Allan James Vestal

Jesus, I’d missed that. MD drivers continue to be a gift that keeps giving for us.

Eek!

That’s awful big talk coming from _you_ today, considering.

I thought city regulations required a week’s public notice! 🤔🥃🍁

Last dishonorable (to me):
• I want to be introduced into the best preparations for oysters. Right now I’m definitely not a fan — and I’ve had some at very good places (notably, Maine).

• I don’t love beets, so I don’t think they’re worth it — except if I’m getting a cup of Borscht at Ruta (Ukrainian place) in D.C., which is exceptional. (Soup again? Go figure.)
• Escargots need to be sourced + prepared well.

Dishonorable (and demerits to my adventurous-ness):

• Canned tuna has to work through a lot of gag-reflex memories to emerge from the cellar. I think it can get there.
• I shouldn’t do asparagus, {reasons}, but I still love the taste — and will gladly make exceptions. Especially if soup is in play!

• I have an aversion to offal, so liver is out.
• I also don’t have a taste for lima beans. Excluding them.
• Tinned fish always felt foreign to my existence as a Catholic-diaspora American mutt. So I can’t even _fathom_ how a sardine (or anchovy) would taste — and I don’t want to try. No thank you.

1 point for every item you _won’t_ eat?

OK, three absolutely. Eight without qualifications [i.e., Dishonorable-to-me mentions].

Thank you for this thread; you’re absolutely right. Any figures published by a journalism org need to be accurate — and, above all, verifiable.

(Side note: I wonder if that 74% stat originally hails from some special-interest advocacy group. Seems oddly specific to come out of thin air like that.)

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MUG GANG RISE UUUUUUP

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IMO this also applies to southeast Ohio — feels like the starting point for Midwest is a lot closer to Cincinnati than to Huntington, WV.

"I'd accept something in the peanut butter or bacon or kibble families."

"When was the last time you waffled something for me, slappy?"

But also! I LOVE Rust tools and use them wherever I can, I should say.

(At this point, I’m unsure what TOML files lock us down to — and I’m afraid to ask.)

From The Top Rope meme, featuring Pipenv (the people’s champ).

Oh! Maybe “a single, universally adapted Python dependency manager”?

Python-Requests (slash, all of Python) has entered the chat…

+1 follow, see if this works

Absolutely wild!!! #drbc

Evidently this man was full of exciting turns! I’ve heard three things about the guy that have ~~~SENT ME~~~ in as many minutes.

Either way I stand by it though — Alison Krauss! Big Rock Candy Mountain! John Goodman and Holly effin’ Hunter in the film!

I hope that’s (complimentary) more than (Allan should consider joining the 4 p.m. dinner rush at Table Talk).

For a certain given value of ‘truly lucky,’ this is accurate!

a man says i am a man of constant sorrow in front of a microphone Alt: George Clooney, a fellow product of (kinda) Kentucky, sings Man of Constant Sorrow on the move O Brother, Where Art Thou? … “We … thought … you … was … A TOAD.”

Iiiiiiiii bid farewell / to old Kentucky, the place where I was born and raised…

Ooh, me! Maybe I could batch up something for DRBC.

Will drop you a line.