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Re: McCrory's free trip to Paris

myze13325 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:50:14 -0400

Good at least he did not charge us $200K and rent limo's and five star hotels like Easley's wife did to let the ignorant tax payers foot the bill.

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JimBlaine — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:24:01 -0400

Re: McCrory's free trip to Paris

wwf165 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:34:23 -0400

I look forward to seeing the logs of Bev Perdue's travel during the past eight years. I doubt all of her trips traversing the state at tax payers expense were all related to her official Lt. Governor duties.

Perdue Travel Records?

JimBlaine — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:26:30 -0400

Are they forthcoming? I'm sure the Lt. Gov's office will release them to the public in keeping with her commitment to open and transparent government.

Re: McCrory's free trip to Paris

domewatcher — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:21:32 -0400

I was reading along and getting real concerned that there was something "untoward" in all this. But then it was all cleared up for me when you wrote:

".....and it was approved by the city attorney."

That pretty much settles it for me. Approval by the city attorney ranks right up there with the truthful information I get when I drink coffee at Bojangles. It just don't get no better than that.

Thanks for clearing it up for us.

Re: Price = price

domewatcher — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:05:55 -0400

Just got back from the buffet. I was disappointed. They did not have any pheasant legs!!!!!!!!!! Plenty of chicken legs but no leg of pheasant anywhere. I spoke with the manager and asked if he could cook me some up……special. But he kindly informed me they had not one pheasant back in the freezer. He suggested I try the Chapel Hill location because he said “they were really weird over there.” After that he cursed at me and told me to leave.

Nor I did not see any “rabbit with black truffles and foie gras” on the buffet but I am sure they had some. After all, it’s pretty much a staple at any area restaurant.

Top ten ways to know that the restaurant serving you “rabbit with black truffles and foie gras” is a real, honest-to-goodness, high class place:

10. They have used a Magic Marker and crossed out “rabbit” and written in “hare,” because they don’t want the little children walking away from the buffet line crying about dead rabbits. That shows good breeding and high classedness right there!
9. If they offer you McTruffles or BoTruffles, they are “posers.”
8. You will know everything is on the “up and up” if the State Highway Patrol Trooper passes on the “rabbit with black truffles and foie gras” and eats what you and I eat.
7. The restaurant is definitely not high class if you notice the cook standing out back smoking the “foie gras?” and yelling, “Man, this is some fine grass!”
6. The really high class places use a magnet to remove the lead shot from the poor animal before they smother him in sausage gravy, collards and truffles.
5. If the restaurant has a mural on the wall depicting “Little Miss Muppet sitting on a truffle,” then get up and leave! “Little Miss Muppet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey!!!” She definitely did not sit on no danged truffle. History is history and state politics is no place for revanchist history lessons!
4. Truly fancy diners serve the American cousin to the truffle, “Ruffles Potato Chips.”
3. To put all this in perspective, please note these famous words written of Jed Clampett: “Then one day he was shooting at some food, And up through the ground came a bubbling crude.” I am not sure but I think he might have been shooting at a rabbit when the bubbling crude came out of the ground. With the current state of our weak dollar, ol’ Jed Clampett would probably be much richer if he had struck “black truffles” rather than “black gold.”
2. An online search for “foie gras” states that it is "the liver of a duck or a goose that has been specially fattened by gavage." I do not know about you but I doubt many area buffets have that either, not even Chen’s #1. I always thought that “foie gras” was foreign brussels sprouts grown in Iowa. (Wikpedia stated something about being fattened by gavage? That must be a spelling error. I think they meant to say they fattened up the duck or goose out in the “garage.” Not trying to sound pedantic, just trying to set the record straight.)

1. I tried to find out how much a pound of European truffles goes for these days but nobody seems to know. The guy at the Piggly-Wiggly said I ought to try out at Sam’s Club, and the guy at Sam’s Club said to try over at the Vet School, and the Vet School said to I ought to run for public office. Anyway, I do think they are awfully high…..what with the “weak dollar” and all. One thing is for sure, they are too high right now for us to consider giving our teachers a decent raise.

Let’s take a look at teacher pay when the dollar strengthens and truffles come down in price to where the average North Carolina family can really enjoy them.

It sure has been fun but I must run. I am speaking to an area business school on the topic, “Redneck Economics: It costs what it cost.” Open to the public and admission is only one “Moon Pie” wrapper.

