January 2012
1 post
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August 2011
1 post
My Codpiece Smells Like Soup.
BY John Jodzio
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A few days ago, I was in my backyard rehearsing a play I’d written about my ex-girlfriend, Daphne. I was wearing a codpiece and swinging around a bullwhip because there was a lot of codpiece wearing and bullwhipping in the script. I’d written a number of plays about Daphne in the last few months, but in my humble opinion this one was the best.
While I rehearsed, my...
July 2011
1 post
Martyr - R.I.P. Michael Raper
A 26-year-old sausage factory worker suffered a grisly end when he slipped and fell feet first into a meat grinder which chewed off his legs and killed him. Father-of-four Michael Raper was trapped from the waist down for two excruciating hours after he become entangled in the huge auger at the Bar S Foods plant in Lawton, Oklahoma. Amid gruesome scenes co-workers watched in horror before frantic...
June 2011
4 posts
April 2011
2 posts
With a nod to Chaz: The codpiece.
Bringing Back the Codpiece
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Ty Karnitz.
Men today have been bringing back many classic things from the past: the hat, old cocktails, shaving with a safety razor…and now it’s time to revive another quintessential piece of manliness: the codpiece.
What’s a Codpiece?
In the 1500s, men wore hose to cover their legs. Now the hose they wore were nothing like...
March 2011
23 posts
“One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling...”
– Rabbi Harold Kushner
“Appetite, with an opinion of attaining [sausages], is called hope; the same,...”
– Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
“[Sausage] is something that everyone should try at least once.”
– Henry J. Tillman
“Man’s longing, once stretched by a [sausage], never regains its original...”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
“[Sausages], in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to...”
– E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
“Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until...”
– Johann Georg von Zimmermann
“Learning to love [sausages] is the greatest love of all.”
– Michael Masser and Linda Creed
“For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall...”
– Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
“He who receives a [sausage] should never forget it; he who bestow should never...”
– Pierre Charron
“Zappa’s songs are the sausages of rock and roll: bursting with so many...”
– Frank Zappa, “Jezebel Boy”
(Credit to Ste-Ro)
“I am open to receive [sausages] with every breath I breathe.”
– Michael Sun
“We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly...”
– John W. Gardner US administrator (1912 - 2002)
“The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe...”
– Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
TTBS Man of the Week: Dustin "The Wind" Pedroia
Dustin Pedroia leaves game to buy some hot dogs
AP Photo/Charles KrupaWas it wrong for Dustin Pedroia to leave a spring training game to get something to eat?
FORT MYERS, Fla. — It was not a question Terry Francona was expecting Saturday afternoon.
Did the Boston Red Sox manager have a rule against a player coming out of a game and going to the concession stand to buy hot dogs?
...
Breaking News
Fan says he got an eyeful in hot-dog toss by Royals’ mascot
By MARK MORRIS
The Kansas City Star
Specifically at issue: Did a hot dog, flung from the paw of Kansas City Royals’ mascot Sluggerrr, cause serious and lasting injury to the left eye of baseball fan John Coomer at a night game on Sept. 8, 2009?
Lawyer Bob Tormohlen, who represents Coomer, contended in opening arguments that his...
“[Sausage] - m[eat]’s leap toward immortality.”
– Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
“Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
[i.e. I am...”
– Elizabeth Goudge
Telling Time By Sausages: Telling Time By A Half...
http://www.biggreenegg.com/eggs_L.html
i think that stephen rose’s recent purchase of this griller/smoker somehow warrants a “telling time…”entry.
it should be noted that our beloved ste-ro will now have the capacity to cook:
* 20-pound turkey * 12 burgers * 6 chickens vertically * 8 steaks * 7 racks of ribs vertically
4 words: HALF DOZEN vertical...
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
2 posts
“[Sausage] has killed more men than bullets,
but most men would rather be full...”
– Logan Pearsall Smith (Credit to Lena)
November 2010
5 posts
“[Sausage] is a collaboration between God and the [sausage maker], and the less...”
– André Gide (via Little Bruther)
Sight of meat calms us: study says. Scientists... →
In an unrelated study, sources close to Texas Scotty say that females become hyper-aggressive at the sight of Texas Scotty’s meat.
I want to be a doctor. (via Scott, sandwich...
Wanted: Village doctor. Benefits include sausages
(Reuters) - A small German village community left in the lurch after their local doctor retired in September has pulled together to try and attract a new GP — by offering free bread, meat, flowers, haircuts and accommodation.
Niko Ringhoff, who runs the butcher’s shop in the northwestern village of Lette, is offering a doctor...
“He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less...”
– Beatrice, Much Ado about Nothing
(via beardrevue)
October 2010
2 posts
Apologies
I have been slacking lately. It has been busy lately, and while i have not made the time to post, I have made the time to eat plenty of sausages, bacon, meatballs, etc. So don’t anyone go worrying about me. I am just fine. All fat and happy.
September 2010
10 posts
“[Sausage] is
like the soul itself,
and it is of the same nature as the...”
– Victor Hugo
“It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what...”
“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop...”
– Luciano Pavarotti
“Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good...”
– Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), “Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”
“There is no excellent [sausage] that hath not some strangeness in the...”
– Sir Francis Bacon, “Of [sausage]”
“To Lena: A day without you is like a day without sausage…”
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists in the universe...”
– Bill Watterson (1958 - )