Best Thread Titles

[Chapalagringa]

We've all kidded around about thread titles and how to find the ordinary things in a foreign country, like cinnamon. This about takes the cake on TOB:

right now migel is bagging a mix of cow manure and horse manure across from coca cola

http://www.chapala.com/webboard/index.php?showtopic=31003

It definitely grabbed my attention!

[raqueteer]

That's a good one, however who will ever forget the two posts last week asking where to buy a decent nail file? I don't know about you, but I was on tenterhooks awaiting the response.

[arbon]

We've all kidded around about thread titles and how to find the ordinary things in a foreign country, like cinnamon. This about takes the cake on TOB:

right now migel is bagging a mix of cow manure and horse manure across from coca cola

http://www.chapala.com/webboard/index.php?showtopic=31003

It definitely grabbed my attention!

¿Was that post for all the organic heirloom tomato growers Lakeside?

[gringal]

I liked the one asking what happened to the kids hawking the toilet paper rolls.

[Chapalagringa]

¿Was that post for all the organic heirloom tomato growers Lakeside?

not from what I read but who knows. are you traderspoc over there? Regardless if it's for the tomatoes or not, it's a hilarious title! Bet your garden will smell sweet! We can go out and scoop up what we want in the streets! Never thought of mixing road apples w/cow pies!

One poster indicates to age it, like a good cheese.
Next poster says it makes a good tea!

[Chapalagringa]

I liked the one asking what happened to the kids hawking the toilet paper rolls.

That was a good one!


Over the years the subjects that have really stuck with me are:

1. Homemade Lemonade: making free lemonade from the condiments at the table, getting charged for a lemonade and then getting kicked out of the restaurant! (yes, it was completely frustrating experience for my neighbor but heck a funny thread! and really has made me think about what I'm doing when I mix my limon slices w/water from the carafon at the table. Especially since limonada is limon water. It does give a funny appearance in my perspective now.)

2. Artichokes: How/Why Mexican's Hate Artichokes....couldn't give em away, even to the homeless!

[CheenaGringo]

As a former administrator of another forum, I would make the following suggestions:
1) Clever post titles will generate the most activity
2) If you include keywords such as Lake Chapala, Chapala, Ajijic or other such descriptive words in your post title, it will benefit this forum a great deal because of the way search engines work. Think of the way that people do searches when making up a title. For example, if one posts about Hotel XYZ with no location mentioned, then the search engines will only pick up on the name but including the location, a search engine will not only pick up on the name but also the location. This will result in more possible new members and a higher ranking for the forum.

[raqueteer]

I used to scoff at the how do I get to the border threads, uhhhh, buy a map and follow the major highways? However with so much happening on the roads these days, I have repented.

Well, at least Miguel has plenty more manure where that came from. My mother-in-law used to mix fresh manure in water so as not to burn the roses. Calling it tea might be slightly optimistic. Please don't mention cheese, it's my favorite food group.

On to artichokes, they take a lot of cooking, plus artery clogging sauce, so I actually can understand Mexican reluctance to buy them. Fast food they're not.

[hound dog]

Artichoke are sold in medicinal stores in Chiapas to help out the liver.The local make a tea with them and drink it.
I buy them to eat them and a merchand asked me how to prepare them as her daughter had heard they could be eaten.
We have the same belief in France about being good for the liver but we nicely balance the effect with wine...
Many of us eat the arichoke raw. I love them that way but as they are very tannic, it is an acquire taste.
Brigitte

[gringal]

Mexican artichokes have been ....uh....disappointing, to put it kindly.
For the good artichoke experience, buy some at Costco in the cold room. Expensive, but they had to come all the way from CA where they grow on the foggy central coast.

Cut off the stems and about a half inch off the tops. Put about a half inch of salted water in a microwave safe dish, cover, and put them in the water stem side up and give them about 7 minutes each in this altitude. If you want to go the hard way, cook about 45 minutes on the stove in water.
The end result is the same, IMO, except for the hot steamy kitchen doing it the hard way. Cool them awhile (those puppies really retain the heat). We eat them the way they are. For those who've never eaten one: Pull off the leaves one by one and scrape the inside bottom part off with your lower teeth. The rest of the leaf tastes awful. Others make a mayo or melted butter dip. Don't try to eat the fuzzy stuff deep down, but remove it with a blunt knife and eat the four or five delicious bites of the heart. Oh, yum!

The one mystery: I wonder how anyone figured out how to prepare and eat them in the first place?

[Parker]

I liked the one asking what happened to the kids hawking the toilet paper rolls.

That was a good one!


Over the years the subjects that have really stuck with me are:

1. Homemade Lemonade: making free lemonade from the condiments at the table, getting charged for a lemonade and then getting kicked out of the restaurant! (yes, it was completely frustrating experience for my neighbor but heck a funny thread! and really has made me think about what I'm doing when I mix my limon slices w/water from the carafon at the table. Especially since limonada is limon water. It does give a funny appearance in my perspective now.)

2. Artichokes: How/Why Mexican's Hate Artichokes....couldn't give em away, even to the homeless!

Now this to me has been an extremely funny thread. “Thanks for the memories.”

[hound dog]

[quote="gringal"]Mexican artichokes have been ....uh....disappointing, to put it kindly.
For the good artichoke experience, buy some at Costco in the cold room. Expensive, but they had to come all the way from CA where they grow on the foggy central coast.

