Month: July 2017

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – 2017 Round 18

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We are getting closer and closer to the end of the Home and Away season and things are heating up.  This week, someone else got 8 out of 9 on our tipping contest, the finals picture got muddled, and the fight to avoid the Wooden Spoon has a new contender!

Sunday Gravy with yeah right: Food Science: Building the Better Burrito 2. The One Where We Encounter an Anomaly

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Welcome back amigos! Thanks for tuning back in to Sunday Gravy. Today is part 2 of Building The Better Burrito. Last week we had part 1 and it's right here if you need a refresher course or need to catch up. In our first episode I demonstrated how to cook and build

Your “Magic of the Melancholy Tear In Your Eye” Saturday Evening Open Thread

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  I realize it's splitting hairs, given their mild similarities, but I love Tom Waits, and absolutely fucking hate Leonard Cohen. This was a fightable point last year when Cohen died, and I gave wet farts about his legacy. I grant that people are entitled to hold their wrong opinions, but

TGISF…aka “Sometimes It’s OK To Look Behind” Sexy Friday Open Thread

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Earlier today, Ray Lewis tried to help us to Put It All Behind Us on DFO Request Line. Ray says "Hi", btw... But tonight, we're going to change gears and actually embrace that which is BEHIND us. So to speak... Obligatory?  OBLIGATORY!!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JphDdGV2TU You see where I'm going here, right?  There's a method to my madness. 

Fun with Big Beer: “The High End”

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The battle for your dollar rages on in the beer industry. For the last 2 decades, "Big Beer" in North America has tried many different tactics to try and quash the looming threat of micro-breweries taking their existing revenue: threatening to pull advertising to networks airing shows promoting micro-breweries, running

Request Line: Get Thee Behind Me

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[8:41am, Interior Recording Studio, Miami] The cleaning lady is puttering around, acting like she’s cleaning, as the producer thumbs thru his notes for the day’s schedule. Producer:  Hey Consuela!!!  Remember a few months back when Richie Incognito showed up unexpectedly?  That was fun....right? Consuela:  Producer:  Right????  Well, I'm just glad nothing like that

Your “Classic Nordberg” Thursday Evening Open Thread

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NFL News: Given their history as a dumpster fire, it's perhaps not surprising that the Browns' stadium is clapped with the same material as the Grenfell Tower fire. not from the initial construction, but from the refit in 2014.    FOX has a sense of irony, as they have assigned Jay