Wacko - the second nose

[chrisfan]

sb said:

What's a cookout? Is that some sort of restaurant?

When a bunch of people get together at someone's house and cook food on the grill, stand around eat too much, drink too much, and pass the time. For some reason I will never quite understand, it's an American tradition to honor the memory of those who gave their lives in service to this country on Memorial Day weekend by gathering for cookouts.

[KooL]

Well, I'll be 41 in 5 years myself, and we all know how fast the bloody years fly by once you've become an adult.

[KooL]

Why do you have to eat all the deserts? I'd only go after the ones I really liked. I'm not big on deserts, but the few I like I scoff down like a pig. Mainly chocolate soufflé with a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream and some chocolate syrup. I could live on that shit.

[chrisfan]

I only eat the desserts that I like too ... but I like too many of them. Plus, there's the whole "If you eat this friend's food, but not this one, than the first one will think you don't like her cooking" crap that makes it so much easier to be a guy and be oblivious to all that petty crap.

Tomorrow, another cookout -- but this one will have classier food. Grilled sirloin, shrimp skewered on rosemary, grilled asparagus, and most intriguing of all ... ice cream fondue. I have no idea how you fondue ice cream, but I can't wait to find out.

[Kensterberg]

sb said:

Well, I'll be 41 in 5 years myself, and we all know how fast the bloody years fly by once you've become an adult.

I wouldn't know, as I've been assured that I am stuck as a perpetual teenager, more interested in rock and roll, movies, school, and other such stuff rather than anything that's "really" important.

Seriously, it's amazing how fast the time bloody flies now. I cannot believe that we're into the "late 2000's" now. Un-fucking-real.

[chrisfan]

Thanks a lot Ken ... I hadn't thought of them as the "late 2000's" until you just said that.

[Kensterberg]

chrisfan said:

Thanks a lot Ken ... I hadn't thought of them as the "late 2000's" until you just said that.

You're welcome. BTW, I pronounce that phrase "late nothin's" just b/c I don't like saying "two thousands." I also don't generally write out '07 or 2007 when I'm dating something. I'd put down 5/26/7 for today. I figure if you're not smart enough to get that the zero is understood, then you deserve to guess which decade we're in. Pisses some people off, which I don't understand.

[KooL]

Yeah, I remember as kid in the late 70s and early 80s, I'd think that by the year 2000 everything would be futuristic and we'd all be flying around in our flying cars. I also remember thinking that in the year 2000, I'd be 'old' since I'd be turning 29.

If you take away computer technology, the internet etc, not much has really changed since the 80s. Apart from fashion sense/styles. These days, and for the past 15 years or so, it's almost as if fashion is out of fashion. Like, remember in the 80s when we'd watch TV shows from the 60s and 70s and we could spot the era from what they were wearing and their hairstyles? You just don't get that anymore, at least not to the extent you got it back then. The 90s and the 00s aren't really that different. Even music, post-Nirvana hasn't really evolved much. It's a little less depressing than it was in the 90s, but that's about it.

[Kensterberg]

sb said:

Yeah, I remember as kid in the late 70s and early 80s, I'd think that by the year 2000 everything would be futuristic and we'd all be flying around in our flying cars. I also remember thinking that in the year 2000, I'd be 'old' since I'd be turning 29.

If you take away computer technology, the internet etc, not much has really changed since the 80s. Apart from fashion sense/styles. These days, and for the past 15 years or so, it's almost as if fashion is out of fashion. Like, remember in the 80s when we'd watch TV shows from the 60s and 70s and we could spot the era from what they were wearing and their hairstyles? You just don't get that anymore, at least not to the extent you got it back then. The 90s and the 00s aren't really that different. Even music, post-Nirvana hasn't really evolved much. It's a little less depressing than it was in the 90s, but that's about it.

That's why I call this "the nothin's" -- there's absolutely nothing new going on right now. Nothing. All we're doing is recycling and playing out the same old crap from the last century.

I'm really disappointed -- this wasn't the future I was promised, dammit! We're supposed to have colonies on the moon by now, and we can't even get a friggin' space station operational on a permanent basis.

And don't even get me started on flying cars ...

[strat-0]

The "late 2000s." Damn, another decade on the wane so soon?

[chrisfan]

Way back when in this thread, we were keeping track of good concerts I got to go to for free. I need to add to that list.

I'm going to see The Police. I'm going to see The Police. I'm not paying a dime for it. And I'm going to see The Police.

[KooL]

Free Police? That's pretty cool. Although I don't envy you as much as I did when you saw Prince for free. Now that was a bargain!

[chrisfan]

Very true. Prince even gave me a free CD, which was super free since I didn't pay for the ticket. I'll admit that I'm more excited about The Police becuase it's a big tour, whereas with Prince, I was excited because I adore Prince.

[strat-0]

If they can only fit Sting's head through the stage door...

[KooL]

Chances are it's at the same venue she saw U2 [for free again], so if Bono's head could fit through the stage door, I'm sure Sting's can too.