Re: Price = price

domewatcher — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:53:36 -0400

Top ten satirical things the phrase, “It costs what it cost,” might mean:

10. I believe it is Biblical and has something to do with the “wages of sin.” They cost what they cost. But I am not really sure as I am a Presbyterian and we do not recognize sin except in others.
9. It’s Wal Mart’s new slogan for paying for the Chinese Olympics.
8. It is the Pig Latin translation of “Esse Quam Videri.”
7. I think it is a “price quote” from an exotic dancer over in Durham.
6. It is one of those things you say after you have been elected, never before. Never, ever before!
5. It is one of those things you say and then apologize for it because you were either taking cough medicine or you just had had a root canal. (On a front tooth!)
4. I think it is what a deer is “thinking rather than saying” when they become “a deer in headlights.”
3. It’s what the checkout guy tells you when something rings up higher than the “sale price.” Most of the time you just put it back. Unless you have already eaten it. Then you must either pay or fake a stomach ache.....or either come up with a real catchy phrase?
2. It’s the classic example of something that you would prefer to have phrased differently, like, “If you go to Italy, be sure and try the veal.”

1. It’s the explanation given to Kobe Bryant when the jeweler told him his wife had picked out a $4,000,000 diamond ring. “It costs what it cost.”

Re: Price = price

rbmartin — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:53:36 -0400

It's not about 'what' it costs, Governor. It's about who it costs. I suppose a lame duck governor needn't care.

Re: Price = price

domewatcher — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:24:13 -0400

I think I am beginning to understand the gov’s statement, “It costs what it cost.”

Take the “leg of pheasant” for example. I am a right big ole boy and it would take a sizable “mess” of pheasant legs to fill me up. As a matter of fact, I don’t know that I have ever eaten “leg of pheasant.” I always thought pheasant were rather small birds so I imagine it would take a lot of legs to get you full. I am going to look for them next Sunday when we go to the Golden Corral after church. They normally put out the fancy stuff on Sunday afternoons. I’ll let you know how they taste and how many it took to fill me up.

It will “cost what it costs” to get me full. If you have time you might want to “short” their stock ‘cause their inventory of “leg of pheasant” is getting reading to take a pretty big hit. I plan to get there early in case those Estonians, French, Italians and other “out of town” tourists have started arriving “en masse.”

Maybe we can get 'Mythbusters' to do a show on the phrase - “It costs what it cost.” Or maybe get the preacher to do a sermon on it’s meaning. (I think it might be one of the parables.) Or either one of Waylon Jenning’s songs. Or maybe even one of Dante’s “Seven Stages of Hell.”

On second thought, maybe I don’t understand it at all. It sounds like something a Republican would say. “It costs what it cost.” It made better sense last night after I had a few beers. This morning, “not so much.”

Re: Cheeseburgers in paradise?

domewatcher — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:10:10 -0400

The $60.00 cheeseburger episode reminds me of the TV series, “The Jeffersons.” Remember George and Louise? I think the theme song went like this (so sing along):

Well we're movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin on up
To the east side.
We finally got a piece of the pie.

Fish don't fry in the kitchen;
Beans don't burn on the grill.
Took a whole lotta tryin'
Just to get up that hill.
Now we're up in the big leagues
Gettin' our turn at bat.
As long as we live, it's you and me baby
There ain't nothin wrong with that.

I have eaten one burger, that’s a plenty,
Two would cost a hundred and twenty.
Our motto is “Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt,”
That means don’t let ‘dem Italians think you ain’t no big spender.
We’ll worry about the tab somewhat later,
We had onion rings but I wanted a ‘tater.
And waiter, when you come back bring me a doggie bag,
My dog ain’t ever had no cheeseburger with this price tag!
I love Italian ‘cheeburgers,’ nothing could be finer,
Wonder what the poor people are doing back in North Carolina?

Refrain…..

The $60 buck cheeseburger is a good story going into the 4th of July weekend. Some things are priceless…………..$4 gas, $60 cheeseburgers, weak dollars………..for everything else there is Mastercard.

I’m gonna charge some hamburger meat on my Mastercard and grill them in the backyard on the 4th. And I will eat at least three…………$180.00 worth. I think that makes me affluent?

Have a happy 4th of July!

Re: Price = price

mickiep — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:41:11 -0400

What an arrogant flippant remark from such a high brow, low class kinda guy!

Re: Cheeseburgers in paradise?

rile — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:25:10 -0400

The $60 cheeseburger and onion rings combo apparently is the Hotel Chef's masterpiece--a work of art.

Cheeburger! Cheeburger! No Coke! Pepsi!

gercohen — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:42:34 -0400

Cheeburger! Cheeburger! No Coke! Pepsi!

Re: Cheeseburgers in paradise?

uncgop — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:56:21 -0400

I am sure Andy is up for doing the spot as long as Easley flies him to and from the spot on the taxpayers' dime.

Re: Cheeseburgers in paradise?

Isaac136 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:25:28 -0400

The party should simply get Andy Griffith to do a P.R. ad. with a zoom in shot of him saying

"That was a goooooooood cheeseburger!"