What is the drink that is said to have a worm in the bottle?

Quote from: Lori Dee on October 03, 2024, 06:14:39 PMI had a quick impromptu meeting with the other Neighborhood Watch members.
One is going to patrol the lot from 10 to midnight, then I'll take it from midnight to 2-ish. Eventually, we will get a regular schedule so the thieves know that we have security guards and cameras monitoring their trespasses.

I'll get some groceries in me, then take a short nap for a bit so I am ready for my shift. I'll probably be around. I'm curious how the members in the other time zones live. 

Lori,


How did your night patrol go?

Chrissy

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on October 04, 2024, 08:23:56 PMLori,


How did your night patrol go?

Chrissy

Uneventful. I didn't see anyone from midnight til 2 am. But I got a text message from the Property Manager that someone's car got rifled through. We don't know what time, so Monday she will go through the video footage and see what we can figure out. I guess that he left the car unlocked and it didn't happen last night. We will see what comes of it.

I'm not going out tonight. Jose Cuervo has asked me out on a date. 

Quote from: Lori Dee on October 04, 2024, 08:30:41 PMUneventful. I didn't see anyone from midnight til 2 am. But I got a text message from the Property Manager that someone's car got rifled through. We don't know what time, so Monday she will go through the video footage and see what we can figure out. I guess that he left the car unlocked and it didn't happen last night. We will see what comes of it.

I'm not going out tonight. Jose Cuervo has asked me out on a date. 

It would be good to NOT be possibly impaired in any way if on patrol, reaction time may need to be good.  So a night off sounds wise as you have that date.

How do you get into Hidden status on the Forums? 

Yes, we have it divided into shifts so no one person is spending all night outside. It is starting to get cold at night, so we may shorten the shifts so people can come inside and warm up.

The Manager is also contacting the corporate office in Minneapolis to see if she can get funding for a security guard. I doubt that will happen, but she can be persuasive. She will be in Minnesota for a week in meetings and various training seminars. Corporate is beginning to understand that we don't ask for funding unless there is a real need. So it could happen.

Quote from: Lori Dee on October 04, 2024, 08:39:30 PMYes, we have it divided into shifts so no one person is spending all night outside. It is starting to get cold at night, so we may shorten the shifts so people can come inside and warm up.

The Manager is also contacting the corporate office in Minneapolis to see if she can get funding for a security guard. I doubt that will happen, but she can be persuasive. She will be in Minnesota for a week in meetings and various training seminars. Corporate is beginning to understand that we don't ask for funding unless there is a real need. So it could happen.

Maybe she can persuade.  The skill of ethical persuasion is a good one to have. 

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on October 04, 2024, 08:19:00 PMWhat is the drink that is said to have a worm in the bottle?

That is Mezcal. The worm is one that eats Peyote cactus, which is the source of the hallucinogenic drug mescaline. The idea is that the worm consumes a very small amount and leeches into the alcohol of the mescal producing a better high. From my experience, it only produces high-projectile regurgitation, so I leave that stuff alone. 

Well, Jose got stood up on our date (again).

I was digging in the dark recesses of my freezer to retrieve some ice and found that I still have a little Kemp's Old Fashioned Homemade Vanilla ice cream. Sorry, Jose. Ice cream wins.

I'm not one to buy into marketing hype. OK, I question all marketing hype.

I wonder how is it even legal to label something made in a factory as "Old Fashioned Homemade Vanilla ice cream"?

Does the factory have a bunch of people turning the cranks on the old-fashioned ice cream maker machines?

And do these people live at the factory, thus making it their home?

Or maybe it is only the vanilla that is homemade, not the ice cream itself. Are there little old ladies supplementing their pensions by growing vanilla and hauling truckloads of vanilla beans to the factory? You know, the old-fashioned way?

Inquiring minds want to know.

This is pretty good ice cream though.

I did 6months working in a bottling plant where they concocted sherry, made in vast stainless towers and lables said oak barrels!! They got in trouble making Irish cream whiskey as it had no real whiskey in it. How they control the amount of alcohol in a drink is take the alcohol out and then mix it back in so all this "new" 0 alcohol drinks are not new as they have been doing this for years.

You can market anything.  This is still my favorite example:

                               

You can still buy it on ebay for $29.00





           

I remember those!

There is a place in Goldfield, Nevada called the Pet Rock Cemetery. For a fee, they do full memorial services, singing hymns, etc. And people go to visit the pet rocks.

There was a time when we thought the cause of stupidity was a lack of access to information.

Yeah, it wasn't that.

Well you can sell ice cream in Alaska!!!

Ice cream can be so tasty!

Quote from: davina61 on October 05, 2024, 10:02:06 AMWell you can sell ice cream in Alaska!!!

@davina61
Dear Davina:
Yes indeed, we have plenty of ice cream here...
    ....even in the dead of winter.
HUGS, Danielle

Strawberry ice cream sounds good.  With chunks of berries in it.

An old superstition here is that women should fully expose their forehead once they are married, or they will have some misfortunes. This is also applied to married men. And I believe it, and never tried bangs.



Cheers,

barbie~~

Quote from: barbie on October 05, 2024, 01:03:18 PMAn old superstition here is that women should fully expose their forehead once they are married, or they will have some misfortunes. This is also applied to married men. And I believe it, and never tried bangs.

Cheers,

barbie~~

Glad to be single! 

An interesting turn of events...

My best friend was about to head to the local laundromat. Her sister decided it could wait and that my friend, the sister, and my friend's son should go to Deadwood to the casino instead.

Her son was playing a dollar slot machine and was down about $100 but then started winning free games. He kept playing and won over 1,000 free games. Meanwhile, my friend is freaking out and sending me pics of the slot machine. Win after win.

He is currently cashing out and paying his taxes on his final count. $3,532.70

I have spent a lot of time in Las Vegas casinos. I gave him the best advice I could. STOP PLAYING!
Go have a very nice lunch to celebrate, but take the money home with you. You are not a winner until you get home with more money than when you left.

He listened. They are having a very fancy lunch and then walking away as WINNERS.

Yeah, who needs to do laundry when you can go buy a new wardrobe? 

If I put my pet rock outside in the winter and it gets white that usually means it is snowing.

If it moves across the patio it likely means it is windy.

If it gets wet, it could be rainy or the sprinkler is on.

If it gets hot, it may be very sunny.