The Bar... Volume#2

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Post by Zoom » Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:17 pm

zoom zooms up to the bar
how bout some shots
hope all are doing well
trying to make the journey this year
thank god for the powers that look out for us and guide us through this wild ride to find out that there is life afterwards.

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Post by ygmir » Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:42 pm

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Hi Zoom...........good to see ya.

I hope you can make it.........yay............
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Post by Zoom » Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:48 pm

any talks on havng an eplaya bar this year
and what is the theme
looking forward to seeing you all
my girl is coming with
still working on a burningman name for her
thank god for the powers that look out for us and guide us through this wild ride to find out that there is life afterwards.

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Post by theCryptofishist » Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:43 pm

There was an eplaya bar camp in 06. There was a sort of collapse before 07. 07, 08 and 09 there was the booby bar, expected back in 10. The Black Sakha (Sabha?) was there in 08 and maybe 09. Not sure of 10 status.
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Post by Deb Prothero » Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:52 pm

Simon and Ugly Dougly; I'm afraid to burst your bubbles on that movie. Saw it at the Woodstock Film Festival and it wasn't even worth my time to write a review. Think of every conspiracy theory cliche that there is and it shows up in the dialogue. The whole film is a running cliche. Too bad 'cause I likes me some George Clooney. George does what he can with the dialogue but it is so poorly written that it's embarrassing to watch him deal with it.

Of course, it was the title: The Men Who Stare At Goats that made me sign up for that one. I was thinking of our friend Goathead!

Speaking of Goathead - is he still stuck in Idaho???

Hey Zoom, nice to meet you. Not sure we've exchanged greetings.

Darn I missed LeChat again too.

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Post by ygmir » Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:47 am

*builds fire in sc corner*

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well, no one here, so, I may as well head for the lounger and watch cartoons

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Post by pinemom » Fri Nov 20, 2009 6:31 am

Howdy Ya'll !
((((ZOOM))))

Missed ya babe!

Yes, Eplaya Bar is now just a fond memory. She came, she saw, she finished.

So Risky Burn turned us on to some steel yesterday, oh my aching back today!

Its actually not even made it out of the Dr. Pepper trailer. TOO heavy!

Good stuff for building stuff!

SIMON!!!!!
How ya doing chap?
You still on our side of the world?
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Post by gyre » Fri Nov 20, 2009 6:38 am

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Post by LeChatNoir » Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:02 pm

(strolls into the other Bar and catches the end of a conversation)
pinemom wrote:Yes, Eplaya Bar is now just a fond memory. She came, she saw, she finished.

So Risky Burn turned us on to some steel yesterday, oh my aching back today!

Its actually not even made it out of the Dr. Pepper trailer. TOO heavy!
Wait... Ive been missing out. Was this demolition or construction or both?

(places some Xingu in the cooler)
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Post by sputnik » Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:10 pm

MMMM....Xingu! thanks LeChat. How's things? Did you guys keep the goats?
It's going to be alright.

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Post by Ugly Dougly » Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:46 pm

Deb Prothero wrote:Simon and Ugly Dougly; I'm afraid to burst your bubbles on that movie. Saw it at the Woodstock Film Festival and it wasn't even worth my time to write a review. Think of every conspiracy theory cliche that there is and it shows up in the dialogue. The whole film is a running cliche. Too bad 'cause I likes me some George Clooney. George does what he can with the dialogue but it is so poorly written that it's embarrassing to watch him deal with it.
Is it not even funny, Deb?? One would expect at least that from a comedy.

I studied the guy (Strozzi-Heckler) that taught meditation to Special Forces soldiers, and the other guys who were supposed to be Remote Viewers (Joseph W. McMoneagle et al.).

Nothing but psychological operations; they didn't have a plan for implementation, or even training effectively:
http://www.skepdic.com/remotevw.html

They just wanted to get our enemies to believe that we have a crew of psychic Jedi warriors.

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Post by LeChatNoir » Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:50 pm

sputnik wrote:MMMM....Xingu! thanks LeChat. How's things? Did you guys keep the goats?
AHAA HAA!!! I see you've been talking to Karine.

No, no... The neighbor decided he'd keep them, I believe. Guess he just couldn't turn down stray livestock and we sure don't need any more hobbies.

Pizza?

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Post by Ugly Dougly » Fri Nov 20, 2009 4:02 pm

I will have my hot chocolate with brandy.

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I've heard it called a "North Beach".

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Post by gyre » Fri Nov 20, 2009 4:07 pm

I believe there were other programs, including wet work.
They are supposed to be shut down now, but announcements of programs ending have been false before (such as SR-71).
These were always black ops anyway.
I am told results were mixed, but sometimes dramatic.

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Post by ygmir » Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:26 pm

mmmmmmmmmmm

PIZZA!!

thanks LeChat........how ya doin?

hey Dougly, any chance you could make two of those?

I gotta eat and run, one of my campmates is manager of a wine tasting room, and, I got invited to the "private" tasting party......yeehaw.........
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Post by gyre » Fri Nov 20, 2009 6:51 pm

Have you tried abuelita hot chocolate?
I can confirm it tastes great with rum or brandy.
Cinnamon and other flavors involved.

