I think "tom" is soup.
Oh noes! Which Tom?!?!??
Fire bad. Tree pretty.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 17, 2008 7:38:27 am PDT #5191 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Scrappy - Apr 17, 2008 7:39:27 am PDT #5192 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
(Is this where I mention that Donald Fagen was my uncle's college roommate and I've had lunch with him? Name-dropping, it's what's for breakfast!)
I am listening to Steely Dan right now in my office AIFG.
Also, yay JZ and jobage!
Tom Scola - Apr 17, 2008 7:40:05 am PDT #5193 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Not it.
tommyrot - Apr 17, 2008 7:44:52 am PDT #5194 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
But you know, soup is good food.
Daisy Jane - Apr 17, 2008 7:48:24 am PDT #5195 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Thanks Frank & vw. Imma talk to her over lunch then and see if she wants to dump it off her plate and onto mine.
Fay - Apr 17, 2008 7:49:35 am PDT #5196 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I think that 'tom' is soup, and 'yam' means...er, probably sour/spicy, thinking about the context in which it tends to show up. (Tom Kah Gai = mild coconut chicken soup. Tom Yam Gung = Hot & sour shrimp soup. Yam Talay = Hot & Sour Mixed seafood salad.) Pet means spicy, so...hmm. I'm thinking maybe hot-and-sour?
But my Thai is SHIT. I'm very unmotivated - it's just so bloody tricky. My Arabic - hell, my Romanian, which I've never really learned & haven't had occasion to speak for over ten years - is a damn sight better than my Thai.
(ion, two days later I still think that the whole LOLita thing is funnier than a very fucking funny thing from the planet Hysteria. I also sort of want to make LOLCindys, for my awesome kid Cindy, who speaks in LOLcatspeak. 'I can haz cookie?' is very Cindy sentence, bless her.)
lisah - Apr 17, 2008 7:55:59 am PDT #5197 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
"yum" is maybe coconut milk?
that would be so perfect because TRUE!
Congrats on the job, JZ!!!! Hey! Have you been to see my friend in your neighborhood yet?
Jessica - Apr 17, 2008 7:57:01 am PDT #5198 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think that 'tom' is soup, and 'yam' means...er, probably sour/spicy, thinking about the context in which it tends to show up. (Tom Kah Gai = mild coconut chicken soup. Tom Yam Gung = Hot & sour shrimp soup. Yam Talay = Hot & Sour Mixed seafood salad.) Pet means spicy, so...hmm. I'm thinking maybe hot-and-sour?
See, the menu for this place has a section called "Salad and Yum" which makes me think it's a noun. (And soup is in a different section, hence my confusion!)
OTOH, they also have a section called "Fired Rice" so perhaps the lesson here is that I shouldn't be trying to learn Thai from a takeout menu.
tommyrot - Apr 17, 2008 7:58:53 am PDT #5199 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OTOH, they also have a section called "Fired Rice" so perhaps the lesson here is that I shouldn't be trying to learn Thai from a takeout menu.
Now I picture the cooks firing shotguns with shells packed with rice.
Hey, they could shoot the rice into chickens and pigs, and then prepare the meat with the rice embedded in it....
Frankenbuddha - Apr 17, 2008 8:00:13 am PDT #5200 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Now I picture the cooks firing shotguns with shells packed with rice.
And I was picturing rice flambed a la Bananas Foster.