Huh. I wonder what the generic turn for a Zamboni would be? I have no idea what else to call that thing. . .
“Ice resurfacer.”
I wonder what the generic turn for a Zamboni would be?
“Steam Roller With No Roller And The Opposite Of Steam”
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Watch out! They’re both bottles wrapped in paper, and in the door of my fridge they sit next to each other… or they DID, until I had to throw out a drink I was making (7-Up/LaCroix/dash of rum/many dashes of “bitters”).
I’ve seen that a lot of the knock-offs – usually animated – you see as dollar store DVDs. I call them ‘Grandma discs,’ picturing one in the store getting her granddaughter a birthday gift. “Lessee, she said it was about two sisters and it was cold. Oh, look. Here’s Icy and it has two girls on the cover. That must be it!”
When I was young there was an area near me that was called the Tri-Cities. It was a joke. The three hamlets that made it up (Altona, Irona, and Sciota) had a collective population of maybe three hundred people.
I went to a tiny college in Michigan, and people often asked:
“What? Where the hell is THAT?”
Some of us would say “Oh, just outside the Twin Cities…”
“Oh, so, Minneapolis/St.Paul?”
“Naah, Osseo/Pittsford!”
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(You can’t hear it, but everyone I went to college with is laughing…)
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Okay, not as funny as Oprah getting exasperated with your Tri-Cities, Little Nemo!
Many of them are from the same studio.
The Asylum is not only responsible for “Atlantic Rim”, but they also made “Transmorphers” (Transformers), “The Day the Earth Stopped” (The Day the Earth Stood Still), “Lord of the Elves” (Lord of the Rings), and many others. They even helped define a film genre called “mockbusters”.
They also created the TV series Z Nation, the Sharknado films (yes, those Sharknado films), and the Mega Shark films. So not all of their stuff is a mockbuster, but all are low budget and show it. And they make TONS of money since the films cost peanuts to make and get cranked out pretty quickly, and often get play on SyFy as well as being sold everywhere as cheap DVDs.
There was a Canadian animated film released in 2013 based around Inuit culture called The Legend of Sarila.
It was largely ignored. Three weeks later, Disney releases Frozen which is a massive hit, so the film was rebranded as…
Disney sued them, and the movie went back to its original name and marketing.
I hadn’t seen that. It’s great.
And she was misinformed. It’s saɪ’-əʊ-tə not skiː-ə’-tə.
I’m going to nominate “Hook and loop fastener” instead of “Velcro”.
Yes, I know Velcro is a brand name, but surely we can do better than “hook and loop fastener”? It sounds more like some kind of mountaineering equipment or complicated BDSM thing than a way for me to put amusing morale patches on my backpack.
I’ve never used actual bitters, but I often use more acidic soft drinks (citrusy) for a queasy tummy.
In Melbourne, if you go into the local Fish and Chip shop and just ask ask for a piece of ‘fish’, you will probably be given flake - which is very tasty, firm, cooks well, brilliant in batter, and has been a staple of every Mebourian’s diet since the 1920s.
Flake is actually shark.
“Flake”, eh?? Hmmm.
In the US, shark is commonly sold as “shark”. Clever marketing that. It’s a mainstream type of fish sold in many ordinary grocery stores. Admittedly more so closer to the ocean than deep inland.
I think it’s one of the best fish out there. Akin to swordfish or good tuna, the flesh is quite firm, with a texture more akin to pork than to typical falls-apart whitefish like flounder, haddock, cod, etc. And, as you say, with a fine flavo(u)r; definitely obviously fishy but not fishily gamy. It can stand up to strong seasoning but doesn’t need it.
I don’t know what specie(s) of shark are commonly sold around here, but it’s good stuff for sure!
When I was a kid, I would drink it; either by itself or occasionally mixed with fruit juice. Even now, when I smell it, I’m tempted…
The “miles between distillers” chart is valuable for anyone planning to drive the Kentucky Bourbon Trail this summer.*
*also for planning to minimize the risk of DUIs.
I’ve seen it used in a fairly useful way… the company I work for contracts some work to a third party company, who writes some software we use. Once a month we have a video chat with them, and we discuss how things are going, what’s coming up, etc. But sometimes we also make specific feature requests, like, official requests for new technology or features or fixes. These are referred to as “asks”, to distinguish these “official” requests which will be tracked, prioritized, categorized, etc; from just random question, discussions, upcoming features that weren’t specifically for us, etc. Seems like a useful concept to be able to quickly label.