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Post by theCryptofishist » Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:11 pm

It's just a rip off of the original. I guess the Mexican ex-pat market got big enough for nestle to sit up and take notice.
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Post by gyre » Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:27 pm

I haven't seen that one.
Is there a difference?

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Post by Risky » Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:25 pm

LeChatNoir wrote:So Risky Burn turned us on to some steel yesterday...
Spare scrap left over from the indoor shooting range I am helping to build. Got thru the inspection today and got our business license!
We open on Monday.

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Post by gyre » Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:29 pm

V cool

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Post by gyre » Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:52 pm

If you want to have some fun, next time a friend is really blitzed, let loose about fifty of those zhu zhu rats in the living room and pretend you can't see them.

One or two is really boring.
Anything over twenty becomes quite surreal.

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Post by ygmir » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:23 pm

Risky wrote:
LeChatNoir wrote:So Risky Burn turned us on to some steel yesterday...
Spare scrap left over from the indoor shooting range I am helping to build. Got thru the inspection today and got our business license!
We open on Monday.
congrats!!

is it over by IGT?
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Post by pinemom » Sat Nov 21, 2009 6:02 am

Well, Le Chat the original furnishing of said Eplaya bar BAR was re-named the Black Sabkha.
Beyond that none of us know????

As for the E-Eplaya bar #1, it was found to be unstable and not user friendly to those of us still using dial up in remote locations, such as homes.

There are hopes that one day it will stabilize.
In the meantime...we cruise around all the bars on this joint!

Congrats Risky!!!! I know the new fire marshal is rumored to be very questioning, as she is quite new.


I have 2 best cups of hot choco...

One was in a little town called Alamos, deep in the mountains of mid peninsula Mexico,Circa 1979. One of those little towns that the world has never touched.We had a danish chef at the villa, and every morning we woke up to a tray of coffee and choco, with fresh Mexican rich creama.


The second was my first Snuggler on a ski hill, Squaw Valley, circa 1982, "Night skiing". Skiing down the hill racing the head sous chef from the Hyatt Lake Tahoe, where I worked.( we used to all get together for the night skiing(which I wonder if they even still do?).
Went in to the lodge to warm up a bit, and it was 2/4/1 snugglers...Rumple Minze was brand new to the world...Ahhh!~ So nice~ warmed the bones twice as nice as a shot of whiskey on the hill boddabag!

Happy Saturday!

It snowed yesterday, was so pretty, then it stopped short of the vision I wanted to see this morning. I would feel cheated, but the flakes at one point were those heavenly 3 inch wide slowly drifting clouds....ahhhh~
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Post by gyre » Sat Nov 21, 2009 6:51 am

What is rumple minze?

No cartoon, but maybe this will do.
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Post by pinemom » Sat Nov 21, 2009 6:58 am

High Octane Peppermint schnapps


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Post by Elorrum » Sat Nov 21, 2009 7:05 am

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how about a mocha? I'm putting this machine behind the bar.

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Post by ygmir » Sat Nov 21, 2009 7:19 am

*wanders in*

hey, hi PM, Elorrum, Gyre........how's everybody?

*builds fire in s.c. corner*

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YIKES!!

hhhhm Jimmy trying to tell us something?

*winds gramophone*

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nice coffee machine, Elorrum........thanks.
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Post by pinemom » Sat Nov 21, 2009 7:23 am

hahahaaaa, Ygmir that reminds me of my holiday fake off...
Im going to build a mock fireplace under the Bar slab! with these 90%off Halloween orange LED's I got!$0.49a box.


Thought hell, if heater is on, all I need is the ambiance!!!
Plus we can put the kids stocking on the under side of the bar slab. Purrrfect!
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Post by ygmir » Sat Nov 21, 2009 7:27 am

yeah, hahaha, good call.......maybe put a pic of Jim behind some waving celophane/flames..........play the "Door Xmas album" (Album-how old am I?)
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Post by Deb Prothero » Sat Nov 21, 2009 7:38 am

Risky and gyre are into sports tonight. Congrats on getting your inspection over with Risky. Next time I'm in Reno, I'll be looking for a tour. As for gyre and his rats, hmm, I don't know what to say about that kinda sport. Must be an American thing.

Darn, missed LaChat again.

Ugly, you may very well enjoy the film but I can tell you honestly that the CIA film with the goats is an unfortunate bit of cellulite in which George Clooney makes a professional attempt at interpreting lousy material. The short bit with the Steven Segal cameo is utterly unbelievably laughable. Maybe that's what makes it a comedy - who am I to say. Anyway see if you can win a free ticket from your local radio station, then "The Men Who Stare at Goats" will be worth your money! Sorry to burst your bubble. Any single one of us on these boards could write a better film script!

If however you get a chance to see "The Messenger", please make that attempt a serious one. It is one of the best films I've seen in my lifetime. It is beyond a doubt the best anti-war film I've ever seen and it doesn't even attempt to be that. Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster do an excellent job of interpreting the role of the messenger. Also Samantha Morton gives the performance of a career in this film. I believe it is Academy nomination material. Best director and Best Screenplay for Oren Moverman and Best Supporting Actress Samantha Morton. Harrelson and Foster put in Oscar nominee performances but I'm unsure of the competition for those awards so won't lay odds on them.

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