're racistic, sexistic, and they talk like their mouths are full of porridge, but they're not rude.

 

[neonlyte]

They were nice to me when I was there.

(maybe it was because they were too busy laughing at my attempts at Danish. They said I was "charming." )

I confess, I've not been to Denmark for many years, and I don't really know what I'm complaining about. Last time I was there, I was still just a teenager and had my bottom pinched by a woman in a store

I'm unduly influenced by my Norwegian friends who look upon the Danes as 'an inferior race', probably due to being ruled by them for so many years. I do remember them on the whole as a rather dour breed - maybe they have mellowed.

 

[cloudy]

Danes aren't rude, they're racistic, sexistic, and they talk like their mouths are full of porridge, but they're not rude.

Put some rocks in your mouth, walk into a bar in Denmark, and recite a line from Shakespeare, and you'll get a beer, eh?

 

[cloudy]

I confess, I've not been to Denmark for many years, and I don't really know what I'm complaining about. Last time I was there, I was still just a teenager and had my bottom pinched by a woman in a store

I'm unduly influenced by my Norwegian friends who look upon the Danes as 'an inferior race', probably due to being ruled by them for so many years. I do remember them on the whole as a rather dour breed - maybe they have mellowed.

Well, an Indian's a curiosity to them, too. Might've had something to do with it.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Put some rocks in your mouth, walk into a bar in Denmark, and recite a line from Shakespeare, and you'll get a beer, eh?

...or you might get a) a fist in your eye, or b) a hand down your trousers; depending on whom you're talking to. Remember, Denmark was the first country to legalize gay marriages.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

It's someone else's turn to share how you plan to max out your credit cards before the impending round of punitive and retaliatory thermonuclear missile strikes.

Cars? Travel? Gigolos? Duct tape?

How about the above?

Ah, fuck it, give me the gigolos and the duct tape.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Before you go, recognize that all the really smart terrorists have concluded that the United States is unpredictable, powerful, dangerous and more than a little crazy, and have concluded that when selecting targets it is therefore much safer to hit the French, who are more likely to respond with a nice Beaujolais and generous foreign aid package, not excluding some Mirage jets. So if you're seeking safety rather than Petites Crepes Amuse-Gueules and Mousse de Foies de Volaille, you might outsmart yourself by taking the Michelin tour.

 

[MagicaPractica]

It's someone else's turn to share how you plan to max out your credit cards before the impending round of punitive and retaliatory thermonuclear missile strikes.

Cars? Travel? Gigolos? Duct tape?

Gigolos, definitely gigolos. But I only have a thousand left on the card. What will that get me? (Dare I ask?)

 

[Wildcard Ky]

Gigolos, definitely gigolos. But I only have a thousand left on the card. What will that get me? (Dare I ask?)

It'll get you all of the Wildcard that I can handle.

 

[MagicaPractica]

It'll get you all of the Wildcard that I can handle.

Woo Hoo! Charge it!