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[fenrigar]

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[kudrasslipper]

I almost fell out of my chair when I saw that you had posted. You should do that more often to save my heart from the shock.

[fenrigar]

Now what exactly would be the fun in _that_?

[quixotic_goat]

Well if you don't like any of the positions you've found by next summer, I could be out by then. We could pursue our high school career plan :P

We'd have to read Without Remorse again, and go to the range a lot, and...

but somehow I'm thinking it wouldn't make it past the spousal veto on either of our parts. Just proves they're smarter than us :)

[fenrigar]

Spousal Veto may only apply if we are operating in certain theaters. I suspect they'd let us start up Sneakers if we tried hard enough.

And we most certainly now have the collective skill sets to pull that business plan off.

But yeah, we do keep them around, in part, because we know they'll exercise that veto in defense of their spousal rights to continued hide integrity ;)

[reedrover]

Good luck. I think your "get out!" strategy has some major selling points.

To paraphrase your comment above - And if anyone wants to learn a LOT of lessons on how badly the [new Prime Contractor] can conduct business, break its own rules, and get away with it, offer to buy me a [sundae]...

[fenrigar]

So where can we get ice cream and booze?

[quixotic_goat]

Combined or separate? I imagine there any many deserts that combine the two... Guess that means we have determine which is better. By we I mean you, since my knowledge of alchohol is a tad under developed and my knowledge of deserts tends towards those that are mostly comprised of some sort of over processed sugar and food coloring... Mmmm... candy corn... gum drops... not that they really deserve the label deserts :)

How did we go from proposals to food porn???

[fenrigar]

There are in fact many, many desserts that combine booze and ice cream... my standard is to carmelize some type of fruit with butter and brown sugar, then flash with some sort of booze, usually rum or brandy (calvados, congnac, etc) then pour over ice cream... But that doesn't go anywhere near alcholic milk shakes, or spiking the chocolate ganache which can also be poured over ice cream. Or even the multitude of things you can do with melted ice cream - otherwise known as creme anglaise, and good as a sauce in and of itself...

But to answer your comment, no, candy corn isn't dessert. It's candy. But you knew that... when was the last time you turned down gum drops before lunch???

[kaelikat]

I watched an interesting Iron Chef America the other night focused around the theme of CORN. (I don't usually watch the America version, I prefer the original Japanese version) At any rate, Bobby Flay made some sweetened bourbon reduction into a syrup he drizzled over corn waffles and corn butter and I just sat there drooling over it. That sounded good.

A funny comment from Alton Brown was that he could guess accurately what the booze under flame was based on the flame color. :)

You should give my hubby and me a holler, dear big brother. :)

[fenrigar]

I'm not typically all the fond of Flay, but sweetened bourbon reduction is almost always a good thing.

I'm not sure I buy Alton's boast, but he's still fun to listen to.

And since company corporate is in Fair Lakes, give you two a holler ought to be much more feasible, come August...

[kaelikat]

I grew to dislike him a bit much when he appeared on the Japanese Iron Chef twice and whined and jumped on the cutting boards as a victory move. Shoes on the cutting boards. The counters. Rude. Ignorant. Ill mannered. Some of those words came to mind. He lost both times, despite the deliciousness of the dishes.

But I enjoyed the Corn Battle. :9

*hugs*

[kaelikat]

How annoying. My 'puter logged me out. :P