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The Ultimate, on 01 July 2012 - 12:05 PM, said:

Howdy, neighbor   .

Here in Taiwan it's the same temp- finally some summer!. We've had months of cool and rainy, followed by typhoons and rainstorms.

One of my wife's friends, who I've known for years, asked if I was using skin whitener to look younger- no, that's just the fishbelly look I get when I haven't seen the sun for months.

But yeah, the eastern US is really getting killed.

WalkerBaitress, on 03 July 2012 - 02:34 AM, said:

Great reply- agree on both.

As it is, I'd have had Shane survive but flee the group after a confrontation with Rick- maybe Rick thinking he's been taken down by walkers.
Carol, as she is, should have died- "suicide by walker" in the last episode- as should have Herschel- died fighting for his farm and saving Maggie

The Rolling Stones, Vancouver 1972 - Hell, the all-night lineup for the tickets was better than most concerts.

Pink Floyd, Vancouver 1971- "Meddle"- but I think that had a lot to do with the acid.

Taiwan has some food that is...interesting.

There is the famous pi dan, (century egg)  which raised a controversy here and among Chinese everywhere when a blogger on CNN labeled it as the  world's 'most revoltng food'. I wonder why?

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In spite of legend, it was not originally made by pickling  in horse urine. It is referred to as 'horse piss egg' in Southeast Asia only because it smells and tastes like it was.

To complement that, there is 'stinky tofu'- and that's what the people who eat it call it.

The first time I smelled this on the street, I looked around for the backed up sewer- and never fall for the line "of course it smells like crap (literally), but it tastes great"- it tastes like it smells.

Fried chicken feet/duck feet is a popular snack at the movies- you can sit there and gnaw off the skin and cartilage (mind the claws!) while trying not to think about what chickens walk in.

Grilled squid-on-a-stick is actually delicious- complete with eyes, of course. You can chew their little arms off as you walk through the night market.

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Pig's blood cake is another favorite snack- similar to black pudding, but served fried or grilled and dipped in sesame seeds.

And of course you always get the head when you eat fish or poultry- nothing like watching your sweetie eagerly pick up a fish head and suck the eyeballs out of their sockets- that's considered the best part.

One time a friend took us to an unusual meal of fried grasshopper (delicious) and hornets ( a sweet nutty taste, but enough legs, wings, and feelers to remind you of what you were eating).

His 14-year-old daughter showed up and made that 'Eeeewww' sound of disgust universal among young teenage girls. Wasn't there any normal food- 'oh, yeah,there,'  as  she picks up a ducks head, pops the mouth open and starts pulling out the tongue (also a prize delicacy.)

Got a 'jailhouse tattoo' when I was 19- designed it myself,  inspired by Kris Kristofferson's "The Pilgrim Chapter 33". It's a small stick figure with a halo like the Saint, only trucking along with a hobo bindle over his shoulder. On the inside of my left ankle, rather worn and faded with age- but then, so am I.

Done by an Aussie whom I was working with in a bush camp in Botswana when I was travelling through Africa. Home-sterilized needle, India ink, boredom and really cheap South African brandy- same guy did my ear-piercing.