Await Our Wrath

Await Our Wrath

Monday, September 10, 2012


1st and foremost – Sandwiches

This is the man widely credited with the advent of the modern sandwich.  His name is John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich. This First Lord of the Admiralty was known for his long card playing session. At the time, placing cards on the table to take a meal was tantamount to forfeiture. As a result, Sandwich would often have his chef bring him meat in between two slices of bread. A rudimentary forerunner to the modern sandwich to be sure; in that his chef was obviously ignorant to the fact that the hydrophobic properties of substances like Mayonnaise, and to a lesser extent Miracle Whip (bleck!) provide a sound moisture barrier allowing for the use of other blissful, yet water-rich ingredients like tomato or pickle. THANK YOU LORD ADMIRAL MONTAGU SANDWICH!




2nd PIZZA

This man is also famous. He is Lord John Charles Herries, Fifth Duke of Supreme Pizza. He also figures prominently in preindustrial British government. But this Chancellor of the Exchequer had a much more ‘chequered’ past—if you know what I mean? A well-known confidence trickster, lothario and  all-around ne’er-do-well, Supreme Pizza also enjoyed a good card game now and again. As is often the case on those grueling bridge games, you get the hankering for massive quantities of complex carbohydrates covered in pizza sauce (it may have been called something else at the time). It was during one of these instances and having instructed the chef to leave the bread and sauce dish on a side table. Supreme Pizza reached down to his boot to retrieve a more favorable card. In doing so, he inadvertently spilled some grated cheese, olives, onions, chopped green peppers, sausage and pepperoni onto the still warm bread. Not wanting the faux pas to alert his fellow players of his cheating ways, he ignored the mess. Ten minutes later, when he had won the game, he went back to his dish. All the ingredients had combine perfectly to create what we now know as the Supreme Pizza. THANK YOU LORD HERRIES SUPREME PIZZA!

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

How to Annoy the Authorities in Your Local Prefecture

Lately I find myself browsing the Internet in search of local statutes of limitations on various types of crimes. I use this information to confess to crimes I did not commit that took place just past the deadline. It's fun to see the cop's faces when they realize they can't hold me on those federal racketeering charges or bootlegging. I think I was even some cop's white whale. It's a sickness really.

Women's Studies

"A woman without her man is nothing." Now my friends at the Lodge would say "Punctuate this thusly.": "A woman, without her man, is nothing." But my friends at the pet adoption place would intersperse in this wise: "A woman: without her, man is nothing." I rather like this interpretation: A: Woman, W: ithout-her, M: an, I: s, N: othing. This turns the sentence into an easy, if asynchronous vocabulary test question. Which the answer to the previously implied component to the question "Which is the real word?", is of course: N. Othing. I like to othing things. Othing.

UCMJ = (Something in Chinese)

Was reading reading through the eponymous Uniform Code of Military Justice, where it clearly states in chapter 10: Punitive Articles, subsection 94: Mutiny and Sedition, paragraph 3: Failing to Prevent, sentence 1, word 20, letter 4: "L". I found that very interesting, very interesting indeed. The Chinese analog to this same document and location reads: "简", you thought I was going to say "R" didn't you? Shame on you, you racist!

Somthing that I am really passionate about!



I am really passionate about mustaches.

The Randomness of Cheese

I like that cheese sometimes has holes and sometimes does not have holes, it's totally random. I might choose a delicious Swiss cheese sandwich and the cheese might have holes, alternatively, if I were to make that same Swiss cheese sandwich with Gruyère and maybe leave out the Swiss, it might not have holes, who knows. Because you see, holes in cheese is decided by the fates and not by some cheese making process whereby the cheese-maker adds Propionibacter Shermani that produces carbon dioxide which forms whole bubbles in the cheese, that when cut into thin slices manifest as holes in the slices of cheese.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Sports Team

My preferred sports team is superior to all of your preferred sports teams, unless your preferred sports team is the same as my preferred sports team. There has been a lot of talk recently about how your preferred sports team is superior to mine, but this is not true, my preferred sports team is superior to yours in both points scoring and points loss avoidance.

Because you may not believe this assertion I have prepared a short list of evidence-based arguments which should dissuade even the most ardent of critics.

1. My headlining player number 54 is better, within the confines of the sport's comparative statistical datasets, than is your comparable headlining player number 23. He is stronger, faster, better capable of handling the item being propelled up and down the gaming boundary, appeals to a wider audience of sports-goers, enjoys a greater number of commercial sponsorships, has a larger pool of female admirers and fewer sexually transmitted diseases than does your player.

2. The coach of my preferred sports team has a better record of motivating his players to more successfully propel the subject of the sports game up and down the gaming boundary, than does your coach, such that my team is better at scoring points than your team is. Additionally, the coach of my preferred sports team enjoys a greater level of esteem, charisma and recruitment capital than does your coach. Which enables him to enlist far more proficient players of the sport than the coach of your team is capable of enlisting. Lastly, the coach of my preferred sports team has greater mental faculties, reasoning skills and strategic powers than the coach of your preferred sports team does. This makes him better at formulating a plan of attack that optimizes the skill-sets of his players, which results in better overall performance on the scoreboard than your coach.

3. The home venue of my preferred sports team is superior to the venue where your preferred sports team is based. This venue accommodates a greater number of spectators, has better seating, and contracts with more appealing vendors than does the venue where your preferred sports is based. The venue where my preferred sports is based is more convenient to police, fire and other emergency services and is in closer proximity to major highways and public transportation than does your venue. It is also closer to finer restaurants than is your venue. And of course the home field advantage enjoyed by my team's venue is more beneficial to my team's performance, than is the benefit reaped by your team playing in their home venue.

4. My preferred team's logo is superior to your team's logo. It enjoys greater brand recognition, and brand loyalty than does your logo. It is more creatively designed and is more aesthetically pleasing than is the logo of your preferred sports team. The logo for my preferred sports team is more likely to sell T-Shirts and hats than is the logo your team uses.

5. The mascot of my preferred sports team is better than the mascot of your preferred sports team. It is more sensible and offends fewer groups of people. My mascot inspires 40-50% more interest in halftime festivities than does the mascot for your team. My team's mascot is cuter and cuddlier than is your team's mascot. My team's mascot's anthropomorphization was better realized by its designers and seamstresses than was the anthropomorphization of your team's mascot by those who your team's management employed to design and sew the costume.

and finally...

6. The notoriety in poplular media of my preferred sports team is greater and more commercially viable than is the notoriety in popular media of your preferred sports team. My team has been mentioned more times on Perry Mason, Happy Days, Taxi, Whose The Boss, Seinfeld, 30 Rock and The Today Show than your team has over the years. Additionally my preferred team has had more songs by The Beatles, the Boss and Bananarama devoted to them than your preferred team has had.

As you can see, this constitutes a strong argument for the adoption of a broad-based opinion that my team is better than your team.

And lastly, Suck It! That is all.