tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715773315155138002.post8366194266909210087..comments2024-03-06T01:12:50.627-08:00Comments on Dick Hyacinth's One-stop Hyphen Shop: Hope you like posts about MMA and the back of pizza boxesDick Hyacinth's Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11199236541341734429noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715773315155138002.post-24856297042530363952007-12-14T20:23:00.000-08:002007-12-14T20:23:00.000-08:00I usually don't say things like this... or maybe I...I usually don't say things like this... or maybe I do and I'm conveniently forgetting... but yeah, that's the stupidest thing I've read all week. I wrote a longer response about it at the Fortress Keeper's blog.<BR/><BR/>To summarize it- I feel sorry for people who arbitrarily limit themselves to a narrow field of enjoyment. But not so much for people who make absurdist reductive statements dismissing the genuine likes of a great mass of others in order to bolster dumbass ideas.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17723952510039418615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715773315155138002.post-35247823609790037162007-12-14T15:53:00.000-08:002007-12-14T15:53:00.000-08:00I was going to mention that about Scipio, Matthew....I was going to mention that about Scipio, Matthew. He's mildly amusing, but he really has a narrow focus - not only superhero comics, but specifically DC superhero comics. That's not the dumbest comment I've ever seen, but it's pretty stupid.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481137891542684401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715773315155138002.post-85706158576295636092007-12-14T09:13:00.000-08:002007-12-14T09:13:00.000-08:00To steer things back toward comics and whatnot, I ...To steer things back toward comics and whatnot, I am flabbergasted by Scipio's insistence that Westerners only read manga to seem "worldly". Man, that guy really wears the superhero blinders, doesn't he? I'm definitely a fan of American comics, but the manga I read I get quite a bit of enjoyment out of; it's definitely not because I want to look cool or something. And I'm sure the kids who are barely aware of superhero comics are even less cognizant of that idea. It's like the guy can't admit that people have real reasons for reading comics that aren't part of the "one true genre" of superheroes. Oy.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and what the hell are they talking about when they say manga doesn't convey a sense of motion? I don't understand that at all.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13867868039166531163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715773315155138002.post-88408411604875226562007-12-13T17:57:00.000-08:002007-12-13T17:57:00.000-08:00When I lived in France, I used to buy pork roasts ...When I lived in France, I used to buy pork roasts that had cooking instructions in both French and English. But only the French instructed me to serve it with cabbage. Perhaps they assumed the British eat cabbage with every meal?<BR/><BR/>There are no refrigeration instructions in other languages because the pizza won't fit in a European refrigerator anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715773315155138002.post-1936887284196806232007-12-13T16:56:00.000-08:002007-12-13T16:56:00.000-08:00Mir was reminding me of Will Ferrell's Harry Caray...Mir was reminding me of Will Ferrell's Harry Caray, the way his head was bobbling and he kept shouting stuff out. I always hear people saying they like Mir's commentary, but I think he's far worse about plugging the favorites, and the PBP guy just follows his lead. The Faber praise was over the top.<BR/><BR/>I like Rogan because he's enthusiastic, more or less knows what he's talking about, and doesn't presume to tell the fighter what he should do. A lot of people don't like him (a friend of mine keeps saying he has "smoke coming out of his eyeballs"), but I've never had any problem with him.<BR/><BR/>My all-time favorite color announcer is Jeff Blatnick, but that's not a real popular opinion anymore. I actually thought Kenny Florian did a pretty decent job the other night, but he's many years away from retirement.Dick Hyacinth's Ghosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11199236541341734429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715773315155138002.post-12946918198880770802007-12-13T16:27:00.000-08:002007-12-13T16:27:00.000-08:00Is Mir worse than Rogan? I always wondered why Ro...Is Mir worse than Rogan? I always wondered why Rogan was the analyst, but he does have a brown belt in BJJ, according to Wikipedia at least.Lambohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03870827233422779693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715773315155138002.post-56551656296928115062007-12-13T15:45:00.000-08:002007-12-13T15:45:00.000-08:00No, I think it's in metric minutes. That's defina...No, I think it's in metric minutes. That's definately the answer.Todd C. Murryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00660028880926115772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715773315155138002.post-89270038291358078152007-12-13T14:08:00.000-08:002007-12-13T14:08:00.000-08:00Ryuunosuke doesn't really dominate proceedings. Th...Ryuunosuke doesn't really dominate proceedings. There didn't seem to be much inclination to write original material involving her, so generally her major roles are in the stories adapted straight from the manga.<BR/><BR/>Even in Movie 2, where Oshii has deliberately distanced himself from the sci-fi elements of the series, she doesn't really have much of a role to play.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715773315155138002.post-14077446969971055732007-12-13T13:08:00.000-08:002007-12-13T13:08:00.000-08:00Good news! The box wasn't in the trash, and I was ...Good news! The box wasn't in the trash, and I was able to read the back. My findings:<BR/><BR/>1. There's a reference to 250 degrees (Celsius, I presume), and "pendant 5 minutes."<BR/><BR/>2. Cook times, however, are the same.<BR/><BR/>3. The stuff about how long the pizza will keep says 24 hours in a refrigerator, 72 hours in a freezer.<BR/><BR/>4. It's clearly marked "Product of Italy." But it still has the Trader Joe's (or Trader Giotto's) logo on the front.<BR/><BR/>New hypothesis: Trader Joe's slaps its name on these pizzas, which are made fresh in Italy and distributed domestically and to France and/or Switzerland as well. The pizzas sent to America are flash frozen, so the spoilage warnings are a little less dire. <BR/><BR/>This leaves two possibilities for the difference in preheat times: <BR/>(1) Trader Joe's thinks that French and Italian consumers are impatient, and thus places different cooking instructions by region. I'm not sure exactly how a French or Italian consumer would acquire the Trader Joe's-branded item. Maybe they were sold in three packs by unscrupulous frozen good magnates.<BR/>(2) The copy writing is done in Italy by someone who laughs at Americans' insistence on convenience. So said copywriter put different preheat times on the package as a joke to his fellow continentals, and possibly to confound the .00001% of Americans who would notice such things AND think about them for more than 30 seconds. <BR/><BR/>At least I didn't scan the box....Dick Hyacinth's Ghosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11199236541341734429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715773315155138002.post-78082710932781533062007-12-13T12:00:00.000-08:002007-12-13T12:00:00.000-08:00Was the oven temperature in the English instructio...Was the oven temperature in the English instructions 375F? That's equivalent to "5" on a <A HREF="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071107114416AAhkwEq" REL="nofollow">European oven</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com