Well, Dawg cannot address the issue of the quality of "Mexican" artichokes versus Central Coastal California artichokes because I´ve never inquired, in Ajijic at least, as to the provenance of the artichokes I have purchased hereabouts. Now, the artichokes we purchase in the indigenous market adjacent to our home there are of the region and grown at high altitudes (say, 7,000 to 12,000 feet) and thay are exquisitely delicious - certainly far more delicious than those monsters grown upon the sea in Central California where the artichokes are huge and wooden and typical of produce coming from those parts. How sad that American consumers have identified their fat and wooden and tasteless artichokes as palatable when the exquisite but small and infinitely better French artichokes and the small and ugly artichokes of Mexico provide a taste far more sophisticated that those cardboard California mockups of real artichokes that flood the market because to the excesses of U.S. capitalism that encourage mediocrity.


Cutoff the stems and about that is good when a smallert a half inch off the tops. Put about a half inch of salted water in a microwave safe dish, cover, and put them in the water stem side up and give them about 7 minutes each in this altitude. If you want to go the hard way, cook about 45 minutes on the stove in water.
The end result is the same, IMO, except for the hot steamy kitchen doing it the hard way. Cool them awhile (those puppies really retain the heat). We eat them the way they are. For those who've never eaten one: Pull off the leaves one by one and scrape the inside bottom part off with your lower teeth. The rest of the leaf tastes awful. Others make a mayo or melted butter dip. Don't try to eat the fuzzy stuff deep down, but remove it with a blunt knife and eat the four or five delicious bites of the heart. Oh, yum!


Cut off the stems? Get serious. You are not selling artichokes to trailer trash in Davenport.

The Dawg has great recipes for artichokes. I´ll send them on later. Cut off the stems my ass.
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[oncesubtle]

[quote="Chapalagringa"

Over the years the subjects that have really stuck with me are:

1. Homemade Lemonade: making free lemonade from the condiments at the table, getting charged for a lemonade and then getting kicked out of the restaurant! (yes, it was completely frustrating experience for my neighbor but heck a funny thread! and really has made me think about what I'm doing when I mix my limon slices w/water from the carafon at the table. Especially since limonada is limon water. It does give a funny appearance in my perspective now.) [/quote]

This one really was priceless, so funny in so many ways.

[CheenaGringo]

I believe that was the same person who spent his free time while his wife was shopping at Super Lake, weighing packages to see just how much they were overstating the weight stated. Mainly on items that Super Lake broke down from larger packaging.

[Parker]

I believe that was the same person who spent his free time while his wife was shopping at Super Lake, weighing packages to see just how much they were overstating the weight stated. Mainly on items that Super Lake broke down from larger packaging.

Yes, I believe you’re right. Hahaha!!!

[gringal]

Good idea to cut the stems off your ass. You'll be much more comfortable.

Also, it would be nice to know your method of preparing said stems, along with directions to the local purveyor of French and Chiapas grown artichokes.

[raqueteer]

I agree, only remove about a quarter of an inch of stem. the stems are also delicious and cook along with the artichoke. Microwave, nooooooooooo, I do it the hard way. Then serve with a hollandaise sauce, or a mixture of butter and mayo, or just melted butter. Yummy.
Another good thing is cream of artichoke soup.
They can also be stuffed.

[Solovino]

Is this thread about thread titles or thread content?

[gringal]

I think it's a case of wandering thread.

[Chapalagringa]

Is this thread about thread titles or thread content?

yes, it's about the funny things people write, how they come across, whether they meant to or not. I've certainly had my moments.

I believe that was the same person who spent his free time while his wife was shopping at Super Lake, weighing packages to see just how much they were overstating the weight stated. Mainly on items that Super Lake broke down from larger packaging.

I don't know if it was but I do know the lemonade man and he's a really nice person. Has some one liners but hey, no one's perfect ;0) Think how much effort it took to entertain himself while his wife was happily shopping? That fact that he went with her says a lot about him. Kind of like the lady who likes to hang out in the tire shop!

[ferret]

LOL!...and never actually goes into the tire section which is usually in a building adjacent.

BTW, Chapalagringa...many Canadian Tire Stores are the same size as Home Depot.



Honestly, the thread heading that has been the strangest for me lately is on this board..."Lakeside Crime closing down due to lack of participation".

I realize the actual thread content is both important and sad...but read the title by itself...sorry but it cracked me up.

[raqueteer]

LOL!...and never actually goes into the tire section which is usually in a building adjacent.

BTW, Chapalagringa...many Canadian Tire Stores are the same size as Home Depot.



Honestly, the thread heading that has been the strangest for me lately is on this board..."Lakeside Crime closing down due to lack of participation".

I realize the actual thread content is both important and sad...but read the title by itself...sorry but it cracked me up.

And the winner Is, ferret. Hands down.

[bobnliz]

I'll second that. Lizzy

[bobnliz]

Oh... and speaking of artichokes... my horse loved nothing more than a nice fat thistle.
Maybe some Neanderthal noticed an equine ancestor nibbling upon a toothsome thistle or two. One might have escaped the basket and fallen into the fire... the rest might be, as they say... history. Ya think? Lizzy

[Chapalagringa]

LOL!...and never actually goes into the tire section which is usually in a building adjacent.

BTW, Chapalagringa...many Canadian Tire Stores are the same size as Home Depot.



Honestly, the thread heading that has been the strangest for me lately is on this board..."Lakeside Crime closing down due to lack of participation".

I realize the actual thread content is both important and sad...but read the title by itself...sorry but it cracked me up.

I'm just teasing you ferret! I imagine it being like a huge Sears plus some. A lot of stores sell tires plus some. :)

Yes, Simpsca wins for titles on this board! or does she??? wait! there's more! I'm voting for Jim's TOOOO FUNNY FOR WORDS! thread as far a content. As the story began to unfold and what he thought were the cops being good guys we learned the thread should have been put into the crime section! But we're all glad that mom & wifey made it back to their car and home safely after being taxi'd by the local police =) You're a good guy, I mean bird Jim. Sorry to see you move back NOB. Get us all a good neighbor! Probably one from Canada.

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