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elfenix

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  1. when i was a kid i remember the lizards turning from green to brown and back.  we called them chameleons, though they weren't actually chameleons. 

    now the lizards are all just brown. 

    apparently the color changes lizards were Carolina Anoles, native to the southern US.  the brown-only lizards are Brown Anoles, native to Cuba and the Bahamas.  they got to Florida about 130 years ago, got to Houston about 30 years ago, and have been out-competing the color change lizards.

  2. Time was when the affable and sympathetic bartender moistened a lump of sugar with Angostura bitters, dropped in a lump of ice, neither too large nor too small, stuck in a miniature bar spoon and passed the glass to the client with a bottle of good bourbon from which said client was privileged to pour his own drink. In most places the price was 15 cents or two for quarter.

    Nowadays the modern or ex-speakeasy bartender drops a spoonful of powdered sugar into a glass, adds a squirt of carbonic to aid dissolution, adds to that a dash or two of some kind of alleged bitters and a lump of ice, regardless of size. Then he proceeds to build up a fruit compote of orange, lemon, pineapple and cherry, and himself pours in a carefully measured ounce and a half of bar whisky, usually a blend, and gives one a glass rod to stir it with. Price, 35 to 50 cents. Profanation and extortion.

  3. 4 hours ago, UTHornFan014 said:

    I had about 400 posts in 8 years on Shaggy, so it should only take me a year or so to get to 50 posts. 

    sometimes the journey is itself the reward.

     

     

    this is not one of those times.

  4. 4 hours ago, 6th Street said:

    Legit tacos son - haven't been to a Jack in many years. The go to used to be a jumbo jack and 2 tacos for $2 from the Guadalupe location back when I was in undergrad. 

    Need to hit that up next time I'm in LA or Houston. 

     

    that was so good at 2:15 am. 

     

     

    once rolled up to jitb and the menu confirmation screen said "I don't know why my food tastes better after midnight. --Jack"

  5. 20 minutes ago, TexasFootball18 said:

    no just put the URL in and it links, very easy. 

     

    It still works to post bbcode, I've done it many times, its multi purpose entry and accepts you typing it out like this:

    [/quote] this looks really weird for me to type in the middle of your quote in the graphical editor.

    Quote
    
    
    <? code snipped ?>

     

     

    that's using the code bbcode 

    i know that, i still want to be able to see the bbcode itself. 

     

    lets say i want to break your quote up to address different things.  easiest way for me to do that is edit the bbcode directly, inserting open and close quote tags as appropriate.  or if i'm posting 10 images, i'd rather just see all the tags in one place than have to scroll up and down a whole image list. 

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