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  1. HudsonHawk

    This or That

    A spoonful of honey in a shot of Jack Daniel's.
  2. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    We called them "sandspurs", but I've also heard them called "sticker burrs" or "buffelgrass".
  3. HudsonHawk

    This or That

    Oh definitely in the shell. I couldn't imagine opening a can of peanuts at the ballpark. For one, what would I have to pile up at my feet, and two, I'd look like a doofus. Ford or Chevy?
  4. HudsonHawk

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    I see a lot of that here in Houston as well, where there are world renown medical facilities and the two feuding pioneering heart surgeons (well, not feuding so much anymore since one of them died). Lots of people come here from all over the world for specialized heart or cancer treatments in...
  5. HudsonHawk

    This or That

    I prefer the side-to-side ones, as they're easier to clean. Donuts: cake or yeast?
  7. HudsonHawk

    The Young Fogey Phenomenon

    I was thinking more like Bubbles from the Trailer Park Boys.
  8. HudsonHawk

    Blade Runner - The Final Cut

    Didn't realize it until the preview, but this was part of Cinemark's "Classic Series". Next week is Treasure of the Sierra Madre, followed by Blazing Saddles, and next month, the (Un?)Official Film of the Fedora Lounge...The Maltese Falcon. Later this year they're doing The Ten Commandments...
  9. HudsonHawk

    Dapper Man

    This whole thread is more than a little weird.
  10. HudsonHawk

    The Young Fogey Phenomenon

    Wow. There's so much wrong with this picture I don't even know where to start.
  11. HudsonHawk

    Seemingly insignificant things that connect you to the past

    My wife has something like that. It's a kitchen step ladder that was pretty common at the time, probably from the 1960s, and looks something like this (though this is not hers): It was her grandmother's, and my wife says she used to sit on it and watch/help her "Nana" make Sunday gravy and...
  13. HudsonHawk

    Philosophical: There is no "stereotypical thinking". There is only "knowledge of human nature".

    I know what a "red herring" is, and it's meant to be intentionally misleading or to distract from the relevant issue. I didn't see where you were going with it respect to stereotypes, even if they are fallacious.
  14. HudsonHawk

    Philosophical: There is no "stereotypical thinking". There is only "knowledge of human nature".

    I didn't get the red herring comment either.
  15. HudsonHawk

    Philosophical: There is no "stereotypical thinking". There is only "knowledge of human nature".

    This is my point about "generalizations" vs "stereotypes". One, we tend to think of "stereotypes" in terms of characteristics we find objectionable, so is it really a stereotype if it's a characteristic we don't? Secondly, does the perceived characteristic change the way we think of...
  16. HudsonHawk

    Philosophical: There is no "stereotypical thinking". There is only "knowledge of human nature".

    I think this hits on the difference between "stereotypes" and broad cultural generalizations. We can generalize, warranted or not, about a particular group based on culture, religion, whatever, but it not really affect how we perceive and interact with individuals of that group. For example...
  17. HudsonHawk

    Philosophical: There is no "stereotypical thinking". There is only "knowledge of human nature".

    I've met an awful lot of loudmouthed Texans.
  19. HudsonHawk

    What cigar (or pipe) did you smoke today?

    Watched the sunrise this morning with my "geologist" blend in my beautiful Nording Hunter (Canada goose)
  20. HudsonHawk

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    Doctors are sometimes funny about stuff. My mother ended up in the hospital a couple of years ago with severe intestinal issues. After a week or so, they'd brought in no less than four specialist gastroenterologists, from world renown hospitals, and they still couldn't figure out what was...
  21. HudsonHawk

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    I think it depends on the individual, and certainly one can have dignity without necessarily "hiding" their illness from the public. I think back to when one of *my* musical favorites, Warren Zevon, was diagnosed with mesothelioma and told he only had a few months to live. He didn't keep it a...
  22. HudsonHawk

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    The ones we get are grown locally in Texas. Get a good local one, preferably from Texas, Georgia or Florida, in season of course, and they are heaven. I suspect anything you get imported is quite tasteless. And whatever you do, for deity's sake, DO NOT put them in the refrigerator. That kills...
  23. HudsonHawk

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    Well, not legally anyway. But that's a whole nuther discussion.

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