1.) DParker - 10/08/2016

[URL="http://s368.photobucket.com/user/DParker75089/media/Video/20161006_201922_zpsvpxe6fl2.mp4.html"]A brief sample of the view and sounds[/URL] from a table at our favorite local brewery tap room/BBQ joint the night before last. The 'burbs ain't all bad.

2.) Swamp Fox - 10/10/2016

[QUOTE=DParker;44617] The 'burbs ain't all bad.[/QUOTE]



Well, sure, if we have to argue absolutes. :wink

But how do we know the food's any good, the beer isn't skunky, and that they have at least one good-looking serving wench who isn't still attending the local high school?

For that matter, how do we even know this is even in Texas?

It could all just be an elaborate hoax on a Hollywood soundstage. :wink


And remember, before you reply: [I]Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes.[/I]


:grin:

3.) DParker - 10/10/2016

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;44628]Well, sure, if we have to argue absolutes. :wink

But how do we know the food's any good[/quote]

Are you kidding? Look at the girth of most of the clientele. Does that look like a crowd that would waist (see what I did there?!) their time at a place with crappy food?

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;44628]the beer isn't skunky[/quote]

Well....I was there.

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;44628]and that they have at least one good-looking serving wench who isn't still attending the local high school?[/quote]

I always take my wife there, so....no comment.

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;44628]For that matter, how do we even know this is even in Texas?[/quote]

You need to find some uber-tech savvy kid who can examine the geo tagging data embedded in the video.

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;44628]It could all just be an elaborate hoax on a Hollywood soundstage. :wink[/quote]

That's why I edited out the part where we all went for a ride on the moon buggy. I knew you'd figure it out.

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;44628]And remember, before you reply: [I]Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes.[/I][/QUOTE]

No it isn't.

4.) Swamp Fox - 10/10/2016

LOL...:grin:


[QUOTE=DParker;44633]Are you kidding? Look at the girth of most of the clientele. Does that look like a crowd that would waist (see what I did there?!) their time at a place with crappy food?

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Well, I wasn't going to say anything...I'm trying to be a better human being...:-)


:beer:

5.) DParker - 10/10/2016

That's the [URL="http://intrinsicbrewing.com/"]Intrinsic Smokehouse and Brewery[/URL] in Garland we were at. Thursday night was their "Crunktoberfest" night, where the special was a flight of 4 Oktoberfest beers from multiple local breweries (including their own), smoked bratwurst (which will likely be my next experiment with the smoker...it was awesome), saurkraut, a really good potato soup and a giant soft pretzel with melted cheese to dip it into...all for $20. Oh, and live music, of course.

We're pretty much semi-regulars. In fact it was their smoked and flash-fried wings that inspired me to try my sous vide + smoke + flash fry version. They do a made-in-house pastrami on Saturdays that's killer good too.

6.) Swamp Fox - 10/10/2016

I like your new signature quote, LOL...Though the last one was good, too. :-)

I went to the Intrinsic website, and now I'm hungry.

You know there's a problem with the menu, though, right?---A worm in the apple, as they say... A free-range, cruelty-free chicken in the swamp, a man in the ladies' room, a hipster in the piney woods...You get the picture.

If you don't address with the management my objection to kale and hummus polluting an establishment purporting to be a BBQ joint on your next trip, none of your "beef can be barbeque" and "there can be no beans in chili" lunacies will receive my until-now amused toleration in the future.

And that's all I have to say about that...


:wink

7.) DParker - 10/10/2016

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;44642]I like your new signature quote, LOL...Though the last one was good, too. :-)

I went to the Intrinsic website, and now I'm hungry.

You know there's a problem with the menu, though, right?---A worm in the apple, as they say... A free-range, cruelty-free chicken in the swamp, a man in the ladies' room, a hipster in the piney woods...You get the picture.

If you don't address with the management my objection to kale and hummus polluting an establishment purporting to be a BBQ joint on your next trip, none of your "beef can be barbeque" and "there can be no beans in chili" lunacies will receive my until-now amused toleration in the future.

And that's all I have to say about that...


:wink[/QUOTE]

Hey, the kale is in the salad section, which is there so that your hippy chick date will have something to demurely nibble while she watches you devour a full pound of brisket in a manly fashion. Ditto the humus. So...what were you doing even reading that part to begin with? :tap:

8.) Swamp Fox - 10/10/2016

They snuck the rabbit food into the middle of the menu, so I had to bound over it to get to the "Second Lunch" and "Dessert" sections, which were calling me like the Lorelei calls to Rhine River boatmen longing for boobs and brats.

