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This entry was posted on 4/17/2006 9:09 PM and is filed under uncategorized.

    So, we all agree that Sharon Stone is a ginormous skank, then? 

     Ok, then, on to weightier matters.

 Marsha tagged me for a meme.  Which is exciting to me for a couple of few reasons:

 1) This is the first time I've been tagged, evah. I'm a virgin, tag-wise.  

 2) Marsha is cool(er than me), and I am just a little bit cooler now by association. 

 3) The meme is  6 Weird/Interesting Things About me.  Ok, so I'm not so much with the interesting, but I'm full up on weird.  The hardest part will be winnowing out the dull weird things and the really very embarrassing weird things.  

   
   
     Here we go!

 1)  When I eat a sandwich made with white bread, I always align the bread precisely; top crust to top crust, bottom to bottom, etc.  Then I eat the crust off all the way around (Starting with the bottom crust. Always.) and then I eat the middle.   Yes, I know, more weird than interesting. I believe I mentioned this possibility.

2)  Like Marsha, I am an omnivore with carnivore leanings. I like meat. in pretty much any form.  Beef, pork, poultry, seafood, deer, squirrel.   Possibly the most exotic meat I've ever eaten is Alligator.  It does not taste like chicken. It tastes like alligator.  I happen to like it quite a bit, especially when served on a stick at a local festival.    Interesting side note:  It is the only thing I've ever eaten that I am scared of.   Unless you count that undercooked chicken that one time when I was pregnant.  Hell hath no fury like an undercooked chicken.

3)   I do not go on amusement park rides.  When I was a freshman in high school, the school was located across the street from the fairgrounds. So the first day of the the Fair, we got a half day off school and free admission to the Fair along with unlimited ride stamps on our hands.  Bad idea.  I have never been so ill in my life (with the possible exception of the aforementioned undercooked chicken), and I have refused to set foot on a ride since then.   I won't even go into how the poor little sick high school girl who didn't have a damn dime to her name couldn't get a cup of water from ANY of the vendors.  I will tell you how much I still hate them all, though.  Which is a lot.  Bastards.

4)   I'm a much nicer person if I can have a nap.  Trust me on this. If Contrary ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

5)   I am addicted to Chik-fil-A. If you do not have one where you are; move.   Their chicken breakfast biscuits are like crack. Buttery crack. Mmm.

6)   I went to New Orleans once, when I was about 12. We were only there for one day, but I got to have cafe au lait and beignets at the Cafe Du Monde. You don't get much more landmarky than that in New Orleans.   I remember being very shocked when a very squirelly little man exhorted me to "Come on in, little lady" to a strip joint on Bourbon Street.   Ok, so I was very tall at 12 and was dressed up so I possibly looked older than I was, but I KNOW I didn't look like a grown woman.   Also, it kinda smelled like vomit and pee in the tourist area. 


     Thanks, Marsha, for the tag! I'm  not going to tag anyone, since I think everyone has done it by now, but I'd love to see some weird/interesting things in the comments.  

          

 

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    • 4/19/2006 6:12 AM mama_tulip wrote:
      I had frog's legs once. "It tastes like chicken!" I was told. I couldn't handle it. It didn't taste a thing like chicken and the fact that my dinner had toes was a little offputting, to say the least.
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    • 4/19/2006 6:14 PM sweatpantsmom wrote:
      I've heard of the legendary Chik-Fil-A but have never been. The closest one is around 20 miles away. Guess I'll be taking a 'field trip' one day soon. (I'll drive anywhere for a good meal.)
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    • 4/20/2006 6:30 AM Pookie wrote:
      Contrary is adventurous about eating, but you should hear her calamari experience.
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    • 4/20/2006 11:43 AM Jess R wrote:
      On #3: I can't even go on the SWINGS anymore. LOL I'm also with you on #4. And the Cafe du Monde post made me nostalgic for N'awlins. I spent a few days there with my dad about 10 years ago and fell in love with the place. I'm sad to know that if I went back, it would be so very different. And in some places, gone entirely.
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    • 4/20/2006 3:29 PM Pookie wrote:
      #6 -- I've never been to Nawlins, but as I type I'm sitting in Marksville, just south of Alexandria. I am solidly in Coonass country as witnessed by the accents and the food.

      Contrary is most upset with me this week for having crawfish, cochon du lait, boudin, and catfish prepared and served by my shonuff Cajun colleagues who live in this area. Oh, and beer iced down in a pirouge, too. Good live Cajun band and folks dancing (but not me -- I'm being good).
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    • 4/20/2006 9:44 PM Pookie wrote:
      Man, tonight's catfish was goooood!

      And I'm not even going to tell Contrary about the crawfish étouffée, 'cuz she'll hit me.
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    • 4/21/2006 10:25 AM Charlie wrote:
      I think Contrary is a lil wierd. Ok. Alot wierd. Seriously, the crust first? Thats like eatin the dessert before the main entree. I am with her on the meat and that it has to be thoroughly cooked. Chicken especially....sorry....just threw up in my mouth a lil thinkin about it.
      Amusement park rides are a slippery slope. Literally and figuratively. If you don't go on them the boys call you a wuss. If you do go on and look skerred, you are still a wuss. So, it is a necessary evil. I had alligator a month ago or so. It tasted like chicken gizzard....but it tasted good. I also had raw oysters.....aphrodisiac my ass! I went to Nawlins just this last weekend....this is not unusual as I live 45 minutes from the French Quarter....went to Bourbon Street for the first time though. I absolutely refused to go there when we went to Mardi Gras....the debauchery was overwhelming....hey wait.....damn I knew i missed something. LOL! The food is very much the flavor of the city. If Pookie says he didn't dance, I say he at least yelled "Aiyeeeee" at least once or twice or all night. I gotta have more cowbell!! For true, you got have dem der Cracklins....wit dat Etouffee...Pookie, if you are solidly in coonass country....I am in the capitol.....err...wait...I am in the Capitol. As you Kneaux, oui have a way of spellin things differently. Laissez les bon temps roulet!
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    • 4/22/2006 12:52 PM raggedy andy wrote:
      seems like anyone related to contrary is just plain nuts, huh? yeah i know this is the pot bellied yankee transplant(damn yankee, in cajun terms) calling the cowbell black, but it just seems...
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    • 4/22/2006 1:00 PM raggedy andy wrote:
      something that contrary fails to mention is that she sprained my ankle really bad so she would not have to baby sit me while in Nawlins. she held me down and twisted my ankle till it was at a right angle to my hip and then wrenched it a little more. i had to stay with our bro and his roomie in a small condo(talk about boring).
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    • 4/23/2006 6:24 PM raggedy andy wrote:
      Contrary did not sprain my ankle. i did. while i don't remember how i did it, it is probably somewhere along the line of "look ma no hands". i was a little bit of a klutz(was?) as a child.
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