But you can't leap over anything when tethered to this accursed scrolling rodent, so I am glad I noticed the danger before booking my plane ticket, or crashing on the rocks, as it were.

9.) bluecat - 10/11/2016

[QUOTE=DParker;44617][URL="http://s368.photobucket.com/user/DParker75089/media/Video/20161006_201922_zpsvpxe6fl2.mp4.html"]A brief sample of the view and sounds[/URL] from a table at our favorite local brewery tap room/BBQ joint the night before last. The 'burbs ain't all bad.[/QUOTE]

It is a silly place.

10.) Jon - 10/11/2016

[QUOTE=DParker;44644]Hey, the kale is in the salad section, which is there so that your hippy chick date will have something to demurely nibble while she watches you devour a full pound of brisket in a manly fashion. Ditto the humus. So...what were you doing even reading that part to begin with? :tap:[/QUOTE]

So........DP is assuming Swampy is eating with a date now? Stretching that scenario a bit ain't ya?

11.) DParker - 10/11/2016

[QUOTE=Jon;44651]So........DP is assuming Swampy is eating with a date now? Stretching that scenario a bit ain't ya?[/QUOTE]

It was more of a suggestion than an assumption. You know, like a photo of a full Thanksgiving feast on the packaging of a frozen turkey.

12.) bluecat - 10/11/2016

[QUOTE=DParker;44653]It was more of a suggestion than an assumption. You know, like a photo of a full Thanksgiving feast on the packaging of a frozen turkey [B]dinner[/B].[/QUOTE]

fify

13.) Swamp Fox - 10/11/2016

You married guys are just jealous...LOL...:wave:


[I]We call ourselves Bachelors Anonymous. It was Alcoholics Anonymous that gave the founding fathers the idea. Our methods are frankly bor*rowed from theirs. When one of us feels the urge to take a woman out to dinner becoming too strong for him, he seeks out the other members of the circle and tells them of his craving, and they reason with him. He pleads that just one dinner cannot do him any harm, but they know what that one dinner can lead to. They point out the inevitable results of that first downward step. Once yield to temptation, they say, and dinner will be followed by further dinners, lunches for two and têtes-à-têtes in dimly lit boudoirs, until in morning coal and sponge-bag trousers he stands cowering beside his bride at the altar rails, racked with regret and remorse when it is too late. And gradually reason returns to its throne. Calm succeeds turmoil, and the madness passes.


[/I]


---P.G. Wodehouse, [I]Bachelors Anonymous[/I]


[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelors_Anonymous[/url]

14.) Swamp Fox - 10/11/2016

You married guys are just jealous...LOL...:wave:


[I]We call ourselves Bachelors Anonymous. It was Alcoholics Anonymous that gave the founding fathers the idea. Our methods are frankly bor*rowed from theirs. When one of us feels the urge to take a woman out to dinner becoming too strong for him, he seeks out the other members of the circle and tells them of his craving, and they reason with him. He pleads that just one dinner cannot do him any harm, but they know what that one dinner can lead to. They point out the inevitable results of that first downward step. Once yield to temptation, they say, and dinner will be followed by further dinners, lunches for two and têtes-à-têtes in dimly lit boudoirs, until in morning coal and sponge-bag trousers he stands cowering beside his bride at the altar rails, racked with regret and remorse when it is too late. And gradually reason returns to its throne. Calm succeeds turmoil, and the madness passes.

[/I]

---P.G. Wodehouse,[I] Bachelors Anonymous

[/I][url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelors_Anonymous[/url]

15.) Jon - 10/11/2016

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;44662]You married guys are just jealous...LOL...:wave:


[I]We call ourselves Bachelors Anonymous. It was Alcoholics Anonymous that gave the founding fathers the idea. Our methods are frankly bor*rowed from theirs. When one of us feels the urge to take a woman out to dinner becoming too strong for him, he seeks out the other members of the circle and tells them of his craving, and they reason with him. He pleads that just one dinner cannot do him any harm, but they know what that one dinner can lead to. They point out the inevitable results of that first downward step. Once yield to temptation, they say, and dinner will be followed by further dinners, lunches for two and têtes

I'm understanding why a whole lot more now.....

16.) bluecat - 10/11/2016

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;44642]I like your new signature quote, LOL...Though the last one was good, too. :-)
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Yeah that's pretty funny.